Cybersecurity grants
Dstl, UK Defence Innovation and Innovate UK funding for security innovation
Security is funded everywhere because every organisation is a target. The bar is operational: assessors want evidence your approach survives a real adversary, and increasingly want to see it tested against an actual environment during the feasibility stage.
£190m+ won by our team
PhD-level specialists who have won these awards themselves.
Funders funding cybersecurity
- Dstl
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Programmes that fit cybersecurity companies
UKDI Open Call (formerly DASA)
Rolling submissions mapped to defence and security operational needs.
Innovate UK CR&D competitions
Zero trust, cyber resilience and secure infrastructure topics.
Horizon Europe SecureAI
Cryptography, privacy and foundational security research at EU scale.
What assessors actually score
- A concrete threat model rather than a generic risk narrative
- Evaluation against real adversarial conditions
- Deployment story inside an existing security stack
Where we work in cybersecurity
Cybersecurity grants in our directory
Live programmes from the UK grant directory that suit cybersecurity projects. Deadlines move between rounds, so each listing links through to the current detail.
Innovate UK
[IUK] CfI: Battery innovation for dual use & defence Phase 1
Contracts for Innovation Phase 1 to adapt civil battery technologies for defence and dual-use challenges. Up to 3 months, costs £20,000–£50,000 inc VAT, all spend before 31 March 2027.
Horizon Europe
[Horizon - Civil Security for Society] Climate security and civil preparedness – new ways to develop pre- and post-crisis climate…
Open to legal entities (including research organisations, public bodies and international organisations with HQ in an EU Member State or Associated Country) eligible under Horizon Europe rules; consortia must include at least 3 national authorities in charge of disaster risk management as beneficiaries, each from a different EU Member State or Associated Country.
Horizon Europe
[Horizon - Civil Security for Society] Crime prevention approaches, online and off-line, tackling the nexus between addictions an…
Open to consortia of legal entities from EU Member States and Associated Countries; the consortium must include at least 2 Police Authorities and at least 2 Civil Society Organisations (or NGOs) from at least 3 different EU Member States or Associated Countries.
Horizon Europe
[Horizon - Civil Security for Society] Development of ecosystem and next-generation capabilities for a secured European Critical…
Open to legal entities (including first responders' organisations, research bodies and companies) established in EU Member States or Associated Countries eligible under Horizon Europe; entities directly or indirectly controlled by China are excluded. Consortiums must include at least 3 first responders' organisations as beneficiaries.
Horizon Europe
[Horizon - Civil Security for Society] Development of innovative tools, processes, equipment and technologies through responses t…
Open to entities established in EU Member States or Horizon Europe Associated Countries (with some non-associated countries also eligible under special provisions); entities controlled by China are excluded. Proposals must include at least 2 practitioner organisations (first responders) and 2 medical emergency authorities as beneficiaries, from at least 3 different EU Member States or Associated Countries. Relevant international organisations headquartered in a Member State or Associated Country are also exceptionally eligible.
Horizon Europe
[Horizon - Civil Security for Society] Enhancing the security of citizens against terrorism and lone-actor violence in confined s…
Consortia must include at least 3 Police Authorities and at least 2 Civil Society Organisations or Non-Governmental Organisations, drawn from at least 3 different EU Member States or Associated Countries. Proposals should also involve a balanced mix of IT specialists, psychologists, sociologists and other relevant security practitioners and SSH experts.
Relevant client wins
Grants our team has won for companies solving comparable technical problems.
£199,297
For real-time eligibility assessor
RDvault
AI / fintech: R&D tax assessment
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£333,000
£333K secured for LLM-driven data platform
OdinFuse
AI / fintech: financial data
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£596,670
Awarded for AI risk management
Holistic AI
AI / software: AI assurance
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