Deadline: 6 August 2025

Growth Catalyst Early Stage: New Innovators

The Innovate UK Growth Catalyst is an integrated package of funding and support, designed to accelerate high potential start-ups on their journey to becoming scale-ups and beyond. For this pilot, we are targeting early stage start-ups and the funding element will be through our proven New Innovators model, with expert support from our Innovate UK Innovation and Growth Specialists and Innovate UK Business Connect.

Our Suitability Checker can help if you are unsure whether this is the right opportunity for you. It is not part of the application process and only takes five minutes to complete.

The aim of this competition is to provide a package of targeted support to enable ambitious UK registered micro and small businesses to develop highly innovative ideas that have a clear route to commercialisation and business growth across one or more of the five critical technologies.

Innovate UK is offering UK registered micro and small businesses a share of up to £10 million in grants. In addition to the grant support, you will be offered tailored business support delivered by Innovate UK Business Growth.

Your innovation must lead to new products, processes or services that are significantly ahead of others currently available, or propose an innovative use of existing products, processes or services. It can also involve a new or innovative business model.

In applying to this competition, you are entering into a competitive process. This competition has a funding limit, so we may not be able to fund all the proposed projects. It may be the case that your project scores highly but we are still unable to fund it.

This competition closes at 11am UK time on the deadline stated in this Innovate UK competition brief. We cannot guarantee other government or third party sites will always show the correct competition information.

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