Investment Summary

Foresight Private Equity Invests In dRISK

On May 26, 2022, private equity firm Foresight Private Equity invested in automotive company dRISK

Investment Highlights
  • This is Foresight Private Equity’s 3rd transaction in the Automotive sector.
  • This is Foresight Private Equity’s 162nd transaction in the United Kingdom.

Investment Summary

Date 2022-05-26
Target dRISK
Sector Automotive
Investor(s) Foresight Private Equity
Deal Type Growth Capital

Target

dRISK

London, United Kingdom
dRISK is an autonomous vehicle testing and training company that delivers the ultimate driver’s test for self-driving cars. Using dRISK for retraining, Autonomous Vehicles can detect and contend with high-risk scenarios 6x sooner and with 2x greater accuracy. dRISK has built a taxonomy of edge cases derived from massive and heterogeneous data focused on millions of hours of CCTV footage from high-risk intersections, full-text accident reporting, and extensive expert input from both transportation specialists and NASA experts in failure mode analysis. dRISK was founded in 2014 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

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Investor(S) 1

Investor

Foresight Private Equity

Investor Investor Investor Investor Investor


Category Private Equity Firm
Founded 1984
PE ASSETS 1.4B GBP
Size Large
Type Sector Agnostic
DESCRIPTION

Foresight Group LLP (Formerly VCF Partners)


DEAL STATS #
Overall 167 of 208
Sector: Automotive M&A 3 of 3
Type: Growth Capital M&A Deals 130 of 167
Country: United Kingdom M&A 162 of 202
Year: 2022 M&A 5 of 16
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2022-05-04 Nebu-Flow

Glasgow, United Kingdom

Nebu-Flow is an innovative medical device company developing surface acoustic wave (“SAW”) nebulisers; enabling the delivery of next-generation respiratory pharmaceuticals and improving the efficiency of well-established lung treatments. Nebu-Flow was founded in 2019 and is based in Glasgow, United Kingdom.

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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2022-05-31 Codeplay Software

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Codeplay Software is a software developer and software consultancy business. Codeplay is internationally recognized for its expertise in Heterogeneous Systems (the system that uses more than one kind of processor or core). Codeplay Software is based in Edinburgh, United Kingdom.

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