Helio Intelligence - Bowmark Capital

Investment August 2023

Business Political data

Growth StrategyInternational Expansion Organic Accelerators

Why we invested

Demand for the company’s services is growing due to the increasingly complex and dynamic political and regulatory landscape – with an increasing number of organisations investing in their public affairs functions to keep pace with the rapidly changing environment.

Customers served

>1,000

across the UK and Europe

The story so far

Bowmark’s investment in 2023 created a partnership with existing shareholder Bridgepoint, following DeHavilland’s acquisition of Forefront Advisers, a leading provider of research, reports and intelligence-led political insight in the UK and Europe.

Subsequently unified under the Helio Intelligence brand, the business has substantially broadened both its service offering and geographic reach through strategic acquisitions. These have included: One Policy Place, expanding the group’s EU-focused political monitoring offering; NewsDirect, enhancing regional monitoring in Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland; and most recently, Dods EU, strengthening the group’s expertise in European policy and regulatory developments.

Under our ownership, we have invested significantly in the group’s technological capabilities to enhance its service offering, including developing AI-based solutions to help deliver best-in-class insight-driven political intelligence.

We are delighted to be partnering with Bowmark, whose knowledge and experience in the data and insight sector is proving to be of great value to the business Donal Smith,Chairman