Welcome to Europe’s Largest Innovation Ecosystem

Plexal is Europe’s largest, most connected innovation ecosystem based on Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. Our innovation ecosystem is designed as a mini-city, bringing together civic spaces and community services, with private flexible offices and bespoke programming to create a dynamic, diverse community of visionary innovators and collaborators dedicated to making life better through technology. We provide a holistic suite of business services: innovation and accelerator programmes, in-house professional services, a makers lab for rapid prototyping, entrepreneurship training, mentorship, industry leading events and so much more...

Plexal is located on the 1.2 million square-foot former London Olympics Press & Broadcast centre - the most connected building in Europe on Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. Designed as a mini-city, complete with high street, maker's studio, events space, cafes and communal kitchens, parkland, town hall, and library for mindfulness and learning, it is an environment to meet all your business and personal inspiration needs. Open studio membership and elegant, flexible, private offices of various sizes will support 800 members and organisations, and we have the capacity to expand on demand by scaling firms into other spaces across the Here East estate.

A five minute walk from Hackney Wick Station, a five minute bike ride or free shuttle bus from Stratford International, Crossrail from 2018 and a just seven minutes from the Eurostar terminal at St Pancras. We sit within a top UK transport hub to world. With over ten on-site affordable food and beverage options you will be delighted by the landscape and the facilities.

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We are all entrepreneurs at Plexal, from multiple disciplines, cultural backgrounds and industries. We have observed and felt the unmet needs of startups, scaleups, makers, technologists, and corporates in today’s business environments, and are determined to create new standards for the innovation, creative and entrepreneurial experience.

We are very passionate about supporting the startup sector to scale - providing a safe, well-rounded support system for its success - thereby driving growth in jobs, investment and greater accessibility to a global marketplace.

We are equally committed to driving innovation into the ways we think, interact, and learn, as well as in how we build, operate and adapt in business.

We firmly believe that startups and corporates can successfully collaborate, turning challenges into opportunities, and ideas into radical new businesses.

Finally, we take our first site, at Here East on Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park and our role in the larger regeneration strategy very seriously, engaging with local suppliers, and the raw talent and energy that has always characterised London’s East End.

Our model builds on best-in-class innovation ecosystems from around the world. We bring together a comprehensive suite of innovation and business growth services for companies both big and small. Including: themed accelerators, bespoke innovation programmes, industry-leading conferences, intra and entrepreneurship training, quality coaching and mentorship, in-house professional services, curated community events, and a makers lab for rapid prototyping. Not to mention our beautiful, flexible, healthy working environment.

Our membership model is selective, but open to technology firms from diverse backgrounds. Initially we are focussed on incubating the following powerful innovations: internet of things, artificial intelligence, virtual reality, augmented reality, cyber-security, and data analytics. We are actively cultivating piloting opportunities within the fields of sport, health, fashion, smart city and mobility industries with local partners on Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.

Powered by an international network of city partnerships, supporting organisations, startup communities and trade and investment organisations across the world, we are a soft landing pad for companies coming to the UK for the first time and can provide international intelligence and opportunity for firms chasing global markets.

Apply for membership now. Plexal fully opens June 2017. In the interim, we are taking members in our pop-up space upstairs and designing cutting edge innovation programmes with our corporate partners.