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Investor Partnerships – ACT and Semiconductors

Investor Partnerships – ACT and Semiconductors is a grant of £250,000 to £2,000,000 for UK micro, small and medium-sized businesses invited by a selected investor partner. This scheme has closed.

Run by Innovate UK, Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade

Checked against the official page (apply-for-innovation-funding.service.gov.uk) on 5 Oct 2026.

This scheme has closed

It closed on 14 October 2026. It stays here in case it reopens; check with the organisation for future rounds. We do not know where it was open, so these are for the whole North.

UK registered SMEs can apply for grant funding alongside private investment from selected investor partners.

Status and deadline

Status

Closed

Confirmed on the official page

Deadline

Closed 14 October 2026

As stated: Competition opens: Tuesday 1 September 2026 ... Competition closes: Wednesday 14 October 2026 11:00am

Confirmed on the official page

How much

£250,000 to £2,000,000

Whole fund: £15,000,000, shared between applicants

Confirmed on the official page

Who can apply

UK registered micro, small or medium sized businesses (SMEs) that carry out project work in the UK, intend to exploit results in the UK, are invited by an investor partner, and have discussed their proposal with that investor partner.

Confirmed on the official page

Business size

Micro (under 10 staff), Small (10 to 49 staff), Medium (50 to 249 staff)

Confirmed on the official page

How to apply

Submit application through the online portal, identifying your investor partner who must have submitted an expression of interest to Innovate UK.

Confirmed on the official page

Where it is open: UK-wide

United Kingdom

Confirmed on the official page

HartlepoolMiddlesbroughRedcar and ClevelandStockton-on-TeesDarlingtonHaltonWarringtonBlackburn with DarwenBlackpoolKingston upon Hull, City ofEast Riding of YorkshireNorth East LincolnshireNorth LincolnshireYorkCounty DurhamCheshire EastCheshire West and ChesterNorthumberlandCumberlandWestmorland and FurnessNorth YorkshireBurnleyChorleyFyldeHyndburnLancasterPendlePrestonRibble ValleyRossendaleSouth RibbleWest LancashireWyreBoltonBuryManchesterOldhamRochdaleSalfordStockportTamesideTraffordWiganKnowsleyLiverpoolSt. HelensSeftonWirralDoncasterRotherhamNewcastle upon TyneNorth TynesideSouth TynesideSunderlandBradfordCalderdaleKirkleesLeedsWakefieldGatesheadBarnsleySheffield

Open across United Kingdom, so every council area in the North of England is shaded.

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Source and last checked

Local Landscape gathers this information automatically from the pages below, then checks the key details against the official page. Checked against the official page (apply-for-innovation-funding.service.gov.uk) on 5 Oct 2026. Its details last changed on 14 Oct 2026. No person has checked it, so confirm the details with Innovate UK before you apply.

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