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Digital Catapult is a UK deep-tech innovation organisation accelerating the practical application of advanced digital technologies.
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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.

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Digital Supply Chain Programme: Made Smarter Innovation | Digital Supply Chain Hub


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A UK industrial innovation programme led by Digital Catapult and funded through UKRI’s Made Smarter Innovation challenge. It brings manufacturers, technology providers, researchers and academics together to develop, test and integrate advanced digital technologies that improve manufacturing supply-chain efficiency, resilience, sustainability, data sharing and decision-making.

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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.

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Applied AI Growth Programme


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The programme supports UK AI businesses in testing and validating innovative concepts, gaining actionable insights, strengthening pathways to market, trialling and scaling AI solutions, building investor partnerships, and connecting with the wider innovation ecosystem. Its three connected workstreams are Applied AI Growth Sprints, Applied AI Growth Demonstrator and Testbed, and Applied AI Growth Ecosystem.

Category: Venture Services

SONIC Labs


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SONIC Labs (SmartRAN Open Network Interoperability Centre) was a UK programme for independently testing, integrating and validating open, disaggregated, multi-vendor telecoms networks. Co-delivered by Digital Catapult and Ofcom and funded by DSIT, it generated engineering evidence to support Open RAN commercialisation and adoption.

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