Arcastream Ltd
Registered name: ARCASTREAM LTD
Part of Kalray Sa groupArcastream Ltd made £4.4m revenue and a £642k loss in the year to 31 Dec 2024. read from filing text
Arcastream Ltd’s revenue fell 37% to £4.4m in the year to 31 Dec 2024, with a loss of £642k and 3 employees. The company is classified under “other business support service activities” and is based in Kingston Upon Thames; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Kingston Upon Thames, London
- Age
- 13 yrs · since 2013
- Type
- Private Limited Company
Part of a group. The filing indicates this company sits within a group structure, so its results may depend on intra-group trading and it may be hard to replicate independently. From the filing: “The immediate parent company is Arcapix Holdings Limited, a company incorporated in the UK.”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Dec 2022 | 31 Dec 2023 | 31 Dec 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £5.6m | £7.1m | £4.4m |
| Cost of sales | £1.7m | £2.4m | £400k |
| Gross profit | £3.9m | £4.7m | £4m |
| Operating profit | £2.6m | −£246k | −£628k |
| Profit before tax | £2.6m | −£244k | −£642k |
| Profit after tax | £2.3m | −£199k | −£642k |
| Profit (best available) | £2.3m | −£199k | −£642k |
| Staff costs | £888k | £282k | £0 |
| Employees (average) | 6 | 4 | 3 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 40.6% | −2.8% | −14.4% |
| Gross margin | 69.5% | 66.7% | 91% |
| Revenue per employee | £932k | £1.8m | £1.5m |
| Profit per employee | £379k | −£49.7k | −£214k |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲27% | ▼37.5% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼108.7% | — |
| Headcount growth | — | ▼33.3% | ▼25% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £1.3m | £294k | £15.9k |
| Net assets | £1.4m | £1.2m | £548k |
| Current assets | £4.8m | £4.1m | £4.7m |
| Debtors | £604k | £608k | £405k |
| Deferred income | £3.8m | £2.3m | £1.3m |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- −14.4%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 91%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £1.5m
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- −£214k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- —
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 29.2%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 9.1%
- Money owed by customers. Low = customers pay quickly.
Balance-sheet signals
Year-on-year changes in filed balance-sheet items. They can hint at momentum (or investment) but are not revenue or profit and must not be read as such.
- Net assets
- ▼54%
- Now £548k
- Cash at bank
- ▼95%
- Now £15.9k
- Headcount
- ▼25%
- Now 3
- Deferred income
- ▼44%
- Now £1.3m
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now —
Group structure
Ownership chain
- Kalray Sa (registered outside the UK register)ultimate parent75–100%
- Arcapix Holdings Limited75–100%
- Arcastream Ltdthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Sister companies (1)
- Pixit Media LimitedRev. — · Profit −£7.8m
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
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Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 31 Dec 2024 (profit −£642k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Sep 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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