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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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Solution Development for Advanced Connectivity Technologies
Opens: 01/04/2026 Closes: 13/05/2026
UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £25m to develop secure, sustainable or sovereign connectivity technologies that support the UK’s Advanced Connectivity Technologies programme.
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Contracts for Innovation: Advanced Connectivity Technologies (ACT) – Call 1
Opens: 01/04/2026 Closes: 03/06/2026
UK registered organisations can apply for a share of £15m to develop near term, testable solutions that advance the UK’s Secure & Resilient and Sustainable Network Grand Challenges through deployable prototypes on UK testbeds.
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Secure Software for Resilient Growth
Opens: 16/03/2026 Closes: 29/04/2026
UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £5 million for collaborative projects that enable adoption of the Government's Software Security Code of Practice to drive growth of secure and resilient software supply chains.
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Frontier AI Benchmarking Datasets
Opens: 21/04/2026 Closes: 27/05/2026
UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £4.5 million. This programme focuses on the creation, curation, annotation and exploitation of FAIR-data and benchmarks which will fuel AI industry growth. This funding is from Innovate UK.
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Frontier AI Discovery
Opens: 14/04/2026 Closes: 10/06/2026
UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £2.5 million to develop feasibility studies for frontier AI and foundation models.
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AI Champions: Frontier AI Phase 1
Opens: 17/03/2026 Closes: 29/04/2026
UK registered SME businesses can apply for a share of up to £3m to deliver feasibility studies for frontier artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) technologies.
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