Pcarbon Bidco Limited
Registered name: PCARBON BIDCO LIMITED
Part of Volpi Capital LLP groupPcarbon Bidco Limited made £929k revenue and a £4.6m loss in the year to 31 Dec 2024. read from filing text
Pcarbon Bidco Limited’s revenue was £929k in the year to 31 Dec 2024, with a loss of £4.6m and 5 employees. The company is classified under “activities of other holding companies” and is based in Altrincham; we hold 2 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Altrincham, North West
- Age
- 4 yrs · since 2022
- Type
- Private Limited Company
Pass-through vehicle. This looks like a holding, staffing or umbrella company. Its revenue and profit may largely pass through to or from other entities, so the figures may not reflect a standalone operating business. It is excluded from our opportunity lists.
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 company's immediate parent company is Pcarbon”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Dec 2023 | 31 Dec 2024 |
|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | ||
| Revenue (turnover) | £754k | £929k |
| Cost of sales | £0 | £0 |
| Gross profit | £754k | £929k |
| Operating profit | −£2.5m | £3k |
| Profit before tax | −£7.8m | −£4.6m |
| Profit after tax | −£7.8m | −£4.6m |
| Profit (best available) | −£7.8m | −£4.6m |
| Staff costs | £685k | £861k |
| Employees (average) | 5 | 5 |
| Ratios | ||
| Profit margin | −1039% | −500% |
| Gross margin | 100% | 100% |
| Revenue per employee | £151k | £186k |
| Profit per employee | −£1.6m | −£929k |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||
| Cash at bank | £677k | £0 |
| Net assets | £35.9m | £31.2m |
| Current assets | £735k | £0 |
| Debtors | £58k | £0 |
| Deferred income | £637k | £0 |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Feb 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- −500%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 100%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £186k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- −£929k
- 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
- 0%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 0%
- 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
- —
- Now £31.2m
- Cash at bank
- —
- Now £0
- Headcount
- —
- Now 5
- Deferred income
- —
- Now £0
- 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
- Volpi Capital LLPultimate parent50–75%
- Pcarbon Topco Limited75–100%
- Pcarbon Bidco Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Subsidiaries (1)
- Xalient Holdings LimitedRev. £85m · Profit £2.9m
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 31 Dec 2024 (profit −£4.6m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Sep 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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