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Digital Catapult
Digital Catapult is a UK deep-tech innovation organisation that helps businesses apply advanced technologies to real-world challenges. It provides research and development, testbed facilities, consultancy, acceleration programmes, and collaboration opportunities for startups, larger businesses, public-sector organisations, investors, and academia.
London, UK
SONIC Labs
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SONIC Labs is a UK Government-funded Open RAN innovation programme and R&D facility, co-delivered by Digital Catapult and Ofcom. Its commercially neutral indoor and outdoor testing sites provide Test-as-a-Service for vendors, including test programme design, technical reporting, pre-certification gap analysis, iterative testing, interoperability validation, and performance benchmarking.Category: Service Provider
Black Founders Programme
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The Black Founders Programme is a Digital Catapult accelerator delivered with Sony Music UK and Sony Music Publishing, and in 2025 in collaboration with Channel 4. It supports eligible Black-founded startups to become investment-ready through mentoring, coaching, business-strategy advice, peer support, deep-tech expertise, and access to potential funding, facilities, partners, investors, and customers.Category: Grants Platform
Digital Supply Chain Programme: Made Smarter Innovation | Digital Supply Chain Hub
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The Made Smarter Innovation | Digital Supply Chain Hub is a UK manufacturing supply-chain digital innovation ecosystem led by Digital Catapult and funded by UKRI through the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund. Delivered with the High Value Manufacturing Catapult, National Physical Laboratory, and TWI Ltd, it brings manufacturers, technology providers, research organisations, and academics together to integrate advanced digital technologies, improve data sharing, identify bottlenecks, reduce waste, and increase supply-chain efficiency, resilience, and sustainability.Category: Transport
UK Digital Twin Centre
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The UK Digital Twin Centre is a Digital Catapult Northern Ireland programme supported by public and industry investment. It provides technical expertise, specialist facilities, innovation programmes and collaboration to help organisations progress from understanding digital twins and validating opportunities to deploying solutions. Funded by Belfast Region City Deal and Innovate UK with industry co-investment, it delivers collaborative digital-twin use cases across maritime, aerospace and defence.Category: Uncategorized
Applied AI Growth Programme
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The Applied AI Growth Programme is delivered by Digital Catapult and funded by Innovate UK. It provides targeted support for high-potential AI companies through 12-week Applied AI Growth Sprints, exploration of a pilot frontier-AI demonstrator and testbed, and ecosystem activities connecting companies, adopters, policymakers, investors, and partners. The programme focuses on advanced manufacturing, life sciences, digital and technology, creative industries, financial services, and energy and clean technologies.Category: Uncategorized