Innovate UK

Innovate UK is a non-departmental public body established in 2007 and based in Swindon, United Kingdom. Funded by a government grant, it supports innovation in science and technology by providing funding services to businesses across various sectors and regions. The organization aims to drive productivity and economic growth by facilitating advancements that contribute to the UK’s economic landscape. In addition to funding, Innovate UK offers a range of services and information related to business and economic development, thereby fostering a supportive environment for innovation.

Mike Biddle

Programme Director of Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund

Will Drury

Executive Director, Digital and Technologies

Paul Gadd

Deputy Director

Dr. Tom Jenkins

Deputy Director

Tim Murley

Interim Chief Investment Officer

Scott James O'Brien

Director, Innovation Finance

Dave Wilkes

Director of Innovation Ecosystem

Past deals in Construction and Engineering

Vector Homes

Grant in 2022
Vector Homes creates a new method for constructing homes and choosing the materials to use. Vector Homes recycles the materials and enhance them with nanotechnologies to create unique properties for superior construction materials.

Recycl8

Grant in 2021
Recycl8 works in collaboration with the waste-to-energy and construction industries to transform incinerator bottom ash (IBA) - often destined for landfills - into a low-carbon concrete solution.

CCm Technologies

Grant in 2021
CCm Technologies is an environmental technology company that focuses on resource optimization. The company is founded in 2011 and is headquartered in Begbroke, England.

Cloud Cycle

Grant in 2021
Cloud Cycle is focused on transforming the concrete industry by addressing the significant waste and carbon emissions associated with concrete production. Each year, over 10 billion tons of concrete are produced globally, contributing to approximately 10% of global CO2 emissions, with around 5% of that concrete going to waste. Cloud Cycle has created an innovative on-truck device and sensor array that integrates with a cloud-based platform to ensure concrete meets specifications, thereby minimizing waste. When surplus concrete does occur, the company operates a marketplace that connects sellers with potential buyers, helping to mitigate losses. By leveraging advanced technology, including the Internet of Things and machine learning, Cloud Cycle enhances the quality control of concrete deliveries and facilitates interventions to reduce operational costs and emissions. The company's goal is to save the industry billions while aiming for a reduction of global CO2 emissions by 1%.
CVE designs and builds process solutions and has more than 60 years experience manufacturing Electron Beam (EB) systems and Vacuum Furnaces (VF’s) from its base in Cambridge UK. CVE’s range of equipment includes systems ranging from 50 to 200 kV with beam powers up to 100 kW. Professional engineering skills are applied to customer requirements resulting in innovative solutions to technical problems. The company's skilled workforce, experienced engineering department and extensive service team are backed up with a range of in-house test and diagnostic facilities. CVE offers true global coverage from itssales and service centres in the UK and worldwide. Cambridge Vacuum Engineering's roots begin in the late 1950's in Cambridge, England with the founding of Torvac, a company specialising in the manufacture of Electron Beam Welders and Vacuum Furnaces. A break-a-way group formed Wentgate Engineers in the mid 1960's and for many years the two companies traded in competition. Torvac purchased the Hawker Siddley Dynamics "Dynaweld" technology, which added 150kV welders to their range.

Iceni Labs

Grant in 2020
Iceni Labs is an innovation commercialisation enterprise, with integrated research, development, test and manufacturing capability. Inter-disciplinary by nature, we combine commercial expertise with academic excellence, across the Defence and Security, Energy, Health and Consumer sectors. Our professional networks bridge artificial intelligence, automated creativity, electronics, energy, materials, nanotechnology and software. We invent and innovate in-house, foster high-potential technologies, and aggregate capabilities globally, to produce innovative, disruptive products that deliver more than the sum of their parts. By providing technical, executive, commercial and capital support, our Innovation-Exploitation Programme enhances value proposition and reduces risk exposure, while developing creativity, flexibility and robustness. Our goal is for our ‘wrap around’ idea to patent to product approach to become recognised globally as a catalyst for successful innovation. We are bridging the challenging gap between ‘thinking’ and ‘doing’.

TextureJet

Grant in 2020
TextureJet designs, develops, and deploys machine tools and technologies for surface processing in high value manufacturing.

Yardlink

Grant in 2020
YardLynk - the online marketplace and platform aimed at improving how construction equipment is rented out.

Cloud Cycle

Grant in 2020
Cloud Cycle is focused on transforming the concrete industry by addressing the significant waste and carbon emissions associated with concrete production. Each year, over 10 billion tons of concrete are produced globally, contributing to approximately 10% of global CO2 emissions, with around 5% of that concrete going to waste. Cloud Cycle has created an innovative on-truck device and sensor array that integrates with a cloud-based platform to ensure concrete meets specifications, thereby minimizing waste. When surplus concrete does occur, the company operates a marketplace that connects sellers with potential buyers, helping to mitigate losses. By leveraging advanced technology, including the Internet of Things and machine learning, Cloud Cycle enhances the quality control of concrete deliveries and facilitates interventions to reduce operational costs and emissions. The company's goal is to save the industry billions while aiming for a reduction of global CO2 emissions by 1%.

Cloud Cycle

Grant in 2020
Cloud Cycle is focused on transforming the concrete industry by addressing the significant waste and carbon emissions associated with concrete production. Each year, over 10 billion tons of concrete are produced globally, contributing to approximately 10% of global CO2 emissions, with around 5% of that concrete going to waste. Cloud Cycle has created an innovative on-truck device and sensor array that integrates with a cloud-based platform to ensure concrete meets specifications, thereby minimizing waste. When surplus concrete does occur, the company operates a marketplace that connects sellers with potential buyers, helping to mitigate losses. By leveraging advanced technology, including the Internet of Things and machine learning, Cloud Cycle enhances the quality control of concrete deliveries and facilitates interventions to reduce operational costs and emissions. The company's goal is to save the industry billions while aiming for a reduction of global CO2 emissions by 1%.

Corridor Technology

Grant in 2020
Corridor Technology is a technology company. It will entail the development of a fully standardised imagery and video data review system to allow asset inspectors in road, rail and energy corridors to review remote condition monitoring data (RCM), output from Corridor’s Machine Learning systems.

Iceni Labs

Grant in 2020
Iceni Labs is an innovation commercialisation enterprise, with integrated research, development, test and manufacturing capability. Inter-disciplinary by nature, we combine commercial expertise with academic excellence, across the Defence and Security, Energy, Health and Consumer sectors. Our professional networks bridge artificial intelligence, automated creativity, electronics, energy, materials, nanotechnology and software. We invent and innovate in-house, foster high-potential technologies, and aggregate capabilities globally, to produce innovative, disruptive products that deliver more than the sum of their parts. By providing technical, executive, commercial and capital support, our Innovation-Exploitation Programme enhances value proposition and reduces risk exposure, while developing creativity, flexibility and robustness. Our goal is for our ‘wrap around’ idea to patent to product approach to become recognised globally as a catalyst for successful innovation. We are bridging the challenging gap between ‘thinking’ and ‘doing’.

Engine B

Grant in 2020
Engine B is a developer of accounting software designed for the audit, legal, and tax sectors. The company focuses on artificial intelligence and data analytics, offering tools that facilitate the auditing of common data models and knowledge graphs. By creating a standard access methodology to client data, Engine B enables organizations to achieve intelligent corporate data access, meeting the demands of the digital age. This technology empowers businesses to make contextual and informed decisions quickly and effectively.

Cloud Cycle

Grant in 2019
Cloud Cycle is focused on transforming the concrete industry by addressing the significant waste and carbon emissions associated with concrete production. Each year, over 10 billion tons of concrete are produced globally, contributing to approximately 10% of global CO2 emissions, with around 5% of that concrete going to waste. Cloud Cycle has created an innovative on-truck device and sensor array that integrates with a cloud-based platform to ensure concrete meets specifications, thereby minimizing waste. When surplus concrete does occur, the company operates a marketplace that connects sellers with potential buyers, helping to mitigate losses. By leveraging advanced technology, including the Internet of Things and machine learning, Cloud Cycle enhances the quality control of concrete deliveries and facilitates interventions to reduce operational costs and emissions. The company's goal is to save the industry billions while aiming for a reduction of global CO2 emissions by 1%.

Iceni Labs

Grant in 2019
Iceni Labs is an innovation commercialisation enterprise, with integrated research, development, test and manufacturing capability. Inter-disciplinary by nature, we combine commercial expertise with academic excellence, across the Defence and Security, Energy, Health and Consumer sectors. Our professional networks bridge artificial intelligence, automated creativity, electronics, energy, materials, nanotechnology and software. We invent and innovate in-house, foster high-potential technologies, and aggregate capabilities globally, to produce innovative, disruptive products that deliver more than the sum of their parts. By providing technical, executive, commercial and capital support, our Innovation-Exploitation Programme enhances value proposition and reduces risk exposure, while developing creativity, flexibility and robustness. Our goal is for our ‘wrap around’ idea to patent to product approach to become recognised globally as a catalyst for successful innovation. We are bridging the challenging gap between ‘thinking’ and ‘doing’.

TextureJet

Grant in 2019
TextureJet designs, develops, and deploys machine tools and technologies for surface processing in high value manufacturing.
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