The innovation and growth company

Solving society’s challenges through collaboration on technology with government, startups and industry.

Innovation

We’re closing the gap between organisations – small and large, local and global, private and public – and working towards a common goal: using science and technology to deliver national security and prosperity.

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Growth Partnership

Plexal is intent on creating a series of interventions with this Growth Partnership. Focusing on startups, scaleups and SMEs in target sectors, regions and technology domains that will demonstrably drive growth through increased high value jobs, exports, equity investment, customer contracts and gross value add to the economy.

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Workspace

Join our coworking spaces to work within a community. Plexal membership is open to startups, scaleups, social enterprises, creatives, freelancers or large corporates. We also have spaces in Manchester and Cheltenham hosting our innovation services.

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Events

Host your event in the heart of our innovation centre. From meetups and corporate away days to events for government, industry, startups and academia, our events spaces can do it all.

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NEWS AND VIEWS

Keep up to date on what’s happening at Plexal

Championing industry interests for defence, national security, cyber and emerging technologies with techUK

As we come to the end of 2025, we want to begin the celebrations early and highlight that four Plexal team members have successfully been chosen to join various techUK boards and committees over the past 12 months, allowing us to fly the flag for innovation. Why is this important to us? Plexal unites startups, government, industry and academia to close the gap between sectors and turn innovation into growth, resilience and societal progress for the UK. And with a […]

How photonics is delivering on the Defence and Security Industrial Strategy

As part of Plexal’s Advanced Hardware for Defence Event Series on Wednesday 26th November, a group of key defence and photonics industry figures met at techUK’s London offices to discuss the emerging technology and highlight the opportunities and barriers facing the UK photonics sector.

CNI sector supported by SMEs to protect UK services, public and economy from significant attacks

Coffee shops and critical national infrastructure (CNI) providers alike have been tasked by the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) to protect themselves against online harms. It comes as the NCSC Annual Review 2025 found ‘highly significant’ attacks to seriously impact central government, UK services, the public or economy have grown 50% – a rise for the third year. To prevent this, the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) and innovation and growth company Plexal have […]

Our programmes

CYBER RUNWAY

Cyber Runway is the largest cyber accelerator in the UK. It is designed to address some of the biggest challenges facing cyber security.

LASR

A public-private partnership dedicated to advancing AI security for UK national security and economic prosperity.

HMGCC

Bringing together the best in class across industry, academia, and government, to work collaboratively on national security engineering challenges and accelerate innovation.