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

TechFirst Women’s Programme launches to help women build technology careers and employers access new talent

Today marks the launch of the TechFirst Women’s Programme – a new government-funded initiative to help more women access careers in high-growth technology sectors. And applications are open! https://www.techfirstwomen.com/ Led by Plexal on behalf of the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, the UK-wide TechFirst Women’s Programme is launching today to support 300 women move […]

Scaleup Programme: How 25 high-growth companies are advancing technologies for industry and society

To mark the start of the fourth Scaleup Programme, Barclays Eagle Labs and Plexal welcomed our new cohort to a launch event at the Barclays Eagle Labs office in Shoreditch, bringing together some of the UK’s most exciting founders alongside investors, corporate leaders and ecosystem experts.

What Coworking Week taught us about the future of work

Following our most recent Coworking Week at Plexal, here are the five signals we’re seeing about how people want to work in 2026 and beyond.

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.