The Royal Academy of Engineering Enterprise Hub welcomes a new cohort of ambitious scale-up leaders to the 2026 Shott Scale Up Accelerator programme.
The 2026 programme has been further enhanced to provide a more integrated and personalised experience. Participants will benefit from new coaching, training and specialist partners, tailored Leadership Development Plans, and a structured competency framework to support their leadership growth and business ambitions.
They will also have access to leadership coaches, experienced scaleup mentors, and a valuable network of peers navigating similar growth challenges – creating opportunities to share experience, learn from one another and build relationships that extend well beyond the programme.
Since its launch, the Shott Scale Up Accelerator has supported more than 220 entrepreneurs, including alumni from Oxford Ionics (unicorn), Paragraf, Pragmatic, Riverlane, ENOUGH, Switchee and Hypervision Surgical, to name just a few. Collectively, the alumni’ companies have
As the latest cohort begins its journey, we look forward to supporting this talented group as they scale their businesses, develop as leaders and contribute to the next generation of transformative UK deep tech companies.
Meet the cohort
- Timothy Eyes (Imperagen)
- Antoinette Oni (Agreka Build)
- Ahmed Abdelkarim (Watercycle Technologies)
- Tim Wood (Achelous Energy)
- Andrew Sucis (Sunswap)
- Owain Pryce-Jones (Archangel Lightworks)
- Leon Fedden (Literal Labs)
- Wessel Woldman (Neuronostics)
- Premal Gadhia (Fibe)
- Rowan Dixon (Tewke)
- Nadeem Gabbani (Exobotics)
- Charlie Gale (HoloMem)
- Francisco Jose Malaret (Nanomox)
- Thomas Santini (Lodestar Space)
- Rory Ryan (PentaBind)
We look forward to supporting this talented group over the coming months and following their progress as part of the Enterprise Hub community.
The programme will re-open its application in April 2027 – sign up to our waiting list to be notified first.
Find out more about the Shott Scale Up Accelerator programme.