INNOVATION UNLEASHED
We work with industry and the government to solve their innovation challenges and collaborate with startups.
We believe that the big challenges organisations and society are facing must be tackled with a systems approach. We’ll break down silos, bring the right people together and apply our open collaboration approach to your challenge.
From live testbeds and startup scouting to accelerators, we’ve delivered programmes for clients like Transport for London, Lloyds Banking Group, Innovate UK and the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport.
We fast track their innovation agendas, help them tap into fresh solutions and co-create solutions within a community.
Get in touch if you’re ready to do things differently and we’ll build a solution that’s tailored to your needs.
READY TO INNOVATE?
Bring your innovation challenge to us and we’ll build a solution just for you.
WHAT WE DO
Research and challenge definition, market mapping
Startup and partner scouting
Programme or solution design
Ecosystem creation and engagement
Build proof of concepts, pilots and products
Contracting and IP
The home of policy-led innovation
From climate change to online attacks that can undermine democracy, society is facing threats that make collaboration non-negotiable.
We work with our government partners, helping them connect with innovators from the private sector.
We create the conditions that allow open collaboration to happen and enable startups and enterprises to build solutions together.
COLLABORATE WITH STARTUPS
Startups are the lifeblood of innovation.
We’ll help you identify which startups you should talk to and we’ll build solutions with you.
We’ll cast our net wide when selecting partners for you, but select them carefully.
Plexal takes no equity or IP from you: we’re just here for the innovation.
OUR WORK
IBM
We're helping IBM define its innovation challenges, partner with startups and develop proofs of concepts.
Telecoms challenge
Through a 12-week sprint, we're working with industry, SMEs and the government to diversify the UK's telecoms market and explore the role SMEs could play.
Innovate Oman
The UK Oman Digital Hub has partnered with Plexal to launch Innovate Oman: an initiative that will help digital innovators develop solutions to the big tech challenges faced by the government and industry. Plexal and our partners will deliver hackathons, workshops, mentoring and accelerators.
Cyber Runway
We're helping 108 entrepreneurs, startups, SMEs and scaleups fast track their growth.
LORCA
We’re delivering the government-backed cybersecurity programme with partners like Lloyds Banking Group, Deloitte, the Centre for Secure Information Technologies and Dell Technologies.
NCSC for Startups
We're working with the National Cyber Security Centre to help startups develop, adapt or pivot cybersecurity solutions.
LORCA Ignite
We’re turbocharging the growth of six LORCA graduates with LORCA Ignite: our scaleup programme.
Inclusion
We’ve delivered the OpenDoor inclusion accelerator and we're working with partners like Disability Rights UK and University College London to turbocharge the assistive technology sector.
Innovate UK Scaleup Pilot
We helped Innovate UK learn more about the sector-specific challenges companies face as they scale.
London RoadLab
We’ve delivered a mobility programme for Transport for London using a pioneering new innovation procurement process to reimagine roadworks in the capital.
London FreightLab
We're helping Transport for London and nine partners make the way goods move around London safer, cleaner and more efficient. We've helped them attract and identify the right cohort members to support.
Rapid Innovation Accelerator
Plexal’s been appointed by the UK Oman Digital Hub to work alongside Omani innovation development company AL JABR to tackle challenges created by the global pandemic.
Accessible Instruments Challenge
Our innovation team was tasked by Arts Council England to deliver a programme that would help uncover practical solutions that make it easier for disabled people to make music, and solve specific challenges when it comes to the supply of adaptive instruments to schools.
OUTCOMES FIRST
We’ll work closely with you to define the opportunity and put tight guardrails around our work so we keep our eye on your mission.
OUR NEWS AND VIEWS
Cyber Runway takes off
From new ventures to global scaleups, 107 innovators from across the UK have been chosen for the Cyber Runway accelerator Plexal is delivering. Cyber Runway is the largest cyber startup
NCSC For Startups is tackling a new challenge: malvertising
Plexal and the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) have chosen malvertising as our next challenge for NCSC For Startups. Our director of innovation Saj Huq explains why… The online ad
Plexal is exploring the role of SMEs in the UK’s telecoms market with a 12-week sprint
Plexal is working with the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS) to support the diversification of the UK’s telecoms market and stimulate the creation of products and services
OUR CLIENTS AND PARTNERS
OUR INNOVATION TEAM
Andrew Roughan
Managing director
Saj Huq
Director of innovation
Tracey Bedford
Executive assistant to Saj Huq
Dave Rowley
Commercial director, cyber
Russell Gundry
Director of innovation programmes
Bruno Sussat
Innovation lead
Robert Kearney
Innovation ecosystem lead
Jason Mollring
Innovation programme and ecosystem lead
Ruby Motabhoy
Innovation consultant
Mike Blair
Innovation consultant
Diane Gilbert
Innovation delivery lead
James Lamb
Innovation programme manager
Ketna Hirji
Innovation manager
Arutyun Arutyunyan
Innovation associate
Holly Smith
Innovation associate
Matt Miller
Innovation associate
Find Us
Plexal’s based at Here East: a tech campus in east London’s Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. We’re a 10-minute walk from Hackney Wick train station, or you can catch the free shuttle bus from Stratford train, underground and bus stations.
Plexal
14 East Bay Lane, The Press Centre, Here East, Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, London, E20 3BS
We’re open Monday-Friday from 6am-12am, Saturday - Sunday 10am-6pm
