West Midlands Cyber
The community-funded cyber cluster for the West Midlands
We bring together cyber businesses, practitioners, universities, investors, buyers, public bodies and community groups from across the region, to make the West Midlands cyber economy more connected, more visible and better able to support companies from startup through to scale.
cyber organisations identified
micro-enterprises
small businesses
medium-sized organisations
large organisations
median company size, employees
firms with external equity investment
Source: Cyber in the West Midlands regional strategic review. These figures describe organisations identified through regional mapping, not Cluster membership. Last updated 27 August 2026.
Starting and scaling a cyber business is difficult. Founders need more than occasional events or short-term programmes. They need trusted introductions, customers, procurement opportunities, experienced mentors, talented people, access to capital and a community that understands what it takes to grow.
The West Midlands Cyber Cluster has been created by people who have faced those challenges themselves. We are building the support structure we wish had existed when we started.
The region does not lack cyber activity. It already contains specialist SMEs, consultancies, universities, workforce programmes and active practitioner communities. The challenge is fragmentation: businesses can form and participate, but too few progress into nationally significant scale-ups.
The Cluster is supported by the organisations and people that participate in it. Income is reinvested into activity that benefits the wider community: founder support, skills pathways, regional promotion, events, market access and investment readiness.
We work with government, public bodies and institutional partners, but we are not dependent on a single controlling institution.
Access to mentors, peer networks, procurement opportunities, investment pathways and practical growth support.
Structured opportunities for regional cyber businesses to meet CISOs, industrial buyers and supply-chain leaders.
Helping investors understand regional capability, and giving founders access to appropriate capital.
Connecting universities, colleges, students, career changers and employers through placements and skills initiatives.
Giving the West Midlands cyber sector a stronger collective identity and greater national visibility.
Supporting trusted regional capability that helps businesses and supply chains become more resilient.
The company directory
The directory helps buyers, partners, investors and members of the community identify organisations operating across the West Midlands cyber economy.
Our distinctive role. Other UK regions have built cyber identities around intelligence, financial services or enterprise technology. The West Midlands has a different opportunity: to become the UK centre for applied industrial cyber resilience and supply-chain security.
The Cluster publishes research, data, strategic analysis and policy material on the West Midlands cyber ecosystem. Strategic reports live here rather than on the Hub site, so there is one authoritative source.
Featured publication
The regional strategic review examining the conditions required for the West Midlands to develop a nationally significant cyber business cluster.
A regional calendar bringing together events from the Cluster, the Hub, community groups, universities and partners. Hub-delivered events are labelled as such.
The regional calendar is being populated ahead of launch. Partner and community organisations can submit events for inclusion. Events delivered at or by the West Midlands Cyber Hub will be labelled so visitors can tell Hub activity from wider regional activity.
The West Midlands Cyber Cluster represents the wider community, capability and economic ambition of the region. The West Midlands Cyber Hub provides the physical space, coordination platform and delivery environment through which much of that ambition becomes practical activity.
Joining means more than subscribing to updates. It means contributing to a shared regional effort to help businesses grow, create jobs, improve resilience and strengthen the West Midlands cyber identity.
The Cluster belongs to the community that builds it.