Foresight VCT
The Shard, 32 London Bridge Street, London, England, SE1 9SG, United Kingdom
Overview
Foresight VCT Plc is a venture capital trust managed by Foresight Group. This fund invests in later stage growth capital opportunities across a range of sectors. It engages in investments in unquoted or AIM-listed companies in the United Kingdom. It invests in technology companies in United Kingdom.
- Total investments
- 2
- Lead investments
- 1
- Investments · 12mo
- 0
- Active investors
- 0
Investment portfolio
- Ruleguard
Participated · Equity · Sep 2022
Ruleguard is a London-based provider of a SaaS-powered RegTech platform that helps firms manage regulatory compliance and reduce audit costs. Founded by John O’Dwyer in 2013 as a software development consultancy, the company now offers a specialized compliance platform. It serves over 50 clients across asset management, wealth management, brokerage, insurance and banking, including Computershare, Cazenove Capital, FNZ, Link Fund Solutions, Quilter Cheviot, Santander, True Potential, Rathbones and Royal London. Ruleguard employs 34 staff and reports recurring revenues of over £2.7M with high double-digit year-on-year growth. The company intends to use new funding to develop additional platform capabilities and to scale sales and marketing.
- Fresh Relevance
Led · Equity · Apr 2017
Fresh Relevance is a Southampton, UK-based SaaS email marketing and web personalization platform serving eCommerce businesses. Founded by Mike Austin, Pete Austin and Eddy Swindell — ex-employees of former Foresight portfolio company SmartFocus — the company delivers personalized customer experiences and real-time marketing tools across desktop and mobile. Key features of the platform include triggered emails, web personalization and real-time behavioural marketing. The company raised £2.15m in funding from Foresight VCT PLC. Fresh Relevance said it will use the funds to continue to expand operations.
Team
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