Digital Catapult

Digital Catapult is a UK innovation organisation that helps companies put deep technology to practical use. It works with startups, scaleups, large corporations, researchers and public bodies, and runs a national centre in London with regional centres.

What Digital Catapult offers

• Test facilities — physical and digital environments for experimentation that smaller firms could not otherwise reach.
• Innovation programmes — collaborations that bring together small companies, corporates, researchers and investors around industry problems.
• Applied AI Growth Programme — support for AI businesses, delivered with funding from Innovate UK.
• UK Digital Twin Centre — a programme making digital twins easier to adopt, funded by Belfast Region City Deal and Innovate UK.
• SONIC Labs — a neutral environment for testing open network interoperability.

Who it works with

Its work covers government and the public sector, corporates and industry, and deep technology companies at start-up and scale-up stage. Recent programmes touch telecoms, energy, hydrogen and manufacturing supply chains.

Key facts

• Based in: London, UK, with regional centres
• Focus: deep tech and advanced digital technology