Iovation Limited
Registered name: IOVATION LIMITED
Part of Transunion groupIovation Limited made £289k revenue and a £289k loss in the year to 31 Dec 2025.
Iovation Limited’s revenue fell 49% to £289k in the year to 31 Dec 2025, with a loss of £289k and 2 employees. The company is classified under “other information technology service activities” and is based in Leeds; we hold 5 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Leeds, Yorkshire and The Humber
- Age
- 10 yrs · since 2015
- 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: “iovation Inc”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Dec 2021 | 31 Dec 2022 | 31 Dec 2023 | 31 Dec 2024 | 31 Dec 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | |||||
| Revenue (turnover) | £2.3m | £1.6m | £1.5m | £567k | £289k |
| Operating profit | — | — | — | £106k | −£291k |
| Profit before tax | £171k | £161k | £199k | £112k | −£289k |
| Profit after tax | £138k | £131k | £199k | £111k | −£289k |
| Profit (best available) | £138k | £131k | £199k | £111k | −£289k |
| Staff costs | £1.4m | £976k | £1.2m | £508m | £238m |
| Employees (average) | 17 | 12 | 14 | 9 | 2 |
| Ratios | |||||
| Profit margin | 6.1% | 8.4% | 13.3% | 19.6% | −100% |
| Revenue per employee | £133k | £130k | £107k | £63k | £145k |
| Profit per employee | £8.1k | £10.9k | £14.2k | £12.3k | −£145k |
| Growth (year on year) | |||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼31% | ▼3.9% | ▼62.1% | ▼49% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼5.5% | ▲52.2% | ▼44.1% | ▼360.3% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▼29.4% | ▲16.7% | ▼35.7% | ▼77.8% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||||
| Cash at bank | £414k | £560k | £448k | £310k | £291k |
| Net assets | £217k | £348k | £810k | £630k | £340k |
| Current assets | £644k | £786k | £5.2m | £5.2m | £5m |
| Debtors | £0 | £43 | £4.7m | £4.8m | £4.8m |
| Deferred income | £101k | £95.3k | £33.4k | £20k | £26k |
| Cash from operations | −£2.4k | −£146k | — | — | — |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2023 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2023 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2024 | Full · bulk data Sep 2026 | Full · bulk data Sep 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- −100%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- —
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £145k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- −£145k
- 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
- 9%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 1643%
- 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
- ▼46%
- Now £340k
- Cash at bank
- ▼6%
- Now £291k
- Headcount
- ▼78%
- Now 2
- Deferred income
- ▲30%
- Now £26k
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now —
Deferred income is reported together with accruals in this filing (“accruals and deferred income”), so it is an approximate signal only.
Group structure
Ownership chain
- Transunion (registered outside the UK register)ultimate parent75–100%
- Iovation Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
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Sources
Latest figures from Full for the year to 31 Dec 2025 (profit −£289k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Sep 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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