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

What scaling sovereignty means for UK growth, investment and resilience

A quick online search of the word sovereignty unearths a red-hot topic collecting headlines across geographies – such is the instability of the geopolitical landscape today. Sovereignty is being debated in the boardrooms of businesses, halls of government, online forums and snow-capped streets of Davos, consuming citizens as well as private and public sectors alike. Yet its interpretation in a technology context varies depending on the audience. Some organisations think narrowly in terms of data residency or legal jurisdictions, while others have a much broader set […]

Meet the team driving growth for founders of startups, SMEs and scaleups

Plexal’s Growth Partnership service is helping UK leaders rapidly unlock the peak potential of their companies through tailored one-to-one guidance. Our delivery team of Growth Partners achieve this by working shoulder-to-shoulder with ambitious founders nationwide as an extension of their existing staff. Our Growth Partners are experts in helping ventures grow, refine strategy and access new opportunities. They’re equipped with backgrounds including entrepreneurship, sales and business development through to venture capital and corporate innovation. In practice, they’re uniquely assigned to the startups, SMEs or scaleups that their individual expertise is best suited to ensure absolute alignment to organisational objectives. And through Growth Partnership, participating companies benefit from our Growth […]

Plexal announces CEO succession plan

Plexal, the innovation and growth company, today announces a change to its senior leadership team, with CEO Andrew Roughan choosing to stand down at the end of March after eight years of service. Saj Huq, CCO at Plexal, will succeed Andrew to enter the role of CEO. He’ll harness his commercial expertise in the new position, having been instrumental in leading strategy, growth and […]

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.