# Bristow Group

> Bristow Group is a VC fund in Houston backing Robotics and Oil and Gas. See 1 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Houston, United States
- Total investments: 1
- Last investment: Feb 2016
- Lead investor: 100%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/bristow-group-inc
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/Bristow_Group
- Website: http://bristowgroup.com
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Bristow-Group/467830136636415

Bristow Group is a provider of helicopter services to the worldwide offshore energy industry based on the number of aircraft operated and one of two helicopter service providers to the offshore energy industry with global operations. Bristow Group has transportation operations in the North Sea, Nigeria and the United States Gulf of Mexico, and inmost of the other offshore energy producing regions of the world, including Alaska, Australia, Brazil, Russia and Trinidad. Bristow Group conducts its business in one segment: Helicopter Services. The Helicopter Services segment operations are conducted primarily through five business units: Europe, West Africa, North America, Australia, and Other International. During the fiscal year ended March 31, 2012, the Company generated 82% and 93% of its consolidated operating revenue and business unit operating income, respectively, from operations outside of the United States.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Robotics | 1 | 100% |
| Oil and Gas | 1 | 100% |
| Asset Management | 1 | 100% |
| Enterprise Software | 1 | 100% |
| Consumer Electronics | 1 | 100% |

7 industries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Alan Bristow | Founder | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alan-bristow-29b0 |
| Alan Corbett | Chief Operating Officer of Government Services | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alan-corbett-21a7 |
| Alan Einisman | Chief Compliance Officer and Deputy General Counsel | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alan-einisman |
| Anne Rappold | Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anne-rappold-8c68 |
| Christopher Bradshaw | President and Chief Executive Officer | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/christopher-bradshaw-ca0b |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Sky-Futures | Since 2009, Sky-Futures has established itself as the world’s leading provider of drone-based inspection services to the global industrial markets. Sky-Futures’ end-to-end enterprise solutions including training packages, services and software solutions enable enterprises to perform safe and cost-effective drone inspections of a variety ofvertical infrastructures, including but not limited to the following industries: Oil and Gas; Renewables; Utilities; Power and Civil Engineering. They also offer data analytics and reporting software for drone-based industrial inspections with EXPANSE, an asset inspection platform that allows Enterprise to visualise and analyse all data, from static imagery captured with mobile devices or drones, to historic engineering reports or photogrammetry models. By exploiting the unique characteristics of Drones, Artificial Intelligence and Computer Vision, we help engineers and inspectors to get smarter data with advanced and highly automated tools.Sky-Futures has customers in 28 countries across 5 continents. The business is headquartered in London with offices in Houston, TX in the USA, Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia, Abu Dhabi in UAE and Aberdeen in Scotland. | $5.7M | Series A | Feb 11, 2016 |  |

1 of 1 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [MMC Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mmc-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Bristow Group invest in?

Bristow Group invests primarily in Robotics, Oil and Gas and Asset Management startups, most often at Series A stage. Most of the 1 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United Kingdom. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

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### Who are the partners at Bristow Group?

The team at Bristow Group includes Alan Bristow (Founder), Alan Corbett (Chief Operating Officer of Government Services) and Alan Einisman (Chief Compliance Officer and Deputy General Counsel), among 7 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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