Compliments don’t come much greater for start-ups than the BBC’s revered R&D department taking an interest in your technology. A UK-based video quality optimization start-up called iSize Technologies has just received a £700,000 ($952,000) injection from national funding agency Innovate UK, in a collective project dubbed Sequoia that also involves BBC R&D and Queen Mary University of London. The investment comes just several months after Faultline introduced iSize to our reader base. We admittedly approached this December 2020 briefing with CTO Yiannis Andreopoulos with great skepticism as we were presented fluffy dreams of highly efficient video precoding techniques that can lower bandwidth and decrease the environmental impact of video streaming even before files hit the encoder. It initially sounded all…