Foresight invests in VOIP specialist

Foresight Venture partners has invested over £1.5 million in the UK’s leading B2B voice over internet protocol (VOIP) company alwaysON. Against a market background of Yahoo offering free global telephone calls via its instant messenger service, and 112 million people downloading Skype software (which allows voice calls between computers), alwaysON has set the pace for selling VOIP systems to the business market.