Partnerships that turn industry need into scalable companies.

Why partner with us

Train operators, infrastructure owners and managers, manufacturers, transport authorities, consultancies and other organisations seeking new solutions to customer, operational, technical and sustainability challenges across rail and mobility.

Industry partners help surface meaningful market problems, define the outcomes that matter and pressure-test potential solutions. Each partner contributes through an annual subscription and appoints an innovation leader to participate in our investment panel.

Partners shape the challenges we address, gain early access to emerging ventures and help ensure solutions are built around genuine industry needs.

This provides a structured route to innovation beyond the constraints of internal programmes, with opportunities to test, adopt, invest in or acquire ventures that respond directly to your priorities.

Universities and research institutions able to contribute applied research, technical expertise and founder talent to rail and mobility ventures.

Academic partners extend the studio’s delivery capability beyond our in-house team. Depending on the venture, they may support feasibility, product development, prototyping, validation and funded R&D. They also provide a pipeline of potential venture founders.

Future Travel Studio provides paid research and development opportunities linked to clearly defined, industry-validated challenges.

Academic partners can also put forward high-potential students and researchers for our accelerator programmes, giving them a structured route to become founders, develop solutions and build investable ventures from their expertise.

Venture capital funds, corporate investors and strategic industry investors seeking credible opportunities in rail and mobility.

We provide early seed funding and hands-on venture-building support, preparing companies for Series A investment. Downstream venture capital partners then provide follow-on funding to accelerate growth and scale.

Access to a repeatable pipeline of de-risked rail and mobility ventures. We define and validate industry problems, select and seed the strongest founder teams, then support them through incubation to build investment readiness, enterprise readiness and industry traction before follow-on funding.