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          • Digital Catapult is a deep tech innovation organisation driving business value by accelerating the application of advanced technologies.

            3,000

            Companies supported since 2018

            £555m

            Investment raised by startups since 2018

            20+

            Advanced technology facilities nationwide

    • Our ambition
          • Our ambition is to realise the practical application of deep tech through four interventions

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            Enabling UK deep tech companies to scale

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            Improving UK industrial supply chain resilience

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            Driving industrial decarbonisation

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            Advancing UK development and use of data driven and open future networks

    • Our people
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            We are an organisation made up of almost 300 innovators.

            We pride ourselves on the skilled and talented people from varied backgrounds that make up our team – we harness the expertise, perspectives and connections of people of more than 40 nationalities, thereby bringing together a diversity of skills, experience and backgrounds.

            Susan Bowen

            CEO of Digital Catapult

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    • Startups and scaleups
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            Black Founders Programme

            The Black Founders Programme is an accelerator targeted at pre-seed or seed stage, Black-founded companies creating innovative products and services...
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            Quantum Technology Programme

            Separating opportunity from hype to understand industry challenges that may be best solved by quantum computing.
    • Government and Public sector
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            Hydrogen Innovation Programme

            Discover more about the the Hydrogen Innovation Initiative and the deployment of hydrogen technologies to address pressing energy and environmental...
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            Digitalising Energy Programme

            Energy Systems Catapult and Digital Catapult have partnered to explore the groundwork for a UK-wide initiative to accelerate a digitalised,...
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            UK Digital Twin Centre

            Delivered by Digital Catapult and funded by Belfast Region City Deal and Innovate UK, the UK Digital Twin Centre makes digital twins more accessible and meaningful in the UK. It actively enable industries and innovators to safely embrace, explore and realise their dynamic power.
            Find out more UK Digital Twin Centre
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            Green Hydrogen Certifier

            This report looks at the Green Hydrogen Certifier - an end-to-end demonstration of a potential digital certification solution for hydrogen production...
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            Black Founders Programme

            The Black Founders Programme is an accelerator targeted at pre-seed or seed stage, Black-founded companies creating innovative products and services...
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          • Bespoke software & data systems

            Developing proof-of-concept demonstrators to showcase the viability and benefit of deep tech solutions.

            Platform engineering service

            Designing, building and operating physical and digital facilities. Providing testbeds for deep tech discovery and experimentation.

            Technology & innovation consultancy

            Consultancy services helping organisations addresses market preparedness gaps, evaluate financial viability and navigate technology change management.

          • Acceleration programmes for business

            Creating acceleration programmes to support businesses.Helping them grow through mentorship, technology support, networking, and investment opportunities.

            Facilitating and convening

            Bringing together and developing ecosystems of companies to explore, test and demonstrate how deep tech works in practice.

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            Quantum Technology Programme

            Separating opportunity from hype to understand industry challenges that may be best solved by quantum computing.
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            UK Digital Twin Centre

            Delivered by Digital Catapult and funded by Belfast Region City Deal and Innovate UK, the UK Digital Twin Centre makes digital twins more accessible and meaningful in the UK. It actively enable industries and innovators to safely embrace, explore and realise their dynamic power.
            Find out more UK Digital Twin Centre
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            SymphoMe: case study

            Part of the FutureScope's Black Founders Programme, Digital Catapult supported Nyangibo Gallery to get investment ready and receive business expertise
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            The Programme

            Find out more about how the Innovate UK BridgeAI programme and how it aims to stimulate the adoption AI and...
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Augmentor

A 12-week programme for B2B immersive startups

Augmentor promoted and strengthened the capabilities of immersive technology-led startups, enabling them to disrupt current use cases, solve problems across a range of industries and attract the attention of investors and future customers.

Digital Catapult delivered the programme from 2017 to 2021, with valued specialist support from 24 investment and industry partners, 36 mentors and 19 community partners.

The 36 participating startups (in four cohorts) were given access to Digital Catapult’s Immersive Lab facilities Belfast, Brighton, London, Manchester and North East Tees Valley throughout the 12-week programme. These cutting-edge spaces for learning, testing and showcasing extended reality solutions are equipped with a range of the latest immersive equipment across the UK.

Augmentor also backed cross-technology solutions to link immersive with artificial intelligence (AI), internet of things (IoT), distributed ledger technologies (DLT) and 5G.

£4.4 million secured in grants. Over 30% of startups saw an impact on their access to grants opportunities.

£7.5 million in investment. Over half the participants managed to successfully close their fundraising targets.

37.5% gained investment after the programme.

20% of participants increased their team size during the programme.

Helping B2B immersive startups become investment-ready

The Augmentor programme created a variety of opportunities for the companies that took part. These included skills development, business impact and relationship building opportunities, as well as showcasing potential to some of the UK’s leading investors.

Individual needs were targeted by different elements of the programme, including the showcase, mentors and masterclasses. As a result, Augmentor helped to increase pitching skills, incubate mentor-startup relationships and increase overall investment.

Fractured Reality

An innovator’s perspective

Fracture Reality was one of 6 winners at the 2021 Digital Catapult Awards, showcasing the best UK technology startups and scaleups that have grown and developed through our programmes and innovation activities.

Augmentor helped us steer how we position the product as a commercial proposition: what kind of clients we go after, the lines of approach and how to steer the conversation. The programme was super helpful, a kind of commercial turbocharger! Our relationship with Digital Catapult has been both a brilliant source of exposure to evangelise the adoption of cutting-edge VR and AR technology by UK businesses and a great channel for meeting partners and peers. Rob Minson
Fracture Reality
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