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WORLD LEADING BUSINESS SUPPORT

TRANSFORMING
TELECOMS

Incubator support for deep-tech start-ups to scale within the telecoms sector

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Specialist telecoms business support

Accelerator support to help scale your business

Raise investment for your R&D

Work with expert mentors & academics

This programme provided incubator support for start-ups innovating in core, wireless and non-terrestrial networks, as well as in AI, compound semiconductors, blockchain, quantum technologies, photonics, cyber security, and cloud solutions.

Whether companies aimed to sell their technology solutions into the telecoms market or incorporate telecoms assets into their products, this programme helped accelerate their growth and success.

The programme encouraged a fresh perspective, even among those who had never considered telecoms as a potential market for their technology.

Programme impact

The first cohort delivered 1,085 hours of support to 223 people, many of them early-stage deep-tech founders, from 197 companies. These participants came from key telecoms-facing sectors, including: Optical communications and photonics, compound semiconductors, space and security.

The discovery toolkit is a curated collection of free-to-use data resources that supported participants in understanding capabilities and identifying different players in the UK telecoms ecosystem.

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The directory was designed to help users identify and access organisations throughout the telecoms supply chain.

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Testimonials

“The knowledge and support provided by the trainers and mentors will be a key enabler for our next steps to bringing more secure and greener telecoms to scale.”

“Learning how to position our company to attract the right investors at the right time was great. We now have a clear roadmap and some action points we can hit to get us where we need to go.”

“It’s a great way of making you analyse your business and receive feedback from others. It helps you focus on where you could improve technically and commercially and pushes you to approach more innovative business models.”

Success story

Pan Galactic case study

Hear from Flow Collingwood, Founder of Pan Galactic, as he shares how the Transforming Telecoms programme helped him to understand what a commercially viable partnership should look like and supported his search for commercial opportunities.

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