Foresight lands £25m series A to reduce project overruns using AI platform
This article covers Foresight, a proptech startup, which has raised £25m in a series A funding round led by Macquarie Capital Venture Capital. The funding will accelerate product development, hiring and global go-to-market expansion to help owners and investors manage delivery risk across large infrastructure programmes in areas such as AI infrastructure, power, defence, advanced manufacturing and mobility.
Foresight, a proptech startup that builds predictive project delivery software for large infrastructure programmes, has raised £25 million in a series A funding round led by Macquarie Capital Venture Capital. The round, which also includes participation from Creandum, ISAI Build (the Bouygues group VC fund managed by ISAI), i2bf Global Ventures and Somersault Ventures, will be used to accelerate product development, hire staff and expand the company’s global go-to-market as demand for tools to manage delivery risk grows across AI infrastructure, power, defense, advanced manufacturing and mobility.
Why it matters
Infrastructure projects worldwide are growing in scale and complexity, and investors and owners are increasingly exposed to schedule slippage, cost overruns and delayed capacity activation. Foresight positions itself against what it calls an "execution gap" — the idea that capital is available but the ability to deliver complex programmes on time and to budget is not.
Independent research cited in the announcement claims nearly 90% of large-scale infrastructure projects are delivered late or over budget. In markets such as hyperscale data centres and AI infrastructure, those delays have direct commercial consequences: delayed revenue, higher financing costs and strained customer commitments. Tools that surface early risk and consolidate delivery signals across stakeholders can change how owners manage portfolios of concurrent projects.
Inside the product
Foresight describes its core product as a Predictive Project Delivery platform that acts as a unified AI control system for complex infrastructure programmes. The platform aims to establish a baseline schedule faster than traditional methods, continuously validate real-world progress against plans, integrate signals from multiple stakeholders and forecast risks early enough for intervention.
The company reports that customers see:
- twice the accuracy in completion forecasts compared with bottom-up schedules
- a 30% reduction in overruns by identifying delay drivers before they escalate
- portfolio-level visibility across concurrent builds, allowing risk to be managed across programmes rather than on a project-by-project basis
These are vendor-provided performance metrics; independent verification would help quantify how these improvements translate into reduced capital costs or accelerated capacity activation.
Who are the investors?
The round was led by Macquarie Capital Venture Capital, whose team the announcement says has more than 30 years of experience backing early-stage software companies that intersect capital markets and complex industries. Participating investors are Creandum, ISAI Build (Bouygues group VC fund managed by ISAI), i2bf Global Ventures and Somersault Ventures.
In the announcement, Gary Munitz, Global Co-Head of Macquarie Capital Venture Capital at Macquarie Capital Venture Capital, said:
Delivery discipline is crucial in a market where delays directly impact returns.
Foresight provides project owners with the clarity and control to maintain a competitive edge.
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Founder perspective
In the announcement, Igor Shifrin, Co-Founder and CEO at Foresight, said:
The scale of capital now committed to infrastructure is historic.
But capital alone doesn't build anything on time.
In the announcement, Dr. Atif Ansar, Co-Founder and Executive Chairman at Foresight, said:
Delays in major projects are not rare events caused by black swans.
They are systemic, driven by small, compounding execution failures and predictable human biases in planning and decision-making.
The company says the new funding will deepen platform capabilities, support broader global deployments and extend the product into adjacent verticals such as power, defense and advanced manufacturing where delivery risk is acute.
The bigger picture
This funding sits at the intersection of two trends: rising capital commitments to infrastructure and growing demand for software that reduces delivery risk. For owners and financiers, predictability of delivery is increasingly a value driver comparable to access to capital.
The deal also reflects growing interest from proptech investors in startups that tackle infrastructure execution rather than just asset management or optimisation. As Europe and the UK pursue large programmes in energy transition, data infrastructure and industrial capacity, tools that raise visibility and allow early intervention are likely to attract further attention from investors and project owners alike.
As capital allocation into infrastructure continues across the UK and Europe, the market for execution-focused software will be one to watch for founders, investors and procurement teams seeking to protect project returns and activate capacity on schedule.
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