Funding to deploy PCS care-data analytics across children's and adult residential care
This article covers Person Centred Software, a UK healthtech startup and care management software provider, which has taken new investment from Brighton Park Capital and technology investor Nic Humphries while majority backer Cow Corner remains in place. The development, including a strategic partnership with children’s social care software provider Clearcare, aims to accelerate the startup’s analytics and product capabilities to support residential social care providers and local authorities across adult and children’s services.
Person Centred Software (PCS), the UK care management software provider used by more than 8,400 care homes, has taken new investment from Brighton Park Capital and technology investor Nic Humphries while existing majority backer Cow Corner remains in place. The deal, which includes a strategic partnership with children’s social care software provider Clearcare and a planned CEO transition, signals a push to extend PCS’s analytics and product capabilities across the residential social care market. The move matters because it ties one of the sector’s largest datasets to fresh growth capital at a moment when digital tools are steadily reshaping care delivery in the UK.
Why it matters
PCS already has a sizeable footprint, serving over 8,400 care homes and processing what the company describes as more than 13 million care notes daily and about 179 billion care observations a year. That dataset underpins its care intelligence offering and gives the company scope to develop benchmarking, predictive insights and operational tooling for care providers.
Bringing Brighton Park Capital and Nic Humphries on board, while retaining Cow Corner as majority investor, gives PCS more capital and operational support to push product development. For care providers and local authorities, that could mean faster delivery of analytics features that aim to identify emerging needs, reduce risk and improve compliance. For the broader healthtech market, the deal highlights continued investor interest in software that can scale across both adult and children’s residential services.
Inside the product
PCS’s care intelligence platform, IQ, is central to the company’s strategy. IQ uses the large, structured dataset PCS has accumulated to benchmark quality, surface emerging clinical needs and provide management reporting. The stated aims for the fresh investment are to accelerate product development and enhance analytics and predictive capabilities.
PCS has also formalised a partnership with Clearcare, the UK provider of children’s social care software used in more than 800 locations. Clearcare will continue to operate with its own team and resources. Together, PCS and Clearcare now cover the full residential social care spectrum from children’s homes and supported accommodation to elderly care, positioning the combined group to offer end-to-end digital tools across different care settings.
Who are the investors?
Who are the investors?
Brighton Park Capital is a growth equity firm focused on growth-stage software, healthcare and tech-enabled services businesses. The firm will have two partners, Tom Hussey and Jeff Surges, joining the PCS board as part of the transaction. Nic Humphries, described in the announcement as a veteran technology investor, is also investing alongside Brighton Park.
Cow Corner, a privately owned investment business based in Brighton, has been PCS’s majority investor since 2021 and will remain the majority owner after this round. The investment is subject to customary regulatory approvals and is expected to complete in Q4 2025.
In the announcement, Tom Hussey and Jeff Surges, Partners at Brighton Park Capital, said:
Our partnership with PCS reflects our confidence in the PCS vision. Together we will advance their transformation journey and accelerate technologies that will drive better outcomes for the future of care.
In the announcement, Chris Woolley, Partner at Cow Corner, said:
We’re entering a new era for digital care, one where predictive insights and benchmarking will drive genuine care quality improvement across the sector. Partnering with Brighton Park Capital and Nic Humphries gives us the resources and specialist tech expertise to drive our growth and deliver even more value to our customers.
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Founder perspective
As part of the funding round, CEO Johan Jardevall will step down from the role but remain involved to support the business while a search for a new CEO takes place. Jardevall framed the handover as a planned next phase after recent organisational changes.
In the announcement, Johan Jardevall, outgoing CEO of PCS, said:
I’m proud of what we have achieved at PCS so far, building the leading software platform for enabling care providers to improve care outcomes for residents in the social care sector in the UK and Australia. Now is the right time for me to step down and enable the next chapter of growth building on the structure that we have put in place over the last two years.
The bigger picture
The deal reflects two broader trends in UK healthtech. First, consolidation across adjacent parts of the care sector as vendors seek to serve multiple care settings and capture cross-segment data. Second, investor appetite for software businesses that combine deep vertical datasets with analytics that claim to support quality and compliance improvements.
Regulators and commissioners will be watching how combined products are used in frontline care, given ongoing pressures on adult and children’s services across the UK. The partnership also points to a market in which private capital is aiming to professionalise digital tools in social care, an area increasingly referenced in policy discussions about workforce, standards and oversight.
This transaction sits alongside a wider wave of investment into UK and European care-focused software businesses and underscores continued interest from healthtech investors in companies that can scale data-driven services across residential care settings.
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