The innovation and growth company

Solving society’s challenges through collaboration on technology with government, startups and industry.

Innovation

We’re closing the gap between organisations – small and large, local and global, private and public – and working towards a common goal: using science and technology to deliver national security and prosperity.

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Growth Partnership

Plexal is intent on creating a series of interventions with this Growth Partnership. Focusing on startups, scaleups and SMEs in target sectors, regions and technology domains that will demonstrably drive growth through increased high value jobs, exports, equity investment, customer contracts and gross value add to the economy.

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Workspace

Join our coworking spaces to work within a community. Plexal membership is open to startups, scaleups, social enterprises, creatives, freelancers or large corporates. We also have spaces in Manchester and Cheltenham hosting our innovation services.

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Events

Host your event in the heart of our innovation centre. From meetups and corporate away days to events for government, industry, startups and academia, our events spaces can do it all.

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NEWS AND VIEWS

Keep up to date on what’s happening at Plexal

Helping leaders Elevate visions for AI and digital identity through to marine, health and beyond

Barclays Eagle Labs and Plexal have continued our partnership to launch Elevate – a new initiative for exceptional founders. This is an exclusive extension developed from our third Scaleup Programme, which prepares high-growth UK tech companies for tackling the challenges of scaling. Our elite Elevate cohort of eight founders – selected from the current Scaleup Programme – was chosen based on their outstanding ambition, engagement and potential for growth. Elevate is centred on each founder’s personal and professional evolution, providing enhanced access to strategic resources, tailored one-to-one mentorship and curated […]

21 startups join Cyber Runway Grow, nurturing solutions to detect deception, protect families and more

Two months on from announcing the fifth edition of Cyber Runway had opened for applications, Plexal can now reveal the new Cyber Runway Grow cohort. Comprising 21 startups, our Cyber Runway Grow companies come equipped with solutions that span from deception detection and ransomware resilience to vulnerability management and family and property protection. Our shared mission through Cyber Runway with the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology is to drive innovation, create […]

Fendr: Helping teams use generative AI without putting data at risk

When you’ve spent years building software for public sector organisations, you recognise how critical trust, data handling and compliance really are. For Fendr founder and engineer Katie Whitlock, this reality hit home when she saw colleagues pasting sensitive information into ChatGPT. It was clear that in the process of trying to be more productive, employees […]

Our programmes

CYBER RUNWAY

Cyber Runway is the largest cyber accelerator in the UK. It is designed to address some of the biggest challenges facing cyber security.

LASR

A public-private partnership dedicated to advancing AI security for UK national security and economic prosperity.

HMGCC

Bringing together the best in class across industry, academia, and government, to work collaboratively on national security engineering challenges and accelerate innovation.