Impact Report
2023–2024
Launch into the Entrepreneurship Institute’s Impact Report charting our 2023-24 journey, a year of brilliant ideas, start-up success and lots of entrepreneurial spirit!
About us
The Entrepreneurship Institute (EI) is the dedicated hub of entrepreneurial activity at King’s College London. 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.
For almost 200 years, King’s has been striving to improve the world. The EI continues and advances this legacy in line with King’s Vision 2029.
We support all students, staff and alumni at King’s to develop an entrepreneurial mindset of their own, supporting whatever career or future they have in mind. Some will launch start-ups of their own.
We nurture knowledge and ideas from across King’s, contributing to a society of pioneering leaders, creative problem solvers and innovative thinkers, who are equipped to tackle the most pressing challenges of today, and those that lie ahead.
A word from the Entrepreneurship Institute
We are continually inspired by the passion of those at King’s who are dedicated to making the world a better place.
Amid rapid change and global challenges, our entrepreneurial community is determined to think differently and put forward new ideas that benefit people and planet. It is an honour to support them and play a small part in their entrepreneurial journeys.
This year we have engaged students, staff and alumni across King’s; inspiring real innovation by bringing together different minds to think disruptively, generate new ideas and validate those ideas to deliver change and impact.
We are always innovating and experimenting whilst maintaining our commitment to excellence. By regularly reviewing our core activities, we have made significant changes to our programming this year and beyond, enhancing the experience and outcomes for our participants.
Our work wouldn’t be possible without our extended community of supporters, experts and donors.
Our thanks go to:
All the King’s students, staff and alumni who started their own entrepreneurial journeys, joining our thriving community.
Colleagues across King’s who help us develop more innovative thinkers, ready to tackle the world’s challenges ahead.
Our Experts-in-Residence who continue to share their expertise to support upskilling and venture scaling.
Our supporters and donors, without whom some of our programmes wouldn’t be possible.
King’s alumni who regularly share their own entrepreneurial journeys to inspire the next generation.
We hope you enjoy reading our 2023-2024 Impact Report.
King’s Entrepreneurship Institute
Community and Engagement
We deliver low-barrier to entry and large-scale activities throughout the year to inspire the King’s community to take the first steps on their entrepreneurial journey. Collectively these activities reached over 1,000 people across King’s (evidenced by applications and event sign-ups) and converted over 800 to active participants.
Welcoming new students
We designed a two-week programme of online and in-person activities to welcome new students to King’s in September. Eight events introduced over 350 undergraduate (UG) and postgraduate (PG) students to the Seven Skills of an Entrepreneurial Mindset. We met and signposted over 500 students to subscribe to our newsletter, at three Welcome Hubs across King’s campuses. We also facilitated introductions to the EI during faculty inductions in King’s Business School (KBS), the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN) and Natural, Mathematical & Engineering Sciences (NMES).
Change our City Challenge
This year we piloted a new two-day event that invited students from across King’s to come together to tackle some of London’s biggest problems. The Change our City Challenge, delivered in partnership with Enactus KCL , focused on five challenge themes: homelessness, poverty, community, environment and accessibility.
35 students from seven faculties were placed into nine different teams based on their preferred challenge theme. Over the course of two days, they attended sessions on ideation, disruptive thinking and pitching, and also had team working time to develop their proposed solution. The hack finished with a pitch off event, where three of the teams were selected as Enactus KCL projects, receiving funding and expert mentoring. Some teams went on to apply for Idea Factory, too.
“Coming from a science background, I wanted to learn more about entrepreneurial skills and how to apply them to social needs, as this is not a large part of my undergraduate or postgraduate degree.”
Ella
Asnin,
MSc Global Mental Health student (IoPPN)
and Change our City Challenge 2023 participant.
Venture Crawl
Launched by King’s in 2017, Venture Crawl is a day-long exploration of our local entrepreneurial ecosystem, bringing students closer to entrepreneurs, innovation hubs, collaborative workspaces and start-ups. The experience aims to inspire students and develop their self-confidence, creative thinking and leadership skills.
This year 34 students from across King’s took part in our first ever walking crawl visiting the National Theatre, Seven Dials Market, Somerset House, Peachey & Co and Reference Point. Students also got to hear start-up journeys first-hand from some of King’s alumni entrepreneurs.
18 other universities also participated in Venture Crawl this year, expanding our reach and collaboration with 13 institutions in London and five in the UK and overseas, including two new partners – Warwick University and Central Saint Martins. Collectively we engaged over 380 entrepreneurially minded students and graduates in Venture Crawl and involved 45+ external partners in our programming.
For the first time, King’s hosted the Venture Crawl Pitch Off event at Bush House. Over 230 students and staff watched 10 university champions battling it out for the chance to be crowned London Venture Crawl Pitch Champion. We also hosted an online International Venture Crawl Pitch Off a few weeks later, collecting over 1,800 votes to decide the international winner.
97% of attendees would recommend Venture Crawl to a friend and the average experience rating was 4.41 out of five.
“As someone with a minimal background in business and entrepreneurship, I found all the talks very intriguing and informative, and all the questions helped expand our knowledge on the topic.”
Erato Markantoni, Medicine MBBS student (Faculty of Life Sciences and Medicine, FoLSM) and Venture Crawl 2024 participant.
“I did not expect the opportunities to network to be so vast, and I was able to meet new people easily. The places we went to were both insightful and entertaining.”
Darren Weston, BSc Computer Science student (NMES) and Venture Crawl 2024 participant.
Community Connect
In response to students’ requests for more networking opportunities we launched ‘Community Connect’, a pilot series of social events, open to all King’s students, staff and alumni who are interested in innovation. Many students are keen to offer their skills or expertise to support those who are looking to start a business, and this informal event format offers them the chance to do so.
We hosted two pilot events, one focused on networking top tips and another featured roundtable discussions with current King’s entrepreneurs from our community. Following positive feedback, the events will return in the next academic year.
“Well run and the two hours flew by! Think it’s the best extracurricular space I’ve been in at King’s, and I love that it’s open to all alumni no matter the graduation year.”
Anonymous King’s alumni & Community Connect attendee.
Digital Community
Our digital community continues to grow year on year and in 2024 exceeded 34,000 members: over 20,000 social media followers (which grew by 10% in 2023/24) and 12,574 newsletter subscribers.
Entrepreneurial Skills
Entrepreneurship is for everyone, and anyone can become more entrepreneurial. This year the EI upskilled students, staff and alumni across King’s in entrepreneurial skills, helping them to discover an entrepreneurial version of themselves.
Entrepreneurial skills content is delivered on the curriculum, through co-curricular programmes, the organisational development system and other personal development training systems.
Our Seven Skills of an Entrepreneurial Mindset framework is the foundation that underpins entrepreneurial skills learning across all our programmes and activities. These skills can be applied to any sector, any career and any future; helping those equipped to tackle some of the world’s biggest challenges.
It’s clear our message ‘entrepreneurship is for everyone’ is spreading and reverberating across King’s as we continued to upskill our community.
Enterprise Award
Enterprise Award is a year-long, co-curricular programme designed to take participants through the Seven Skills of an Entrepreneurial Mindset to enhance their employability and career ambitions.
The programme encourages participants to explore and discover the world of entrepreneurship and London’s start-up ecosystem by attending events and workshops, and engaging with other resources such as podcasts, videos and reading materials.
We strongly believe in fostering community, promoting opportunities for participants to buddy up and work in groups. The Award contributes to each student’s Higher Education Achievement Report (HEAR), which can be showcased to employers.
This year 310 people signed-up to participate in the Enterprise Award. Of these, 108 went on to complete (a 5% increase on last year), with 75 UG students, 30 PG students, two staff members and one researcher in the cohort.
The cohort represented all year groups and all nine faculties. Students from FoLSM (21%) and NMES (21%) were highest represented, followed closely by students in the Faculty of Social Science & Public Policy (SSPP) (19%). This demonstrates the broad appeal that entrepreneurial skills have across King’s.
As part of the Award, each participant is required to complete a pre-and-post skills assessment, so that we can better assess and track the movement in entrepreneurial skills development over time.
• 60% of completers agreed that the Seven Skills are useful to them now, in their studies, research, academia and employment.
• 69% of completers agreed that the Seven Skills are relevant to their future careers.
“Through the Enterprise Award I have been exposed to completely new content that’s out of my knowledge or comfort zone. This in turn developed an increased appreciation of the need for having and nurturing a wide range of stakeholders with different characteristics, experiences and perspectives.”
Christina Lange Ferreira, MPhil/PhD Nursing student (Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery & Palliative Care, NMPC) and Enterprise Award 2024 participant.
Paid Entrepreneurial Skills Opportunities
Every year, the EI offers many part-time paid opportunities for current King’s students to develop their entrepreneurial skills. The roles are varied and provide unique opportunities for students to gain more experience in real working environments, either with the EI team or in a start-up. All roles are paid at London Living Wage.
Operations Superstars
Operation Superstars support the EI team on a flexible year-long contract. They work on a variety of assignments including event support, research and marketing.
This year 12 Superstars from five faculties (KBS, FoLSM, NMES, SSPP and the IoPPN), joined the EI. Four Superstars were first year students and six were final year.
“From day one, I was treated as an integral part of the team, and my feedback was valued in decision-making processes and planning discussions. This experience not only boosted my confidence but also made me feel valued as a member of the team.”
Chloe Lau, BSc Psychology student (IoPPN) and Operations Superstar.
Read more about Chloe’s Superstar experience on our website.
Entrepreneurial Summer Internships
Targeted specifically to students from a widening participation background, the nine-week internships place students in ventures who were once part of the King’s Start-up Accelerator (formerly King’s20 Accelerator). The roles vary year-to-year, depending on the needs of the ventures.
This year we advertised 11 roles including Growth Marketing, Research Analyst, Data Scientist and Digital Marketing. Eight faculties were represented amongst the 216 applications received.
At the end of the internship, all interns were invited to share their reflections at a final showcase event, hosted in collaboration with participants on the Gamechangers programme.
Combining the programmes into the same nine-week period, provided both cohorts with access to a supportive, meaningful and peer-driven community.
“I would describe it as a valuable opportunity to learn and grow, tailored to you as a King’s student. Really doesn’t get better than this, in terms of easing into the job market.”
Clarissa Lilananda, BA International Relations student (SSPP) and intern at Supernotes.
“It’s been fantastic, both of us have been learning! Since we’re building a notes app for students it’s been really insightful to hear from Clarissa on how best to approach and market towards her peers. And it’s also been fun chatting about King’s and how it’s changed over the years!”
Tobias Whetton, Co-founder and CEO of Supernotes and King’s alumnus (NMES).
The internships were made possible through support from Santander Universities.
Read more from this year’s interns on our website:
• Clarissa Lilananda (BA International Relations student, SSPP) and Growth Marketing Intern with Supernotes.
• Lagsika Kugathas (MEng Biomedical Engineering student, FoLSM) and Histopathological Image Annotation Specialist with Panakeia Technologies.
• Reet Chouhan (MSc Digital Marketing student, KBS) and Content Writer with LiveLink AI.
Impactful Researcher Masterclasses
The world of entrepreneurship offers real-world career paths for researchers at King’s and their specialist knowledge. Regardless of discipline, entrepreneurial skills help researchers to grow as academics, giving them practical tools to pioneer new ways of thinking and convey their research effectively to any audience.
This year we delivered four sessions, covering Personal Effectiveness, Disruptive Thinking, Compelling Communication and Effective Collaboration, with content tailored specifically to researchers to enhance innovation and impact.
52 researchers participated in sessions across the year, with representation from all nine faculties at King’s. Several researchers attended more than one session.
Key highlights from post-session feedback include:
• 93% of participants agreed that the Personal Effectiveness masterclass was relevant to them.
• 56% of participants developed the ‘Compel’ skill at the Compelling Communication masterclass.
• 82% of participants enjoyed the Disruptive Thinking masterclass.
“Good way to help you think outside the box and get some thinking techniques.”
Masterclass on Disruptive Thinking participant, anonymous.
“The workshop is a great way to get out of the 'academia box' and learn how to communicate with different audiences.”
Masterclass on Compelling Communication participant, anonymous.
“Really helpful course that has given me lots of tools to become more efficient in how I plan for my future and work towards my long-term goals.”
Masterclass on Personal Effectiveness participant, anonymous.
Results from our Upskilling Initiatives, 2023-2024
We know that students, staff and alumni at King’s typically move through three stages as they upskill:
1. Engage: Express an interest in a programme – sign-up for an event, submit an application.
2. Participate: Complete one of our programmes.
3. Upskill: Complete our programme and an assessment (self-assessment, curriculum assessment, post-survey) measuring that upskilling has taken place in one of more of the Seven Skills of an Entrepreneurial Mindset. This was introduced in 2020-2021 and evidences student, staff and alumni upskilling and by how much.
Since 2019-2020 we’ve seen consistent growth across all three stages, engaging more than 10,000 people in our entrepreneurial skills offer.
This year over 3,000 people expressed an interest in our skills programming and over 50% went on to actively participate. 2,000+ completed some form of assessment, enabling us to tangibly measure skill development across multiple programmes.
Total since 2019:
10,453 6,817 3,840
Our Upskilling Initiatives, 2023-2024
These results demonstrate the average percentage change in levels of confidence, for those who completed a pre-and-post skills assessment with the EI, measured across the Seven Skills framework.
Build teams: Confidence seeking out opportunities to engage with people from different backgrounds; cultivating a positive and inclusive culture; dealing with conflict between others.
Enterprise Award Gamechangers
Summer Interns
Commit to Growth: Confidence in stepping outside your comfort zone; keeping an objective mindset for greater clarity; fostering personal and professional networks for guidance and support.
Enterprise Award
Gamechangers
Summer Interns
Compel: Confidence in constructing and delivering a presentation and pitching; confidence in leadership style and articulating a clear vision with persuasiveness.
Enterprise Award
Gamechangers
Summer Interns
Disrupt: Confidence in analysing a particular context and spotting opportunities for change; challenging how things are done and designing solutions that respond to today’s global challenges.
Enterprise Award
Gamechangers
Summer Interns
Get it done: Confidence in prioritising workload; maintaining motivation, accountability and focus; leaning into new challenges knowing progress is made by tackling the tasks which stretch us.
Enterprise Award
Gamechangers
Summer Interns
Think lean: Confidence in testing ideas to gain objective feedback; making incremental improvements on an idea rather than aiming for perfection immediately; and considering the conservation of resources by designing out waste.
Enterprise Award
Gamechangers
Summer Interns
Validate: Confidence in understanding the problem before jumping into solutions; designing objective questions to gain unbiased feedback; generating traction as proof of need.
Enterprise Award
Gamechangers
Interns
Developing Ideas
The EI offers a range of supportive activities to help students, staff and alumni to develop new ideas that solve problems.
Ou r flagship idea generation competition, Idea Factory, takes ideas from ‘light bulb’ moment through to viable business proposition. Workshops support students and staff to develop and refine their ideas, with access to 1:1 support and validation exercises. Prizes include funding, mentoring, office space and more.
Launched in 2023, our Gamechangers programme aims to redress the barriers to entrepreneurship that face students from a widening participation background.
Our Women Entrepreneurs Network (WEN) aims to achieve gender parity across the EI’s activities. Prior to its formation, our King’s Start-up Accelerator (formerly King’s20 Accelerator) had only ever achieved 25% application from women founders, whereas accelerators internationally had only reached 20%.
Our work in this area is made possible with generous support from Santander Universities and the Yulia Rudko and Igor Tikhturov Foundation, established by two King’s alumni.
Idea Factory
Idea Factory is King’s College London’s flagship idea generation competition. The competition empowers budding entrepreneurs within the King’s community to showcase their new ideas, which have the potential to grow into viable and successful businesses.
We launched the competition with an Open Pitch Night 34 teams from across King’s pitched their early-stage ideas to an audience of 100+ and a panel of expert judges. 10 teams were awarded £250 funding to take their idea further and each pitcher received a 1:1 mentoring session with a member of the EI team.
We received 72 competition submissions from across the King’s community for Idea Factory this year. About a third came directly from the Open Pitch Night. Applications spanned diverse fields such as health tech, logistics, fashion, sports, AI, tourism, education and more. NMES maintained its position as the faculty with most applications (28%), followed by KBS (24%).
10 teams went on to become finalists, each receiving more support before the final pitch off event, to refine their idea through live pitch feedback from their peers and 1:1s with our pitch coach.
Following three-minute pitches, our judging panel awarded three winners from Arts and Humanities (A&H), the IoPPN, and KBS a share of £10,000, alongside a 12-month support package, including mentoring by the EI’s Head of Entrepreneurial skills and Experts-in-Residence. For the first time in Idea Factory history, a staff member won the overall competition.
“Participating in King’s Idea Factory competition was a really valuable experience for me. It pushed me to refine my business idea, hone my pitching skills, and gain critical feedback from experts.”
Jas Wilks, MSc in Strategic Entrepreneurship & Innovation alumna (KBS) and Idea Factory second runner-up.
“Idea Factory helped us to really understand how start-ups actually worked. It gave us rough guidance on the process of converting an idea into a company, and the opportunity to network with other founders with a similar mindset.”
Sundar Arvind, BSc Computer Science alumnus (NMES) and Idea Factory finalist.
“It was brilliant to have the opportunity to pitch live to an audience including judges! It really pushed me to refine my idea and pitch, improving both my pitching skills and content. It was a great precursor to the King’s Start-Up Accelerator!”
Chris Attoe, Staff member (IoPPN) and Idea Factory winner
Gamechangers
Delivered over the summer, Gamechangers pays current King’s students to work on a problem they’re passionate about solving. The solution might be an idea for a new business, a not-for-profit or a community project.
Funded by Santander Universities, the programme is open exclusively to students from a widening participation background and aims to address the barriers to entrepreneurship that exist for these groups, whilst enhancing their employability and their propensity to positively impact the world.
Over the course of nine weeks, students:
• Attend workshops to learn the fundamentals of identifying a problem;
• Access mentoring sessions with the EI team and Experts-in-Residence to create a viable solution and get it off the ground;
• Work independently to develop their idea by conducting customer research, validation and competitor analysis.
This year the cohort were invited on an exclusive mini-Venture Crawl, experiencing London’s start-up scene first-hand. Sustainable Ventures, Seven Dials Market and Somerset House opened their doors and spoke to students about climate tech, sustainability, and community initiatives for creative founders.
49 students applied to join the programme and ten (up from seven last year) went on to develop ideas relating to health and wellbeing, environmental sustainability and education technology.
“The Gamechangers programme was truly a one-of-a-kind experience. It gave me a deep understanding of the entire process and effort that goes into building a venture, from initial concept to execution. It enhanced my skills in areas I hadn’t fully explored before, providing practical insights and hands-on experience in a supportive environment and safe space where we could openly share our ideas.”
Shubhangi Kejriwal, MSc Economics & Finance student (KBS) and Gamechangers 2024 participant.
Read about Kanak Gupta’s (BSc Psychology student, IoPPN) Gamechanger experience on our website
Women Entrepreneurs Network
The Women Entrepreneurs Network (WEN) aims to achieve gender parity across the EI’s activities, with a key focus on the King’s Start-up Accelerator.
The network is open to all students, staff and alumni at King’s who identify as women or non-binary and are comfortable being in a space reflecting on gendered experiences. It increases members’ exposure to entrepreneurial skills, knowledge-sharing and support through a like-minded community.
In 2023-2024 we delivered 64 hours of skills learning to 229 women entrepreneurs. We diversified activities offered throughout the academic year, including:
• Business Brunch: An informal, social setting in which members could discuss their ideas and build their networks.
• Peer-to-Peer Pitching: Members could pitch their ideas to each other in a safe space and get feedback from their peers, whilst learning from each other.
• Mini-Venture Crawl: Members could experience entrepreneurship first-hand by connecting to real-world businesses, hear from founders and build their network. Stops on the crawl included Makerversity in Somerset House and hearing from the enterprise teams at Coutts Bank and NatWest.
Our WEN LinkedIn group also reached over 400 members this year.
Starting and Scaling Ventures
The EI supports students, staff and alumni from across King’s to start and scale ventures.
Since 2016, we’ve supported over 160 ventures to create solutions to some of the world’s biggest challenges. Collectively they have generated:
£103,385,585 £107,719,713 £10,562,611
1,368
People employed
The King’s Investor Network is key to the development of the ventures. We now have over 800 investors in our network, with 35% in the sectors of sustainability, health, AI and DeepTech. Our focus on relationship building enabled us to introduce 36 companies to 228 investors and other parties this year.
2023-24 saw significant changes to the ventures and acceleration offer at King’s College London.
King’s Start-up Accelerator
This year the King’s20 Accelerator became the King’s Start-up Accelerator, continuing as our flagship programme for supporting the brightest and highest potential ventures from across King’s.
Taking this step to review the accelerator means we’re no longer capped at supporting 20 ventures each year. The accelerator remains open to all King’s students, alumni and staff (where the founder owns 100% of their IP).
The timing and scheduling of the accelerator has also changed to better optimise ventures’ chances of becoming investment ready. Instead of running October – September, the accelerator moved to a June – May timeline, to sit in line with tax efficient investment schemes.
This new timeline will favourably enable King’s entrepreneurs to scale their endeavours and leverage greater opportunities within the investment space, more successfully and earlier than ever before.
London Demo Day
London Demo Day is an annual collaboration that introduces investors to the best and brightest innovation from London universities, with founder-owned IP. Ventures are in the early-growth stage and looking to raise between £100,000 - £1.5 million.
The event returned to Bush House in 2023, and for the first time welcomed the London School of Economics (LSE) to the collaboration. 20 ventures from Imperial College London, UCL, King’s and LSE pitched to an audience of 400+ including leading investors, students, partners and alumni.
Five ventures from the King’s Start-up Accelerator were selected to pitch on behalf of King’s – Enhanced Fertility, Psyrin, Bloume Health, BIOStress and Artfol. 50% of the pitching start-ups were health-related and all aligned with social impact. Other sectors included social networking, clean tech, green transportation, legal tech and immersive tech, representing the breadth of ideas and innovation coming from London’s top universities.
Since 2019, 45 innovative teams have pitched, collectively raising over £45m+ with a combined post-money valuation of £155m.
King’s Innovation Catalyst
Since 2021, the EI has worked closely with IP & Licensing Managers in Innovation@ King’s to provide support for King’s research community to explore the commercial potential of their research. As of November 2024, Innovation@King’s was re-launched as King’s Innovation Catalyst, with the same mission to connect King’s researchers with industry and funders to create life-changing innovation and impact at scale. King’s Innovation Catalyst brings together support for translational research, industry partnerships, IP strategy and commercialisation pathways.
This year, King’s cemented its plans to accelerate innovation by revising its IP Code of Practice. The new founder-led model fasttracks the research commercialisation process and offers greater incentives to founders and investors, alike. Academic founders now own 80% of pre-money equity in new spinouts,
with a fixed rate of 1% royalty and a royalty-free window of £50m. Aspiring entrepreneurs are also supported to invest ‘a day a week’ on their ventures at nil fee.
The university also announced a suite of accelerators:
• King’s MedTech Accelerator - a six-month part-time programme for King’s researchers and staff focused on transforming research innovation relating to medical devices and healthcare technologies, into viable healthcare ventures. This Accelerator is run by the London Institute for Healthcare Engineering.
• King’s Spinout Accelerator - A 12-month programme dedicated to supporting the translation of invention, born from groundbreaking research across King’s, launched in July 2024.
Diversity & Inclusion
Diversity is a key driver for innovation. Diversity of experiences, backgrounds, characteristics, lifestyles, perspectives, talents and more underpin the development of new and disruptive ideas that drive change and progress.
Every year we monitor the diversity of the community engaging with our programmes. The Equal Opportunities data shared in this section is declared by individuals engaged in our programming, at their own discretion. The results are benchmarked against overall student profiles from the King’s EDI Annual Report.
Gender at King’s College London
Participation by women in our programmes is very high, which is testament to our work and efforts to achieve gender parity. We're striving to improve our approach and programmes so they're accessible and inclusive to everyone.
Women
Non-Binary
Men Prefer not to say
King’s College London Students
Award
Idea Factory
Venture Crawl
Based on HESA data, which does not collect data on ‘Non-Binary’.
Disability at King’s College London
We continue to strive to make all our programmes as accessible as possible through hybrid delivery. However, we know we can do more, especially when it comes to representation within our storytelling.
Declared a disability
No disability declared
Prefer not to say
Ethnicity in the sector and at King’s
Whilst our data continues to be encouraging, there is still more work that we can do, particularly when it comes to representation across our entrepreneurial community.
College London Students
Based on HESA data, which does not collect data on ‘Latin American’.
Prefer not to say
Crawl
Affiliation to King’s (participants)
The EI supports all students, staff and alumni at King’s to develop an entrepreneurial mindset. Whilst some programming is prioritised for particular groups, it’s great to see people from across the King’s community developing their skills and ideas.
External Staff
Impactful Researcher Masterclasses
Women Entrepreneurs Network Mini-Venture Crawl
Faculty representation (participants)
Entrepreneurship is for everyone and anyone can become entrepreneurial. Our evidence of active participation from all King’s faculties is testament to this, but we can still do more to engage particular subject areas.
Faculty of Arts & Humanities
King’s Business School
Faculty of Dentistry, Oral & Craniofacial Sciences
Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine
Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience
Dickson Poon School of Law
Faculty of Natural, Mathematical & Engineering Sciences
Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery & Palliative Care
Faculty of Social Science & Public Policy
Sharing knowledge across King’s & beyond
This year the EI team has worked with different partners across King’s, and the wider entrepreneurial ecosystem, to transfer and share knowledge in the UK and overseas.
This activity demonstrates how we are using our experience and expertise to benefit the economy and society beyond academia. Highlights include:
• Participating in a £2.9m grant from the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR), focused on solving major challenges in the field of brain health and dementia research. The EI will deliver entrepreneurial skills content to participant innovators.
• Bush House hosted Enterprise Nation’s biggest start-up show of the year, opening King’s doors to 2,000+ founders, freelancers and entrepreneurs.
• Rachel Stockey, Head of Entrepreneurial Skills, spoke on BBC Radio 4’s Women’s Hour in a special programme ‘Who wants to be a female entrepreneur?’ She discussed funding for women entrepreneurs and practical tips for getting ideas off the ground.
• DeepTech Roadshow: We welcomed a delegation of US-based Venture Capitalists to Bush House to discuss the biggest opportunities in DeepTech. The event featured presentations from two King’s Start-up Accelerator alumni (Psyrin and Veed.io) and one King’s academic sharing his spinout (Tanglehold Gripper).
• Delivering entrepreneurial skills sessions to students from King’s Maths School and King’s College London School in Wimbledon.
• Hosting the Incubator and Accelerator Network (IAN) in the EI space with 70 delegates sharing best practice amongst incubator and accelerator managers across the UK.
• Partnering on a British Council funded project with Universiti Malaya and Tayor’s University in Malaysia, contributing case studies and content to a new health entrepreneurship module.
• Representing the EI at national and international conferences, including Start-up Higher and GCEC New Frontier: Bangkok Summit.
• Our King’s Investor Network came together for an Investor Breakfast, where six ventures from the King’s Start-up Accelerator were invited to connect with five ventures in the health sector.
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