FEATURESPACE LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-09-30 (in 4mo)
Last filed for 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement due
2027-01-14 (in 8mo)
Last made up 2025-12-31
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£33M
+14% vs 2023
Net assets
£30M
+2.5% vs 2023
Employees
423
+11.9% vs 2023
Profit before tax
-£23M
-89.8% vs 2023
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Technology median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2024-12-31
| Metric | Trend | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £50,400,489 | £63,361,844 | |
| Operating profit | -£12,974,640 | -£24,538,276 | |
| Profit before tax | -£12,308,182 | -£23,361,442 | |
| Net profit | -£9,441,345 | -£23,662,429 | |
| Cash | £28,741,765 | £32,776,337 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £29,484,542 | £29,835,066 | |
| Net assets | £28,950,542 | £29,665,066 | |
| Equity | £28,950,542 | £29,665,066 | |
| Average employees | 378 | 423 | |
| Wages | £33,701,684 | £57,217,743 | |
| Directors' remuneration | £720,609 | £7,729,639 |
Values shown as filed in the company's annual accounts. — indicates the figure wasn't present under that line item in that period. About these numbers
Year-on-year
FY2023 → FY2024 · period ending 2024-12-31 vs 2023-12-31
-
Turnover
+25.7%
£50,400,489 £63,361,844
-
Cash
+14%
£28,741,765 £32,776,337
-
Net assets
+2.5%
£28,950,542 £29,665,066
-
Employees
+11.9%
378 423
-
Operating profit
-89.1%
-£12,974,640 -£24,538,276
-
Profit before tax
-89.8%
-£12,308,182 -£23,361,442
-
Wages
+69.8%
£33,701,684 £57,217,743
Each % is (latest − prior) ÷ |prior| for the line item as filed. The comparison is only shown when the latest and prior accounts cover broadly equal-length periods — short or long stubs (typical around incorporation or a year-end change) are suppressed rather than misrepresented. Lines a company doesn't report are omitted. About these numbers
Ratios
Computed from the line items above — sparklines read oldest → newest
| Ratio | Trend | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | -25.7% | -38.7% | |
| Net margin | -18.7% | -37.3% | |
| Return on capital employed | -44.0% | -82.2% | |
| Current ratio | 2.25x | 1.62x | |
| Interest cover | -1241.95x | -4543.28x |
Margins divide P&L lines by turnover. Gearing is liabilities over total assets. Current ratio is current assets over creditors falling due within one year. Interest cover is operating profit over absolute finance costs. Sector-distribution context coming next.
Audit & accounting basis
- Accounting basis
- FRS 102
- Reporting scope
- Consolidated group
- Auditor
- Ernst & Young LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The financial statements have been prepared on the going concern basis which assumes that the Company will continue as a going concern for the foreseeable future.”
Group structure
- FEATURESPACE LIMITED · parent
- Featurespace Inc 100%
- Featurespace Australia PTY Limited 100%
- Featurespace PTE Limited 100%
- Featurespace Espana SL 100%
Significant events
- “On 19 December 2024, 100% of the share capital of Featurespace Limited was acquired by Visa International Service Association ("Visa")”
- “Disposal of Featurespace Inc to Visa USA Inc for £9,248,198 in June 2025.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
2 active · 27 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BLACKHURST, Jason Patrik | Director | 2025-11-17 | Sep 1968 | American |
| DEAN, Sharon Julie | Director | 2024-12-19 | Jun 1971 | British |
Show 27 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| EXCELL, David Andrew | Secretary | 2005-11-30 | 2023-04-18 |
| RIDDICK, Donald | Secretary | 2023-04-18 | 2024-12-19 |
| CHETTLEBURGHS SECRETARIAL LTD | Corporate Nominee Secretary | 2005-11-30 | 2005-11-30 |
| CLARKE, Russell John | Director | 2008-08-06 | 2008-11-01 |
| EDINGTON, Jonathan Adrien | Director | 2012-07-01 | 2019-01-25 |
| EXCELL, David Andrew | Director | 2005-11-30 | 2024-12-19 |
| FITZGERALD, William John, Professor | Director | 2005-11-30 | 2014-04-03 |
| GARRARD, Gardiner, Dr | Director | 2016-05-20 | 2024-12-19 |
| GARRETT, Laurence Roy | Director | 2017-08-01 | 2024-12-19 |
| HOOK, Alexander Martin Henry | Director | 2014-06-09 | 2019-01-25 |
| HURST, Gordon | Director | 2014-06-01 | 2023-11-29 |
| JAFFE, Lonne Allen | Director | 2019-01-25 | 2024-12-19 |
| KING, Martina | Director | 2012-10-29 | 2025-06-05 |
| LAUFER, Leonard Justin | Director | 2023-09-21 | 2024-12-19 |
| LOCKHART, Eugene | Director | 2019-01-25 | 2024-12-19 |
| LYNCH, Michael Richard, Dr | Director | 2008-06-18 | 2019-01-26 |
| MEAD, Matthew | Director | 2010-12-20 | 2014-06-09 |
| MORANA, Stephen Gavin | Director | 2008-06-18 | 2012-06-30 |
| PEARSON, Philip Michael | Director | 2019-01-26 | 2021-05-17 |
| PITHOUSE, Prini Patel | Director | 2024-12-19 | 2025-11-17 |
| RUSHTON, Paul | Director | 2014-03-01 | 2016-03-01 |
| SANSOM, Robert Daniell | Director | 2014-06-09 | 2024-12-19 |
| SINGH, Sumeetpal Sidhu, Dr | Director | 2005-11-30 | 2008-02-15 |
| SLATFORD, Karen | Director | 2011-03-23 | 2013-08-31 |
| SLATFORD, Karen | Director | 2011-03-21 | 2013-08-31 |
| WILLIAMSON, Nicholas | Director | 2024-05-01 | 2024-12-19 |
| IP2IPO SERVICES LIMITED | Corporate Director | 2019-01-25 | 2024-12-19 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Visa Inc. | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2024-12-19 | Active |
| Touchstone Innovations Businesses Llp | Corporate entity | Shares 25–50% | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2019-01-25 |
| Touchstone Innovations Plc | Corporate entity | Shares 25–50% | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2016-04-06 |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 284 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-01-16 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2026-01-13 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2026-01-12 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-12-09 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2025-06-20 | AD02 | address | Change sail address company with old address new address | |
| 2025-06-19 | AD01 | address | Change registered office address company with date old address new address | |
| 2025-06-19 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-04-30 | AD03 | address | Move registers to sail company with new address | |
| 2025-04-07 | AD02 | address | Change sail address company with old address new address | |
| 2025-01-14 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-01-07 | SH01 | capital | Capital allotment shares | |
| 2025-01-03 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-01-03 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-01-02 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-01-02 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-01-02 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-01-02 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-01-02 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-01-02 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-01-02 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 7
- Capital events
- 1
- Officers appointed
- 1
- Officers resigned
- 2
last 12 months
last 24 months
last 12 months
last 12 months
Direct counts from the register. No score, no rating — see the Filing timeline for the underlying events.