Future Flight Investor Office Hours
Accessing venture capital should not be limited to who you know or where you are based. At Innovate UK KTN, we aim to reduce barriers to entry and support the creation of long-term, impactful, and meaningful connections between innovators and investors.
About the event
Registration for this event has now closed.
Future Flight Investor Office Hours helps facilitate connections between promising innovators, SMEs and start-ups seeking to secure funds and investors in their advanced air mobility (AAM), drones, and electric sub-regional flight technologies and services. These sessions will help to connect the dots between investors interested in opportunities within Future Flight, and promising innovators looking to raise funds.
These sessions are a founder-driven environment where you can:
- Make new connections with investors.
- Gain advice and seek feedback on company growth.
- Gather guidance on next steps to secure investment.
Whilst this isn’t an opportunity to directly pitch for investment, Future Flight Investor Office Hours aims to break down the traditional geographical and structural barriers to raising investment through rapid-fire interactions with investors who can offer useful advice and guidance.
The Future Flight Challenge is a four year, £125m, Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund programme. Future Flight aims to revolutionise the way people, goods and services fly. It will support the development of a novel, integrated aviation system.
Who are Future Flight Investor Office Hours for?
Future Flight Investor Office Hours are aimed at UK companies that are in the process of raising capital and would benefit from connections to the early-stage investment community.
The sessions are intended for start-ups and SMEs either active in the Future Flight sector or enabling technologies and services, including but not limited to:
- Advanced Air Mobility
- AI, communications and digital
- Airspace management and ATM
- Batteries and propulsion
- Drones
- Electric/hybrid regional flight
- Infrastructure
- Modelling and Simulation
- Operations
Registrations for this event have now closed. If you have any questions about this opportunity, please contact futureflight@iuk.ktn-uk.org.
Due to demand, applications for investors are now closed. If you are an investor that’s interested in future opportunities, please contact futureflight@iuk.ktn-uk.org.
About the Future Flight Challenge
The UK Research and Innovation Future Flight Challenge is a £300 million programme, co-funded by government and industry, that is supporting the creation of the aviation ecosystem needed to accelerate the introduction of advanced air mobility (AAM), drones, and electric sub-regional aircraft in the UK.
Delivered by Innovate UK and the Economic and Social Research Council, the programme works with industry, academia, government, and regulators to transform how we connect people, transport goods, and deliver services in a sustainable way that provides socio-economic benefits using new types of air vehicles with novel technologies. Appear on the Innovate UK Future Flight Landscape Map, the only comprehensive network of future flight academics, companies, end users, and investors.
Innovate UK KTN is a delivery partner of the UK Research and Innovation Future Flight Challenge.
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Future Flight Challenge
Future Flight services and enabling technologies such as AI and electric propulsion will transform how we connect people, transport goods and deliver services in a sustainable way that delivers socio-economic benefits across the UK.