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About Foresight Group

Foresight Group was founded in 1984 and is a leading listed infrastructure and private equity investment
manager. With a long-established focus on ESG and sustainability-led strategies, it aims to provide attractive
returns to its institutional and private investors from hard-to-access private markets. Foresight manages
over 400 infrastructure assets with a focus on solar and onshore wind assets, bioenergy and waste, as well
as renewable energy enabling projects, energy efficiency management solutions, social and core
infrastructure projects and sustainable forestry assets. Its private equity team manages an extensive
footprint of regionally focused investment funds across the UK and Ireland. This team reviews over 3,000
business plans each year and currently supports more than 250 investments in SMEs. Foresight Capital
Management manages four strategies across seven investment vehicles.


Foresight operates in eight countries across Europe, Australia and United States with AUM of £11.9 billion*.
Foresight Group Holdings Limited listed on the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange in February 2021
and is a constituent of the FTSE250 index. https://www.foresightgroup.eu/shareholders


*Based on unaudited AUM as at 31 March 2024.

Benefits Foresight brings:

  • Over 35 years investing into smaller companies
  • Experienced growth investor
  • Dynamic and entrepreneurial approach

About WAE

Combining cutting edge technology and the industry’s best engineers with precision and speed to market - derived from four decades of success in the ultra-competitive environment of Formula One - WAE provides world class technical innovation, engineering, testing, manufacturing and operational consultancy services.

WAE has a vast range of capability to share with portfolio companies. It regularly takes ideas from the concept stage all the way through to compliance and certification by combining its engineering capabilities with intellectual property expertise and project management excellence with high-end marketing strategies. WAE has in-house resources to deliver end-to-end programmes, whilst the association with WAE, and WAE’s extensive network, increases credibility for companies in the marketplace – both with suppliers and customers.

WAE provides a huge support structure to investee companies and the dedicated partnerships management function enables easy access to this support.

Benefits WAE brings:

  • Credibility in the market
  • Expertise across a range of disciplines
  • Expansive network

Seeking Funding

We look for early-stage UK companies operating in attractive, substantive markets, where WAE can provide added value.

For Investors

The Foresight WAE Technology funds offer investors the opportunity to invest in a portfolio of early-stage companies developing innovative and transformational technologies across a range of different sectors.