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Home»Contests»Cyber Security Academic Startup Accelerator Programme 2025 (up to £800,000)

Cyber Security Academic Startup Accelerator Programme 2025 (up to £800,000)

Jude OgarJanuary 25, 20253 Mins Read
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Deadline: February 12, 2025

Applications are open for the Cyber Security Academic Startup Accelerator Programme 2025. Innovate UK, part of UK Research and Innovation, will work with the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) to invest up to £800,000 in innovative cyber security projects coming from an academic research base.

The aim of this competition is to identify the most promising commercial opportunities in academia in respect to cyber security. Your proposal must include the area of your research, the problem that you are solving and your proposed solution. The Cyber Security Academic Startup Accelerator Programme (CyberASAP) is an 11 month programme.

This is phase 1 of a potential 2 phase competition. Phase 1 will last up to four months, split into two stages:

  • an initial two months for value proposition development activities, followed by a presentation to an independent judging panel who will select teams to go to stage 2.
  • a further two months for market validation activities.

Benefits

  • Individuals based in a UK academic institution can apply for a share of up to £800,000.

Eligibility

Your Project

Your project must:

  • have total costs between £5000 and £32,000 with £16,000 allocated to stage 1 and £16,000 to stage 2
  • carry out its project work in the UK
  • intend to exploit the results from or in the UK
  • start on April 1, 2025
  • end by July 31, 2025

Projects must always start on the first of the month, even if this is a non-working day.

Lead Organisation

To lead a project or work alone you must:

  • be based in a UK registered academic institution.
  • have a cyber security idea.
  • be interested in the commercialisation of your idea.
  • have the support of your academic institution’s technology transfer office or equivalent.
  • not act in any way to gain selective commercial or economic advantage from the outputs of this project.

Project Team

To collaborate with the lead, you must:

  • be based in a UK academic institution.
  • be interested in the commercialisation of your idea.
  • have the support of your academic institution’s technology transfer office or equivalent.

Application

Before submitting, it is the lead applicant’s responsibility to make sure:

  • that all the information provided in the application is correct.
  • your proposal meets the eligibility and scope criteria.
  • all sections of the application are marked as complete.
  • if collaborative, that all partners have completed all assigned sections and accepted the terms and conditions (T&Cs).

Click here to apply

For more information, visit Cyber Security Academic Startup Accelerator.

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