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

Plexal in 2025: Strengthening UK technology, unlocking SME peak potential and growing our team

‘Tis the season to collaborate, fa-la-la-la-la, la-la-la-la. Innovation, growth and progress, fa-la-la-la-la, la-la-la-la. In case you couldn’t tell, we’re in a great mood over here at Plexal HQ and the Plexmas spirit has taken hold! 2025 has been a fulfilling year for us, during which we’ve grown our team by 35 people who’ve joined our shared mission of generating economic growth and making the UK safer with innovation. We’re doing this by uniting startups, government, industry and academia to generate sovereign solutions to national problems, strengthening the UK’s technology base and empowering leaders to scale. […]

Understanding the needs of critical national infrastructure

To progress the critical national infrastructure conversation, our team recently boarded a train to Ipswich to visit BT’s Adastral Park, which acted as the host location of our exclusive Cyber Runway CNI needs accelerator. As reported by UKAuthority: “The Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) and innovation company Plexal have launched the Cyber Runway CNI programme to strengthen the security of the UK’s critical national infrastructure.” Plexal and DSIT along with […]

Championing industry interests for defence, national security, cyber and emerging technologies with techUK

As we come to the end of 2025, we want to begin the celebrations early and highlight that four Plexal team members have successfully been chosen to join various techUK boards and committees over the past 12 months, allowing us to fly the flag for innovation. Why is this important to us? Plexal unites startups, government, industry and academia to close the gap between sectors and turn innovation into growth, resilience and societal progress for the UK. And with a […]

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.