LONDON, 14th JULY, 2025 – SEVENTEEN companies in the UK’s innovative mobility sector have been awarded a share of over £3.2 million in government grant-funding.
The SMEs will take part in the Mobilise accelerator programme, with companies in previous cohorts having gone on to raise over £350 million in private investment.
Each organisation will receive up to £180,000 in grant-funding from the Department for Business and Trade’s (DBT) DRIVE35 initiative, and the Centre for Connected and Automated Vehicles’ (CCAV) CAM Pathfinder programme, with tailored business support delivered through Mobilise.
For the first time, entrants include projects working on Connected and Automated Mobility (CAM) solutions, alongside zero-emission vehicle development, including: improved battery performance, intelligent mobility, advanced motors and electronics, and sustainable manufacturing processes.
Josh Denne, Head of Product (Start-up, Scale-up, Investment) at APC and Zenzic, said: “These 17 exciting UK SMEs are at the cutting-edge of vehicle innovation. We join them at a crucial part of their journey and will work closely with each recipient to help develop their product and their business.
“We’re supporting these start-ups and scale-ups from across the automotive industry, in both zero-emission and connected and automated mobility sectors and hope our intervention can lead to greater private investment and commercial success.”
Mobilise is a structured early-stage accelerator programme that supports ambitious micro, small and medium-size enterprises, start-ups or university spinouts, that are developing innovative automotive-related early-stage, zero-emission or connected and automated mobility (CAM) technologies, products, services or solutions.
It is delivered by the Advanced Propulsion Centre UK (APC) and Zenzic.
It offers a unique blend of grant-funding, mentoring, and networking opportunities within the mobility sector, helping businesses to create robust strategies and business models and accelerate their route to market.
The programme builds on the award-winning features of the APC’s Technology Developer Accelerator Programme (TDAP) and combines them with the technical validation opportunities provided by Zenzic’s CAM Scale-Up UK initiative; namely unparalleled access to an extensive network of world-leading testbed facilities.
This year’s Mobilise cohort is:
Antobot
Antobot is a robotics company specialising in AI-driven automation for everyday industries with a focus on sustainability and efficiency, Antobot’s solutions are designed to improve both productivity and profitability through a robotic ecosystem including both hardware and software to provide genuinely affordable and highly capable modular robotics.
D-RisQ
D-RisQ develops advanced software verification tools that apply formal methods to the design and assurance of autonomous and safety-critical systems. With roots in aerospace, defence, and automotive, D-RisQ’s tools are being used to accelerate innovation in autonomy while maintaining the highest safety and regulatory standards.
Evie
Evie has developed a range of autonomous mobile platforms intended to transform industries such as logistics, public service, agriculture, and mass transit in off-highway, controlled environments. Evie’s core product is a level 4 autonomous technology stack that any OEM can install on their own equipment to enable it to self-drive and operate.
Minimal
Founded in 2023, Minimal has created an ecosystem of disruptive lightweight electric vehicles, onboard technologies, and operational software to give anyone moving goods in cities the data, vehicles, and infrastructure to model and scale cost-efficient, sustainable logistics.
SAIF Autonomy
SAIF is building the trust layer for autonomy and physical AI. Headquartered in London, SAIF provides safeguards for both embodied AI and traditional autonomous systems. By ensuring the safety and performance of platforms in real time, SAIF makes it possible to deploy physical AI in safety-critical applications with confidence.
Allye Energy
Allye Energy develops smart battery energy storage systems that solve a critical problem: many locations can’t support EV-charging due to weak grid connections or high infrastructure costs. Its MAX300 system is a towable battery storage unit that can be moved with any standard vehicle and driver’s licence.
CellMine
CellMine is a Scottish cleantech company pioneering next-generation lithium-ion battery recycling. Its sulphate-free, modular process recovers and upgrades critical materials from spent batteries into high-performance cathode material for reuse in new cells. With advanced morphology control and chemistry flexibility, CellMine enables cleaner, more efficient, and commercially-viable recycling.
ELEVEN
ELEVEN is an energy technology company developing domestic energy storage and handling technology. Its mission is to make smart energy technology available to all, supporting a sustainable energy system.
HTMS
HTMS is redefining access to advanced materials engineered to withstand extreme heat and has developed proprietary low-temperature processing technology that revolutionises ceramic matrix composites (CMC) manufacturing. By reducing the required processing temperature, production costs are cut significantly whilst lowering the environmental footprint.
Infiniti Recycling
Infiniti Recycling is a deep tech start-up, reimagining the lifecycle of lithium-ion batteries by developing novel direct recycling technology. Its aim is to create circular batteries, with zero compromise.
KuasaSemi
KuasaSemi specialises in advanced semiconductor design software. The company is developing a Technology Computer Aided Design (TCAD) platform for wide-bandgap materials, such as silicon carbide (SiC) and gallium nitride (GaN). It accelerates innovation in power electronics for electric vehicles, renewable energy, and smart grid applications—supporting the global transition to net zero.
Lightning Tree
Lightning Tree is an advanced materials company enabling the development of next-generation battery chemistries through the creation of novel coatings to enhance electrode-electrolyte compatibility. Lightning Tree’s technology makes it easy to apply a special coating to the parts of a battery that store and release energy. This new coating method, created at the University of Cambridge, allows for more flexibility and better performance in the battery’s protective layers. As a result, it makes it possible to use new types of battery materials that couldn’t be used before.
Muon Tech
Muon Tech aims to bring specialist electronics and technology traditionally reserved for high-end automotive manufacturers, to the light vehicle segment with a combination of expertise in delivering complex systems with a unique insight into the needs of smaller, lighter vehicles to deliver a premium driver experience.
Otaski Energy Solutions
Otaski specialises in innovative vehicle-to-grid (V2G) technology and smart energy solutions designed to transform EVs into active, revenue-generating tools. The Otaski AI-EMS (energy management system) makes EV-charging affordable, efficient, and interoperable. It uses artificial intelligence to optimise charging by selecting low-cost electricity periods, monitor battery health through state-of-charge, state-of-health, and state-of-energy, and allow EVs to supply energy back to the grid.
Senergy
Senergy develops thermally-conductive polymers. These polymers can replace metal components in heat management applications, opening up a huge range of possibilities through lightweighting, lower embodied carbon, enhanced corrosion resistance, simplified assembly and others.
Super6
Super6 is developing next-generation supercapacitors for EVs, grids, and industrial applications, designed for short-duration, high-power energy delivery – a critical and often overlooked piece of the electrification puzzle.
Talos Technology
Talos Technology specialises in advanced motor architectures for electric vehicles. Talos is developing its proprietary ‘Dual Flux Motor Technology’ which combines permanent magnet and electrically excited synchronous motor designs into a unified, highly efficient motor platform.