Wayra UK, an accelerator operated by telecommunications firm Telefónica, has joined forces with the UK’s Department for Culture, Media and Sport and the country’s GCHQ intelligence agency to launch a new accelerator scheme.
The program will be aimed at UK-based startups in the cybersecurity sector. It follows an announcement in December 2015 by then-chancellor George Osborne that the government planned on doubling its investments in the sector to £1.9bn ($2.5bn) over the next five years.
Startups participating in the initiative,…
