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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
    • Corporates and Industry
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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...
    • Academia
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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...
    • Services
          • 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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    • Current interventions
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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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Data Solver

Data Solver was founded in 2016 by an engineer and lawyer who came together to explore issues around data and develop a privacy management software that would address those issues and enable companies who employed it to demonstrate their compliance.

The challenge

Over the last couple of years, Data Solver noticed a chasm that existed between the siloed legal and cyber security sides of GDPR compliance. Data Solver’s end-to-end solution helps bridge the gap between the two communities, however the company was struggling to find the right methodology that would allow it to go about developing an effective investment strategy that would pave the way to being able to target appropriate investors.

The solution

Recognising the potential of Data Solver and its cyber security solution, Digital Catapult invited the company to one of its Cyber 101 Demo Days. This allowed Data Solver to grasp the vital intricacies of the investment cycle and also provided the platform for panelists to ask vital questions about what investors it was talking to and why.

The resultant answers provided the company with a better and clearer understanding of how to go about developing an effective investment strategy. This in turn helped Data Solver make more informed decisions about how to effectively spend its time looking for investment, but at the same time, avoid getting sucked into the time-consuming funding cycle.

The results

As a result of the Demo Day, Data Solver was not only able to walk away with the knowledge that allowed it to fully develop an effective investment strategy, but it was also able to start talking to four potential customers, many of which are currently utilising the system. In addition, the event provided the stage for the company to network with other cyber businesses, talk to them about risk factors and potential pitfalls and gain more exposure.

Since the Cyber 101 Demo Day, Data Solver:

  • Is in the middle of a second funding round, where it hopes to raise up to £1.3 million.
  • Increased its level of exposure which put it in touch with four potential clients.
  • Is actively involved in developing a cyber cluster in Milton Keynes.
  • Doubled its staff count and is actively recruiting for more.
  • Moved into its first offices, to accommodate increased staff count and service a host of new customers.

Cyber101

Cyber 101 is a national programme running from January 2017 – March 2021 as part of DCMS funded activity to grow the UK’s cyber security sector and the capability of cyber security startups and scaleups. It is linked to the Develop strand of UK Government’s National Cyber Security Strategy, a series of activities that will be supported by £1.9bn public investment over the next five years. The programme is made up of a number of activities aimed at providing insights and actionable outputs – each of which are specifically targeted to meet the varying needs of cyber security startups and scaleups. It consists of Bootcamps that provide intensive one day workshops, deep-dives going into the real detail and challenges of core topics, as well as demo days that enable startups and scaleups to pitch their businesses to potential customers and investors.

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Is actively involved in developing a cyber cluster in Milton Keynes

Recently moved into its first offices, to accommodate more staff count and service new customers