Innovate UK Launchpads
Status not published
Individual Launchpad competitions open and close on their own timetables; several run each year.
Place-based clusters (for example South Wales net zero, Liverpool City Region health tech, Tees Valley, Glasgow City Region, Northern Ireland). Grants commonly GBP 50k-500k with 35-70% intervention.
You must co-fund 30%.
Innovate UK (UKRI)
public · regional
Deadline: cutoff — Individual Launchpad competitions open and close on their own timetables; several run each year.
This funder does not publish a success rate. We rank it using the rate observed across similar programmes and label it as an estimate rather than implying we know.
Quick — mostly identity and bank details.
You fund 30% yourself.
Who can apply
- Stage: seed, series_a
- R&D activity required
- Locally registered entity required
Applicant must be based in, or commit to activity in, the named Launchpad geography and cluster theme.
Source. https://www.ukri.org/what-we-do/browse-our-areas-of-investment-and-support/innovate-uk-launchpad/ — checked 2026-08-14 · not human-checked