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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
- Pension Scheme – We offer a competitive pension plan, helping you save for your future
- Volunteering – Whether you’re looking to clean up a beach, are a school governor or charity trustee, want to support a local charitable event or use your skills and experience as part of a mentoring scheme for SMEs we are here to support you with two paid days of volunteering leave per year (pro-rata if part time)
- Payroll Giving – Our Payroll Giving Scheme with GiveAll, is a flexible option which allows anyone who pays UK income tax to give back to their charity of choice on a regular basis from your pre-tax income – helping your money go further to those who need it the most
- Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) – Provided by Health Assured, our EAP offers 24/7 confidential work/life support services to you and your immediate family members
- Cycle to Work Scheme – We love to cycle and as well as bike racks and showers at our two office locations, you can spread the cost of a new bike over a 12 or 18 month period, through payroll deductions
- Cash Health Plan – We’ve teamed up with Westfield to offer you a range of generous health and wellbeing cash plans. This benefit allows you to be reimbursed for a wide range of both essential and everyday healthcare expense
- Tech Loans – As an innovative, early adopter and future thinker, you’ll want the latest gadgets, so you have the option of buying any IT equipment and repaying it through payroll deductions
- Discounts and Offers – To provide you with a range of offers from a wide variety of retailers
- Holiday entitlement – 25 days holiday entitlement for everyone (pro-rata if part time) plus a shutdown at Christmas (approx 3 extra days off)
Company values
- We are human centred, solution-led
- We advocate for standards which enable interoperability, replicability and scale
- We work in partnership with others across the UK and beyond to provide access to R&D assets and deliver impact
- We support local economies and organisations by being present within them to embed and transfer innovation capabilities
- We are globally connected in order to stimulate demand for UK innovations overseas and create opportunities for companies to expand globally
Leadership
Nicola Yates
(CEO, not founder)Experience as Chief Executive of the Hull City Council from 2008 to 2012. CEO of Bristol City Council from 2013 to 2016. Joined Connected Places Catapult in 2019 as CEO.