Cyber Runway
Offers United Kingdom cyber founders from seed to scale via specialist tracks, hands-on acceleration, and growth-facing support.
Cyber Runway is the largest cybersecurity accelerator in the United Kingdom, funded by the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) and delivered by Plexal, an innovation company based in London. The program runs annually and is structured into five distinct tracks to serve cybersecurity startups and SMEs at different maturity levels: Grow targets companies establishing foundationa…
Funds UK cybersecurity startups and SMEs across five tracks — from early growth to critical national infrastructure — through in-kind mentoring, investor access, and engineering support with no equity taken.
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