COGNISM LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-09-30 (in 4mo)
Last filed for 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-10-29 (in 5mo)
Last made up 2025-10-15
Watchouts
Cash
£2M
+123.1% vs 2019
Net assets
£7M
+288.6% vs 2019
Employees
85
+39.3% vs 2019
Profit before tax
—
Period ending 2020-12-31
Watchouts
Facts from the Companies House register and the latest accounts — not a rating
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4 officer resignations in last 12 months
Multiple officers have left the board recently — see the People section for who.
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Technology median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2020-12-31
Latest accounts filed cover 2024-12-31; financial figures currently reflect up to 2020-12-31.
| Metric | Trend | 2019-12-31 | 2020-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | — | — | |
| Operating profit | — | — | |
| Profit before tax | — | — | |
| Net profit | — | — | |
| Cash | £1,062,093 | £2,369,060 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £1,799,219 | £7,355,918 | |
| Net assets | £1,799,219 | £6,992,119 | |
| Equity | £1,799,219 | £6,992,119 | |
| Average employees | 61 | 85 | |
| Wages | — | — |
Values shown as filed in the company's annual accounts. — indicates the figure wasn't present under that line item in that period. About these numbers
Audit & accounting basis
- Accounting basis
- FRS 102
- Reporting scope
- Consolidated group
- Auditor
- BDO LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The Directors have considered the Group's future liquidity and reviewed cash-flow projections covering the period to 31 December 2026. Taking account of these forecasts, and despite the $42 million net loss, the Investors have injected $15 million by way of a convertible loan note, the proceeds of which are in hand at the date of app”
Group structure
- COGNISM LIMITED · parent
- Mailtastic Ltd 100%
- Netstag GmbH 100%
- Cognism Pte 100%
- Zupi Pte 100%
- Cognism, Inc 100%
- Cognism Software BC Ltd 100%
- Cognism Dooel Skopje 100%
- Cognism Do o za Programiranje 100%
- Kaspr SAS 100%
- Cognism GmbH 100%
Significant events
- “On 27 August 2025, the Group divested of its Mailtastic business unit which sold an email signature SaaS platform. The total consideration for the sale was €3 2m, of which €0 5m was held in escrow. The directors estimate a gain on disposal of approximately €2 4m ($2 8m) before tax.”
- “On 26 September 2025, subsequent to the year end and prior to the approval of these financial statements, the Group received $15 million from its Investors by way of a convertible loan note, the proceeds of which were in hand at the date of approval of these financial statements.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
9 active · 17 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| WCA SECRETARIAL LIMITED | Corporate Secretary | 2024-01-04 | — | — |
| AKRAM, Imran | Director | 2020-02-25 | May 1980 | British |
| CODLING, James Robert | Director | 2026-04-10 | Aug 1977 | British |
| DAFFERN, Peter Michael | Director | 2025-03-19 | Oct 1965 | British |
| DRAMALIOTI-TAYLOR, Maria | Director | 2025-03-11 | Jun 1969 | Greek |
| ISILAY, Sinan James | Director | 2015-01-16 | Feb 1978 | British |
| MELYMUKA, Matthew William | Director | 2019-07-09 | Apr 1987 | American |
| MOOREFIELD HAHN, Adrienne | Director | 2025-12-16 | Nov 1990 | American |
| NOLOP, Emily Catherine | Director | 2025-12-16 | Nov 1991 | American |
Show 17 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| ISILAY, Sinan | Secretary | 2015-01-16 | 2018-04-05 |
| CFPRO COSEC LIMITED | Corporate Secretary | 2018-04-05 | 2024-01-04 |
| BULJAT, Stjepan | Director | 2025-02-17 | 2025-03-11 |
| BUTINA, Darko | Director | 2016-12-19 | 2019-07-29 |
| DAFFERN, Peter Michael | Director | 2020-02-25 | 2025-02-17 |
| GARLICK, Phil | Director | 2021-09-16 | 2024-09-12 |
| HACKER, Paul | Director | 2025-05-20 | 2025-10-23 |
| HACKER, Paul | Director | 2019-09-01 | 2022-05-20 |
| JAMES, Thomas Compton | Director | 2016-12-19 | 2020-02-25 |
| KANNAN, Charanya | Director | 2022-08-30 | 2025-12-16 |
| KHAN, Ahmad Raza | Director | 2024-10-21 | 2025-02-17 |
| PALMER, Giles John | Director | 2025-02-17 | 2025-05-09 |
| ROSS, Aaron | Director | 2022-03-18 | 2023-02-28 |
| THÉVENON, David | Director | 2023-06-06 | 2025-04-30 |
| UPADEK, Kai | Director | 2018-12-06 | 2021-01-15 |
| YARED, Rana | Director | 2025-04-30 | 2025-12-15 |
| ZABASU, Tatjana | Director | 2016-12-19 | 2020-02-25 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mr Sinan James Isilay | Individual | Shares 25–50%, Voting 25–50% | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2020-02-25 |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 159 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2025-09-12 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
- 2025-08-05 RP04SH01 Legacy PDF
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-18 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2026-03-02 | CH04 | officers | Change corporate secretary company with change date | |
| 2026-03-02 | AD01 | address | Change registered office address company with date old address new address | |
| 2026-01-15 | SH01 | capital | Capital allotment shares | |
| 2025-12-24 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-12-24 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-12-24 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-12-17 | SH01 | capital | Capital allotment shares | |
| 2025-12-16 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-12-03 | SH01 | capital | Capital allotment shares | |
| 2025-11-10 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2025-11-06 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2025-10-23 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-09-12 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2025-08-25 | SH01 | capital | Capital allotment shares | |
| 2025-08-05 | RP04SH01 | change-of-name | Legacy | |
| 2025-07-04 | SH01 | capital | Capital allotment shares | |
| 2025-06-24 | CH04 | officers | Change corporate secretary company with change date | |
| 2025-06-04 | SH01 | capital | Capital allotment shares | |
| 2025-05-22 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 20
- Capital events
- 6
- Officers appointed
- 3
- Officers resigned
- 4
last 12 months
last 24 months
last 12 months
last 12 months
Direct counts from the register. No score, no rating — see the Filing timeline for the underlying events.
Year-on-year
FY2019 → FY2020 · period ending 2020-12-31 vs 2019-12-31
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Turnover
—
Not reported
-
Cash
+123.1%
£1,062,093 £2,369,060
-
Net assets
+288.6%
£1,799,219 £6,992,119
-
Employees
+39.3%
61 85
Each % is (latest − prior) ÷ |prior| for the line item as filed. Periods don't have to be exactly 12 months apart — a long or short period (typical around incorporation or year-end changes) will distort the comparison. Lines a company doesn't report are omitted. About these numbers