Innovate UK, part of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), is offering up to 60 Women in Innovation Awards to women founders and co-founders of micro, small or medium sized enterprise (SMEs) across the UK. This is subject to a sufficient number of high quality applications being received.
Successful projects will receive up to £75,000 of grant funding and bespoke business support for 12 months.
A proportion of highly commended applicants who have not been awarded grant funding in this competition will be offered bespoke business support for 12 months.
The aims of this competition are to support Women in Innovation Award winners:
- whose innovation is aligned to one of the following three high growth sectors defined in the UK Government’s Industrial Strategy; Advanced Manufacturing, Digital and Technologies and Life Sciences
- who have a late stage start-up with ambitions to grow a scalable business which will involve raising considerable investment in the next 12 to 24 months
Competition closes: Wednesday 4 February 2026 at 11am.
For further information please select the following link: Competition overview - Women in Innovation Awards 2025/26 - Innovation Funding Service.
Innovation can help your organisation to become more competitive, increase sales and enter new markets. Here you can find out what support and funding is available to help you to innovate: Support and funding | Business Wales.