Innovate UK

Innovate U.K. is a NPO that offers funding services to support science and technology innovations. The organization offers services and information on births, deaths, marriages, business, self-employed, childcare, parenting, citizenship, law, disabled persons, transportation, education, environment, housing, money, tax, travel, immigration, and jobs. Innovate U.K. is based in Swindon.

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

Scott James O'Brien

Director, Innovation Finance

Nigel Walker

Deputy Director, Lending and Investor Partnerships

Dave Wilkes

Director of Innovation Ecosystem

Past deals in Aerospace

Q5D

Debt Financing in 2025
Q5D is an innovative company that specializes in automating the manufacture and assembly of wiring looms and harnesses across various industrial sectors. By developing advanced laser micromachining technology, Q5D streamlines the intricate process of connecting electrical components. This technology enhances global manufacturing capabilities, particularly in consumer goods, electronics, automotive, aerospace, and robotics. By enabling the direct addition of wires and printed electronics to product surfaces, Q5D improves quality, productivity, and functionality while reducing manufacturing costs. As a result, the company provides its clients with a significant advantage in achieving efficiency, resilience, and sustainability in their operations.

Altair

Grant in 2024
Altair Engineering, Inc. provides enterprise analytics, engineering, and on-demand computing software technologies. Its technology optimizes the analysis, management, and visualization of business and engineering information. The company's products include HyperWorks, an enterprise simulation solution for design exploration and decision-making; and PBS GridWorks, a software environment for grid, cluster, and on-demand computing. It also provides product development consultancy services, business intelligence software solutions, and solid state lighting products, as well as develops and markets industrial design/styling software. The company serves automotive, aerospace, government and defense, heavy equipment, consumer products, life and earth sciences, oil and gas, and financial services industries. It sells its products through resellers and distributors in North America, South America, Europe, Africa, Russia, Asia, and Australia. The company was founded in 1985 and is headquartered in Troy, Michigan. It has regional offices and locations in Australia, New Zealand, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Korea, Mexico, the Russian Federation, Sweden, the United Kingdom, Ireland, and the United States.

Dragonfly Insulation

Grant in 2024
Dragonfly Insulation is a spin-out from Newcastle University focused on scaling up the production of aerogel materials through an innovative manufacturing process that emphasizes low energy consumption. The company specializes in creating synthetic nanostructured porous ceramic products designed to provide effective thermal insulation across various sectors, including aerospace, defense, marine, oil and gas, and construction. By simplifying the manufacturing process, Dragonfly Insulation aims to improve accessibility to advanced fire safety features in civil applications, catering to a diverse range of industry needs.

Q5D

Grant in 2024
Q5D is an innovative company that specializes in automating the manufacture and assembly of wiring looms and harnesses across various industrial sectors. By developing advanced laser micromachining technology, Q5D streamlines the intricate process of connecting electrical components. This technology enhances global manufacturing capabilities, particularly in consumer goods, electronics, automotive, aerospace, and robotics. By enabling the direct addition of wires and printed electronics to product surfaces, Q5D improves quality, productivity, and functionality while reducing manufacturing costs. As a result, the company provides its clients with a significant advantage in achieving efficiency, resilience, and sustainability in their operations.

Marble Aerospace

Grant in 2023
Marble Aerospace builds hardware and software to protect maritime environments. They use UAV technology to monitor coastal areas for illegal fishing, human, and trafficking. They provide operations, local integration, technology development planning, and deployment services.

Skylark Lasers

Grant in 2023
Skylark Lasers is a photonics company that specializes in the development and production of continuous wave (CW) single frequency diode-pumped solid-state (DPSS) lasers. Utilizing its proprietary BRaMMS Technology® platform, the company offers lasers known for their exceptional spectral performance and high output power. Skylark Lasers serves a diverse clientele across various industrial and scientific fields, providing solutions for applications such as microchip inspection, quantum sensing, metrology, avionics, wind power generation, defense, financial data servers, and biomedical research. The compact design of Skylark's NX lasers enables customers to reveal the unseen, detect the invisible, and measure the unknown effectively.

Oxford Dynamics

Grant in 2023
Oxford Dynamics develops robotics & AI solutions for space, security & defence sectors. AVIS (A Very Intelligent System) is OD's flagship generative AI platform for the processing of complex multimodal data. Designed to augment human data analysts, AVIS 'force multiples' their throughput; freeing humans to concentrate on high-level decision-making as opposed to lower-level data sifting and comparison. AVIS is in use by a number of UK government agencies via a Framework Lite Agreement. Oxford Dynamics robotics work includes its STRIDER platform, an AI-enabled tracked robot developed to assist with response to Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN) events. Oxford Dynamics is self-funded via a mix of founders cash, grant and contract wins.

Aurrigo International

Grant in 2023
Aurrigo provides smart avaition solutions for airport baggage/cargo and passenger vehicle applications. Aurrigo's self-driving / autonomous Auto-Dolly, Auto-DollyTug and Auto-Cargo provide airports with a new way to move baggage and cargo around, reducing costs, improving efficiency and decreasing environmental impact. Aurrigo's self-driving passenger vehicles provide mobility within urban areas, shopping malls, airports, university campuses, science parks and other areas that are poorly served by traditional transport providers. Integrating seamlessly into the transport mix, Aurrigo's on-demand, autonomous vehicles work alongside traditional forms of products such as airport infrastructure and transport such as taxis, buses and light rail. Aurrigo designs and develops all vehicles in-house together with the autonomous driving control stack to ensure a perfect pairing of hardware and software. Auto-Connect is a dedicated autonomous fleet management system providing an airport fleet manager or a passenger customer booking app, back-end control systems and front-of-house services allowing deployments in cities to be simple, efficient, and safe. Auto-Sim is Aurrigo's 3D digital twin modeling software platform which enables airports around the world to transition from current manual operating methods to use automated vehicles of the future for baggage and cargo handling.

Aurrigo International

Grant in 2023
Aurrigo provides smart avaition solutions for airport baggage/cargo and passenger vehicle applications. Aurrigo's self-driving / autonomous Auto-Dolly, Auto-DollyTug and Auto-Cargo provide airports with a new way to move baggage and cargo around, reducing costs, improving efficiency and decreasing environmental impact. Aurrigo's self-driving passenger vehicles provide mobility within urban areas, shopping malls, airports, university campuses, science parks and other areas that are poorly served by traditional transport providers. Integrating seamlessly into the transport mix, Aurrigo's on-demand, autonomous vehicles work alongside traditional forms of products such as airport infrastructure and transport such as taxis, buses and light rail. Aurrigo designs and develops all vehicles in-house together with the autonomous driving control stack to ensure a perfect pairing of hardware and software. Auto-Connect is a dedicated autonomous fleet management system providing an airport fleet manager or a passenger customer booking app, back-end control systems and front-of-house services allowing deployments in cities to be simple, efficient, and safe. Auto-Sim is Aurrigo's 3D digital twin modeling software platform which enables airports around the world to transition from current manual operating methods to use automated vehicles of the future for baggage and cargo handling.

Aegiq

Grant in 2022
Aegiq Ltd. is a company based in Sheffield, United Kingdom, specializing in semiconductor-based quantum photonic chips. Established in 2019, it focuses on developing a universal quantum computing platform that integrates photonic quantum computing and networking technologies. Aegiq's solutions cater to a variety of industries, including defense, aerospace, cybersecurity, and artificial intelligence, addressing complex computational challenges with an emphasis on speed, compactness, and modularity. The company's innovative hybrid integrated photonics approach aims to facilitate large-scale quantum computing with the capacity for multi-million qubit operations, ultimately contributing to advancements in quantum cybersecurity and networking.

Aurrigo International

Grant in 2022
Aurrigo provides smart avaition solutions for airport baggage/cargo and passenger vehicle applications. Aurrigo's self-driving / autonomous Auto-Dolly, Auto-DollyTug and Auto-Cargo provide airports with a new way to move baggage and cargo around, reducing costs, improving efficiency and decreasing environmental impact. Aurrigo's self-driving passenger vehicles provide mobility within urban areas, shopping malls, airports, university campuses, science parks and other areas that are poorly served by traditional transport providers. Integrating seamlessly into the transport mix, Aurrigo's on-demand, autonomous vehicles work alongside traditional forms of products such as airport infrastructure and transport such as taxis, buses and light rail. Aurrigo designs and develops all vehicles in-house together with the autonomous driving control stack to ensure a perfect pairing of hardware and software. Auto-Connect is a dedicated autonomous fleet management system providing an airport fleet manager or a passenger customer booking app, back-end control systems and front-of-house services allowing deployments in cities to be simple, efficient, and safe. Auto-Sim is Aurrigo's 3D digital twin modeling software platform which enables airports around the world to transition from current manual operating methods to use automated vehicles of the future for baggage and cargo handling.

Aurrigo International

Grant in 2022
Aurrigo provides smart avaition solutions for airport baggage/cargo and passenger vehicle applications. Aurrigo's self-driving / autonomous Auto-Dolly, Auto-DollyTug and Auto-Cargo provide airports with a new way to move baggage and cargo around, reducing costs, improving efficiency and decreasing environmental impact. Aurrigo's self-driving passenger vehicles provide mobility within urban areas, shopping malls, airports, university campuses, science parks and other areas that are poorly served by traditional transport providers. Integrating seamlessly into the transport mix, Aurrigo's on-demand, autonomous vehicles work alongside traditional forms of products such as airport infrastructure and transport such as taxis, buses and light rail. Aurrigo designs and develops all vehicles in-house together with the autonomous driving control stack to ensure a perfect pairing of hardware and software. Auto-Connect is a dedicated autonomous fleet management system providing an airport fleet manager or a passenger customer booking app, back-end control systems and front-of-house services allowing deployments in cities to be simple, efficient, and safe. Auto-Sim is Aurrigo's 3D digital twin modeling software platform which enables airports around the world to transition from current manual operating methods to use automated vehicles of the future for baggage and cargo handling.

Aurrigo International

Grant in 2021
Aurrigo provides smart avaition solutions for airport baggage/cargo and passenger vehicle applications. Aurrigo's self-driving / autonomous Auto-Dolly, Auto-DollyTug and Auto-Cargo provide airports with a new way to move baggage and cargo around, reducing costs, improving efficiency and decreasing environmental impact. Aurrigo's self-driving passenger vehicles provide mobility within urban areas, shopping malls, airports, university campuses, science parks and other areas that are poorly served by traditional transport providers. Integrating seamlessly into the transport mix, Aurrigo's on-demand, autonomous vehicles work alongside traditional forms of products such as airport infrastructure and transport such as taxis, buses and light rail. Aurrigo designs and develops all vehicles in-house together with the autonomous driving control stack to ensure a perfect pairing of hardware and software. Auto-Connect is a dedicated autonomous fleet management system providing an airport fleet manager or a passenger customer booking app, back-end control systems and front-of-house services allowing deployments in cities to be simple, efficient, and safe. Auto-Sim is Aurrigo's 3D digital twin modeling software platform which enables airports around the world to transition from current manual operating methods to use automated vehicles of the future for baggage and cargo handling.

Aurrigo International

Grant in 2021
Aurrigo provides smart avaition solutions for airport baggage/cargo and passenger vehicle applications. Aurrigo's self-driving / autonomous Auto-Dolly, Auto-DollyTug and Auto-Cargo provide airports with a new way to move baggage and cargo around, reducing costs, improving efficiency and decreasing environmental impact. Aurrigo's self-driving passenger vehicles provide mobility within urban areas, shopping malls, airports, university campuses, science parks and other areas that are poorly served by traditional transport providers. Integrating seamlessly into the transport mix, Aurrigo's on-demand, autonomous vehicles work alongside traditional forms of products such as airport infrastructure and transport such as taxis, buses and light rail. Aurrigo designs and develops all vehicles in-house together with the autonomous driving control stack to ensure a perfect pairing of hardware and software. Auto-Connect is a dedicated autonomous fleet management system providing an airport fleet manager or a passenger customer booking app, back-end control systems and front-of-house services allowing deployments in cities to be simple, efficient, and safe. Auto-Sim is Aurrigo's 3D digital twin modeling software platform which enables airports around the world to transition from current manual operating methods to use automated vehicles of the future for baggage and cargo handling.

Aurrigo International

Grant in 2020
Aurrigo provides smart avaition solutions for airport baggage/cargo and passenger vehicle applications. Aurrigo's self-driving / autonomous Auto-Dolly, Auto-DollyTug and Auto-Cargo provide airports with a new way to move baggage and cargo around, reducing costs, improving efficiency and decreasing environmental impact. Aurrigo's self-driving passenger vehicles provide mobility within urban areas, shopping malls, airports, university campuses, science parks and other areas that are poorly served by traditional transport providers. Integrating seamlessly into the transport mix, Aurrigo's on-demand, autonomous vehicles work alongside traditional forms of products such as airport infrastructure and transport such as taxis, buses and light rail. Aurrigo designs and develops all vehicles in-house together with the autonomous driving control stack to ensure a perfect pairing of hardware and software. Auto-Connect is a dedicated autonomous fleet management system providing an airport fleet manager or a passenger customer booking app, back-end control systems and front-of-house services allowing deployments in cities to be simple, efficient, and safe. Auto-Sim is Aurrigo's 3D digital twin modeling software platform which enables airports around the world to transition from current manual operating methods to use automated vehicles of the future for baggage and cargo handling.

Aegiq

Grant in 2020
Aegiq Ltd. is a company based in Sheffield, United Kingdom, specializing in semiconductor-based quantum photonic chips. Established in 2019, it focuses on developing a universal quantum computing platform that integrates photonic quantum computing and networking technologies. Aegiq's solutions cater to a variety of industries, including defense, aerospace, cybersecurity, and artificial intelligence, addressing complex computational challenges with an emphasis on speed, compactness, and modularity. The company's innovative hybrid integrated photonics approach aims to facilitate large-scale quantum computing with the capacity for multi-million qubit operations, ultimately contributing to advancements in quantum cybersecurity and networking.

Space Forge

Seed Round in 2020
Space Forge Limited, founded in 2018 and based in Bristol, United Kingdom, focuses on developing reusable satellites for manufacturing unique materials in space. The company's innovative approach allows for the production of super materials that cannot be created on Earth, utilizing the advantages of the space environment. Space Forge manufactures alloys, metals, and crystals used across various industries, including computing, telecommunications, and pharmaceuticals. By leveraging space-based manufacturing, the company aims to contribute to a cleaner industrial revolution, helping clients reduce energy loss and carbon emissions while producing lighter vehicles and improving material properties. The company operates laboratories in Bristol and Wales to support its research and development efforts.

Modularity Grid

Grant in 2020
Modularity Grid is a small and nimble cleantech firm that exists to address some of our time's most complex and interconnected concerns at the nexus of energy systems and sustainability. To scale our effect, the company collaborates with partners ranging from Airbus to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization.

Aurrigo International

Grant in 2018
Aurrigo provides smart avaition solutions for airport baggage/cargo and passenger vehicle applications. Aurrigo's self-driving / autonomous Auto-Dolly, Auto-DollyTug and Auto-Cargo provide airports with a new way to move baggage and cargo around, reducing costs, improving efficiency and decreasing environmental impact. Aurrigo's self-driving passenger vehicles provide mobility within urban areas, shopping malls, airports, university campuses, science parks and other areas that are poorly served by traditional transport providers. Integrating seamlessly into the transport mix, Aurrigo's on-demand, autonomous vehicles work alongside traditional forms of products such as airport infrastructure and transport such as taxis, buses and light rail. Aurrigo designs and develops all vehicles in-house together with the autonomous driving control stack to ensure a perfect pairing of hardware and software. Auto-Connect is a dedicated autonomous fleet management system providing an airport fleet manager or a passenger customer booking app, back-end control systems and front-of-house services allowing deployments in cities to be simple, efficient, and safe. Auto-Sim is Aurrigo's 3D digital twin modeling software platform which enables airports around the world to transition from current manual operating methods to use automated vehicles of the future for baggage and cargo handling.

Aurrigo International

Grant in 2017
Aurrigo provides smart avaition solutions for airport baggage/cargo and passenger vehicle applications. Aurrigo's self-driving / autonomous Auto-Dolly, Auto-DollyTug and Auto-Cargo provide airports with a new way to move baggage and cargo around, reducing costs, improving efficiency and decreasing environmental impact. Aurrigo's self-driving passenger vehicles provide mobility within urban areas, shopping malls, airports, university campuses, science parks and other areas that are poorly served by traditional transport providers. Integrating seamlessly into the transport mix, Aurrigo's on-demand, autonomous vehicles work alongside traditional forms of products such as airport infrastructure and transport such as taxis, buses and light rail. Aurrigo designs and develops all vehicles in-house together with the autonomous driving control stack to ensure a perfect pairing of hardware and software. Auto-Connect is a dedicated autonomous fleet management system providing an airport fleet manager or a passenger customer booking app, back-end control systems and front-of-house services allowing deployments in cities to be simple, efficient, and safe. Auto-Sim is Aurrigo's 3D digital twin modeling software platform which enables airports around the world to transition from current manual operating methods to use automated vehicles of the future for baggage and cargo handling.

Aurrigo International

Grant in 2015
Aurrigo provides smart avaition solutions for airport baggage/cargo and passenger vehicle applications. Aurrigo's self-driving / autonomous Auto-Dolly, Auto-DollyTug and Auto-Cargo provide airports with a new way to move baggage and cargo around, reducing costs, improving efficiency and decreasing environmental impact. Aurrigo's self-driving passenger vehicles provide mobility within urban areas, shopping malls, airports, university campuses, science parks and other areas that are poorly served by traditional transport providers. Integrating seamlessly into the transport mix, Aurrigo's on-demand, autonomous vehicles work alongside traditional forms of products such as airport infrastructure and transport such as taxis, buses and light rail. Aurrigo designs and develops all vehicles in-house together with the autonomous driving control stack to ensure a perfect pairing of hardware and software. Auto-Connect is a dedicated autonomous fleet management system providing an airport fleet manager or a passenger customer booking app, back-end control systems and front-of-house services allowing deployments in cities to be simple, efficient, and safe. Auto-Sim is Aurrigo's 3D digital twin modeling software platform which enables airports around the world to transition from current manual operating methods to use automated vehicles of the future for baggage and cargo handling.

Aurrigo International

Grant in 2015
Aurrigo provides smart avaition solutions for airport baggage/cargo and passenger vehicle applications. Aurrigo's self-driving / autonomous Auto-Dolly, Auto-DollyTug and Auto-Cargo provide airports with a new way to move baggage and cargo around, reducing costs, improving efficiency and decreasing environmental impact. Aurrigo's self-driving passenger vehicles provide mobility within urban areas, shopping malls, airports, university campuses, science parks and other areas that are poorly served by traditional transport providers. Integrating seamlessly into the transport mix, Aurrigo's on-demand, autonomous vehicles work alongside traditional forms of products such as airport infrastructure and transport such as taxis, buses and light rail. Aurrigo designs and develops all vehicles in-house together with the autonomous driving control stack to ensure a perfect pairing of hardware and software. Auto-Connect is a dedicated autonomous fleet management system providing an airport fleet manager or a passenger customer booking app, back-end control systems and front-of-house services allowing deployments in cities to be simple, efficient, and safe. Auto-Sim is Aurrigo's 3D digital twin modeling software platform which enables airports around the world to transition from current manual operating methods to use automated vehicles of the future for baggage and cargo handling.

Aurrigo International

Grant in 2014
Aurrigo provides smart avaition solutions for airport baggage/cargo and passenger vehicle applications. Aurrigo's self-driving / autonomous Auto-Dolly, Auto-DollyTug and Auto-Cargo provide airports with a new way to move baggage and cargo around, reducing costs, improving efficiency and decreasing environmental impact. Aurrigo's self-driving passenger vehicles provide mobility within urban areas, shopping malls, airports, university campuses, science parks and other areas that are poorly served by traditional transport providers. Integrating seamlessly into the transport mix, Aurrigo's on-demand, autonomous vehicles work alongside traditional forms of products such as airport infrastructure and transport such as taxis, buses and light rail. Aurrigo designs and develops all vehicles in-house together with the autonomous driving control stack to ensure a perfect pairing of hardware and software. Auto-Connect is a dedicated autonomous fleet management system providing an airport fleet manager or a passenger customer booking app, back-end control systems and front-of-house services allowing deployments in cities to be simple, efficient, and safe. Auto-Sim is Aurrigo's 3D digital twin modeling software platform which enables airports around the world to transition from current manual operating methods to use automated vehicles of the future for baggage and cargo handling.

Cella Energy

Grant in 2013
Cella Energy Limited is an advanced materials and technologies company based in Didcot, United Kingdom, with additional offices and a laboratory in Florida. Founded in 2011, it specializes in developing and producing hydrogen storage materials capable of storing significant amounts of hydrogen per gram, facilitating transportation at room temperature. The company offers a range of products, including smaller-scale tray-type and industrial-scale freeze-drying facilities, flowable pellets, static and cartridge systems, and flowing pellet systems. Cella Energy serves various applications across low, medium, and high power sectors, including unmanned aerial vehicles, lower-emission diesel vehicles, and zero-emission vehicles. Additionally, it provides military power solutions for unmanned systems and radiation shielding materials designed to protect satellites from harmful radiation, thereby extending their operational lifespan.
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