RAPITA SYSTEMS LIMITED
Company number 05011090 · Monitor this company
Executive summary
Rapita Systems Limited occupies a defensible niche within the safety-critical embedded systems verification market, benefitting from structural regulatory demand and a growing subscription revenue base. However, the company has emerged from a financially damaging period (2020-2023) with significantly depleted reserves, thin capitalisation, and balance sheet metrics that fall below sector norms for healthy software businesses. While 2024's return to profitability and parent company support from Danlaw Inc provide reassurance, the company's competitive positioning remains constrained by scale limitations and financial fragility relative to better-capitalised rivals in this specialised segment.
Shareholders' funds
£1,068,971
Balance sheet as at 2025-12-31
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 2004-01-09
- Employees
- 56 (2025 accounts)
- Registered office
- Atlas House Link Business Park, Osbaldwick Link Road, York, YO10 3JB
- Postcode
- YO10 3JB
- Capital
- 8,721 GBP
- Accounts category
- Small
- Charges
- 0 outstanding
Accounts
- Last made up to
- 2025-12-31
- Next due by
- 2027-09-30
- Financial year end
- 31 December
Confirmation statement
- Last statement dated
- 2026-01-05
- Next due by
- 2027-01-19
Nature of business (SIC)
- 62012 Business and domestic software development
Officers 3 current · 14 resigned
Licensed visa sponsor
Licensed by the Home Office to sponsor worker visas: Skilled Worker (Worker (A rating)).
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Contact details
- Website
- rapitasystems.com
Previous company names
| Name | Date changed |
|---|---|
| HARROWELL SHAFTOE (NO. 91) LIMITED | 2004-03-01 |
Previous registered addresses 10
| Address | Changed on |
|---|---|
| I.T. CENTRE YORK SCIENCE PARK INNOVATION WAY, HESLINGTON, YORK, N. YORKS, YO10 5NP, UNITED KINGDOM | 2013-11-21 |
| I.T. CENTRE YORK SCIENCE PARK INNOVATION WAY, HESLINGTON, YORK, N. YORKS, YO10 5NP, UNITED KINGDOM | 2013-11-21 |
| IT CENTRE INNOVATION WAY, HESLINGTON, YORK, N. YORKS, YO10 5NP, UNITED KINGDOM | 2012-01-10 |
| IT CENTRE INNOVATION WAY, HESLINGTON, YORK, N. YORKS, YO10 5NP, UNITED KINGDOM | 2012-01-10 |
| IT CENTRE, YORK SCIENCE PARK, HESLINGTON YORK, N YORKS, YO10 5DG | 2011-01-11 |
| IT CENTRE, YORK SCIENCE PARK, HESLINGTON YORK, N YORKS, YO10 5DG | 2011-01-11 |
| 16 PARK GROVE, YORK, NORTH YORKSHIRE, YO31 8LG | 2006-10-16 |
| 16 PARK GROVE, YORK, NORTH YORKSHIRE, YO31 8LG | 2006-10-16 |
| MOORGATE HOUSE, CLIFTON MOOR, YORK, YO30 4WY | 2004-06-09 |
| MOORGATE HOUSE, CLIFTON MOOR, YORK, YO30 4WY | 2004-06-09 |
Among its peers
Top 5%
by shareholders' funds, of 254 similar companies in YO
3rd largest employer among its local peers (56 staff).
Among the oldest 25% of its local peers, trading since 2004.
No.8 of the largest business and domestic software development companies in York →
Competitors York
This company ranks 8 among business and domestic software development in York.
The class of 2004
47%
of the 985 companies in this sector incorporated in 2004 are still active today; 50% have since been dissolved.
A fact about the year, not a forecast for this company.