Agora Bidco Limited
Activities of other holding companies n.e.c. · Sheffield
ActiveUnited KingdomIncorporated 2020Private Limited Company
Financial position
Accounts to 2025-12-31 · GBP · Company accounts
Net assets
−£47,285,442
Cash
—
Turnover
—
Profit / loss
−£7,358,248
Current assets
£4,838,280
Creditors < 1 year
£115,288,846
Equity
−£47,285,442
Average employees
Not available
Balance-sheet trend
GBP · companyFinancial statements
Selected figures from the best-ranked available filing for each period. Missing values remain unknown.
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| Reported figures | 2025-12-31Company · AI-read | 2024-12-31Company · AI-read | 2020-12-317 months |
|---|---|---|---|
| Balance sheet | |||
| Net assets | −£47,285,442 | −£39,927,194 | — |
| Equity | −£47,285,442 | −£39,927,194 | £1 |
| Share capital | £7,076 | £7,076 | — |
| Retained earnings | −£47,292,518 | −£30,934,270 | — |
| Assets | |||
| Fixed assets | £102,993,013 | £100,903,775 | — |
| Investments | £102,993,013 | £100,903,775 | — |
| Current assets | £4,838,280 | £5,388,392 | — |
| Debtors | £4,838,280 | £5,388,392 | £1 |
| Liabilities | |||
| Creditors within one year | £115,288,846 | £105,805,961 | — |
| Creditors after one year | £39,827,889 | £40,413,400 | — |
| Net current assets | −£110,450,566 | −£100,417,569 | — |
| Assets less current liabilities | −£7,457,553 | £486,206 | £1 |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Administrative expenses | £242,498 | £75,658 | — |
| Other operating income | — | £17,937 | — |
| Operating profit | −£242,498 | −£57,721 | — |
| Interest receivable | £2,027,738 | £122,366 | — |
| Interest payable | £10,964,159 | £11,713,254 | — |
| Profit before tax | −£9,178,919 | −£11,648,609 | — |
| Tax | −£1,820,671 | −£2,504,877 | — |
| Profit / loss | −£7,358,248 | −£9,143,732 | — |
| Operating costs | |||
| Audit fees | £15,800 | £19,200 | — |
| People & pay | |||
| Average employees | — | — | 0 |
| Source evidence | View filing | View filing | View filing |
From the accounts
What the accounts for 2025-12-31 say about themselves, read by AI from the scanned filing.
- Principal activity
- The principal activity of the Company is that of a holding company.
- What it does
- holding company · biopharmaceutical industry · data platforms · data services · clinical development training · manufacturing development training (AI keywords)
- The year
- BioPhorum enables the global biopharmaceutical industry to connect, collaborate and accelerate progress for the benefit of all. BioPhorum consists of 11 Phorums directing more than 100 professionally facilitated workstreams focused on industry changing initiatives contributed to by thousands of subject matter experts.
- Outlook
- The directors are not aware at the date of this report of any likely changes to the stated principal activity over the next reporting period.
- Auditor
- Grant Thornton UK LLP · senior statutory auditor Richard Woodward BA FCA
- Audit opinion
- Clean (unmodified)
- Immediate parent
- Agora Midco 2 Limited · United Kingdom
- Ultimate parent
- Agora Topco Limited · United Kingdom
- Accounts
- FRS 102
- Approved
- 2026-03-30, signed by M Tagg
Subsidiaries (4)
- Symposium Capital Limited · 100% · United Kingdom · Holding company
- Inspired Pharma Training Limited · 100% · United Kingdom · Training company
- Canary Ltd · 100% · United Kingdom · Training company
- BioPhorum Operations Group Ltd · 100% · United Kingdom · Membership organisation organisation to facilitate collaboration in the Biopharmaceutical industry
Related parties (1)
- Five Arrows Managers LLP · A party connected with Five Arrows Growth Capital Holdings I S.a.r.l., a shareholder of Agora Topco Limited · Management expenses recharged to the company · £nil
Borrowings (3)
- Bank loan (term loan) · from Goldman Sachs · 29,780,799 · Variable and is linked to the USD SOFR rate plus a margin over US LIBOR that is linked to the leverage ratio · The capital is repayable in 2028 · secured on A first fixed charge over the Company’s bank accounts, holdings of shares and intercompany receivables and by a first floating charge over the Company’s present and future assets, undertakings and rights
- Loan owed to group undertakings · 9,713,757 · 10% · The loan will be redeemed in full on an exit although there are circumstances in which the redemption could be earlier. The latest the loan can be redeemed is 2041.
- Amounts owed to group undertakings included in creditors due within one year · 102,951,129 · 10% · Repayable on demand
Share classes (1)
- 707,578 Ordinary of £0.01
Principal risks (3)
- Foreign exchange risk
- Interest rate risk
- Investment carrying value impairment
Secured borrowing
Registered charges, lenders and security interests.
Charges and related records
1 outstanding chargesAll Assets · created 2021-07-23
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Outstanding