CANTAB RESEARCH LIMITED

🌳Matureactive

05697423 · ltd · incorporated 2006-02-03

Investment thesis

Established operating company — standard diligence applies, no dominant angle.

Why interesting: Live, filing, normal profile.

Why risky: No standout signals in either direction.

Opportunity decay

approaching window · 12-months

Approaching a transaction window — refinance or sale event plausible in the next 12 months.

· Oldest live charge 10.9y old — refinance window within 12 months

🔒Estimated value

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Turnover

—

year to Dec 2024

Net worth

—

book net assets

Opportunity

83/100

Exceptional

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What this business does

Primary activity: Business and domestic software development

Sector: Information & communication

ALSO REGISTERED FOR

62020Information technology consultancy activities

Investor take

Pursue

Active trading company with a 63-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 83/100 (exceptional), bankability 85/100. Strong seller-intent signal (60/100, director aged 63). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: strategic trade sale (73/100).

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Refinance opportunity

2 live charges · oldest 10.9y

85/100

ready

Refinance conversation should be productive — structure clean and timing right.

· Oldest live charge is 10.9 years old — likely at or near maturity.
· Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
· Legal-friction score 15/100 — clean.

Data confidence

Overall: medium (76/100)

Adequate coverage. AI outputs are reliable for the sections scored high; verify the rest in diligence.

Company profile

address, 2 SIC codes, incorporation date

100

Financials

1 year of iXBRL accounts extracted (no YoY comparison) + narrative notes parsed

Lenders & charges

2 charges (2/2 with lender, 2/2 with type)

Directors & officers

13 officers (5 active, 13 linked, 9 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

1 active PSC(s) of 1 total, 1 with control declared

Director network

17 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

160 filings on record

Gazette notices

No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)

Opportunity Score

83/100Exceptional

PassWatchWorth a lookStrongExceptional

Strong composite across quality, acquirability, and risk. High-priority target — progress to serious diligence.

Business quality

Active, clean filings, stable charge profile.

Acquirability

Strong succession / seller-readiness signals.

Risk profile

Few red flags.

Signal strength

100

Good data coverage for analysis.

Key financials

1 year extracted from filed iXBRL accounts

Cash

—

Net Worth

—

Current Assets

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Current Liabilities

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102

Metric	2024-12-31
Average employees	11300

Amounts extracted automatically from iXBRL. Fields left blank were not reported or not mapped. Values in GBP unless stated.

🔒Filing-note intelligence

3 signals detected in this company's narrative notes — going-concern language, audit opinion, contingent liabilities, related-party transactions.

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Recent activity

Last 30 days

filings

Last 90 days

filings

• 1 resolution
• 1 incorporation

Last 180 days

filings

• 6 capital
• 1 resolution
• 1 incorporation

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (49 events)Click to expand

2026-03-21
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resolution
resolution · RESOLUTIONS
2026-03-21
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memorandum-articles
incorporation · MA
2026-02-10
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change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2026-01-07
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capital · SH01
2026-01-07
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capital-allotment-shares
capital · SH01
2026-01-07
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capital-allotment-shares
capital · SH01
2026-01-07
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capital · SH10
2026-01-07
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capital · SH08
2025-12-30
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capital-allotment-shares
capital · SH01
2025-09-26
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accounts · AA
2025-07-15
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address · AD01
2025-05-12
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officers · TM01
2025-04-30
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QUANTRELL, David George resigned
director
2025-01-27
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capital · SH08
2025-01-15
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capital · SH08
2025-01-15
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capital · SH10
2025-01-02
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capital · SH01
2024-12-27
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capital · SH08
2024-12-24
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capital · SH10
2024-10-03
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capital · SH01
2024-07-23
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capital-allotment-shares
capital · SH01
2024-07-05
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resolution
resolution · RESOLUTIONS
2024-07-05
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memorandum-articles
incorporation · MA
2024-06-17
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accounts-with-accounts-type-group
accounts · AA
2022-06-09
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KLAHR, Jonathan appointed
director
2021-06-16
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GIBSON, Richard Stanley resigned
director
2021-05-19
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QUANTRELL, David George appointed
director
2020-07-31
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WIGDAHL, Katrina Maria appointed
director
2020-07-31
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MILLIKEN, Duncan John resigned
director
2019-10-09
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WHITBY-SMITH, Robert James appointed
director
2019-03-07
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Charge satisfied #2
2019-03-07
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Charge satisfied #1
2019-01-23
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MILLIKEN, Duncan John appointed
director
2018-10-19
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VON THUENGEN-REICHENBACH-EVANS, Benedikt Julian Nicolaus resigned
director
2018-06-07
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HOBLEY, Charles Jeremy Stuart resigned
director
2017-07-11
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HOBLEY, Charles Jeremy Stuart appointed
director
2017-01-27
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Charge registered #2
Lender: Silicon Valley Bank
2016-12-23
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GIBSON, Richard Stanley appointed
director
2016-12-16
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IQ CAPITAL DIRECTORS NOMINEES LIMITED appointed
corporate-director
2015-07-23
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Charge registered #1
Lender: Silicon Valley Bank
2014-12-22
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VON THUENGEN-REICHENBACH-EVANS, Benedikt Julian Nicolaus appointed
director
2008-04-06
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STEPHEN, Hayley Jane resigned
secretary
2006-02-03
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Company incorporated
As CANTAB RESEARCH LIMITED
2006-02-03
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ROBINSON, Anthony John appointed
director
2006-02-03
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STEPHEN, Hayley Jane appointed
secretary
2006-02-03
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CAMBRIDGE NOMINEES LIMITED appointed
corporate-secretary
2006-02-03
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CAMBRIDGE NOMINEES LIMITED resigned
corporate-secretary
2006-02-03
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CAMBRIDGE INCORPORATIONS LIMITED appointed
corporate-director
2006-02-03
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CAMBRIDGE INCORPORATIONS LIMITED resigned
corporate-director

Owner dependency

73/100

High — earn-out structure required

Material founder dependency. Consider a 2-3 year earn-out and build in a handover plan before completion.

FACTORS

-5 active directors: Broader management team in place — suggests transferable governance.
+Founder name in company name: Company name contains director surname "LIMITED" — strong identity link between founder and business.
+Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 20 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
+Senior director age: Director aged approximately 63 — approaching natural succession window.

Succession & seller-readiness

80/100

Likely off-market candidate

Strong acquirability signals converging. Worth approaching directly — this is how off-market deals start.

SIGNALS

primaryFounder aged 63+: Senior director is approximately 63. Approaching typical UK retirement age — succession thinking likely.
primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 20 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 20 years old and no new directors in the last 3 years — succession not yet being planned internally.
supportingClean filings + long tenure: Disciplined long-tenure operator — classic lifestyle-business pattern that often sells quietly.

Red flags

clean

No red flags detected from available public data. (This is not a clean bill of health — detailed accounts review still recommended.)

Shareholders & ownership

1 active beneficial owner

Name	Shares	Voting rights	Nature of control	Notified
Anthony John Robinson Individual · British · DOB 04/1963 · age 63	25–50%	25–50%	board control25-50% shares · 25-50% voting · board control	06/04/2016

From Companies House Persons with Significant Control filings. Share ranges are banded per the public PSC regime.

🔒Co-director network graph

Radial SVG graph showing every company connected via shared directors, colour-coded by status.

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6 specific questions generated from this company's actual signals — liquidity, leverage, director age, charge count, red flags, age-of-company.

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Company details

Statusactive

Typeltd

Incorporated2006-02-03

Jurisdictionengland-wales

Primary SIC62012 — Business and domestic software development

Registered office

One Cambridge Square Milton Avenue

Cambridge North

Cambridge

CB4 0AE

England

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2026-09-30

Last made up to: 2024-12-31

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2027-02-12

Last: 2026-01-29