FACEWATCH LIMITED

Company number 07209931 ·

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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.

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Shareholders' funds

£9,490,772

Balance sheet as at 2026-03-31

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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
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Nature of business (SIC)

  • 82990 Other business support service activities not elsewhere classified

Officers 5 current · 15 resigned

Appointed 2023-11-13
Appointed 2023-11-01
MR Geoffrey ILES Director
Appointed 2017-06-05
Appointed 2016-12-22
Appointed 2010-03-31

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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

AddressChanged on
25 ST THOMAS STREET, WINCHESTER, HAMPSHIRE, SO23 9HJ, UNITED KINGDOM2012-09-27

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.

No.7 of the largest other business support service activities not elsewhere classified companies in Ipswich →

221 companies are registered at this postcode →

Competitors Ipswich

This company ranks 7 among other business support service activities not elsewhere classified in Ipswich.

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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.

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