King's20 Accelerator Demo Day Lookbook 2021

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AN INTRODUCTION TO KING’S20

The King’s20 Accelerator is the Entrepreneurship Institute’s flagship programme supporting the 20 brightest and highest potential ventures from across the King’s to take their ideas and ventures the next level.

We work with ventures at various stages of development, fom those who have conducted customer research and validated their idea, to those who have an established client base and are generating revenue.

The programme is open to all King’s students, staff and alumni.

Since 2016, we’ve seen 100 ventures launch and take flight

through our King’s20 Accelerator. Our ventures have gone on to raise over £17 million in investment and generate over £20 million in revenue, as well as employing over 400 people.

The Entrepreneurship Institute at King’s College London is a unique place to build innovative new ventures from an array of business sectors. King’s, based in the heart of London, has exceptional connections amongst the entrepreneurial ecosystem in London and beyond.

My cofounder and I wouldn’t have been able to get this far without the ‘culture of nurture’ at the Entrepreneurship Institute.

It’s one thing to teach people how to scale which is common amongst other accelerators, but here the focus on resilience, peer to peer support and guidance both personally and professionally has been immense.

- Dr Bhavagaya Bakshi, Cofounder, C the Signs

Find out more about the ventures who’ve been through the Accelerator at our King’s20 Digital Directory.

- Holly Knower, Head of Ventures

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WELCOME NOTES

VERDN

H A R D YA R D S

G R A N D NA N N Y

ZAU B E R M U S I C

MALEBOX

Embedding sustainability pledges onto product sales.

Unlocking marginal gains for athletes through sports accessories.

The UK’s first intergenerational childcare service.

Innovative music learning experience.

Empowering men to take control of their fertility health.

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SOJO

PEERR

KAMI

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A Deliveroo-like service for clothing alterations and repairs.

Socialises medial education in a collaborative and interactive way.

AI Powered employee wellness platform for parents.

Combining AI and human insight to improve care personalisation.

Accelerating the diagnosis of neurological diseases.

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LOMA

B A N A NA S C O O P S

A D V I C E LY

S M A RT T H I N K I N G

V I RT U O S O

Online search engine and aggregator for secondhand marketplaces.

Ice cream so healthy you can eat it for breakfast!

AI powered tool, helping SMEs thrive through intelligent advertising.

Online aggregated platform for the policy and think tank world.

Revolutionising medical education through AR & VR.

Entrepreneurial minds at King’s have influenced many of the advances that shape modern life, from the discovery of the structure of DNA to the research that led to the development of radio, television, mobile phones and radar.

For almost 200 years, King’s College London has been striving to improve the world. King’s has been bursting with talented, innovative and entrepreneurial people since 1829, solving problems and identifying new opportunities.

Entrepreneurship has never been more popular than it is right now and has never been more vital. As economies and work patterns change across the world, as we face new and complicated challenges, entrepreneurship will play an essential role. Innovative and entrepreneurial mindsets will create positive change.

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to the very best of our early-stage, high-potential entrepreneurs selected from among our talented family at King’s College London.

Our fifth cohort includes early -stage ventures from Tech, Health Innovators, Community Tech, and Social Impact, and nine out of 20 founders are women.

Our accelerator is unique in two important ways: i) our innovative and diverse entrepreneurs are either King’s students, staff or alumni (from any year); and ii) they own their own IP. Entrepreneurial minds at King’s have influenced many of the advances

that shape modern life, from the discovery of the structure of DNA to the research that led to the development of radio, television, mobile phones and radar.

We’re here to show you what the entrepreneurial minds at King’s will disrupt next.

We hope that you enjoy our Demo Day in 2021. It has been a challenging twelve months for everyone, not least entrepreneurs and start-ups, and we are incredibly proud of the resilience and dedication they have demonstrated while on the King’s20 programme.

Please join us in supporting this

next generation of innovators. If you like what you see, and can provide support to our entrepreneurs, please get in touch with Holly Knower – Head of Ventures holly.knower@kcl. ac.uk.

My very special thanks to the skilled and hard-working team at the Entrepreneurship Institute.

Our thanks and very best wishes, Julie Devonshire OBE Director Entrepreneurship Institute King’s College London Photography of Julie Devonshire OBE D i r e c t o r, E n t r e p r e n e u r s h i p I n s t i t u t e

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KING’S20 DEMO DAY SCHEDULE

KING’S20 DEMO DAY ON HOPIN

17:30 THE BOOTHS Come along and meet our founders. Each startup will be hosting their own booth, an ideal opportunity to continue your discussions from the earlier session or an excellent opportunity to meet other King’s20 ventures.

Welcome to the King’s20 Accelerator Demo Day, powered by Hopin. If this is your first time using the HopIn platform, please see this video for an introduction to the experience and the various features.

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P L AY I N G V I D E O I N A D O B E AC R O B AT

Johnny Boufarhat - Founder and CEO – Hopin will be kicking this year’s King’s20 Accelerator Demo Day. As our opening keynote before launching into an afternoon of innovative disruption from the next generation of entrepreneurs.

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16:30 BREAKOUT ROOMS Meet our innovative start-ups, disrupting Social Impact, Tech, Health Innovators and Community Tech. You’ll be able to move freely between the Sessions to see the outstanding talent amongst the King’s 20.

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C O N TA C T U S

Loma is a search engine and aggregator for secondhand, rent and repair marketplaces.

Joseph Undaloc Founder and CTO

Website: asklomafirst.com

PROBLEM As secondhand, rent and repair markets experience a boom, sellers and service providers are spread across dozens of competing platforms, making for a fragmented market and a tedious shopping experience.

Ade Fatukasi Head of Partnerships Holly Pittaway Head of Marketing

Email: heyjoseph@askloma first.com Our LinkedIn Our Instagram Our Twitter Our Facebook

SOLUTION

LOMA

Loma puts them all in one platform: one click to search all the marketplaces, one universal checkout cart to make shopping across different sites seamless.

MARKET

The re-use market (which encompasses resale, rent and repair) is worth $120 billion globally. It is made up largely of people under 40’s, looking to save money, while lowering personal environmental impact.

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• Proof-of-concept launch March 2021, Scale-ready launch June 2021 • 3.5k users and growing with no ad budget • 8.1k searches entered, with max time on site 49 minutes • 38% return rate despite limited nature of MVP • Rave reviews from early users, sellers, and founders ASK

£250k for 10% equity.

BREAKOUT ROOM

Find us at the Social Impact room.

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Photography of Joesph Undaloc, cour tesy of Loma.

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VERDN

SOJO

C O N TA C T U S Photography of Josephine Phillips.

Website: verdn.com

B y D a p h n e M i l n e r.

Email: chris@verdn.com rory@verdn.com E L E VAT O R P I T C H

Our LinkedIn

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Helping brands boost their sustainability efforts by embedding trackable eco-pledges to product sales.

Our Instagram

A Deliveroo-like service for clothing alterations and repairs.

PROBLEM

PROBLEM Brands are under pressure from conscious consumers to find ways to give back to social and environmental causes. Their current options are slow, costly, and not engaging to their customers.

Few young consumers, who are increasingly sustainability-conscious, know how to alter and repair their clothes. Seamsters are not well connected to younger audiences, or digitally-savvy.

TEAM Christopher Mjelde Co-Founder and CEO Rory McMeekin Co-Founder and CTO

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Sojo connects customers to local seamsters through an app and bicycle delivery service so that people can get their clothes fixed or fitted with a few clicks on their phone.

Verdn makes it effortless for brands to pledge to key social and environmental causes. End-customers are able to track their unique impact post-purchase, greatly increasing customer engagement.

MARKET Our venture addresses the fastg row i n g , m u l t i - b i l l i o n - d o l l a r sustainable fashion market, and our customers are environmentally and ethically conscious fashion consumers and brands.

MARKET The market for corporate giving is £40 billion+. Another proxy for our market is carbon offsetting, which is growing at 100% YoY. Our first target customers were small e-commerce brands.

TRACTION • Online community of 9,500, 4,500 downloads, 2,400 registered users • 220 orders, c. 30 repeat customers • Press features in Vogue, Harpers, ES, Sif ted, The Guardian, Refinery29, Stylist and 10 more.

• 100% 5-star review on Apple’s App Store

TRACTION • £4k+ in monthly revenue • 60+ paying customers • Tracking dashboards generate 10x more customer engagement for brands • 100k+ trees planted, 60k+ kilos of ocean-bound plastic cleanup

ASK ASK

£150-200k Angel Investment for equity funding.

Raising £250k, registered for SEIS/ EIS.

C O N TA C T U S BREAKOUT ROOM

Website: sojo.uk

BREAKOUT ROOM

Email: josephine@sojo.uk

Find us at the Social Impact room.

Our Twitter Our Instagram Our Facebook Photography of Ror y McMeekin (lef t) and Christopher Mjelde (right).

C o u r t e s y o f Ve r d n .

Find us at the Social Impact room.

TEAM Josephine Philips Founder and CEO Isaac Rego Software Engineer Ludovico Buizza Operations Manager Sophie Williams Social Media Manager

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C O N TA C T U S

TEAM

Website: hard-yards.com

Harry Carr Director, R&D and Clinical lead

HARD YARDS

James Barker Director, Sales and Marketing

E L E VAT O R P I T C H

Email: harry@hard-yards.com james@hard-yards.com Our LinkedIn

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Our Instagram

Banana Scoops makes ice cream from bananas - so healthy you can have it for breakfast!

Chris Carr Operations, Manufacturing and Finance Paul Jackson Operations

PROBLEM Consumers are craving better-for-you products, demanding healthier, dairyfree, and made with natural ingredients ice creams. Banana Scoops is the only player in the market meeting all three demands.

P h o t o g r a p h y o f J a m e s B a r k e r, c o u r t e s y o f H a r d Ya r d s .

Hard Yards creates the world’s finest technical sports accessories; engineered to unlock your potential, every time you play.

PROBLEM The sports market is saturated with ‘hero’ products such as trainers, tennis rackets and playing kits. Sports accessories are an afterthought; sportswear without purpose.

SOLUTION

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At Banana Scoops we make ice cream so healthy you can have it for breakfast. Plant-based, made from fruit and with no added nasties or refined sugars, Banana Scoops is the guilt-free treat you can trust.

Our mission is to bring fresh thought to sports accessories through innovative precision engineering that allows all athletes to reclaim marginal gains in their performance, and go further game after game.

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We’re currently targeting the healthy market (gym-goers who look for healthier products) as well as vegans or flexitarians, who are demanding dairy-free ice cream.

The sports market is expected to grow consistently to $439.2 billion by 2026 as more people turn to sport to improve their mental and physical wellbeing. Sports accessories remain an untapped opportunity where big brands give little thought, care or innovation; that is where we are different.

TRACTION • Launched in May 2020 during the global pandemic • Stocked in Ocado, Planet Organic, As Nature Intended • Sold +12k tubs of ice cream • Generated £40k revenue and became profitable in year one • Coverage in national press including Weight Watchers Magazine, Ocado Life, Mail on Sunday and the Metro • Won David Walsh Awards scholarship

TRACTION P h o t o g r a p h y o f H a r r y C a r r, c o u r t e s y o f H a r d Ya r d s .

Photography of Jess Salamanca, cour tesy of Banana Scoops.

TEAM Jess Salamanca Founder Charlie Hazell PR & Sales

ASK Introductions to mentors and investors in FMCG, Food or Retail industry.

C O N TA C T U S Website: bananascoops.com

BREAKOUT ROOM

Email: jess@bananascoops.com

Find us at the Social Impact room.

Our LinkedIn Our Instagram

Lydia Dronsfield Digital Marketing James Payne Operations Consultant

• Initial products developed with professional and elite amateur athletes providing pre-launch feedback • 100% of prototype trialists said they would recommend product • Approached by an Australian retailer asking to stock our product (through WOM) • First 3 products launch late June • Ready for launch in less than 8 months with <£1k in R&D • UK patent on launch product, full EU and USA patent on other two products ASK Introductions to mentors in sportswear industry, academics/researchers in product testing, and university students seeking internship experience.

BREAKOUT ROOM Find us at the Tech room.

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PEERR

C O N TA C T U S

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E L E VAT O R P I T C H

Website: peerr.io

Dr Ahamodur Choudhury Co-Founder

Peerr socialises medical education so everyone can teach, learn and earn in a collaborative and interactive way.

Email: hello@peerr.io Our LinkedIn Our Twitter

Dr Abdul Rahyead Co-Founder

PROBLEM Yaseen Sattar Lead UX / UI designer Rasheed Wihaib Lead Developer

Medical education is currently d i s c o n n e c te d a n d ex p e n s i ve.

Students subscribe to multiple organisations for mock questions to prepare for exams that dictate career progression. However, there still remains a knowledge gap.

SOLUTION Peerr connects doctors in a collaborative network to share their knowledge and experiences through personal profiles, receiving recognition and a source of income. One subscription provides access to unrestricted learning by harnessing peer-to-peer learning.

MARKET We are focusing on the healthcare education market, which is projected to be worth $125Bn by 2025. Our initial customers will be medical students and junior doctors in the UK. TRACTION • Medical podcast top 3% globally and ‘Apple ranked’ Top 10 medical podcast in the UK multiple times with 50k+ lifetime downloads.

• Peer-to-peer learning mobile app has been downloaded 1,700 times • Social media following of 10k+ • Published at leading medical education conference, TASME 2021 ASK £150k for 10% equity for product development and marketing.

Mentorship and introduction in EdTech and Marketplaces.

BREAKOUT ROOM Find us at the Tech room.

Photography of Dr Abdul Rahyead (lef t) and Dr Ahamodur Choudhury (right).

C o u r t e s y o f P e e r r.

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ADVICELY

Amar Mehta Co-Founder and CEO

Photography of Adele Aitchison (lef t) a n d S a r a h V i c k ( r i g h t ) . C o u r t e s y o f G r a n d n a n n y.

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Dr. Antony Phillips Co-Founder and Head of AI E L E VAT O R P I T C H

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Chris Mostert Co-Founder and Head of Data

An AI powered tool that helps SMES take control of their advertising and boost their business.

GrandNanny is the UK’s first intergenerational childcare service matching working parents with older neighbours.

Jeremy Leonard Co-Founder and Active Advisor

PROBLEM Advertising is an effective way to grow your business, but for SMEs, getting advertising right can be difficult, expensive and time-consuming.

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PROBLEM

Website: advicely.io

For many over 50s finding and staying in meaningful employment can be difficult, and simultaneously the UK is facing a childcare shortage.

Email: amar@advicely.io Our LinkedIn

SOLUTION

Advicely replicates the agency experience in a few clicks. The client gets data-driven strategy recommendations and automatically-generated creative. Our software then executes the activity and reports the findings.

GrandNanny matches older neighbours seeking employment with working parents looking for flexible, reliable, local childcare. For older neighbours, we provide security checks, first aid training, safeguarding and peer support networks.

MARKET We are targeting SME owners across the hospitality, e-commerce, start-up, accounting, optometry and dental spaces. We expect to expand to other SME verticals in the near future.

MARKET The global childcare market is expected to grow at 11.3% CAGR to nearly $520.4 billion by 2022.

Employing a GrandNanny is currently affordable to 2.6m UK families.

TRACTION Our MVP recently launched and trialled with 7 clients. We have a list of 50+ potential clients that want to use the platform once we have finished our trial.

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• Recently launched MVP • Trial with 7 clients who are active users • 50+ potential clients that want to use the platform post-trial • 0 customer acquisition cost to date • Significant organic traction and interest

TEAM Adele Aitchison Co-Founder & Co-CEO C O N TA C T U S

ASK £200,000 in equity funding.

BREAKOUT ROOM Find us at the Tech room.

Website: grandnanny.co.uk

Sarah Vick Co-Founder & Co-CEO

ASK

Email: adele@grandnanny.co.uk sarah@grandnanny.co.uk

Nicola O’Neill Head of Sales

Introductions in the childcare and ageing sectors and £150k in SEIS equity or grant funding.

Our LinkedIn

Clare Marchbanks Head of Marketing

BREAKOUT ROOM

Our Instagram Sourced from Unsplash, photography by

• Launched in August 2020 and revenue generating by September 2020 • Generated 21 jobs since September 2020 • 23% average monthly growth rate • Secured first B2B partnership • Won European Commission/ NESTA Active Ageing Prize Challenge and the David Walsh Awards scholarship

Find us at the Community Tech room.

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C O N TA C T U S Website: usekami.com

TEAM

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Erika Brodnock Co-Founder and CEO

Emily Redding Director/Founder

Helen Yannakoudakis Co-Founder and CSO

Onyinye Nwulu Senior Adviser

Email: erika@kami.coach E L E VAT O R P I T C H Kami is an employee wellness platform making parental stress measurable and manageable through the power of AI.

Our Twitter Our Instagram

Jacob Herandi Co-Founder and COO

Our Facebook

E L E VAT O R P I T C H

Website: smartthinking.org.uk

The first online aggregated platform for the policy and think tank world.

Our LinkedIn

PROBLEM

Photography of Erika Brodnock (below) c o u r t e s y o f Ka m i .

SOLUTION

Our Twitter Our Facebook

SOLUTION

Photography of Emily Redding.

Courtesy of Smart Thinking.

Kami is the virtual village for parents and the managers who support them, offering personalised, AI-driven coaching and support for key life events from consideration, through parenting and beyond.

PROBLEM The think tank and policy sector has been very fragmented with no way to access the latest policy research, events and jobs in one place.

Our Instagram

Corporations are increasing their focus on attracting and retaining diverse talent, yet 73% of parents are dissatisfied with their employer’s offering due to a lack of personalisation and mental-wellbeing support.

Smart Thinking has created an apolitical, non-partisan online platform that brings together all the leading UK think tanks from across the political spectrum to share their work and resources.

MARKET We are targeting the think tanks for membership; consumers of policy and policy jobs; and companies needing to access the latest policy thinking and expertise.

MARKET Within the $47 billion corporate-wellness market, our initial focus is UK office employees in financial services and IT/Comms (where 86% of their employers are willing to invest in mental-health solutions).

TRACTION • 4k average monthly users • 163k page views YTD 2021 • 193% increase in number of jobs posted YTD 2021 • Testimonials from Joseph Rowntree Foundation, Positive Money and Pro Bono Economics

TRACTION • £175k grant funding from Innovate UK • £85k funding committed from Google for Startups • Built MVP - agreed 2 pilots with SMEs and tested with 153 parents • Filed for patent following IP audit award from the Intellectual Property Office

C O N TA C T U S

Email: emily.redding@smart thinking.org.uk

Our LinkedIn

SMART THINKING

Photography of Jacob Herandi (below), c o u r t e s y o f Ka m i .

ASK Board members/Mentors with experience in or working with: Membership organisations Mentors or Board Members with experience in membership organisations, public affairs companies and job boards.

ASK £100k in equity funding and introductions to HR leads at family-forward SMEs and corporates.

BREAKOUT ROOM Find us at the Community Tech room.

BREAKOUT ROOM Find us at the Community Tech room.

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Innovating the way music is taught with digital, research-backed methods that are fun and engage young learners.

Website: zhihu.com/people /leihuangdi

PROBLEM

TEAM

Many music lessons focus too much on the craft of playing, teach pieces without context and use outdated knowledge. Learners waste time and money and have a bad learning experience.

Lei Ping Founder

Photography of Lei Ping

SOLUTION

ZauberMusic is launching a series of structured online music courses, providing learners with reliable knowledge, a holistic skill set, and all the fun in learning music.

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The market is huge and constantly regenerating, with approximately 35 million piano students in China and market size of 75.7 billion RMB (~8.3 billion £).

TRACTION

• 67k social media following • Online music content reached over 1 million views and re-posts by a Chinese competitor • First online course launched in March 2021, resulting in 117 users ASK

Convertible loan note, supporting full time commitment runway for 12 months.

BREAKOUT ROOM

Find us at the Community Tech room.

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Email: Lei.ping@hotmail.com

MUSIC

ZAUBER

Cour tesy of ZauberMusic.

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VIRTUOSO

Sourced from Unsplash, photography By Maxim Hopman.

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Combining artificial intelligence and human insight to improve healthcare personalisation.

PROBLEM Doctors are increasingly overwhelmed with literature and data for managing complex diseases, leading to clinical burnout, poorer health system efficiency and poor treatment choices and patient outcomes.

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TEAM

Revolutionising medical education through augmented and virtual reality.

Website: metadvice.com

Prof Richard Barker, OBE Founder and Co-CEO

PROBLEM

Email: npankova@metadvice.com Our LinkedIn Our Twitter

Medical education still relies on outdated lecture-style methods and self-directed learning on busy hospital wards. Many students graduate without having seen essential emergencies.

Serge Umansky Founder and Co-CEO Natalie Pankova COO Dr Charlotte Kenny Clinical Experience Lead

SOLUTION

SOLUTION

Metadvice’s AI-empowered software for point-of-care clinical decisions identifies and visualises the most relevant risks, highlights the highest impact treatment choices and provides the rationale for AI-suggested clinical recommendations.

Virtuoso’s augmented and virtual reality technology facilitates immersive learning, with real-time feedback and decision-based learning providing the best learner-centred environment and one-stop shop for medical education.

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• Outstanding data and clinical partners including Mayo Clinic, Vanderbilt Medical Centre, Nashville Biosciences, EPFL, KCL, Oxford University • 11 NHS Practices 100K+ Patients’ Data Class • CE Certification AI IP Portfolio

Virtuoso addresses the medical education market, specifically targeting end-users which include medical students, physician associate students and nursing students.

TRACTION • Two pilots at St George’s University of London and King’s College London • Active community of 300 active student users • 500+ expression of interests for beta • Award winning founder team of the higher education academy and nominated for the Royal College of Surgeons Innovation

TRACTION Our product is gaining traction globally and we have outstanding data and clinical partners, including the Mayo Clinic, Vanderbilt medical centre, Nashville Biosciences, EPFL, KCL and Oxford University.

ASK

C O N TA C T U S

£500K Angel Investment for equity funding.

Email: alexanderzargaran @gmail.com

BREAKOUT ROOM

Our LinkedIn

Find us at the Health Innovation room.

Our Instagram

£120k in funding, mentorship in MedEdTech industry, and seeking a CTO. BREAKOUT ROOM Find us at the Health Innovation room.

Sourced from Death to Stock, p h o t o g r a p h y b y Fa n e t t e G u i l l o u d

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TEAM Dr Alexander Zargaran Founder & CEO David Zargaran Founder & COO

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E L E VAT O R P I T C H

Jonny East CEO

Malebox empowers men to take control of their fertility health with an at-home testing kit and personalised lab reports and advice.

Fergus Snell CDO (design) Richard Miles CTO

MALE-

Becky Kay CSO (scientific)

Falling sperm counts and changes to sexual development are leading to a fertility crisis. Men rarely pay attention to fertility as it has historically been understood as a female issue.

C O N TA C T U S Website: maleboxhealth.com Email: maleboxlondon@gmail.com Our Twitter

Photography of Fergus Snell (above) C o u r t e s y o f M a l e b ox .

Photography of Jonny East (above) C o u r t e s y o f M a l e b ox .

SOLUTION By raising awareness, educating and supporting men through their entire fertility journey, providing products (both Malebox-specific and publicly available) and services specifically designed for men at every step.

MARKET The male infertility market - $5 billion by 2026. We are targeting men at every stage in the fertility journey.

Our messaging is however deliberately aimed at both sexes.

TRACTION • Research partnership with worldleading andrologist and national laboratory • Organically built 700+ following online • Developed two at-home semen analysis test - one which are aiming to take through the medical device approval process and other requiring further refinement ASK £150k to fund the medical device process, and gain quality and regulatory support.

P h o t o g r a p h y o f B e c k y Ka y ( a b o v e ) C o u r t e s y o f M a l e b ox .

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BREAKOUT ROOM Find us at the Health Innovation room.

Photography of Richard Miles (above) C o u r t e s y o f M a l e b ox .

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NESO TECHNOLOGY

2021 LOOKBOOK

Accelerating the diagnosis of neurological diseases through an innovative headwear device.

ENTREPRENEURSHIP

Sarah Mander sarah.mander@kcl.ac.uk LinkedIn Profile

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HEAD OF VENTURES Holly Knower holly.knower@kcl.ac.uk LinkedIn Profile

PROBLEM With the ageing population, neurological disorders such as Alzheimer’s disease are on the rise. An early diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease is inaccessible, time-consuming and expensive.

GUEST SPEAKER Johnny Boufarhat support@hopin.com LinkedIn Profile

SOLUTION

DESIGN TEAM

Neso Technology accelerates the diagnosis of neurological disorders such as Alzheimer’s disease by creating an accessible headphone that is faster and more cost-effective than current diagnostic tools.

Arke Agency hello@arkeagency.com T+44 (0)1273 041111 PHOTOGRAPHY King’s Entrepreneurship Institute Fanette Guilloud Maxim Hopman Nhia Moua Tania Mousinho

MARKET Worldwide, every year, 10 million dementia patients need an early cost-effective diagnosis. Moreover, we identified that 13.3% of the population would spend at least £300 on a memory testing device.

PUBLISHED BY King’s Entrepreneurship Institute King’s College London,Strand London, WC2R 2LS T+44 (0)20 7836 5454 innovation@kcl.ac.uk

TRACTION

Copyright © 2021

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TEAM

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Navid Banafshe CEO

£95k in equity match-funding. Introductions to mentors/investors in MedTech industry.

Xuen Hoong Kok CTO Prof. Carles Escera Scientific advisor

BREAKOUT ROOM Find us at the Health Innovation room.

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Holly Knower holly.knower@kcl.ac.uk LinkedIn Profile

E L E VAT O R P I T C H

• Partnership established with Prof.

Carles Escera, world-leading expert in auditory cognition • Clinical collaboration for pilot study ongoing • Application to Innovate UK in progress • Significant appetite identified via market research

EDITORS

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We believe that everyone can be entrepreneurial, and that entrepreneurial people can help make the world a better place by solving problems, creating a healthier, smarter, more equal and sustainable future.

The Entrepreneurship Institute’s role is to help all students, staff and alumni Newsletter sign up to develop an entrepreneurial mindset of their own, supporting whatever LONDON DEMO career or future they had in mind.

We nurture the most innovative and DAY 2 0 2 1 resilient entrepreneurial minds from At London Demo Day, entrepre- the King’s community with the skills neurs from the King’s20 Accelerator, they need to help imagine and design UCL’s entrepreneurship hub BaseKX a better future, whether that’s within and Imperial Enterprise Lab will government, NGOs, corporate organpresent their innovative startups to isations or start-ups. a group of international angels and investors.

OUR EVENTS Each university will nominate 5 startups currently in the early growth We have multiple annual events that stage and looking to raise between take place across the year. Check out our calender to book yourself in. £100,000 and £1 million. kcl.ac.uk/entrepreneurship/events Startups will pitch to leading investors, partners and alumni, drawn from the collective communities of UCL, Imperial College London and King’s College London.

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CONTRIBUTORS

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Julie Deveonshire OBE, Director Entrepreneurship Institute Amar Mehta Co-Founder and CEO of Advicely Jess Salamanca Founder of Banana Scoops Adele Aitchison Co-Founder and Co-CEO of GrandNanny Harry Carr Director of Hard Yards Erika Brodnock Co-Founder and CEO of Kami Joeseph Undaloc Founder and CTO of Loma Jonny East CEO of Malebox Serge Umansky Founder and Co-CEO of Metadvice Navid Banafshe CEO of Neso Technology Dr Ahamodur Choudhury Co-Founder of Peerr Emily Redding Director/Founder of Smart Thinking Josephine Philips Founder and CEO of Sojo Christopher Mjelde Co-Founder and CEO of Verdn Dr Alexander Zargaran Founder and CEO of Virtuoso Lei Ping Founder of ZauberMusic

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WEBSITE kcl.ac.uk/entrepreneurship

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