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i-Solutions Global |
i-Solutions has developed i-nexus a suite of performance improvement and strategy exaction software. The Company has a US sales office and a truly global blue-chip customer base. Following an initial investment from the Advantage Growth Fund significant further investment has been raised by the company from Herald Venture and Antrak Capital to fund its continued growth development. |
Funded by the Advantage Growth Fund
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| 1st Investment: June 2005 | www.i-solutionsglobal.com |
| Sector: Software |
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ScriptSwitch |
ScriptSwitch is the market leading provider of an innovative prescribing software product to NHS Primary Care Trusts, which is then employed by GPs in their surgeries. The software is a sophisticated medicines management tool that delivers consistency and conformity in prescribing whilst quantifying and reporting on cost savings. The product has enabled PCT's to save millions of pounds from their drug budgets. The Advantage Growth Fund backed Scriptswitch as a start-up business and achieved a partial exit in 2007, following a significant investment of development capital by Isis Equity Partners, generating an IRR to date for the fund of 67%. |
Funded by the Advantage Growth Fund
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| 1st Investment: July 2003 | www.scriptswitch.com |
| Sector: Software |
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Dynamic Change |
Dynamic Change was formed in March 2000 to develop a web-based performance management software tool. Performance Accelerator is an online integrated corporate governance solution that allows organisations to manage and monitor their business objectives, risks, performance indicators, compliance reporting, financial targets and regulatory obligations. Dynamic Change is the market leader in its chosen market; the NHS. The Company was originally backed by an investment from the HSBC fund in 2002 with a follow-on investment by the Advantage Growth Fund in August 2003. |
Funded by the Advantage Growth Fund
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| 1st Investment: August 2003 | www.dynamic-change.co.uk |
| Sector: Software |
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Occam Systems |
Occam Systems Limited is the major supplier in the UK of software for managing student accommodation and events for universities. With a dominant position in the market, Occams' software handles everything from receiving students' applications for accommodation, issuing contracts and managing rooms, through to collecting rent and debt management. The software has grown to manage events, meeting rooms, catering and audio visual services. |
Funded by the Advantage Growth Fund
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| 1st Investment: June 2004 | www.occam.co.uk |
| Sector: Software |
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Silver Lining Solutions |
Silver Lining Solutions, formed in 1999, is an online skills assessment specialist. It develops software for training needs analysis, compliance testing, and knowledge assessment. Sales are to both public and private sector and a significant sale to the O2 call centre has opened the call centre market to the Company. Its product 'Discover' automates the processes for testing operatives' skills and embedding the results into switching software. The result for the call centre is that callers are put through to the operative best able to deal with their query. |
Funded by the Advantage Growth Fund
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| 1st Investment: December 2004 | www.silverlining.uk.net |
| Sector: Software |
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Clearview Systems Limited |
Clearview is a leading provider of performance management software for the housing association sector. The software was originally developed in house by Festival House Group, realising the commercial potential use of the system to other housing associations the software was span out into a joint venture in 2003. Clearview has a suite of modules that assist housing associations with strategic business planning, performance management and customer service improvement. Clearview now has over 90 registered social landlords using the clearview software managing over half a million homes. |
Funded by the Advantage Growth Fund
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| 1st Investment: August 2006 | www.clearviewsystems.org |
| Sector: Software |
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Gemba Solutions |
Gemba Solutions develops real time performance management software. The company has three offerings, Lean Impact, OEE IMPACT Manual Entry and OEE IMPACT Connect. Lean Impact comprises a suite of software modules, each of which is a productivity tool in its own right and when combined, provide the user with a comprehensive manufacturing execution system. Manual Entry and Connect are based on a subset of the full Lean Impact suite, enabling the user to move up to a fully automated system as required. |
Funded by the Advantage Growth Fund
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| 1st Investment: November 2006 | www.gembasolutions.co.uk |
| Sector: Software |
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MVI Holdings |
MVI, established in 1991 developed 'out of the box' real time shop floor data capture and performance management solutions, based on 15 years working with customers including Coca Cola, Pfizer, Gillette and Toyota on their continuous improvement efforts.
The software provided a unique competitive edge resulting in rapid increases in productivity and quality compliance for its users. With investment from the Advantage Growth Fund the company's growth spread to the USA and Canada where the product was identified by analysts as 'best of breed', resulting in a rapidly growing customer base of top transatlantic brand corporations and an ultimate exit by way of trade sale to US based CDC Corporation.
The Advantage Growth Fund successfully exited MVI just 12 months after its initial investment generating an IRR for the fund of some 60%. |
Funded by the Advantage Growth Fund
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| 1st Investment: October 2005 | www.mvi.co.uk |
| Sector: Software |
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Comply Serve |
| The Company evolved out of the world's leading provider of requirements management solutions, Telelogic AB, where the founding team discovered a significant and largely untapped market opportunity for project supply chain compliance solutions. Comply Serve Limited is a provider of unique, web-based project and product compliance solutions to clients operating in highly regulated industries. Comply Serve's business focus is in markets where there is a need to address complex compliance and assurance goals on high risk, high value programmes of work. |
Funded by the Advantage Growth Fund
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| 1st Investment: July 2007 | www.complyserve.com |
| Sector: Software |
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Ardentia |
Ardentia is a supplier of world class healthcare business intelligence solutions. Ardentia is the leading dedicated supplier of healthcare solutions in the UK with customers including Trusts, PCTs and Strategic Health Authorities.
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Funded by the HSBC Enterprise Fund
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| 1st Investment: February 2000 | www.ardentia.co.uk |
| Sector: Software |
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Allinea Software |
| Based in Warwick Allinea Software span-out of Streamline Computing in July 2009. Allinea Software develops tools that make programming parallel and multithreaded software simple. With cross-platform support and a strong focus on ease-of-use, Allinea products help to scale cluster applications to new heights. |
Funded by the Advantage Growth Fund
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| 1st Investment: July 2009 | www.allinea.com |
| Sector: Software |
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