Mobilise
Funding and support to help businesses be investment and market-ready
Mobilise is a structured early-stage accelerator programme that supports ambitious micro, small and medium-size enterprises, start-ups or university spinouts, that are developing innovative automotive-related early-stage, zero-emission or Connected and Automated Mobility (CAM) technologies, products, services or solutions to accelerate the transition to a safer, smarter, more sustainable future.
Mobilise offers a unique blend of grant funding, mentoring, and networking opportunities within the mobility sector, helping businesses to create robust strategies and business models and accelerate their route to market. The programme builds on the award-winning features of the Technology Developer Accelerator Programme (TDAP) and combines them with the technical validation opportunities currently provided by Zenzic’s CAM Scale-Up UK initiative; namely unparalleled access to an extensive network of world-leading Testbed facilities.
What is Mobilise?
The 18-month phased programme includes:
- Up to £180,000 grant funding split across two phases with opportunity to apply for a further booster fund of £75,000. Any award is subject to Ministerial and His Majesty’s Treasury approval.
- Business strategy guidance and technology development delivered over two phases: Market Focus and Technology Validation
- Six focus areas supported and delivered by a series of flexible workstream activities and workshops including:
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- Commercialisation strategy and financial planning
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- Intellectual property management
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- Investor–readiness
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- New product development
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- Leadership and new venture growth
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- Corporate and alumni networks
- Opportunity to validate technology through a bespoke, concept validation project, including access to world-leading CAM Testbed UK facilities
- Business and investor mentoring from independent experts
- Automotive industry networking
- Peer-to-peer support via a community of like-minded, ambitious businesses
Who is Mobilise for?
Mobilise supports ambitious UK-based micro, small and medium-sized companies, including start-ups and university spinouts, as well as more mature SME organisations, that can benefit from the programme’s business strategy and development mentoring.
Applicants must be developing an innovative automotive-related early-stage, zero-emission or Connected and Automated Mobility (CAM) technologies, products, services or solutions, to accelerate the transition to a safer, smarter, more sustainable zero-emission future.
How can Mobilise support SMEs?
Mobilise incorporates all the features of the Technology Developer Accelerator Programme, which has already supported more than 100 companies with over £12.6 million in funding and:
- Helped to average a 50% increase in headcount and forecast over 1,000 new FTE within five years
- Accelerated route–to–market by an average of 19 months
- Supported businesses to raise over £340 million in private investment and secured commercial agreements
- Advanced technology readiness level to 4/5
Fresh perspectives from business and investment mentors
All successful participants will have a dedicated point of contact from the Mobilise team to provide help and support throughout the duration of the programme, with access to a network of mentors tasked with challenging current thinking, providing a fresh take, and offering real-world expertise on business strategy development and investor relations.
Showcasing innovative start-ups
Selection for Mobilise is a competitive process that sees applicants pass through rigorous assessment and ongoing reviews, driven by the APC, Zenzic, and a hand-picked team of independent industry experts.
Not only does this ensure that we work with some of the most exciting concepts coming through the early-stage innovation pipeline, but it also acts as a signal to the outside world that all our successful businesses have high-quality concepts with great teams behind them.
Here’s what some of the companies we’ve supported have to say…
TDAP enabled us to go from purely academic research, to a commercially meaningful and functioning entity. The programme gave us access to specialised automotive consultants which helped us define our value proposition, find our target market, our position in the value chain, what our business model was, how to be profitable and to write a business plan to enable us to raise further investment and grants.
Having access to world leading experts from CAM Testbed UK goes way beyond the grant value that you get. The experience and the advice that you get is very, very valuable.
The programme gives you the financial support, which is quite a small part of the overall benefit. It gives you the tools and the resource to be able to execute and see the opportunity there is for a proper profitable business which can grow, develop and expand into the future. This process lays the foundations to be able to do that.
See the businesses we’ve funded so far
We’re proud of the portfolio of organisations we’ve supported, from ambitious early-stage, start-ups, all the way through to highly-innovative established SMEs.
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