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The Innovate UK Business Connect Digital team helps organisations interested in Digital innovation to access funding, expert knowledge and to make powerful and diverse connections.
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Are you working on an innovation in the Digital sector?
We can help you take the next step by connecting you with the right funding, people and expertise.
Our people have a deep expertise and work with businesses of all sizes, from start-ups and spin-outs, to medium sized enterprises and big businesses.
Find out about Digital funding opportunities
We’re on the frontline to help you find out about funding for the Digital sector. We share information about funding opportunities from government and organisations like Innovate UK. We also partner with organisations to deliver funding on their behalf to help solve key global challenges.
Make powerful connections to fast track your project
You’ll be matched with the person in our team who is the most knowledgeable about your project. We have experts in cybersecurity, 5G, AI for services, digital economy and IOT.
We’ll identify partners best suited to your needs from our network of innovators, across sectors and technology areas.
By helping connect organisations and people across all sectors, we help shape the future and build a better and stronger innovation system.

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Related Opportunities
Travel support for UK businesses to attend European events in 2025 & 2026
Applications for support usually close about 1 month before event date: early application is advised.
Innovate UK is offering Travel Support of up to £750 for companies to attend Horizon Europe consortia-building events in Europe. This valuable resource enables innovators to form new collaborative partnerships to help businesses grow.
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HMGCC Co-Creation Challenge: Detecting changes in authorship within online communication
Opens: 01/09/2025 Closes: 25/09/2025
HMGCC seek tech solutions founded in forensic linguistics to help ensure the identity of online authors.
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Digital Catapult Black Founders Programme in Creative Industries, 2025
Opens: 04/09/2025 Closes: 05/10/2025
A 14-week accelerator for up to 15 high-growth potential pre-seed or seed stage companies in the creative industries, with Sony Music UK, Sony Music Publishing UK, and Channel 4.
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Global Business Innovation Programme - Manufacturing Digital Supply Chain Ecosystem, Singapore
Opens: 05/09/2025 Closes: 20/10/2025
Innovate UK is inviting ambitious innovative companies to participate in a 9-12 month programme to help them grow in the Singapore market.
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Seamless Trade Across Borders Challenge with Leonardo UK
Opens: 04/09/2025 Closes: 24/09/2025
Funding of up to £150,000 to test and validate a digital trade compliance solution in a sandbox or trial deployment environment.
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Seamless Trade Across Borders Challenge with the ICC
Opens: 03/09/2025 Closes: 23/09/2025
Funding of up to £100,000 for a digital technology solution to further enable digitisation of the supply chain by reducing paper-based processes.
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