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About us

Closing the gap

Plexal is the innovation company solving society’s challenges through collaboration with government, startups and industry.

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.

Innovation

We work with industry and the government to solve their innovation challenges.

Workspace

Join our community of innovators and access our member benefits.

Events

From meetups to corporate away days, host you event in our innovation centre.

Our Values

Mission

MISSION

We inherit the mission of UK government and deliver it in an agile and creative fashion.

Collaboration

COLLABORATION

We believe in the power of working together.

Equality

EQUALITY

We strengthen ourselves as a team by embracing the different.

Care

CARE

People are at the heart of what we do; we care about our customers, members and colleagues.

Our vision

Our vision is to make technology work better for society.

We inherit the mission of UK Government and solve innovation challenges through collaboration.​​

We provide bespoke consultancy services and state-of-the-art workspaces, sourcing the right partners from our ecosystem to work with.

We support entrepreneurs, startups and scaleups across emerging science and technologies – from cyber and healthcare to AI and ML, to connected places and climate tech – and beyond.

We solve our clients’ challenges through five core products: strategy, discovery, validation, innovation programmes and ecosystem.

We operate across multiple sectors including the intelligence and defence domain, government, financial services and telecoms.

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WHERE WE WORK

We use our state-of-the-art workspaces as launchpads and testbeds for innovation as well as providing affordable spaces for local businesses and host events to convene networks and showcase our clients’ work.

You will find us across the UK, from East London Olympic Park HQ to our North West Manchester team and Western Gateway Cheltenham teams. We also support government-led innovation worldwide, with partners in the USA, Europe, the Gulf and Indo-Pacific.

IMPACT OF OUR WORK

“When Plexal was first envisaged as part of the London 2012 Olympic Games legacy, it was intended to be the innovation nerve centre for Here East where the impact would be local, national and international – and I’m delighted that we have delivered on that vision” says CEO Andrew Roughan. Plexal was founded in 2017 by clients of specialist real estate investment advisory company Delancey.

People are at the heart of all we do at Plexal. We believe in the power of working together and driving inclusivity and diversity across our places for innovation as well as innovation services.

WHO WE WORK WITH

We’ve worked with some of the most influential government departments and global tech companies.

NCSC
Department for Science Innovation and Techonology
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FCDO
AWS
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Welcome from the CEO, Andrew Roughan.

My vision is to make technology work better for society. We’re the innovation company that supercharges collaboration through consultancy services and physical workspace.

At Plexal we are are closing the gap – between government and industry, between public and private sectors, between corporates and startups – to improve national security and deliver socioeconomic prosperity.

Welcome from the CEO - Andrew Roughan

We do this by building collaborative innovation ecosystems through our consultancy services and our workspaces. We support entrepreneurs, startups and scaleups across emerging science and technology – from cyber to AI and ML, quantum computing to climate tech, through to telecoms and smart parks. We solve our clients’ innovation challenges through strategy, programmes, discover, ventures studio and ecosystem development. We use our workspaces as launchpads and testbeds for innovation as well as providing affordable spaces for local businesses and host events to convene networks and showcase our clients’ work.

You will find us across the UK, from East London Olympic Park HQ to our North West Manchester team and Western Gateway Cheltenham teams. We support government-led innovation worldwide, with partners in the USA, Europe, the Gulf and Indo-Pacific.

Finally, I hope to highlight how tech can have a positive impact. People are at the heart of all we do at Plexal. We care about our innovation customers, workspace members and. We are mission-led and deliver our client’s intent to best in class standards. Equality is our third value because we believe we strengthen our team by embracing diversity and inclusivity. Encompassing all we do is collaboration: we believe in the power of working together.

What we do

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OUR VALUES

Mission

MISSION

We inherit the mission of UK government and deliver it in an agile and creative fashion. 

Collaboration

COLLABORATION

We believe in the power of working together. 

Equality

EQUALITY

We strengthen ourselves as a team by embracing the different.

Care

CARE

People are at the heart of what we do; we care about our customers, members and colleagues.