Digital Catapult

digicatapult.org.uk · Compute · 1 record · JSON

Digital Catapult Compute

fails: identityinstitutionno cardDwrite-gated

www.digicatapult.org.uk/programmes/programme/bridgeai/high-g · cloud VM · compute/digital-catapult · JSON · compare

Free tier	A 14-week accelerator whose participants get compute from named technology partners: 'up to $25k for two years in AWS credits and one year of AWS business support (up to $10,000)'; 'up to $2,000 USD in Google Cloud credits, valid for two years (Start Tier) or $100,000 USD in Google Cloud credits for one year, with 20% off for the second year (Scale Tier)'; 'EUR 10k in OVHcloud credits for startups and EUR 100k in OVHcloud credits for scaleups'. unit none; metered on wall-clock; partner-credit
Price	none stated
Per-object cap	not applicable
Retention	not applicable
Egress	not stated
Identity	institution not published
Limits	write-gated Applicants must be 'a UK based registered company, or prove they are a company that has an establishment in the UK', must 'undertake all activity in the UK', and must be 'eligible to receive GBP 18,000 in State Assistance', so the GBP 18,000 de minimis ceiling also caps how much state-supported credit can be taken in the same period. source Applicants must be 'a UK based registered company, or prove they are a company that has an establishment in the UK', must 'undertake all activity in the UK', and must be 'eligible to receive GBP 18,000 in State Assistance', so the GBP 18,000 de minimis ceiling also caps how much state-supported credit can be taken in the same period.
Binding	write-gated Applicants must be 'a UK based registered company, or prove they are a company that has an establishment in the UK', must 'undertake all activity in the UK', and must be 'eligible to receive GBP 18,000 in State Assistance', so the GBP 18,000 de minimis ceiling also caps how much state-supported credit can be taken in the same period.
Interface	unknown inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed
Tooling	not stated
Composes with	it composes with the free Google Cloud tier because the credit is applied to a billing account that already carries the always-free SKUs.
Reliability	no reliability event recorded
Notes	The 14-week programme length against a one-year credit validity is the useful mismatch: the cohort ends long before the credits do. Two readings of who receives the Scale Tier were considered: (a) Scale Tier is automatic for all participants, plausible but not stated; (b) Scale Tier is a tier of Google's own startup programme that the accelerator merely refers to, which the FAQ wording 'Start Tier / Scale Tier' suggests because those are Google's tier names, unresolved.
Evidence rung	documented
Checked	2026-10-22 (live); stale on 2026-11-21

Evidence (5)

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-22	www.digicatapult.org.uk/programmes/programme/bridgeai/high-g	'up to $25k for two years in AWS credits and one year of AWS business support (up to $10,000)'; '$100,000 USD in Google Cloud credits for one year, with 20% off for the second year (Scale Tier)'; 'EUR 100k in OVHcloud credits for scaleups', quoted
2026-10-22	www.digicatapult.org.uk/programmes/programme/bridgeai/high-g	'Applicants must be a UK based registered company, or prove they are a company that has an establishment in the UK, and undertake all activity in the UK', quoted
2026-10-22	www.digicatapult.org.uk/programmes/programme/bridgeai/high-g	'Applicants must be able to receive £18,000 in State Assistance'; 'The High Growth AI Accelerator for Innovate UK BridgeAI is a 14-week accelerator delivered by Digital Catapult', quoted
2026-10-22	www.digicatapult.org.uk/programmes/programme/bridgeai/high-g	credits are 'Subject to availability and third-party terms', quoted
2026-10-22	www.digicatapult.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Applied-A	'Applicants must be eligible to receive £25,933 in State Assistance'; 'Applicants must be a UK-registered Startup organisation that has fewer than 250 employees and a turnover of less than EUR50 million', quoted from the Applied AI Growth Sprints terms

More fields (1)

{
 "wave2": {
  "class": "accelerator-credit",
  "free_tier_kind": "partner-credit",
  "shape": {
   "vcpu": null,
   "ram_gib": null,
   "gpu_class": "provider-dependent (AWS, Google Cloud, OVHcloud)",
   "gpu_count": null
  }
 }
}

Unknown or withheld values (11)

$.chaining partly-held
$.egress.metered egress-unknown
$.egress.terms not-stated
$.identity_cost.detail process
$.interface interface-unknown
$.per_object_cap.notes process
$.per_object_cap.stated not-applicable
$.reliability_note none-observed
$.retention.notes process
$.retention.stated not-applicable
$.tooling not-stated