What is CyberASAP?
Now in its eighth year, CyberASAP provides academics with the expertise, knowledge and training needed to convert their research into technologies, products and services in this key sector of the global economy. The programme creates a pipeline to move great cyber security ideas out of the university lab and into the commercial market.
CyberASAP is selective and teams compete to join and complete the programme. A series of highly effective interventions (including bootcamps, workshops, and mentoring) gives participating teams essential insights into the key milestones necessary to commercialise their research.
CyberASAP benefits from the experience and specialist knowledge of an extensive network of practitioners (including in IP, New Product Development, Innovation Planning, Sales, Investment, Pitching, Communications) who contribute to the 11-month programme which culminates in a Demo Day where teams pitch and demonstrate their Proofs of Concept.
CyberASAP is funded by the UK Department for Science, Innovation and Technology and delivered by Innovate UK.
Statistics
CyberASAP has helped over 170 teams from UK universities to develop their innovations, 32 companies have been formed and our alumni have secured £40 million in further funding.
£40m
Funding
170
Projects
34
Startups
26 February 2025
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The CyberASAP Demo Day is your chance to get a first-look at these proofs of concept and meet the talented teams behind them for the very first time.
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Related Projects
IoT- Armor
Empowering IoT’s future with education on seamless secure-by-default integration
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TwinSecure
Securing Critical National Infrastructure: A Digital Twin-Powered Decision Support System
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FORENSIC
Fast and Autonomous Platform Anomalies Detection in CPS
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BlockHawk
Monitoring Blockchains to detect attacks and misbehaviours
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CASE STUDIES
Insights from CyberASAP Alumni
The CyberASAP Case Studies booklet highlights the diverse journeys of innovators involved in the programme, showcasing the pivotal impact of commercialising academic research and underscoring CyberASAP’s role in bridging the gap between academia and industry.
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Resources
Related Opportunities
NCSC Funded Cyber Essentials Programme
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Small organisations from specific sectors in the UK are being offered practical support to achieve Cyber Essentials Plus at no cost to the organisation.
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Innovation Exchange - Simulation of critical national infrastructure penetration
Opens: 18/02/2025 Closes: 19/05/2025
The UK is becoming increasingly reliant on complex interconnected infrastructure systems; this also leads to the vulnerability of attack especially from cyber connections. To address gaps in understanding cybersecurity threats and developing defences for Critical National Infrastructure (CNI) system
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ARIA: Scaling Compute - Benchmarking
Opens: 17/02/2025 Closes: 10/03/2025
ARIA are looking for a team to track and recalibrate MLPerf benchmark workloads to measure computing hardware advances.
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07/02/2025
The future of cybersecurity is right here, right now
Preview the cyber innovations at the CyberASAP Demo Day, February 26, London.
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08/01/2025
Founder impact stories on commercialising cyber tech innovation – CyberASAP in focus
The Cyber Security Academic Startup Accelerator programme (CyberASAP) was launched in 2017, enabling promising cyber security ideas to find their way to market and make an impact in the real world. To date, its alumni have raised over £40m in further funding. The current cohort will be showcasing their projects at the Demo Day on 26 February in London.
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Register your interest
Are you an academic, university Technology Transfer Officer, potential investor, commercial collaborator, entrepreneur or business person and would like to support the programme or attend any of our events?