Member Directory

Foresight Group is an independent infrastructure and private equity investment manager, with specialist teams targeting growth businesses, renewable energy and environmental projects in the UK, North America and Italy. At Foresight we are well aware of the need to live up to our name. That means spotting opportunities ahead of the crowd; it means being flexible; it means being innovative; it means being totally focused and responsive to the needs of our investors while creating an environment that attracts the very best talent in our sector. We summarise this in just two words Creative Capital. These two words sit behind everything we do from supporting entrepreneurial managers of growth businesses, to bringing together institutions to invest in groundbreaking renewable energy projects alongside the Green Investment Bank, to offering private investors tax efficient investment solutions to help them plan for the future. It is in deploying our financial, intellectual and emotional capital creatively that helps us make a better future for our investors, for our investee companies, for our partners, for our colleagues and ultimately for the world in which we live.

Founder + Lightning is a pioneering Venture Studio and Fund, that invests in Founders to build and grow their businesses.

We invest in B2B companies that have the potential to use tech to radically increase their value. We use our decade-long skillset and resources to help them realise that potential, by co-building technology solutions.

Our headquarters are in London, but we have teams in India, Poland and all across the world. We are proud of our 130+ team, 6 investments and 30 portfolio companies that have a combined value of £150m+, multiple of which are now at Series A.

Too many tech companies in the UK fail, and frustratingly it’s often for the same reasons over and over. If we’re to live in the kind of society we all want to live in, we need more founders to succeed– that is what drives the Founder + Lightning model.

Fox Williams LLP is a commercial law firm based in London with over 40 partners and 170 staff. We are market leading specialists in financial services, fintech, travel and technology sectors. Our corporate and tax lawyers regularly advise EIS investors and companies on EIS eligible investments in addition to traditional M&A and other VC investment advice. Our corporate lawyers are recognised in the Chambers and Legal 500 directories and in The Times Best law Firms, and we are known for our great client service.  “I have found Fox Williams to take a straightforward, no-nonsense approach to matters” [Chambers 2023] is a typical quote from a corporate client.

In addition to EIS advice, as a full-service law firm our clients seek our advice on a range of business issues from employment law, data protection, commercial contracts, intellectual property and real estate as they continue to grow and mature.

GEEIQ is an enterprise platform that leverages data to help brands navigate the metaverse effectively. It is the platform to identify and optimize metaverse strategies. Trusted by some of the world’s biggest brands including Walmart, Gucci, Elton John, Tommy Hilfiger and Heineken, we provide the tools brands need to authentically engage with a diverse and fragmented community of users, and to leverage as many data points as possible to ensure brands are enriching experiences, understanding their audience, and staying ahead of the curve when it comes to activating within the metaverse. Our platform not only empowers brands to enrich the experiences of untapped virtual audiences, but for our Enterprise subscribers, we provide in-house expertise to help curate virtual strategies from inception to execution.

planD offers angel investors exit via diversification™ – a way to crystallise an exit from stale, illiquid, underperforming investments which are tying up significant capital – here’s a 2m video explainer: https://vimeo.com/711789041

Verv is on a mission to help companies hit their ESG goals and reach Net Zero by focussing on one of the biggest consumers of electricity in buildings – Air Con. Air conditioning systems are wasting up to 45% of their energy! Verv is a Cleantech business that develops innovative IoT products that delivers unique data insights into the efficiency of Air Conditioning systems and Heat Pumps. Using sophisticated high speed energy analysis, Verv is able to provide a wealth of information about usage and pinpoint optimisations, assess the quality of the electricity supply and monitor the efficiency of the overall system.

Growthdeck is a private investor network that provides direct, tax-efficient investment opportunities in exciting UK companies.

We offer both equity and debt options, focusing on fundraises between £500k and £3m, and give High Net Worth and Sophisticated investors in the UK and overseas the chance to invest from £5,000.

We have raised funding for fast-growing SMEs across a wide range of sectors, including hospitality and leisure, technology, biopharmaceuticals and telecoms.

Our core team have decades of combined experience in the private equity and venture capital arena as well as a variety of other investment sectors, and our in-depth due diligence process draws upon the best elements of this.

Our Chairman and Head of Investment, Kieron Launder, has worked across a number of leading institutions, including Rothschild & Co where he headed up the strategic investment advisory service.

The other members of our executive management team and board also have a strong track record, with several having founded other private investor businesses in the past before bringing all their expertise together to create Growthdeck.