Connected Places Catapult
Innovation accelerator for cities, transport, and place leadership
- 201-500 employees
- B2B
- Transport
- Investing
- Social Impact
- Farringdon, London, UK
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Company mission
To provide impartial ‘innovation as a service’ for public bodies, businesses, and infrastructure providers to catalyse step-change improvements in the way people live, work and travel.
Our take
Technological innovation generally leads to the modernisation of cities, a progression that infrastructure providers, mobility businesses, and public institutions thrive on. However, innovating upon the infrastructure of a city is easier said than done, with companies often lacking the creative expertise or funding necessary to truly innovate upon their public products.
Connected Places Catapult offers an innovation accelerator for cities, offering 'innovation as a service' and funding to infrastructure providers, mobility companies, environment businesses, and public institutions to help develop their ideas for the future. Examples of backed projects include carbon elimination programs for cities, post COVID-19 technology, communal innovation hubs, and social hubs driven by virtual and augmented reality.
Whilst companies often employ creative thinkers to handle product innovations, Connected Places Catapult shows the potential to provide a more effective solution by not only providing innovation as a service but also the necessary capital and project management. In addition to serving large-scale infrastructural projects, the company also runs a dedicated SME programme to accelerate the growth of innovative small businesses.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Benefits
- Cash Health plan: To help you stay fit and healthy we offer a range of health and wellbeing cash plans. You have access to essential and everyday healthcare expenses such as flu vaccine, dental, eye-care and medical bills
- Cycle to work scheme: Our cycle to work scheme helps you spread the cost of a new bike over a 12- or 18-month period. We also have bike racks, showers and lockers at both of our office locations (plus a drying cabinet in the London office)
- Payroll giving: Payroll Giving is a flexible option which allows you to give back to your charity of choice. The scheme takes regular contributions from your pre-tax income – helping your money go further for those who need it the most
- Tech loans: As an innovative, early adopter and future thinker, you’ll want the latest gadgets. You have the option of buying any IT equipment and repaying it through payroll deductions
- Discount and offers: Help your well-earned money go a bit further with a range of discounts from a wide variety of retailers. From high street stores to your weekly shop, you can find discounts with retailers such as Adidas, Argos, Tesco, Sainsbury’s and M&S to name just a few
- Employee assistance programme: Our employee assistance programme offers 24/7 confidential work/life support services which is available immediately from joining. The scheme is open to your immediate family too
- Volunteering days: Support wider causes with two paid days of volunteering leave per year; whether you’re looking to clean up a beach, are a school governor or charity trustee, or want to support a local charitable event
Leadership
Erika Lewis
(CEO)Previously the CEO at the AI Safety Summit. They also spent 5 years at the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport as a Director.