Search

Better Connected: why businesses should pay attention to the new integrated transport strategy 
Article

Better Connected: why businesses should pay attention to the new integrated transport strategy 

Better Connected sets out a more joined-up vision for transport and signals where new opportunities may emerge for UK businesses. In this article, Sameer Savani, Managing Director for Transport at Connected Places Catapult, shares his thoughts on what that means in practice.
Financing the businesses of the future with private capital
Case Study

Financing the businesses of the future with private capital

How Connected Places Catapult helps high-potential businesses attract investment.
Supporting innovators to make transport operations safer
Case Study

Supporting innovators to make transport operations safer

How Connected Places Catapult helped the SME Rhevia to trial its radar and AI technology, delivering insights and improving safety on roads and in workplaces.
Supply chain security firm scales activities with infrastructure clients
Article

Supply chain security firm scales activities with infrastructure clients

Security software specialist Risk Ledger has secured over £9 million in investment and quadrupled its annual revenues since completing the HS2 Innovation Accelerator.
Autonomous boat builder charts course to success
Article

Autonomous boat builder charts course to success

Innovators showcasing their emerging technologies at the Connected Places Summit included start-up firm Norsail.
DIATOMIC International Bridges: Progress Overview and Future Horizons
Report

DIATOMIC International Bridges: Progress Overview and Future Horizons

Innovation Twins Birmingham-Ulsan Academic Partnership 
Funding available to trial freight and logistics innovations
News

Funding available to trial freight and logistics innovations

Up to £110k and access to expert business support is available to innovators with ideas to tackle the sector’s biggest challenges.
Freight Innovation Fund Accelerator 2026 – Cohort 5
Opportunity

Freight Innovation Fund Accelerator 2026 – Cohort 5

The Freight Innovation Fund Accelerator will support up to 12 Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) to develop a trial to test their solution in real-world environments to help solve pressing challenges within the freight sector.
Industrialised Construction: Putting the pieces into place
Article

Industrialised Construction: Putting the pieces into place

Efforts to scale-up standardised methods of manufacture and assembly were discussed at the Connected Places Summit.
An aerial view of a docked ship in a port
News

Search begins for innovators to make maritime operations greener

The new Ideas Elevator – Maritime Decarbonisation programme is set to support innovators with very early-stage business ideas in the maritime sector.
An aerial view of a docked ship in a port
Opportunity

The Ideas Elevator – Maritime Decarbonisation

This pilot programme is for disruptive, very early-stage and exciting ideas and concepts that may alter the future landscape of clean maritime and have the potential to lead to radical change. It is open to SMEs and academics.
Meet the innovator helping construction sites understand nature better
Article

Meet the innovator helping construction sites understand nature better

Serial entrepreneur Dimple Patel is leading a successful nature tech business previously supported by Connected Places Catapult and recognised by the Prince of Wales.