Innovate UK

Founded in 2007, Innovate UK is a non-profit organization based in Swindon, UK. It supports businesses across various economic sectors by offering funding services to promote science and technology innovations.

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

Past deals in Smart Home

Circadacare

Grant in 2025
Circadacare specializes in improving the lives of residents and staff in care environments through innovative technology. Their solutions focus on enhancing wellness, promoting autonomy, reducing falls, and tracking behaviors using circadian lighting and advanced AI monitoring.

Tewke

Grant in 2024
Tewke, established in 2020 in London, specializes in developing AI-driven home automation technology to reduce energy consumption and enhance living experiences. The company's flagship product, Tap, is an intelligent light switch that requires no rewiring, serving as the foundation for Tewke's energy control and home automation platform. Tap has been recognized internationally, including winning the Red Dot Design Award.

Krellian

Grant in 2024
Krellian helps facilities managers meet their net zero targets whilst saving money, by optimising space utilisation and reducing energy consumption using smart building technology. - Krellian Hub - a smart building hub which consolidates multi-vendor building management systems into a single unified interface. - Krellian Cloud - real-time data analytics for buildings to model how they're being used and identify potential optimisations.

Nosh Technologies

Grant in 2023
Nosh Technologies is a deep tech company focused on optimizing food management and reducing waste in households through innovative technology. The company develops algorithms and mobile applications designed to help users manage their food consumption more effectively. Its flagship product, an AI-powered smartphone app named Nosh, analyzes users' consumption and waste habits, providing insights and weekly analytics. This enables users to make informed decisions about their food usage, ultimately aiming to minimize waste and save money. Nosh Technologies serves clients globally, with a mission to eliminate food waste at home entirely.

MiiCare

Grant in 2021
MiiCare designs an AI-driven home care platform for aging individuals, co-created with older adults, families, and caregivers. It transforms homes into safe, connected spaces using telehealth devices, passive sensors, acoustic sensing, and AI digital therapeutics. The platform's conversational AI, Monica, acts as a health coach, monitoring users' homes, ensuring medication adherence, motivating healthy habits, and alerting caregivers to behavior or health changes. MiiCare aims to reduce care costs, staff burden, and hospitalizations while improving user engagement.

MiiCare

Grant in 2021
MiiCare designs an AI-driven home care platform for aging individuals, co-created with older adults, families, and caregivers. It transforms homes into safe, connected spaces using telehealth devices, passive sensors, acoustic sensing, and AI digital therapeutics. The platform's conversational AI, Monica, acts as a health coach, monitoring users' homes, ensuring medication adherence, motivating healthy habits, and alerting caregivers to behavior or health changes. MiiCare aims to reduce care costs, staff burden, and hospitalizations while improving user engagement.

Ovon Home

Seed Round in 2021
Ovon Home creates beautiful & easy to install smart home devices, offering superb comfort & energy saving in a stylish way. The new Ovon heating system, with our 5G, cellular-enabled boiler controller, offers a cutting-edge, self-charging platform that eliminates waste and provides a future-proof, energy-saving solution. With the capacity for remote diagnostics and predictive maintenance and the ability to interface with any boiler on the market, Ovon’s products have the potential to revolutionise home servicing while improving comfort.

Modulous

Debt Financing in 2021
Modulous is a technology-enabled housing company that designs, develops, and delivers affordable, sustainable homes at scale. It operates a digitized software platform that enables high-speed design and delivery of quality, healthy, and affordable housing globally. The platform combines generative design, artificial intelligence, and a digital twin of a defined kit of parts to create engineered designs for multi-family housing in minutes. This enables property developers and architects to assess planning-compliant options quickly and efficiently, supporting faster project timelines and improved buildability. Modulous addresses global housing supply needs by providing tooling that accelerates design-to-delivery workflows while prioritizing sustainability and affordability.

MiiCare

Grant in 2020
MiiCare designs an AI-driven home care platform for aging individuals, co-created with older adults, families, and caregivers. It transforms homes into safe, connected spaces using telehealth devices, passive sensors, acoustic sensing, and AI digital therapeutics. The platform's conversational AI, Monica, acts as a health coach, monitoring users' homes, ensuring medication adherence, motivating healthy habits, and alerting caregivers to behavior or health changes. MiiCare aims to reduce care costs, staff burden, and hospitalizations while improving user engagement.

Ovon Home

Seed Round in 2020
Ovon Home creates beautiful & easy to install smart home devices, offering superb comfort & energy saving in a stylish way. The new Ovon heating system, with our 5G, cellular-enabled boiler controller, offers a cutting-edge, self-charging platform that eliminates waste and provides a future-proof, energy-saving solution. With the capacity for remote diagnostics and predictive maintenance and the ability to interface with any boiler on the market, Ovon’s products have the potential to revolutionise home servicing while improving comfort.

Circada

Grant in 2020
Circada provides lighting systems designed to improve human health and well-being by aligning indoor lighting with the natural daylight rhythm. Its retrofit-ready lighting controls connect to existing tunable white LED drivers and use a standard light switch as an interface, enabling plug-and-play installation without complex commissioning. The company can tailor configuration before installation to meet specific project requirements, delivering circadian lighting that supports healthier indoor environments.

GridDuck

Grant in 2017
GridDuck transforms homes and businesses into part of the smart grid. It uses a Zigbee wireless network for real-time energy monitoring and control via its gateway, connected plugs, relays, and switches. The system also monitors grid conditions and responds to commands from the gateway.

GridDuck

Grant in 2016
GridDuck transforms homes and businesses into part of the smart grid. It uses a Zigbee wireless network for real-time energy monitoring and control via its gateway, connected plugs, relays, and switches. The system also monitors grid conditions and responds to commands from the gateway.

GridDuck

Grant in 2015
GridDuck transforms homes and businesses into part of the smart grid. It uses a Zigbee wireless network for real-time energy monitoring and control via its gateway, connected plugs, relays, and switches. The system also monitors grid conditions and responds to commands from the gateway.

Onzo

Grant in 2015
Onzo, Ltd. is a London-based company specializing in the design of energy management systems for residential use. Established in 2007, Onzo offers a range of products including smart energy kits, which consist of sensors and displays integrated with a website, enabling consumers to monitor and manage their energy usage effectively. The company's display tools provide users with valuable insights to better understand their energy consumption, while the ONZO Insights platform allows utility companies to analyze various data dimensions. By combining technology and design expertise, Onzo aims to empower consumers to reduce their energy consumption, lower their bills, and minimize carbon emissions, while also offering utilities innovative solutions to enhance customer engagement and operational efficiency. The company also has an office in Denver, Colorado.

Moixa Technology

Grant in 2015
Moixa Technology develops integrated hardware and software solutions for renewable energy storage, optimization, and aggregation. Established in 2005, it specializes in residential and commercial energy storage systems, offering battery solutions, DC sockets, LED lighting products, and smart monitoring services. Moixa serves utilities, network operators, installers, and other market segments.

Moixa Technology

Grant in 2012
Moixa Technology develops integrated hardware and software solutions for renewable energy storage, optimization, and aggregation. Established in 2005, it specializes in residential and commercial energy storage systems, offering battery solutions, DC sockets, LED lighting products, and smart monitoring services. Moixa serves utilities, network operators, installers, and other market segments.

Moixa Technology

Grant in 2010
Moixa Technology develops integrated hardware and software solutions for renewable energy storage, optimization, and aggregation. Established in 2005, it specializes in residential and commercial energy storage systems, offering battery solutions, DC sockets, LED lighting products, and smart monitoring services. Moixa serves utilities, network operators, installers, and other market segments.
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