Plexal

Connects Plexal with government and sponsor programs that deliver cyber security acceleration, engineering support, and scaleup services.

Plexal is a UK innovation company headquartered at Here East in East London and founded in 2017 by clients of Delancey. It operates as a delivery and consultancy partner for government and industry, with work tied to national security and wider UK prosperity. The record also places it in Manchester and Cheltenham, with government relationships spanning DSIT, NCSC, HMGCC, FCDO, and MOD.

Plexal does not award cash grants or take equity. Its support comes through government- and sponsor-funded accelerator contracts that provide mentoring, engineering support, investor access, workspace, and ecosystem access. The flagship programs in the record are Cyber Runway, the Laboratory for AI Security Research, HMGCC Accelerate, and the Barclays Eagle Labs x Plexal Scaleup Programme, all delivered as in-kind assistance.

That makes Plexal relevant to founders who need delivery infrastructure more than capital. Cyber Runway is described as the UK's largest cyber accelerator, while the other programs extend the same model into AI security, national security engineering, and scaleup support. The common selection pattern is programmatic fit with the sponsoring department's priorities, not a grant competition or equity round.