Foresight backs ShareTech platform Vestd to accelerate growth in equity management software

• Investment into leading UK ShareTech platform serving thousands of businesses
• Supporting continued growth in an underpenetrated market driven by increasing adoption of employee share schemes and appetite for equity inclusion
• Opportunity to scale through enterprise expansion, new products and international growth 

Foresight Group (“Foresight”), a leading regional private equity and real assets investment manager, has announced a growth investment into Vestd (“Vestd” or the “Company”), a UK-based software platform that enables businesses to manage and administer employee share schemes, equity ownership and fundraising.

Founded in 2014, Vestd has developed a proprietary SaaS platform that digitises and automates equity management, replacing manual processes with an integrated, compliant and auditable system. The platform supports a wide range of workflows including employee share schemes, cap table management, fundraising documentation and shareholder reporting. Vestd serves thousands of businesses, predominantly in the UK and India, and has established a strong reputation for ease of use, customer support and deep integrations.

Vestd's first institutional round, taken after a decade of consistent growth, will support Vestd’s next phase of growth, including expanding its enterprise offering, scaling its international presence, and developing additional product functionality in areas such as SPVs and private market infrastructure. Foresight will work closely with management to further strengthen the leadership team and accelerate commercial expansion, including leveraging opportunities across its wider portfolio.

Ifty Nasir, Founder and CEO of Vestd, said: “Vestd was founded to make equity inclusion a reality for every private company, so everyone who is key to the success of a business has skin in the game. We’ve built a platform that simplifies what has traditionally been a complex and manual process, and we’re proud to support thousands of companies across the UK and India. Foresight’s investment and expertise will help us accelerate our growth, expand our product offering and continue delivering value to the thousands of businesses that use our platform.”

Salim Chantler, Senior Investment Manager at Foresight Group, commented: “Vestd operates in a highly attractive and underpenetrated market, with a differentiated product that is deeply embedded in customer workflows. From our experience working with growth businesses, manual equity issuance is a recurring pain point for management teams: complex, time-consuming and prone to error. Vestd solves this with a scalable, software-led approach, and we’re excited to support the team as they continue to grow, particularly in enterprise and international markets.”