Investors are invited to attend Innovate UK KTN’s CyberASAP demo day on 17 February to meet ten teams with commercially promising cyber security innovations, either online or in person at Level39, London.

The event, which is free-to-attend to investors and potential collaborators, showcases innovations with real commercial potential founded by cyber security academics who have received backing, training and guidance from Innovate UK KTN via its CyberASAP programme.

Now in its fifth year, CyberASAP is part of the National Cyber Strategy from DCMS intended to develop the world’s best and most secure digital economy.  Notable alumni include London-based Graphics Fuzz which was acquired by Google, Bristol-based KETS Quantum, Cardiff-based AWEN Collective and Manchester-based cyber edtech company, CAPSLOCK Education.

The teams seeking investment partners at this year’s demo day are:

• UltraNetAi: Network search technology for front-line policing
• CyberSignature: Secure and frictionless online checkout authentication using digital behaviour intelligence
• Royal-Imperial Black Box (RIBB): Moving Target Defence for Enhanced Protection of Cyber-Physical Systems
• FeDCam Limited: Ground-breaking new federation of AI-based cameras to transform crime detection & policing
• OSIRT: Online investigations, simplified
• WalletFind: Discover it, Recover it, Control it, WalletFind manages your cryptocurrency wallets and activities
• MLighter: The holistic tool for security evaluations of machine learning systems
• Tymlo Technology Ltd: An innovative platform consisting of three toolkits ensuring trust, quality and explainability to AI-based decisions
• Tensorcrypt: Empowering organisations to securely share and analyse confidential datasets
• TAIMAS: Building Management System (BMS) cyber-attack and tamper detection in a single box ‘system as a service’ solution

Emma Fadlon, CyberASAP co-director at Innovate UK KTN, says, “CyberASAP is designed to accelerate the commercialisation of cutting-edge cyber security research and development.  Over five years, we’ve helped our alumni secure more than £17 million in funding to set up their businesses and further the Government’s aim to help the UK economy remain confident, capable and resilient in the fast-moving digital world.

“The demo day on the 17^th will showcase our latest batch of promising innovations that are pushing the envelope in cyber security. This is an unmissable opportunity for investors to get in on the ground floor with projects that are ready for commercialisation.”