West Midlands Cyber
Grow & Scale
The West Midlands is capable of creating cyber firms. The challenge is helping more of them progress beyond micro-business and consultancy-led growth.
Four stages, each with a different constraint. Most regional support addresses the first; the Cluster exists because too few companies reach the fourth.
Founder onboarding, peer support, early business guidance, community introductions and a route into the Hub.
Proposition development, customer discovery, expert feedback, pilot opportunities and design partnerships.
Commercial mentoring, sales and procurement readiness, talent support, partner introductions and regional visibility.
Investment readiness, strategic buyer access, leadership development, scale-up mentoring and national or international opportunities.
Regional mapping identified 147 cyber organisations, of which 92 are micro-enterprises and only five have external equity investment. The region can create cyber companies. Too few become nationally significant scale-ups.
Source: Cyber in the West Midlands regional strategic review. Last updated 27 August 2026.
Confidential peer groups with founders facing the same decisions.
Testing the proposition against real buyers, not just advisors.
Understanding what enterprise and public buyers actually require.
Preparing properly for the conversations that follow.
Clinics, mentoring, scale-up support and programmes are delivered at and by the West Midlands Cyber Hub. The Cluster sets the direction; the Hub runs the sessions.