London, September 17, 2025 – The team behind Boeing’s former innovation programme, Aerospace Xelerated, today unveiled XeleratedFifty, a new independent organisation created to accelerate breakthrough innovation in the world’s most complex industries.
Backed by a strategic partnership with The Fifty Group, an investment platform dedicated to innovation in the world’s most complex industries, XeleratedFifty will help governments and corporates source, scale, and commercialise cutting-edge technologies in high-impact sectors including aerospace, defence, shipping, and energy.
“XeleratedFifty allows us to take a model that has already delivered results in aerospace and apply it more broadly,” said Nichola Bates, CEO of XeleratedFifty. “We connect startups with the investment, partnerships, and market access they need to deliver transformative solutions. We have seen first-hand how this approach can close critical capability gaps in aerospace. Now, we are building on our successful track record and applying the same model to other highly hard-to-abate industries where innovation is urgent and impact is essential.”
Krishnan Narayanan, Chairman of The Fifty Group, added: “Our mission is to accelerate breakthrough innovation in the world’s most complex industries. With XeleratedFifty we are building pathways for technologies that will define the next generation of progress. Across SkiesFifty, MarineFifty and now XeleratedFifty, we are creating new opportunities for startups while helping corporates and governments bring innovation into sectors that are the hardest to change, yet most critical to our collective future.”
Aligned with this vision, XeleratedFifty and The Fifty Group will continue to back early-stage innovators. The partnership also ensures access to additional capital and financing tools across The Fifty Group’s own and partner companies, from dedicated funds to lending facilities, supporting the full spectrum of growth needs for hyper-scaling companies.
XeleratedFifty’s team has already supported more than 40 startups across 14 countries and four continents. Its portfolio companies have raised over $330 million (£250 million) in follow-on funding and created more than 750 highly skilled jobs worldwide. With its proven model, XeleratedFifty offers partners a clear pathway from early-stage ideas to market-ready solutions - combining funding, technical insight, and execution to unlock growth, competitiveness, and national-scale impact.
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