NUANCE COMMUNICATIONS LIMITED
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Executive summary
Nuance Communications Limited functions as a highly stable, captive R&D and professional services arm within the Microsoft ecosystem, leveraging a risk-free cost-plus model that guarantees profitability irrespective of market volatility. The company has demonstrated exceptional hyper-scalability, doubling its revenue and tripling its workforce, supported by a highly liquid, debt-free balance sheet. Its future trajectory is entirely tethered to Microsoft's strategic AI priorities, presenting massive upside for integration-driven expansion, though accompanied by the existential risk of single-client dependency.
Shareholders' funds
£4,185,001
Balance sheet as at 2021-09-30
What it does
The Company’s principal activities consist of the provision of professional services, sales and research & development support services to Nuance Communications Ireland Limited.
The company's own description, from its latest filed accounts.
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 2003-07-08
- Employees
- 45 (2021 accounts · was 16 in 2020)
- Registered office
- 1 Blossom Yard, Fourth Floor, London, United Kingdom, E1 6RS
- Postcode
- E1 6RS
- Capital
- 1 GBP
- Accounts category
- Full
- Charges
- 2 outstanding
Accounts
- Last made up to
- 2025-09-30
- Next due by
- 2027-06-30
- Financial year end
- 30 September
Confirmation statement
- Last statement dated
- 2026-08-04
- Next due by
- 2027-08-18
Nature of business (SIC)
- 74909 Other professional, scientific and technical activities not elsewhere classified
Officers 3 current · 30 resigned
Group structure
Controlled by Microsoft Corporation (60041348) — since 2022-03-04
Controlled by Nuance Communications Inc. (NONAPPLICABLE) — since 2016-04-06
From persons-with-significant-control filings on the public register.
Previous company names
| Name | Date changed |
|---|---|
| SPINVOX LIMITED | 2021-03-28 |
Previous registered addresses 5
| Address | Changed on |
|---|---|
| JUBILEE HOUSE THIRD AVENUE, MARLOW, SL7 1EY, ENGLAND | 2019-10-24 |
| WETHERED HOUSE, POUND LANE, MARLOW, BUCKINGHAMSHIRE, SL7 2AF | 2019-07-24 |
| BRIDGVIEW HOUSE, RAY MEAD ROAD, MAIDENHEAD, BERKSHIRE SL6 8NJ | 2007-01-26 |
| 33 GLASSHOUSE STREET, LONDON, W1B 5DG | 2005-06-29 |
| 1 CHANCERY LANE, LONDON, WC2A 1LF | 2005-04-28 |
Among its peers
Top 1%
by shareholders' funds, of 734 similar companies in E
Among the biggest employers among its local peers (45 staff).
Among the oldest 25% of its local peers, trading since 2003.
Competitors London
This company ranks 5 among other professional, scientific and technical activities not elsewhere classified in London.
The class of 2003
40%
of the 2,474 companies in this sector incorporated in 2003 are still active today; 58% have since been dissolved.
A fact about the year, not a forecast for this company.