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Foresight Group

Founders Bernard Fairman Peter English

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Total investments 181
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$7M
Portfolio companies 161
Rounds per year 4.53
Lead investments 67
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.11
Exits 16
Key employees 31
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture
Private Equity

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Health Care
  • Manufacturing
  • Information Technology
  • Retail
Summary

In 1984 was created Foresight Group, which is appeared as VC. The company was established in Europe in United Kingdom. The main department of described VC is located in the London.

Considering the real fund results, this VC is 23 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. Comparing to the other companies, this Foresight Group performs on 16 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars. The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2018. The high activity for fund was in 2018. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The average startup value when the investment from Foresight Group is 1-5 millions dollars.

Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United Kingdom. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Software, Advertising. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Wecash, Reward Finance Group, ClubSpark The fund has exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 participants. Despite the Foresight Group, startups are often financed by Oxford Capital Partners, Midven, SyndicateRoom. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Oxford Capital Partners, Gartmore Investment Management, Richard Farleigh. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Oxford Capital Partners, Richard Farleigh, Midven.

The current fund was established by Bernard Fairman, Peter English. We also calculated 31 valuable employees in our database.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Looper Insights

E-Commerce
Internet
Machine Learning
SaaS
Software
04 Oct 2023 London, England, United Kingdom

We Are Fulfilment

E-Commerce
Warehousing
$959K07 Aug 2023 -

Workbuzz

Internet
Social Media
$8M22 Jun 2023 -

CRiL

Biotechnology
Health Care
$3M16 May 2023 Cambridge, England, United Kingdom

hackajob

Analytics
Application Software
Human Capital Services
Human Resources
Information Services (B2C)
Information Technology
Recruiting
Software
Staffing Agency
$25M03 May 2023 London, England, United Kingdom

Kluster

Analytics
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Predictive Analytics
SaaS
Sales
Sales Automation
$5M25 Apr 2023 London, England, United Kingdom

Sei Labs

Blockchain
Cryptocurrency
$30M11 Apr 2023 -

AudioScenic

3D Technology
Audio
Computer Vision
Consumer Electronics
Information Technology
Software
15 Feb 2023 Southampton, England, United Kingdom

Cornelis Networks

Artificial Intelligence
Information Technology
Software
$29M14 Nov 2022 Radnor Township, Pennsylvania, United States

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Total investments 181
Average round size 7M
Rounds per year 4.53
Peak activity year 2018
Lead investments 67
Follow on index 0.11
Exits 16
Group Appearance index 0.32

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Looper Insights

E-Commerce
Internet
Machine Learning
SaaS
Software
04 Oct 2023 London, England, United Kingdom

We Are Fulfilment

E-Commerce
Warehousing
$959K07 Aug 2023 -

Workbuzz

Internet
Social Media
$8M22 Jun 2023 -

CRiL

Biotechnology
Health Care
$3M16 May 2023 Cambridge, England, United Kingdom

hackajob

Analytics
Application Software
Human Capital Services
Human Resources
Information Services (B2C)
Information Technology
Recruiting
Software
Staffing Agency
$25M03 May 2023 London, England, United Kingdom

Kluster

Analytics
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Predictive Analytics
SaaS
Sales
Sales Automation
$5M25 Apr 2023 London, England, United Kingdom

Sei Labs

Blockchain
Cryptocurrency
$30M11 Apr 2023 -

AudioScenic

3D Technology
Audio
Computer Vision
Consumer Electronics
Information Technology
Software
15 Feb 2023 Southampton, England, United Kingdom

Cornelis Networks

Artificial Intelligence
Information Technology
Software
$29M14 Nov 2022 Radnor Township, Pennsylvania, United States
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