CSIT delivered an incubator programme, CSIT Labs, helping new businesses to start, scale and engineer cyber security products.  17 start-ups from across the UK graduated from the incubator programme over three cohorts.

Our CSIT Labs experience has since been applied on a truly national scale. In order to support early-stage ideas and start-ups, the UK Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sports has funded major UK national initiatives in which CSIT has been a co-founding partner. These include HutZero, Cyber101, LORCA,Ignite and Cyber Runway.

Through the LORCA programme (2018 – 2022), CSIT, in partnership with Plexal and Deloitte, supported the accelerated growth of 72 innovative cyber companies. These companies collectively raised £200m in investment, generated over £38m in revenue and have created more than 600 jobs,  CSIT's research informed the product roadmaps of these companies  and the Centre’s engineering team providing six weeks of specialist technical consultancy and delivery to each company to help bring their product roadmaps to reality and to market.

CSIT has been a delivery partner on the Cyber Runway programme the UK’s largest cyber security accelerator since inception.

CSIT is a delivery partner for Cyber Runway, funded by the Department of Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT),  Cyber Runway,the UK's largest cyber security accelerator. works with founders from idea to scale up to fast-track their growth. Since 2021 CSIT have helped Cyber Runway support over 250 companies and helped them launch products, raise funding and secure pilots. Diversity is at the heart of the programme, with 38% if cohort members having female leadership, and 48% having leadership from ethnic minorities. Cyber Runway is a truly national programme, and has welcomed startups from across the UK, with over half of our alumni companies originating from outside of London and the South East.