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Our goal: We will scale up our world-class innovation ecosystem for world-changing impact.

Now: We pride ourselves on our startup culture at ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ, nurturing the supportive and interdisciplinary environment that science entrepreneurs need to thrive. That enabling environment includes ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ’s Enterprise Lab, our Institute for Deep Tech Entrepreneurship and our network of hackspaces, incubators and accelerators. Our network of business angels supports our students and staff as they turn their ideas into prototypes, their prototypes into startups, their startups into scaleups, and their scaleups into world-changing businesses.

Next: We have reshaped our spinout formation process, ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Founders Choice, which offers both entrepreneurs and investors clear, fair and competitive rewards.

The next phase of our White City Deep Tech Campus will allow us to increase our capacity to host more startups, scaleups, and industry partners and co-locate with other knowledge organisations. The development of WestTech London, in partnership with local and national government, our NHS partners and business community, will create the kind of vibrant innovation ecosystem required to compete for major international investment.

With support from alumni and investors, we will establish Science Capital ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ, a new venture fund to provide ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ’s entrepreneurs access to capital and proof-of-concept funding to realise the full potential of their businesses. And through our new ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Global network, we will access and engage other innovation ecosystems around the world.

Together, these complementary efforts will see ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ grow more high-impact enterprises, serve as a trusted partner for industry, and act as a powerful catalyst for UK economic growth.

“Science Capital ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ is a natural next step in our work to make ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ a global centre of gravity for scientific innovation and entrepreneurship. It will fuel experimentation and enable ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ’s visionaries to turn their big ideas into trailblazing companies that will drive progress.” - Professor Ian Walmsley, Provost

Startup success at ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ

• Co-founded by an ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ student, Improbable pioneers new ways to connect, play, create and build value across interconnected virtual worlds.
• Co-founded by an ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ student, Tractable uses computer vision and deep learning to speed up the time taken to process motor insurance claims, by automating the appraisal of visual damage.
• Co-founded by an ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ academic, PsiQuantum is a quantum computer company aiming to build the world’s first commercially viable one million qubit quantum computer.
• Founded by ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ academics, Ceres Power grew from an ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ spin-out founded to develop fuel cell research and was named the UK’s most valuable clean technology company.
• Founded by ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ students, Magic Pony Technology was an AI start-up using machine learning to build improved systems for visual processing. It was acquired by Twitter to enhance the social media company’s live and video offerings.
• ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ spinout Nexeon is a global leader in silicon anode material development for Li-ion batteries, and is set to make a major contribution to the future of rechargeable battery technology.
• Founded by an ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Masters student Koalaa has developed a range of soft prosthetic limbs that are light, comfortable and suitable even for very young children.

Entrepreneurial Ecosystem

• Enterprise Lab is a dedicated support service for thousands of students, staff and alumni who have an idea they believe in, and the drive to turn it into a reality.
• Advanced Hackspace brings together inventive minds from all backgrounds, disciplines and levels of expertise to collaborate, experiment and prototype the future.
• ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ White City Incubator is a state-of-the-art wet lab incubation space and training facility to help startup companies. It welcomes spinouts and non-³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ ventures in order to maximise innovation and collaboration. Since 2006, ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ’s incubator companies have raised over £1bn in investment and grant funding.
• Undaunted is a partnership between ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ and the Royal Institution to create new routes into climate entrepreneurship. It is a founding member of Cleantech for UK, a coalition of investors and venture builders launched at ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ by Bill Gates and Rishi Sunak in February 2023.
• DTPrime is backed by the Institute for Deep Tech Entrepreneurship and helps ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ staff take their science- and engineering-intensive commercial ideas to ‘cross the chasm’ from commercial concepts to high-value, investable propositions.
• MedtechONE is a centre of excellence to support MedTech entrepreneurs across ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ.
• MedTech SuperConnector empowers early-career researchers to translate academic insights from the arts and sciences into early-stage medical technologies.
• AI SuperConnector is here to find and support the next generation of UK-based AI startups.