Ploughshare

Ploughshare is a pioneering company which transforms early-stage innovations into impactful spin-outs and licensed technologies to deliver economic growth and societal impact. With over 20 years’ experience, we are the experts at navigating the complex journey of technology transfer and commercialisation – turning cutting-edge defence innovations into market-ready solutions that save lives, strengthen industries, and solve global challenges across defence and security, health and wellbeing, digital and data, and climate, environment, and sustainability. 

Owned by the Ministry of Defence and working with both the public sector and industry, Ploughshare is embedded at the heart of the UK’s innovation landscape. 

Some of our licensed technologies are already supporting police capabilities, such as the Latent Fingerprint Technology, which enables forensic teams to recover fingerprints from ‘impossible’ surfaces in as little as 30 minutes, and Cyber Griffin, which is used by the City of London Police to provide free cyber protection to SMEs and charities.

Contact us at info@ploughshare.co.uk to learn about our technologies available to license, or visit ploughshare.co.uk to view our online security technology portfolio.