Innovator support

We drive your UK-India success story with unique accelerators, partnerships and pilots.

ITES helps innovative businesses to:

Trial, fund and fast-track innovations to market that help decarbonise transport in India and the UK.
Access a range of government-backed support – from coaching and incubation to real-world pilots with trusted partners.
Tackle scalability, with go-to-market support and access to clients, funders, and investment.

Apply to our challenge call to receive Government-backed support to access one of the world’s fastest-growing energy markets

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ITES innovator programmes

A one-stop-shop for safer growth

We help startups and SMEs build their future-ready enterprise, with free access to a broad range of capabilities, tools, and in-country test beds.

Led by technical, commercial and policy experts at Energy Systems Catapult, the Indian Institute of Science, and other ITES partners, we help you secure customers, investment, and grow your innovative business.

From demystifying the landscape, to scaling your solutions, our tailored programmes make access to markets in India and the UK safer, quicker and easier.

Get first insights on innovation priorities, as well as partnerships and opportunities for funding and finance, all-in-one place.

Energy Systems Catapult and its partners have provided innovative businesses like ours with the safe springboard we need to develop overseas, opening doors in India to help us collaborate and commercialise across borders.

We’re delighted that our innovative solution will not only make an environmental impact to help decarbonise the transport sector, but – with our locally-procured system components – we are also supporting the development of a sustainable socio-economic ecosystem in India.

UK innovator, Jyoti Roy, GreenEnco, UK innovator

Energy Systems Catapult and its partners have provided innovative businesses like ours with the safe springboard we need to develop overseas, opening doors in India to help us collaborate and commercialise across borders.

We’re delighted that our innovative solution will not only make an environmental impact to help decarbonise the transport sector, but – with our locally-procured system components – we are also supporting the development of a sustainable socio-economic ecosystem in India.

UK innovator, Jyoti Roy, GreenEnco, UK innovator

Current opportunities

UK innovators – scale up in India with a major new challenge call

Want Government-backed support to access one of the world’s fastest-growing energy markets?

This major new ITES programme will help UK innovators fast track to market solutions that tackle energy system and transport decarbonisation challenges in India.

SMEs of all stages and sizes will benefit from unrivalled support from innovation experts Energy Systems Catapult, the Indian Institute of Science, and Social Alpha.

Limited places available.

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Watch: Our current innovators

Cutting-edge.
High potential. Handpicked.

Hear from innovators currently working with ITES to take their solutions to India.

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Learn about our latest cohort of UK innovators and their cutting-edge clean transport and energy solutions, covering hydrogen, EV infrastructure, batteries and battery management systems, smart data, rail, and more.

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Case studies and pilot projects

LiNa Energy makes strides in key market

Participation in the ITES programme has facilitated a significant strategic collaboration for LiNa Energy, a developer and provider of low-cost solid state lithium sodium batteries that are particularly suited to the solar storage market.

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Putting startups centre stage of the world’s clean hydrogen market

Xynteo is a purpose-driven strategic advisory firm that helps global organisations find new ways to grow forward as they tackle the societal and environmental challenges that are too big, too expensive, and too complex to solve alone.

Innovators in the hydrogen sector will benefit from ITES’ ongoing collaboration with Xynteo’s Energy Leap programme, which will give them opportunities to engage with relevant events, innovators and stakeholders in India. Energy Leap, a clean hydrogen technology and business accelerator founded by Xynteo, focuses on driving innovation and market creation for clean hydrogen in India and globally, supporting the wider hydrogen economy, energy security, economic development and decarbonisation. The programme aims to support start-ups on technology commercialisation, market creation and unlocking capital, bringing together stakeholders such as industry, investors, technology and think tanks. The accelerator will catalyse new technologies and start-ups across the hydrogen value chain, and commercialise them through business modelling, operational, technology and investment support, and market access.