Portfolio

200 Degrees was initially established as a supplier of coffee beans and machines to cafes, delis, bars and restaurants through a small roasting operation.

Foresight has invested £5 million growth capital into Northern Ireland’s largest private healthcare company 3fivetwo Group.

ABL is a provider of community healthcare and wellbeing services across the North of England including weight management, nutrition support and smoking cessation.

Accessory Bits Limited (ABL) which was founded in 2003, produces and distributes office desk accessories including power supplies, monitor arms and cable tidies

Accrosoft is a software as a service company with two products currently in the market, Vacancy Filler, an Applicant Tracking System which automates the recruitment process for organisations and Weduc, an engagement tool to enable parent-teacher communication.

Aerospace Tooling Ltd is a precision engineering company, delivering a specialist repair & overhaul service of Gas/Jet Turbine components within the aerospace, military, marine and industrial markets

Agar is a leading manufacturer and distributor of scientific laboratory equipment, with a focus on electron microscopy consumables..

Ajenta Limited is a provider of specialist video conferencing services to education and public sector organisations with a focus on creating real-time environments that improve communications and enable a remote and dynamic learning and working culture.

Alpkit is a fast-growing designer and retailer of outdoor clothing and equipment. Targeting the outdoor adventure enthusiast, Alpkit provides high quality clothing and equipment at an affordable price and offers over 500 lines across clothing, equipment and bikes. 

AppInstitute is a platform as a service company providing an innovative App model to SMEs across a variety of industry sectors.

Aquasium Technology designs, manufactures and markets bespoke electron beam welding and vacuum furnace equipment and provides related services in the USA

Biofortuna is a molecular diagnostics company which has developed a unique range of molecular diagnostic products using proprietary freeze-dried technology.

Camloc Motion Control is a leading Leicester-based designer and manufacturer of gas springs and dampers

Cimteq is a North Wales based software provider which specialises in the development, supply and support of modular software solutions for the wire & cable manufacturing industry.

Cinelabs is a leading post-production service provider to content creators and owners, with special expertise in film.

ClubSpark, founded in 2012, is an awarding-winning specialist software company serving participants, sports providers, National Governing Bodies and International Federations.

Codeplay is an Edinburgh-based software developer and software consultancy business. It is internationally recognised for its expertise in Heterogeneous Systems (systems that use more than one kind of processor or core),

Company Cards are recognised as one of the leading plastic card manufacturers in the UK.

Crowle Wharfe Engineers Limited (CWE) is a leading provider of safety-critical end-to-end engineering solutions for the rail, power, oil & gas and steel industries

DA Languages is a fast-growing interpreting and translation services business with a network of thousands of vetted professional linguists.

Datapath manufactures graphics cards and video capture hardware. Established in 1982, it provides multi-screen control solutions

Ekkosense specialises in developing and delivering expert software analytics, low cost innovative sensors and vendor agnostic thermal

Epistem Limited is an established Biotechnology Company with headquarters in Manchester UK, and facilities in the US.

Foresight, through the Midlands Engine Investment Fund (MEIF) has invested £375,000 into Equus Products and Services Limited. Equus is a niche ecommerce business focused on the equine sector, offering a broad range of clothing and specialist products for riders.

Foresight has made a £1.25 million growth capital investment into Fertility Focus Limited, a leading fertility monitoring technology company that has developed a registered medical device that enables women to predict ovulation.

FFX is one of the UK's largest independent suppliers of high quality tools, fixings and building supplies.

Fieldway is a leading provider of fire alarm and electrical installation, maintenance and repair services to a wide range of public-sector bodies and companies across the North West.

Foresight Group has invested £950,000 into Firetree Chocolate Ltd, a bespoke high-end chocolate manufacturer. Firetree’s ambition is to develop its own brand of super premium chocolate as a way of maximising shareholder value and returns.

Flowrite is a refrigeration and air conditioning service, maintenance and installation company, specialising in the leisure sector across the UK

Foresight has invested £1.5 million from the Foresight Williams Technology EIS Fund into Flusso Limited, a University of Cambridge spin-out. Flusso is commercialising miniaturised flow sensor technology.

Footfalls & Heartbeats has developed a revolutionary process for manufacturing smart fabrics which uses nano-scale interactions with the textile to make the fabric itself the sensor, avoiding the need for wires of miniature electronics. 

Fourth Wall Creative Limited is a technology-led merchandising business which has become a market leader in the design and fulfilment of branded merchandise for football clubs

Foresight has invested £1.7 million from the Foresight Williams Technology EIS Fund into FreeFlow Technologies Limited. FreeFlow is developing a patented e-bike system technology that promises to be lightweight and compact, providing a higher power density than existing solutions.

Fresh Relevance is a SaaS email marketing and web personalisation platform providing online retailers with personalised

Geospatial Insight is a leading provider of satellite imagery analysis for the insurance, investment and corporate sectors.

Government Grant and Tax Consultants Ltd trading as GovGrant helps innovative businesses maximise funding through government incentives.

Hedges Direct is a market leading e-commerce business in the gardening and landscaping sector.

Hospital Services Limited is an Irish based company which distributes, installs and maintains high quality healthcare equipment as well as providing associated consumables.

Idio is a software as a service (“SaaS”) platform using differentiated technology that obtains data from consumers’ online activity to help businesses refine their online content.

Industrial Efficiency II focuses on the provision of large scale energy efficiency and energy cost reduction improvements to commercial customers.

Foresight, on behalf of the Foresight Williams Technology EIS Fund, has invested £1.5m into Inovo Robotics. Inovo is developing a low-cost collaborative robot (cobot) that can integrate into existing workforce processes.

Foresight, on behalf of the Foresight Williams Technology EIS Fund, has invested  £1.5 million into INSPHERE Ltd. Founded in 2013, INSPHERE are experts in measurement and automation using innovative value-added metrology.

ITAD is a specialised international development organisation providing information and insight to make development work smarter and produce better results.

Ixaris operates the Entropay brand of VISA and MasterCard virtual prepaid credit cards, providing an instant, global solution for making and receiving online payments

Living Optics is a University of Oxford spin-out that is developing a fast, low cost and compact camera system that is set to redefine imaging technology. The Company is driving the commercialisation of advanced hyperspectral imaging (HSI).

Luminet is the intelligent managed services provider, offering businesses Connectivity, Computing and Intelligent services and solutions

Masters of Pie has developed a technology which allows VR and AR to be  used more efficiently by professionals working in immersive design, production, review and training, across multiple enterprise verticals.

McIntyre Electrical, is a leading provider of safety-critical fire and electrical inspection and maintenance services, primarily for housing associations.

Mi HealthCare provides servicing, reactive maintenance, repair and sale of a range of diagnostic imaging equipment for the NHS, private health sector and dental markets.

Mid-InfraRed Instrumentation Company ("MIRICO") develops, manufactures and deploys advanced laser spectroscopy instruments for trace gas analysis, addressing the need for more accurate gas measurement.

Foresight and Williams Advanced Engineering have invested £1.6 million into Oxford University spin-out Mixergy, which is set to revolutionise the global hot water tank market and reduce the cost of energy for consumers.

Mologic is a Point of Care (POC) diagnostics company that provides Contract Research (CRO) and manufacturing (CMO) services, that is also developing a broad and promising proprietary products portfolio.

Mowgli Street Food is a chain of authentic Indian street food restaurants that offer food which is packed with flavour.

Nano Interactive is a leading advertising technology business which focuses on the emerging search and intent based targeting sector.

Navitas provides handheld devices that work with accompanying software to monitor appliances, check food temperatures and feed data to a cloud-based programme. Navitas will roll out its automated health and safety technology to food and hospitality outlets across the UK.

Novel Technologies have developed SILVERbac, an eco-friendly antimicrobial technology which eliminates harmful and malodorous bacteria by encapsulating pure silver within the fibres of textiles making the product antimicrobial for life.

Foresight invested £2 million into Novosound, an award-winning Scottish sensors company utilising thin-film processes to eliminate conventional limitations in ultrasound sensors. Utilising the latest thin film deposition techniques, Novosound’s patented innovation represents a turning point for ultrasound sensor technology.

Ollie Quinn is a branded retailer of prescription glasses, sunglasses and non-prescription polarised sunglasses based

Cheshire-based ONFAB Limited is a leading designer and manufacturer of flexible containment solutions, primarily for use in pharmaceutical manufacturing processes.

Foresight, through MEIF, has invested £500,000 in Oomf; a  high protein porridge brand with two core product ranges, Protein Oats and Skinny Oats. Oomf is currently sold through several major retail outlets including Sainsbury’s and Tesco.

Open Bionics is building and developing the next generation of bionic limbs. The investment from the Foresight Williams Technology EIS Fund is part of a £4.66m growth round to scale the business. 

Oxford Space Systems is an award-winning space technology business that's pioneering the development of a new generation of deployable antennas and structures that are lighter, less complex and lower cost than those in current commercial demand.

PlayerLayer is a designer and retailer of premium sports performance clothing. The Company supplies premium, personalised and

Poppy & Jacks is an established chain of day nurseries in the North West of England.

Positive Response Communications is a security company that monitors the safety of people and properties through its 24-hour monitoring centre

Postworks is an online franking company providing small and medium sized businesses with a software-based alternative to franked business post. This marks Foresight's third MEIF investment. 

Poundshop.com is a fast-growing, online-only, single price retailer, which sells every-day consumer products at better value than available in high street chains and supermarkets

PowerLinks is a software platform, which automates the buying and selling of personally relevant and user-friendly "native" advertising.

Coventry-based Protean Software Limited develops and sells business management and field service management software

QS Recruitment delivers high quality recruitment services to businesses throughout the East Midlands and South Yorkshire.

Foresight Group, through the Foresight Williams Technology EIS Fund, has invested into Refeyn. Refeyn is developing a new generation of scientific instrumentation, which uses single molecule light scattering for the detection, imaging and accurate mass determination of biomolecules in solution. 

Regency Design & Print is a UK in-house manufacturing and production specialists supported by creative design. Specialising in bespoke fabrications, large format print and point of sale.

Retail Assist is a leading retail IT solutions and services company, providing UK and international retailers with end-to-end business applications and services support that reduce costs, optimise retail operations and support higher revenues.

Leeds headquartered Reward is an independent lender which provides secured loans to UK-based SMEs seeking more flexible finance, more promptly than mainstream lenders can deliver.

Based in Manchester, Romaco ("Roma") is a property bridging lender, providing short-term unregulated bridging loans with a current average loan size of £160k.

Rovco is changing the way underwater work is performed and pushing the boundaries of subsea technology. Rovco's technology improves the data collection of underwater vehicles undertaking the difficult task of subsea infrastructure inspection, aiming ultimately to make the piloting of such vehicles fully autonomous.

Roxy Leisure Limited is a social entertainment bar group that operates eight venues across four cities. They are pioneering the diversification of beyond the traditional bar/pub set up and provide a range of entertainment facilities.

S4RB is a cloud-based software and professional services business which helps retailers to evolve their private label brand products by providing an insight into product performance, and introducing

Specac International Limited is a leading manufacturer of high specification sample analysis and sample preparation equipment

Spektrix is the UK’s leading provider of cloud-based ticketing, marketing and fundraising software for the arts.

Steamforged Games is a developer and retailer of tabletop games based on both original and licensed IP.

Substantive Research is a research analysis, data and events company that helps asset managers find the right investment research for their process. The Company provides value benchmarking data, coverage analysis, analyst moves and new provider tracking, tailored to each client’s investment process and coverage requirements.

Swoopos provides a Mobile Point of Sale universal payments system that combines ePOS and cloud-based technology to deliver rich data analysis for businesses operating in the hospitality and, soon, the retail sector. 

The Foresight Williams Technology EIS Fund has invested in Synaptec, offering a technology which can reduce downtime and allow easier and cheaper monitoring of the power grid.

Foresight has invested £4 million of growth capital into Ten Health and Fitness Limited, a fast-growing provider of health and fitness services in London.

Established in 1960, TFC is one of Europe's leading suppliers of technical fixing and fastening products to customers across a range of industries

The Children’s Furniture Company designs, manufactures and sells a wide range of children’s furniture.

After developing its own e-commerce store, the firm now supplies several national retailers - offering durable furniture at an affordable price point compared to its competitors.

Foresight has invested £2.5 million into The Naked Deli. Launched in 2014, The Naked Deli operates a number of sites in Newcastle, offering a health-conscious and clean-eating dining experience, with a tasty range of gluten and dairy-free, vegan and paleo dishes. The first site opened in Heaton and after a strong social media campaign, reached full capacity in the first week.

The Salford Valve Company ("Salvalco"), has developed aerosol valve technologies that enable safe inert gases such as simple fresh air or nitrogen to be used as a propellant in aerosols.

TheIdleMan.com is a new e-commerce website dedicated to men’s fashion, selling a collection of fast-fashion brands and an own-label range under TheIdleMan brand, as well as offering style advice

Tudor Contract Cleaners Limited is a soft facilities management provider with three core service offerings of window cleaning, general cleaning and ancillary cleaning.

Foresight Group has invested £249,000 into usheru, a website and app that makes it easy for users to find and book cinema tickets in their areas.  

UDP is a leading provider of civil engineering and traffic management services for utilities including sewer connections, highways and rail projects.

Utonomy is a pioneering intelligent gas grid solutions provider. Utonomy has developed an innovative technology for reducing leakage in gas distribution networks.

Foresight has invested £1 million into YPP Group. Based in Lincolnshire, YPP provides a range of print and graphic design services, offering a holistic service from concept creation through to printing, finishing and delivery.