Imperial Enterprise Lab

Ready for July's Community Spotlight?! Imperial College London's founders have achieved some incredible things this month, including: 🖌️ Cyanoskin's living paint will be featured on Sunday Morning Live on BBC 1 this Sunday (21 July) at 10.30am. Make sure to tune in! https://hubs.ly/Q02HdhpW0 🍓 Notpla supplied the Wimbledon 2024 tennis tournament with their seaweed-coated boxes for the iconic strawberries and cream. https://hubs.ly/Q02Hc_-00 🚶♂️ WeWALK has been honoured with the King's Award for Enterprise for Innovation. https://hubs.ly/Q02Hdb5L0 🌱 Ponda's BioPuff® has been featured throughout Stella McCartney's 2024 collection announcements. https://hubs.ly/Q02Hd10y0 🧪 SOLVE have been featured in an article by Osborne Clark. https://hubs.ly/Q02Hd57r0 Fibe’s textile fibers made from potato harvest waste has won the Manufacturing Future 2024 Innovation Challenge Prize. https://hubs.ly/Q02HcYBS0 🚙 Treeva have won the Samsung Solve for Tomorrow 2024 competition for their highly efficient vertical wind turbines, which generate power from the airflow of passing transport. https://hubs.ly/Q02Hd7Jq0 🌏 SEALEO and Biofonic have made it on to the Greenhouse Cohort 7. https://hubs.ly/Q02Hd39b0 🔥 Pyri has been selected as Student Winner in Sustainability at the Core77 Design Awards and named a finalist in the Sustainable Markets Initiative's TerraCarta Design Lab Competition. https://hubs.ly/Q02HdqwY0 🛒 @HarleyAI have launched a trial of their generative AI platform to assist its executives in making “quicker and more informed decisions” at Asda. https://hubs.ly/Q02HcZNG0 ⛵️ Oshen's micro-vessel has sailed 100km in one mission in over 50hrs of autonomous sailing. https://hubs.ly/Q02Hd7Jr0 🐶 Compawnion are launching a new update on their dog training app including over 20 new training programmes to teach obedience and solve bad behaviours. Try it now! See image for details. (Images from Notpla, WeWALK, Fibe, Treeva, Oshen and Compawnion)

🌟 London Demo Day 2024! 🌟 📅 Date: Wednesday 18th September📍 Location: London School of Economics, Holborn We are thrilled to announce the annual London Demo Day 2024, hosted by the London School of Economics for the first time at the heart of the LSE campus. Join us to witness 20 of the brightest startups from The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), King's College London, Imperial College London and UCL pitch their groundbreaking ideas to an audience of leading investors, partners, and key players in the ecosystem. These startups, in the early growth stage, are looking to raise between £100,000 and £1.5 million. Since its inception in 2019, London Demo Day has seen over 65 innovative teams collectively raise over £97 million with a combined post-money valuation of £289 million. This year promises to be even more exciting as we continue to foster innovation and entrepreneurship within the London community. After the pitches, enjoy a networking reception with refreshments, offering a chance to connect with the teams, investors, and other guests. We look forward to celebrating the outstanding achievements of London’s leading universities with you! 🔗https://hubs.ly/Q02HcqwK0 #LondonDemoDay2024 #Innovation #Startups #Entrepreneurship #Networking #LSE #KingsCollegeLondon #ImperialCollege #UCL #Investment

At the Imperial Enterprise Lab, we are incredibly fortunate to have the support of an amazing community of over 100 experts through our Experts-in-Residence (XiR) programme. These experts offer 1:1 sessions with Imperial’s founders, providing invaluable advice and support as they develop their ground-breaking business ideas. 💡 Our founders received a total of 60 hours of coaching in June, which is instrumental in their journey toward success. Our remarkable experts cover a wide range of areas including Artificial Intelligence, Business Coaching, Email Marketing, Finance, Strategy, Investment, Intellectual Property, and many more. 💫 We are proud to highlight some of our experts who helped us throughout June; Bob Morgen, Janet Murray, Peter Haycocks, Sonal Dack, Irene Ferrero, CFA, Sajini Jayawardena, Nick Gregg, Oliver Woolley, James Wong, Iain Russell, Iain Hunter, Byron McCaughey, Braham Djidjelli, Devon Smiley, Akinwale Olawoye, Callum Adamson and Ian Hobday. 📢 A special shout-out to Carl Coddington, who is featured in the latest edition of our annual magazine D/srupt, where he shares his nine must-know principles for hiring at startups. You can download your copy here! https://bit.ly/3LekHVS . 💎 We are deeply grateful for the time and knowledge our experts share. Their contributions are a cornerstone of our founders' growth and success. Imperial Enterprise Lab | Imperial Enterprise | Imperial College London #ELabExperts #CoachingForGrowth #ExpertsInResidence #StartupSupport #innovation #experts #entrepreneurship

And the winner of WE Innovate 2024 is... SEALEO👑🏆🎉 Sealeo impressed the judges with their novel, bio-degradable packaging material for temperature-sensitive medicine, ensuring delivery of life saving drugs to underserved communities. They take home £15,000 which will allow them to patent their technology and continue to scale their venture. Huge congratulations to Diana Epel and Emanuele Griccioli 👏 🥈 2nd place, taking home £7,000 is Sensyre 🥉 3rd place, taking home £5,000 is Pera 🏅 4th & 5th place, taking home £1,500 each are Bia Maternal Care and Hi-Fond Thank you to our sponsors Santander UK and Michelmores From the wider WE Innovate 2024 cohort the following prizes were awarded: 🏅 Lauren Dennis prize: A six-month coaching package awarded to the team with an inspiring entrepreneurial spirit, went to Arcus 🏅 @Engineers in Business Prize: Awarded to two teams with founders from an engineering background, taking home £1,500 each goes to Transpexa and Qualboat. Congratulations to all of the winning teams, and everyone who took part in this year's WE Innovate programme. And thank you to the Judging panel, Professor Mary Ryan, Dame Kate Bingham and Alexsis de Raadt St James. And a big thank you to Anneliese Dodds, Shadow Secretary for Women and Equalities who gave an inspiring keynote speech about the importance of supporting womens entreprneurship. If you missed the event you can watch all the action from last night here: https://hubs.ly/Q02CB5Rk0 WE Innovate is a world-leading programme supporting women entrepreneurs. Over the past 10 years, the programme has supported over 500 women who have gone on to raise over £37.5 million for their ventures. We are very excited to announce that WE Innovate is expanding nationally! We have partnered with universities across six regions in the UK to offer support to women entrepreneurs on a national scale. WE Innovate is currently looking for new sponsors to join us on our journey. If you are interested in finding out more about working with us, contact Head of Imperial Enterprise Lab, Sarah Ranchev-Hale. Thank you to everyone who has supported, and continues to support women's entrepreneurship at Imperial College London ❤️ #womensentrepreneurship #womeninbusiness #womeninSTEM #studententrepreneur #medtech #healthtech #ourimperial #inventedatimperial #innovation #entrepreneurship #createthefuture Imperial Enterprise

We’re just an hour away from the #WEI2024 Grand Final! In the next few hours we will see which of our amazing women-led Imperial startups will take home the winning prize. You can access the online event booklet here: https://hubs.ly/Q02Ct6KC0 and live stream the event here: https://hubs.ly/Q02Ctc0r0

Today is the day! The WE Innovate Grand Final will kick off tonight at 17:30 at Imperial College London and we can't wait to see you there. This is your last chance to grab tickets: https://hubs.ly/Q02CpLYw0 Best of luck to our finalists! Sensyre SEALEO Pera Hi-Fond Bia Maternal Care #WEI24

We are honoured to be joined by VIP guest Anneliese Dodds, Shadow Secretary of State for Women and Equalities, and Chair of the Labour Party, at the WE Innovate 2024 Grand Final this Wednesday. Anneliese has led an extensive career in British politics and public policy and was the first woman to hold the position of Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer and currently serves as Shadow Secretary of State for Women and Equalities. With just one day to go, we are looking forward to watching our five fantastic women-led teams pitch! Tickets are still available, get yours for free here: https://hubs.ly/Q02Cfkvj0 #WEInnovate24 #WEI24 #Womensentrepreneurship #womeninbusiness #entrepreneurship #startup #studententrepreneur #inventedatimperial #ourimperial

We are delighted to introduce our exceptional WE Innovate 2024 Grand Final judging panel: Ladi Greenstreet Ladi is currently Head of Strategic Investments at NatWest and CEO of Diversity VC. Previously the Head of UK&I at Accenture Ventures, he has over 8 years of experience in digital strategy, analytics, and technology transformation projects. Alexsis de Raadt St James Alexsis is Founder and Managing Partner at Merian Ventures , a firm that invests in female-led technologies. She was also the original funder and founder of WE Innovate 10 years ago. Dame Kate Bingham Kate is Managing Partner at SV Health Investors and co-lead of SV’s biotech franchise. Her investments in biotech include drug discovery and development companies across the UK, EU, and US. She was awarded a DBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours in 2021 for her services as Chair of the UK Covid Vaccine Taskforce. Professor Mary Ryan Mary is the Vice Provost for Research and Enterprise at Imperial College London. Her research focuses on nanoscale materials and interfaces, with application areas in energy materials and nanomaterials for bio-sensors and therapies. You can witness our judges in action at the WE Innovate Grand Final on Wednesday 19th June at Imperial College London. WE Innovate is Imperial's flagship entrepreneurship programme for women-led ventures and in the last decade has supported over 500 women who have gone on to raise over £37.5 million for their ventures. Get your FREE ticket here: https://hubs.ly/Q02BRGbR0 #WEInnovate24 #WEI24 #Womensentrepreneurship #womeninbusiness #entrepreneurship #startup #studententrepreneur #inventedatimperial #ourimperial

Our incredible entrepreneurial community at Imperial College London have been featured in The Sunday Times! Following our 2nd place ranking in the QS World University Rankings, The Sunday Times looked at what sets Imperial apart from previous front runners, Oxford and Cambridge. Congratulations to Alex Bond and John Simpson from Fresh Check: Confirming Hygiene, Lucy Jung from Charco and Victor Dewulf and Peter Hedley from Recycleye who all got a mention! Read all about it here: How Imperial beat Oxbridge — and the secrets to winning a place https://hubs.ly/Q02BGQB40

Meet our fifth WE Innovate 2024 Finalist! Pera is the world’s first wearable for digestive tracking, helping people manage bowel incontinence. Bowel incontinence is a devastating condition that affects 1 in 10 people globally, with neurological conditions and GI disorders being major contributors. Postpartum mothers are also at risk. Pera functions as a smart health assistant. The device discreetly adheres to the user’s stomach to read specific physiological markers and is paired with a digital interface for personalised predictions. You can see Pera pitch at the WE Innovate Grand Final for the chance to win a share of the £30k prize fund on Wednesday 19th June at Imperial College London. WE Innovate is Imperial's flagship entrepreneurship programme for women-led ventures and in the last decade has supported over 500 women who have gone on to raise over £37.5 million for their ventures. Get your FREE ticket here: https://hubs.ly/Q02ByLdv0 #WEInnovate24 #WEI24 #Womensentrepreneurship #womeninbusiness #entrepreneurship #medtech #startup #studententrepreneur #inventedatimperial #ourimperial @Imperial Enterprise