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Students to pitch for startup funding in Dragons’ Den-style competition
Student entrepreneurs are set to pitch for a share of £75,000 in startup funding at an Innovation Showcase.
A dozen of University of Bristol students will present to a panel of business experts in the Dragons’ Den-style competition.
The event on May 9 will also see an exhibition of business ideas from final-year students from the University’s Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship and its student start-up incubator, Runway.
Ideas on show will include the reimagining of live classical music, using AI to teach disengaged children and new tech to help the hard of hearing.
Student entrepreneurs will pitch for £75,000 in startup funding at an Innovation Showcase – photo: University of Bristol
Mark Neil, programme director for Runway, said: “Runway is all about helping our students and recent graduates have an impact in the world beyond their academic attainment. We are constantly amazed by their brilliant ideas to solve some of our pressing challenges.
“Every day, Bristol graduates are changing the world with their business ideas. The Innovation Showcase will help the next crop of budding change-makers on their way.”
The £75,000 grant funding has been donated by University of Bristol alumni and the Jim and Peggy Wilkinson Innovation Fund.
The winners will be revealed on the day and will be selected by a panel of University alumni who have gone on to business success.
Graduates from the University’s Innovation courses have raised £3m in funding over the last three years. Alumni include PEEQUAL, the makers of the UK’s first female urinal.
Investors, businesspeople and anyone with an interest in start-ups is invited to the event on May 9 in the Richmond Building in Queens Road.
To sign up, visit: www.eventbrite.com/e/university-of-bristol-innovation-showcase-2023-tickets-538995820007
Main photo: University of Bristol
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