Plexal is pleased to announce the six scaleups selected for our new Cyber Runway Scale X cohort, which follows hot on the heels of welcoming our ambitious Grow startups and Ignite leaders.
We’ve designed Scale X to help scaleups blast away business barriers, providing one-to-one advice and practical support alongside the all-important connections to build a network of fellow founders, VCs and CISOs that can help them achieve rapid growth.
The scaleups selected for the programme will benefit from Scale Action Plans, which include strategies around international expansion, recruitment and culture, inclusion and diversity, marketing, PR and communications, sales, procurement and frameworks. With deep understanding of each of these areas, scaleups will be equipped with the tools to smash growth blockers and continue an upwards trajectory.
The mission of Cyber Runway, which is funded by the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology and delivered by Plexal, is to drive innovation, create high-quality jobs and secure long-term economic resilience. Getting behind these scaleups is how we make this a reality, aligning with the Cyber Growth Action Plan’s acknowledgement that the UK cyber sector is a strong and willing community that needs to broaden and expand if the UK is to achieve cyber resilience.
Diane Gilbert, Senior Innovation Lead for Programmes at Plexal, says: “No matter the sector, all businesses will inevitably hit a wall when they reach a certain size – whether it comes to funding, talent or new market entry. With Cyber Runway Scale X, we want to be the hammer scaleups can use to break barricades down.
“The cyber realm is vast and continues to evolve with new threats, so it’s essential the organisations working hard to keep us safe online are guided in the right direction to ensure their rapid growth doesn’t stall. We’re thrilled with the calibre of scaleups we’ve chosen and look forward to the next six months and beyond.”
Get to know our Scale X cohort below:
Cavero Quantum is a quantum-safe cryptography firm providing software-based key exchange and endpoint authentication solutions designed to secure organisations – even in constrained IoT, defence and telecom environments.
CultureAI is a secure AI-usage enablement platform that helps organisations adopt generative AI confidently by detecting unsafe use, coaching users in real time and enforcing adaptive guardrails.
Lab 1 is an exposed-data intelligence specialist that uses AI to inspect structured, unstructured and dark web sources, turning weeks of risk discovery into hours for security and incident-response teams.
Nine23 is a high-assurance managed service provider (MSP) that empowers defence, government and national security organisations to use digital services securely and simply.
nquiring minds is a deeptech AI company whose trusted data exchange platform enables secure, intelligent sharing of IoT and sensor data across public, industrial and agri sectors.
Veriom is an AI-powered DevSecOps platform that builds a unified security graph across infrastructure, code and tools – giving tech and security leaders context-rich alerts, fewer false positives and faster remediation.
