FACEWATCH LIMITED
Company number 07209931 · Monitor this company
Executive summary
Facewatch Limited represents a classic high-growth technology scale-up operating in a sector with strong structural demand but significant regulatory and competitive headwinds. The company's substantial FY2025 capital investment (£932,857 in tangible assets) and 53% workforce expansion signal genuine commercial traction, yet the deepening accumulated losses (£9.84m) and compressed liquidity (£160k cash) indicate the business remains in a cash-hungry development phase. The company's viability is entirely contingent on continued equity financing and achieving revenue scale sufficient to cover its expanding operational base—a transition that must occur before investor appetite for loss-making ventures diminishes.
Shareholders' funds
£9,490,772
Balance sheet as at 2026-03-31
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 2010-03-31
- Employees
- 31 (2026 accounts · was 26 in 2025)
- Registered office
- 89 High Street, Hadleigh, Ipswich, Suffolk, IP7 5EA
- Postcode
- IP7 5EA
- Capital
- 677 GBP
- Accounts category
- Total Exemption Full
- Charges
- 2 outstanding
Accounts
- Last made up to
- 2026-03-31
- Next due by
- 2027-12-31
- Financial year end
- 31 March
Confirmation statement
- Last statement dated
- 2026-03-31
- Next due by
- 2027-04-14
Nature of business (SIC)
- 82990 Other business support service activities not elsewhere classified
Officers 5 current · 15 resigned
Group structure 3 subsidiaries
From persons-with-significant-control filings on the public register.
Licensed visa sponsor
Licensed by the Home Office to sponsor worker visas: Skilled Worker (Worker (A rating)).
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Data protection registration
Registered with the ICO as a data protection fee payer — Z224704X (Tier 1), registered since 2010.
Information Commissioner's Office register of fee payers, licensed under the Open Government Licence.
Contact details
- Website
- facewatch.co.uk
- Phone
- 02079303225
Facewatch is the UK’s leading facial recognition company providing a cloud-based facial recognition security system to safeguard businesses against crime.
Previous registered addresses 1
| Address | Changed on |
|---|---|
| 25 ST THOMAS STREET, WINCHESTER, HAMPSHIRE, SO23 9HJ, UNITED KINGDOM | 2012-09-27 |
Among its peers
Top 1%
by shareholders' funds, of 1,247 similar companies in IP
Among the biggest employers among its local peers (31 staff).
Among the oldest 25% of its local peers, trading since 2010.
Competitors Ipswich
This company ranks 7 among other business support service activities not elsewhere classified in Ipswich.
The class of 2010
17%
of the 32,060 companies in this sector incorporated in 2010 are still active today; 81% have since been dissolved.
A fact about the year, not a forecast for this company.