Innovate UK

Founded in 2007, Innovate UK is a non-profit organization based in Swindon, UK. It supports businesses across various economic sectors by offering funding services to promote science and technology innovations.

Mike Biddle

Programme Director of Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund

Will Drury

Executive Director, Digital and Technologies

Paul Gadd

Deputy Director

Dr. Tom Jenkins

Deputy Director

Scott James O'Brien

Director, Innovation Finance

Nigel Walker

Deputy Director, Lending and Investor Partnerships

Past deals in Media

MediaCity Immersive Technologies Innovation Hub

Grant in 2025
MediaCity Immersive Technologies is a unique setting with the highest amount of creative, media, mix technology enterprises outside of London.

North AI

Grant in 2025
North AI is a startup specializing in AI-driven risk assessment for the media industry. It offers a platform that helps entertainment brands understand their audience better, assess commercial risks, and evaluate content value. This enables brands to secure necessary financing and gauge audience demand more effectively.

North AI

Grant in 2024
North AI is a startup specializing in AI-driven risk assessment for the media industry. It offers a platform that helps entertainment brands understand their audience better, assess commercial risks, and evaluate content value. This enables brands to secure necessary financing and gauge audience demand more effectively.

North AI

Pre Seed Round in 2024
North AI is a startup specializing in AI-driven risk assessment for the media industry. It offers a platform that helps entertainment brands understand their audience better, assess commercial risks, and evaluate content value. This enables brands to secure necessary financing and gauge audience demand more effectively.

Digit Music

Grant in 2023
Digit Music, established to foster diversity and inclusion in the music industry, manufactures innovative musical instruments and controllers. Their products aim to make music creation accessible and enjoyable, with features like intuitive controls, integrated music theory, and plug-and-play functionality. This enables DJs, beat makers, and aspiring musicians to enhance their skills and express their creativity. The company's work is supported by the Innovate UK Inclusive Innovation Award.

Menopause Reality

Grant in 2023
Menopause Reality an immersive cinema project that shares personal accounts of the menopause in an effort to involve, inform, and promote understanding.

Vision 3

Grant in 2023
Vision 3 is an award-winning production firm dedicated to telling interesting and original stories via the use of modern technology.

PixelMill

Grant in 2023
PixelMill is a creative technology & visualisation studio, based in the heart of Manchester.

BeyondWords

Grant in 2021
BeyondWords is an audio publishing platform designed to facilitate text-to-speech conversion for various users, including blogs, newspapers, and corporate entities. The company provides an all-in-one audio content management system that automates the production, distribution, analytics, and monetization of audio content. By utilizing natural-sounding synthetic voices, BeyondWords aims to enhance user engagement and productivity in publishing. Its technology allows teams to seamlessly convert written text into entertaining audio, making it easier for organizations to incorporate spoken-word audio into their content offerings.

Filmily

Grant in 2019
Filmily is a platform utilizing patented machine learning technology to automate the creation of branded content from mobile phones. It captures user-generated videos at events, analyzes them for context and content, then generates engaging short films for promotional purposes, benefiting event owners, sponsors, and fans alike.

Kendraio

Grant in 2014
Kendraio is an international media, technology, academic and industry alliance backed by international governments. The mission is to foster an open distributed marketplace for digital media (including films, music, images, games and text).
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