Series Overview: Funding Future Tech
Funding Future Tech is a quarterly webinar series spotlighting high-growth, innovation-driven sectors. Each session brings together leading voices from Innovate UK, academia, and private capital to deliver market intelligence, highlight funding pathways, and connect investors with emerging opportunities in the UK deeptech landscape.
This Edition: Digital Security & Data Economy
This edition will explore how secure digital infrastructure and data-driven innovation are shaping investable opportunities across the UK’s deeptech landscape – aligned with the ambitions of the UK’s Modern Industrial Strategy realised by the Challenge Fund. From next-generation cybersecurity and trusted data-sharing systems to the digital foundations enabling AI, semiconductors, and critical infrastructure, the session will highlight where resilience, trust, and value intersect – and what this means for early stage scaleup investment. With insights from public sector experts, researchers, and seasoned investors, this webinar offers a clear view of the funding landscape in digital security and the data economy.
What to Expect
Expert Briefing:
Sector insights and funding opportunities from Innovate UK, and academic experts
Investor Panel + Live Q&A:
Moderated by the Innovate UK Investment team, this panel features experienced investors sharing real-world strategies for assessing and backing ventures within digital security and data economy.
Who Should Attend
- Venture capital, corporate venture, and specialist investors exploring or actively investing in digital security, critical computing infrastructure, data collecting, sharing, storing, and analysing.
- Angel syndicates and emerging fund managers interested in early-stage deeptech.
- Ecosystem stakeholders directly engaged in spinout commercialisation, translational R&D, and funding enablement for innovations in the data economy and digital security.
Why It Matters
By bridging insights from government, academia, and investors, this event aims to lower perceived barriers to investment in data economy and digital security space—supporting informed capital deployment and syndication in critical technologies of the future.