Digital Catapult

Digital Catapult sits inside the Innovate UK Catapult Network as a London-based deep-tech innovation platform for UK digital technology companies. It focuses on advanced technologies such as 5G, AI, quantum, immersive systems, and digital supply chains, and its public opportunities range from the SONIC Labs technology-access route to accelerator cohorts such as High Growth AI and the Black Founders Programme. The associated support range runs from GBP 50,000 to GBP 2 million, with a median award around GBP 300,000. The program is aimed at UK digital-tech SMEs, requires for-profit status, and is positioned for teams operating between TRL 3 and TRL 8 with a 30 percent match requirement. The current opportunities page also points to bootcamps and access programmes, so applicants should expect a commercialisation-oriented route rather than a broad open competition. The strongest fit is a company with a live technical use case that can use Catapult infrastructure, mentoring, or an accelerator structure to reach market readiness. Rolling intake and the inability to stack the same project mean the program rewards teams that arrive with a clear deployment plan and enough traction to move quickly through a defined cohort.

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