Bill Yost
Investment Manager @ Foresight Group
Boston, United States
Bill Yost is a seed investor at Foresight Group in Boston focused on Software and Field Support. Bill Yost is the Co-founder and CEO at Cambridge Electric Cement. He previously worked at SkiteLight as a Chief Advisor. Bill Yost attended the University of Cambridge.
- Total investments:
- 4
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 75%
Last updated:
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Industries Bill Yost invests in
Stages Bill Yost invests in
Countries Bill Yost invests in
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 2 (50%)
- Field Support 1 (25%)
- Semiconductor 1 (25%)
- Medical Device 1 (25%)
- Clinical Trials 1 (25%)
Stage
- Seed 2 (50%)
- Series A 1 (25%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 1 (25%)
Country
- United Kingdom 3 (75%)
- Canada 1 (25%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Forefront RF
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Forefront RF is a fabless semiconductor company. | $8.3M / Venture - Series Unknown / Apr 03, 2023 | |
Nebu-Flow
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Nebu-Flow is a manufacturer of the next generation of inhaled drugs for patients with respiratory disorders. The company is a developer of the technology control of the droplet size for deep lung deposition by enabling injection-free systemic drug delivery through inhalation routes for cardiovascular and central nerve system disorders. Nebu-Flow iscommitted to minimizing the environmental impact of activities whilst continuing to create a user-friendly and high-performing Nebuliser. | $2.1M / Seed / May 10, 2022 | |
Kognitiv Spark
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Kognitiv Spark develops practical, secure, and reliable Mixed Reality tools that empower industrial workers to achieve more, operate with confidence, and solve any problem quickly, safely, and accurately. Partnered with both Microsoft and HPE, Kognitiv Spark's flagship software, RemoteSpark, allows organizations to support their remotetechnicians like never before.Provide remote technicians the support they need to complete any task, anywhere, any time. RemoteSpark is the market’s most secure and reliable industrial remote guidance tool leveraging a full Mixed Reality environment. Using RemoteSpark on HoloLens 1 or 2, remote technicians can communicate with subject matter experts, through a secure, low-bandwidth audio/video connection, when they need assistance completing a complex task. Experts can use the RemoteSpark platform to deliver an assortment of holographic and step by step instructional assets to support the task. Trusted by organizations including the Royal Canadian Navy and Surepoint Group, experts can see what the remote technician sees and drag and drop CAD assets, PDFs, or Microsoft Office documents into the worker’s field of view. This content appears as 3D holograms in the end user’s real-world environment. RemoteSpark operates full Mixed Reality support calls in internet bandwidth conditions as low as 256kbps and boasts industrial-grade security infrastructure. Designed to accommodate your organization’s data governance policies, RemoteSpark can operate both in the cloud and on-premise. Advanced use cases include holographic IoT integration.This Mixed Reality tool allows industrial organizations to:• Reduce unplanned equipment downtime - Keep your systems running. Remote technicians can perform tasks like system experts. Tasks are completed faster and with more accuracy.• Facilitate knowledge transfer - Learn by doing. Every RemoteSpark call is a one-on-one, on-the-job training session between a subject matter expert and a technician. • Reduce unplanned expert travel - A subject matter expert can guide a field technician from the comfort of their office, eliminating the cumbersome remote troubleshooting of the past and reducing the need to travel on site.• Improve task interpretation, reduce mental fatigue - Make task interpretation easy. With Mixed Reality, reduce the time required to interpret 2D instructions by converting task supporting assets into 3D, multi-step animated holograms that appear in the work’s real-world environment. | $3.7M / Series A / Mar 10, 2022 | |
Mach42
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Machine Discovery is a University of Oxford spin-out commercializing new machine learning technology. We leverage proprietary neural network technology to accelerate expensive calculations — and we do it with minimal data and 99.9% fidelity. | $2.1M / Seed / May 05, 2021 |
Co-Investors
About Foresight Group
Foresight Group is a listed infrastructure and private equity investment manager which has been managing funds on behalf of institutions and retail clients for more than 35 years. Foresight has over £7.2 billion of assets under management across a number of funds on behalf of some of the world’s largest institutional investors, family offices,private and high net-worth individuals and retail investors. Foresight's investment strategies are underpinned by a strong environmental, social & governance (“ESG”) focus, which increasingly meets the demands of today’s investors and ensures we are consistently working towards creating a sustainable legacy for future generations.
Foresight Group Contacts
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Anouska Morjaria
Investment Manager
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Bill Yost
Investment Manager
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Claire Alvarez
Partner
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Federico Giannandrea
Partner, Head of Foresight Italy
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James Livingston
Partner
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FAQ
What does Bill Yost invest in?
Bill Yost invests primarily in Software, Field Support and Semiconductor startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 4 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United Kingdom. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
When did Bill Yost last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Bill Yost closed in Apr 2023. Shizune tracks 4 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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