Teams in Year 8 of CyberASAP put through their paces in a proof-of-concept Bootcamp
The 14 teams involved in the eighth year of the Cyber Security Academic Startup Accelerator Programme (CyberASAP) began the second phase of their training with a highly-focused bootcamp.
Delivered by the Innovate UK team and external experts and mentors from Anchored In, Crossword Cybersecurity and Finnegan Legal, the session offered hands-on training with themes covering proof-of-concept development, lean and design thinking approaches, intellectual property rights, and lessons for creating a Minimum Viable Product (MVP).
Participants also gained valuable insights from alumni case studies, including Mindgard and Fact360, learning how these projects, each born from intensive university-led research and development in cyber and AI security, were successfully brought to market. CyberASAP supports the development and commercialisation of cyber security innovations from universities across the UK and seeing real-world examples provided the cohort with valuable perspectives on transforming academic innovation into commercial solutions.
It’s crucial that the teams involved in CyberASAP get a good understanding of the proof-of-concept stage, a key step in ensuring the commercial success of projects. The bootcamp offers us the opportunity to work closely with the teams to reinforce the importance of this stage.
– Robin Kennedy, Knowledge Transfer Manager – Cybersecurity
The selected academic teams will now fine-tune their proofs-of-concept in preparation for two exciting opportunities: the first is the chance to engage with potential investors at a ‘Meet the Investor’ event and the second is the finale of the programme, the CyberASAP Demo Day, where they will showcase their projects.
The Final 14 Teams CyberASAP 2024/25 are as follows:
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AI enabled multi-tier trust-management in Internet of Medical Things – University of East Anglia
ARMOREX – City University of London
CyberMATI – Sheffield Hallam University
MetaSecure – Aston University
Protecting Medical Data – De Montfort University
RapidRANDefende/QRICSec – Queen’s University of Belfast
CyDRA – London Metropolitan University
Pentestify – UCL
AI360Degree – Anglia Ruskin University
LockEyeGaze – University of St Andrews
GridGuardian – University of Sheffield
OPERA/CyberThemis – Teesside University
Source Code Security with FuSeBMC-AI – The University of Manchester
SIROCCO – Anglia Ruskin University
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CyberASAP
The only pre-seed accelerator programme in the cybersecurity ecosystem, CyberASAP (Cyber Security Academic Startup Accelerator Programme) plays a unique and vital role in supporting cyber security innovation and commercialisation.