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

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 […]

Plexal and Cisco call on UK SMEs to secure AI supply chain with LASR

Furthering our existing partnership, Plexal and Cisco have announced an innovation opportunity for UK SMEs through their collaboration with the Laboratory for AI Security Research (LASR) – a public-private partnership between government, enterprise and academia. LASR’s goal is to advance AI security for UK national security and economic prosperity. As part of LASR’s mission, Plexal is driving industry engagement to address real-world AI security challenges while Cisco was named as LASR’s first technology partner earlier this year. Now, six months into this collaboration, we’re launching the second LASR Opportunity Call focused […]

Grown in Hackney: second cohort comes to the end of the programme

Grown in Hackney was a six month programme providing business support to local businesses.

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.