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Who we work with

Digital Catapult is the UK's leading advanced digital technology innovation centre. We drive early adoption, making UK businesses more competitive and productive, to help grow the UK economy.

Unlocking digital growth in the UK economy

Digital Catapult is the UK's leading agency for the early adoption of advanced digital technologies. Through innovation programmes and facilities, we drive productivity and growth for UK companies.

Creative industries

The UK's creative industries are world leading. Digital Catapult is helping the sector to create new markets, invest in technology R&D and begin using advanced digital technologies such as virtual, augmented and mixed reality systems, as well as blockchain, smart contracts, 5G and AI.

Manufacturing 

The early adoption of advanced digital technologies has the potential to grow UK manufacturing, creating jobs and increasing productivity. In line with the UK Government’s Made Smarter Review, Digital Catapult is helping shape the vision for the future of UK manufacturing, creating trailblazers and demonstrating the value that these technologies can bring to the sector.

Digital Catapult launches UK Germany Global Challenge

UK & German startups and scaleups encouraged to apply to help tackle industrial challenges through the use of advanced digital technologies.

UK & German startups and scaleups encouraged to apply to help tackle industrial challenges through the use of advanced digital technologies 

Digital Catapult launches UK Germany Global Challenge in partnership with Deutschland - Land der Ideen, Siemens and CHEP Europe to drive international collaboration for industrial innovation and sustainability 

Augmentor concludes with investor & executive showcase

The third year of Digital Catapult’s Augmentor programme has concluded with an investor and executive showcase event promoting the pioneering products and services developed by the 10 Augmentor cohort teams 

Demonstrating the clear potential of commercially-viable, innovative virtual and augmented reality-enabled products

Digital Catapult’s Augmentor programme concludes with investor and executive showcase

90 Digital Catapult companies raise £130m in twelve months

Digital Catapult, announces the winners of its inaugural Platinum Awards, a prestigious initiative recognising and celebrating the most innovative advanced digital technology startups and scaleups the country has to offer. 

Digital Catapult’s Platinum Awards winners announced  

Digital Catapult Annual Engagement & Impact Report

In the Annual Engagement & Impact Report 2018-2019, Digital Catapult shares an overview of its work over the past year and some of the main highlights and impact from increasing the adoption of advanced digital technologies in the UK. 

Highlights and overview of Digital Catapult’s successes in 2018-2019

Providing the tools and expertise to turn potential into reality

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Discover the potential of immersive technologies

A network of cutting edge innovation facilities – the ideal spaces for learning, testing and showcasing VR and AR solutions

Immersive Labs

Discover the potential of future networks technologies

A unique facility that is fast forwarding adoption of future networks technologies to deliver value to industry

Future Networks Lab

Digital Catapult offers facilities such as Dimension and the Immersive Labs and runs innovation programmes including Augmentor and CreativeXR. This provides unrivalled access to the latest developments in virtual and augmented reality and supports the development of a strong immersive ecosystem in the UK. 

Digital Catapult is opening up the power of AI technologies in four ways: providing access to compute power expertise, offering experimentation space, supporting corporations to accelerate AI adoption and working with policymakers and academics to ensure the UK takes the lead in transparent and ethical AI applications.

Digital technologies such as the Internet of Things (IoT) demand secure and reliable connectivity that uses less power at a lower cost. We provide much needed testbed facilities and innovation programmes to help businesses explore, test and innovate using future network technologies including 5G and low power wide area networks (LPWAN).

Future focus

Digital Catapult also has future scoping and experimentation activities which explore underpinning technologies such as cyber security and new directions like distributed ledgers, blockchain and smart contracts.

Digital Catapult works with businesses of all sizes to increase the adoption of advanced digital technologies.

Digital Catapult introduces the investment community to talented technologists and early-stage businesses that are developing advanced technology solutions with commercial potential within the manufacturing and creative industries.

Accelerating the adoption of advanced digital technologies emerging from research by bringing academics and researchers together with industry and startups.