UKRI Growth Catalyst
Innovate UK’s Growth Catalyst pilot helps accelerate early-stage startups on their journey to growth. It offers services and funding to successful applicants in high-potential start-up businesses to accelerate their progress to becoming scaleups and beyond.
This pilot round of Growth Catalyst is for early-stage micro and small (pre-seed) startups on their initial journey to develop and validate technical and commercial elements of their innovation. Other Growth Catalyst pilots, potentially in other domains, are planned to run later this year.
It is for start-ups working in any of the following five areas from the government’s frontier technologies:
This pilot funds projects which run for 3-6 months, to be completed by 30 April 2026. Your project’s total costs and grant funding request must be between £25,000 and £50,000.
Applications are open from 7 July 2025 and close on 6 August 2025 at 11am.
For more information and to apply visit: Growth Catalyst for Early-Stage Startups, July 2025 – Innovate UK Business Connect