Gresham House

PE Firm·London, UK·~£8.7B AUM (group); ~£800M in venture VCTs

Gresham House is a specialist alternative asset manager headquartered in London, now owned by Searchlight Capital Partners following a £470m acquisition completed in February 2024. The firm manages approximately £8.7 billion in assets across forestry, new energy, housing, infrastructure, and strategic equity divisions. Its ventures arm, Gresham House Ventures, is the UK's second largest VCT manager with around £800 million in managed assets across the Baronsmead and Mobeus VCTs. The firm targets £20 billion in AUM by 2030 and invests in innovative UK growth companies across multiple stages.

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ForestryRenewable EnergyBattery StorageHousingInfrastructureStrategic EquityDecarbonisation

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FocalPoint

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Computer Hardware·Series C

FocalPoint was founded in 2015 by Dr Ramsey Faragher as a University of Cambridge spinout. Faragher holds a PhD in the effects of multipath interference on radio positioning systems and previously served as Principal Scientist at BAE Systems, where he developed the award-winning NAVSOP opportunistic positioning suite. He is a Fellow of the Royal Institute of Navigation and Bye Fellow of Queens' College, Cambridge. The company's core innovation is Supercorrelation, a patented chipset-level software that improves the sensitivity, accuracy, and reliability of GNSS receivers without additional hardware. FocalPoint offers S-GNSS Auto for automotive, S-GNSS Cell for smartphones, and S-GNSS Wear for fitness tracking. The company has a strategic partnership with STMicroelectronics and received investment from GM Ventures. FocalPoint has raised $69.2M across multiple rounds, including a Series C co-led by Molten Ventures and Gresham House.