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 - Energy] Renewable Energy Valleys in Africa to increase energy security and energy access in Africa HORIZON-CL5-2027-02…
Expected to open. Due to the scope of this topic, legal entities established in all African Union member states are exceptionally eligible for Union funding. If projects use satellite-based earth observation, positioning, navigation and/or related timing data and services, beneficiaries must make use of Copernicus and/or Galileo/EGNOS (other data and services may additionally be used). The following additional eligibility criteria apply: At least two legal entities established in at least two different African Union member states must be part of the consortium as beneficiaries.
Horizon Europe
[HORIZON - Agriculture] African Union – European Union Partnership on Food and Nutrition Security and Sustainable Agriculture (FN…
Expected to open. Due to the scope of this topic, legal entities established in all African Union member states* are exceptionally eligible for Union funding. * "African Union member states" includes countries whose membership has been temporarily suspended. International organisations with headquarters in a Member State or Associated Country are exceptionally eligible for funding.
Horizon Europe
[Horizon - Missions] AI to foster climate resilience at regional & local levels (Adaptation)
Expected to open. Consortium; UK eligible (Assoc. Country); SMEs as partners
Horizon Europe
Horizon Europe Cluster 4: trustworthy AI
Thematic calls funding research into trustworthy, secure and human-centric artificial intelligence systems.
DASA / UK Defence Innovation
[DASA] UKDI Open Call for Innovation
The opportunity should be particularly relevant to: Defence and dual-use technology SMEs University spin-outs and research organisations Businesses with technology developed for another market that can be adapted for defence Companies with a working prototype requiring operational validation Innovators that cannot find a suitable themed UKDI competition
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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