Transport Accelerator: Maritime 2025
Get support for ideas that could help with automating operations, integrating future fuels and improving safety in ports.
Work with us
We help SMEs take innovative solutions
We help SMEs take innovative solutions
from idea to market.
Our SME programme will help you secure funding, run a test bed, find delivery partners & new customers. This is suitable for SMEs of all sizes.
The SME programme.
We provide networking, business and innovation support for companies at all stages of their evolution.
- Join the SME network to unlock collaboration & innovation opportunities
- Benefit from innovation communities that accelerate the use of technology and drive regional growth
- Connect with other SMEs through our unique engagement & development programme
- Drive economic growth by connecting with innovative SMEs to solve current industry challenges
- De-risk innovation through collaboration partnerships within our SME network
Join our SME network,
a catalyst for innovation.
Every year we facilitate hundreds of interactions between SMEs and the markets we operate in through our proven Innovation Ecosystem.
01
Investor days
To showcase your innovative solutions to a network of VCs and angel investors, for a chance to raise seed and Series A money.
02
SME Masterclass
A series of masterclasses to overcome barriers to growth by addressing specific business needs, and helping businesses to develop new concepts, prototypes, products and services.
03
Business Needs Assessment
Work with our expert team to identify areas for growth & improvement, develop an action plan, and find resources to help take your business to the next level.
04
Connections Café
Business support and networking events that bring together our SME Community and key representatives of industry, government and funders to discuss cross-industry topics.
05
Industry days
Networking events to convene with the marketplace, and meet industry players who are potential buyers for your solutions.
JOIN OUR SME NETWORK, A CATALYST FOR INNOVATION.
Accelerators
SME Accelerators provide intensive support for cohorts of startups, aiming to get them ready for investment quickly. Our programmes work with high potential SMEs in transport and urban innovation spaces.
Funding & Grants
We help secure early stage, proof-of-concept funding. Providing investment to de-risk emerging solutions and speeding up their route to market.
Opportunities & Case Studies
Opportunity
Opportunity
Surveillance challenge using edge AI
In this challenge, HMGCC Co-Creation wants to hear from organisations capable of enabling visual surveillance systems to operate with less power – using edge AI.
Opportunity
Tracking solutions for alternative positioning, navigation and timing (PNT)
Small devices to track government staff, wherever they are in the world, are sought in HMGCC Co-Creation’s latest challenge.
Opportunity
Public Realm Innovation Initiative
Partner with Connected Places Catapult to unlock the value of public space.
Opportunity
Expression of Interest: TRIG Advisory Board
The Department for Transport (DfT) and Connected Places Catapult are inviting expressions of interest for the brand new TRIG Advisory Board. The Advisory Board will play a crucial role in shaping the future of the TRIG programme, by providing strategic guidance, sector insights and industry expertise.
Case Study
Supporting SMEs to scale and succeed
Innovating is complex and difficult. Bridging the gap between a promising idea and the marketplace is not easy – it needs to be tested in the real world.
