Entrepreneurship Institute
Contents 04 Welcome to King’s20 Accelerator 2017–18 06 About King’s20 Accelerator 07 King’s Entrepreneurial Talent 08 Venture Overviews 28 About the Entrepreneurship Institute
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Welcome to the King’s20: Cohort II We are delighted to introduce you to the best 20 ventures at King’s College London, 20 high-potential, early-stage ventures selected from amongst our talented students, alumni and staff. King’s is dedicated to the advancement of knowledge and learning in the service of society. This year, King’s opened a new business school in the heart of London at the iconic Bush House. Entrepreneurship and its contribution to economies around the world will be at the heart of the King’s Business School. You will find the Entrepreneurship Institute located in the most visible spot in the building – the first thing you will see as you walk through the door.
Our second cohort follow hot-on-the-heels of our first cohort who spent 12 months with us, scaling with the help of free space, expert support and advice, investment and leadership coaching. Our first cohort achieved amazing things: by the end of their 12 months with us 11 of them had launched, creating 20 jobs and raising over £0.6 million in investment. Five of the 20 lead entrepreneurs won awards and, across the cohort, leadership skills increased by an average of 71%.
The Entrepreneurship Institute exists to support entrepreneurial thinking, skills and experiences amongst King’s students, staff and alumni. No matter what career students have ahead of them, skills to innovate and to be entrepreneurial will be invaluable. We support people to start up innovative new businesses, but also to promote innovation in their chosen careers as innovative medics, agile corporate employees and entrepreneurial public sector staff.
Amongst our second cohort you will find early-stage ventures working in education, robotics, fintech, tourism and health, and on technologies ranging from AI and robotics to virtual and augmented reality. The entrepreneurs represent 21 different nationalities; 25% of teams are led by a female entrepreneur, and 60% are led by overseas students collaborating with domestic students.
You will find the best of those who aspire to a career in entrepreneurship at the King’s20 Accelerator, part of the Entrepreneurship Institute.
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Our accelerator is different in two important ways: i) we focus heavily on the entrepreneur, before the venture, and support their development as leaders; and ii) by tracking ventures’ impact on society (through job creation, wealth creation and impact) the programme reflects King’s wider purpose and strategy.
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. As we strive to add entrepreneurship to the DNA of everyone at King’s, what will entrepreneurial thinking at King’s produce next? We hope that you enjoy our lookbook and the ventures and entrepreneurs featured. If you would like to support our entrepreneurs in any way, please email: edward.halliday@kcl.ac.uk My very special thanks to the skilled and hard-working team at the Entrepreneurship Institute who always work ‘in the service of society’. Our thanks and very best wishes. Julie Devonshire OBE
Director Entrepreneurship Institute
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About the King’s20 Accelerator
Sprints
Goals
Experts in residence Workshops and events
Customer Insights Market Research Establish company and team
Build and test MVP Validate/pivot idea Establish committed team
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King’s20 Accelerator is a 12-month programme to support 20 of the best King’s ventures to reach their potential.
3. Business model/market fit Launch products and secure customers Build operations for launch/growth Prepare to raise investment
Entrepreneur | Technologist | Coaches | Investor | Creative | Growth Hacker
Induction and bootcamp
Customer development
Rapid prototyping
Sales
Growth hacking
Raising investment
Pitching
Legal
Operations
This is a new programme to support and house 20 of the university’s highestpotential ventures at the prestigious Bush House building on Strand Campus. We give ventures transformational experiences – through expert mentoring, leadership coaching, inspiring workspace, learning resources, investment readiness support, and the grant funding to help them fly. Most of all, we want to develop their skills as entrepreneurial leaders for whatever challenges lie ahead. The programme offers £30,000 worth of support, including: 1. Access to our community: free office space for up to four team members in
our amazing coworking space in Bush House; networking and social events; and membership of our community of entrepreneurs and partners. 2. Expert mentorship: weekly one-to-ones with experts in Tech, Investment, Leadership Coaching, Creativity; and Growth Hacking; workshops on subjects such as sales, customer development, financial modelling, investment readiness, networking, pitching and more. 3. Leadership development: the chance to develop leadership skills required for future success, whether as an entrepreneur or beyond, through coaching, formative feedback and a leadership retreat to the UK Defence Academy. 4. Funding: the chance to compete for a share of £130,000 grant funding; entry into prize and funding competitions throughout the year; and the opportunity to pitch to a room of investors at Demo Day.
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King’s Entrepreneurial Talent Dr Bhavagaya Bakshi – Co-founder, C the Signs GP Bea Bakshi studied medicine at King’s. Seeing the poor rates of earlystage cancer diagnosis in the UK, she and fellow clinician Miles Payling founded C the Signs, a decision support tool for clinicians. The app’s trial has been a big success and its potential to save thousands of lives has had interest from the NHS and all major health Trusts. C the Signs have won multiple scholarships and the acclaimed People’s Choice award at the 2017 Tech4Good Awards. She said, ‘until recently, patients have typically been the receivers of healthcare. We want to shift the dynamic, so that patients feel empowered to be proactive about their health and take the lead.’ cthesigns.co.uk | @CtheSignsTool
Clarence Ji – Founder, Trarvel Clarence is the founder of Trarvel, an Augmented Reality app for tourists. From China, Clarence studied Computer Science as an international student at King’s and is now on a UK exceptional talent visa. In 2016 Clarence was voted one of the top 10 entrepreneurs in London under 30. Trarvel is currently in Beta testing ahead of a full launch in autumn 2017. The app has received national coverage and interest from organisations including London & Partners and Dubai tourism. trarvel.com | @Trarvel
Ross Lindgren – Founder, 1ClickPromos Ross, a King’s Business Management graduate, is the founder of video production company 1ClickPromos. Working with clients including a large financial consultancy, a juice brand stocked in Harrods and Waitrose and numerous departments at King's, the company has added two production staff and turned over £10,000 in revenue a month. The marketing videos reach in excess of 40,000 views, and have helped brands substantially raise their profile. ‘Since I’ve been on the King’s20 Accelerator my venture has really taken off. The support from the King’s20 program helped me understand what the business needed to survive and thrive.’ 1clickpromos.com | @1ClickPromos
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Technology
Focus Focus is a design app that brings everything together. It allows users to add tasks to their designs and gives design teams an overview of their work.
King’s Team Leader: Lukas Ondrej Undergraduate, BSc Computer Science, 2016 Additional co-founders: Kamil Ondrej
Problem
Market
When designing, having to constantly switch away from the design software to other apps breaks the creative process; it is easy to get distracted and sidetrack, wasting valuable time and team collaboration is often not transparent, for example not knowing what exactly has been done, by whom and why.
Our market consists of UI and UX designers. They always keep up with latest trends and are constantly looking to improve their workflow, especially through using third party apps. There are around 550,000 designers worldwide and the market has an annual growth of 2.3 per cent, with annual revenues of $57 billion.
Solution
Traction
Using Focus, tasks can be added straight into design software and linked to layers, allowing the user to easily navigate their documents. Our machine learning algorithm suggests the best task to do next. Teamwork is greatly enhanced by keeping everyone in the loop and with service integrations.
Over 30,000 site visits and 6,200 app downloads since launching in summer 2016, generating over £4,500 revenue. Finalist in King’s Idea Factory Award 2017 and received a Santander enterprise award 2017. Featured in Bohemian Coding monthly newsletter and on Medium.
Get in touch: hello@designwithfocus.com | designwithfocus.com | @designwithfocus 08 King’s20 Accelerator Lookbook October 2017
Technology
Memento Memento uses crowd-sourced photography to recreate events, like weddings and concerts, that you can experience in VR as if you were there.
King’s Team Leader: Michael Truong Alumni, PhD in Imaging Sciences and Biomedical Engineering, 2008 Additional co-founders: Olga Kravchenko
Problem
Market
People capture their special moments to share and relive the experience. But professional photographers are expensive and photo albums are one-dimensional. With everyone owning a smartphone and virtual reality now becoming the norm, there must be a better way to capture and recreate the moment.
In the first instance, we have identified the wedding market to the be most sustainable and accessible. This market is huge – there are 300,000 weddings in the UK each year. Couples spends £720 million hiring professional photographers and videographers (£2,400 per wedding). The global TAM is £65 billion.
Solution
Traction
We are building Memento; an end-toend solution that turns everyone into a photographer. Then we use artificial intelligence to piece together the photos into a dynamic and immersive virtual reality scene that can be shared and replayed.
MVP launching November 2017. Currently exploring partnership with two major UK event companies. Completed first product trial in July.
Get in touch: michael@memento.media | memento.media | @mementoVR kcl.ac.uk/entrepreneurship-institute 09
Technology
Mila Mila is giving machines vision to understand human behaviour allowing developers to build a new relationship between humans and machines.
King’s Team Leader: Răzvan-Gabriel Geangu Undergraduate, BSc Computer Science and Management, 2015
Problem
Market
Companies face inefficiency due to the high intervention in interpreting video data and writing reports. Using computer vision to understand the videos will increase business workflow by automating the process and redistribute the human resources to tasks that will bring more value to the business.
Robotics: a market that is predicted to hit £105 billion in 2019; Healthcare: The global market for IoT healthcare will be more than £80 billion by 2020; Security: computer vision plays a significant role in intelligence and warning, protecting critical infrastructure and domestic counterterrorism.
Solution We offer a platform that can be trained to understand and analyse any human activity or behaviour. Customers have the power to visualise statistics in real time or visualise them as a comprehensive report of the entire video capture on a selected template.
Get in touch: contact@mila.ai | mila.ai 10 King’s20 Accelerator Lookbook October 2017
Traction Launching in early 2018.
Technology
Principium Solutions We create targeted software automation solutions in industry to reduce costs and free human capital from repetitive tasks.
King’s Team Leaders: Arthur Zargaryan Undergraduate, BSc Computer Science with Robotics, 2015 Additional co-founders: Luca Mozzo
Problem
Market
E-commerce sales reached ÂŁ133bn in 2016 and are growing year on year by 15 per cent. Combined with the favourite method of delivery being to the home, reception teams at residential buildings are being consumed by the growing workload associated with the increased influx of parcels.
Our company will operate on a business to business level. The total addressable market is estimated at over 100,000 buildings (Residential and Office building in the UK that use concierge service and receptionists for parcel management).
Solution
Secured one major real estate developer as a client. We are aiming to finish the software license by the end of October.
Our initial product is InMail a mailroom management automation tool. This tool allows receptionists and mailroom workers at large buildings to quickly scan parcel labels using the phone camera, which automatically notifies tenants that their parcels have arrived via email and text notifications.
Traction
Get in touch: arthur@principiumsolutions.com | principiumsolutions.com kcl.ac.uk/entrepreneurship-institute 11
Technology
Veed Veed is a web platform that make it easy for media publishers to create engaging video with no editing skills required.
King’s Team Leader: Timur Mamedov Undergraduate, BSc Computer Science, 2014 Additional co-founders: Sabba Keynejad
Problem
Market
It is expensive and takes specialist skills and time to create content marketing videos at scale. Media publishers are finding it hard to stand out on social media with so many companies fighting for your attention. Hiring skilled video editors is expensive, requires training and doesn’t scale.
Small-mid size e-com companies (eg Uniqlo) and small-mid size news companies (eg LADbible) as an entry market. Approximate size of video ad market is £35 billion.
Solution Simple online video editor that makes it easy to create videos and tell stories. We let users upload images and videos and add text, music and voiceovers to tell a story. We also analyse your text and suggest videos and images that go nicely with it. You can export your video to any platform later.
Get in touch: t@veed.io | veed.io 12 King’s20 Accelerator Lookbook October 2017
Traction Launching October 2017, selling to media companies and publishers.
FinTech
Crypto Haven Crypto Haven makes managing cryptocurrenvy investments across multiple platforms simple and intuitive.
King’s Team Leader: Darren James Undergraduate, BSc Computer Science, 2013 Additional co-founders: Alan Abdo, Dovydas Rupsys
Problem
Market
Existing cryptocurrency portfolio management apps are limited in features and cumbersome to use, especially for new and inexperienced investors.
Cryptocurrencies have a combined market cap of over $90 billion with a daily trading volume in excess of $3 billion. Our users will be both experienced crypto-investors, in need of an app for consolidating their portfolios, and new investors in search of an easy accessible entry point to the market.
Solution We will use API keys that will allow us to automatically collect investment position data from a range of other exchanges and brokers and display this in an organised and informative manner. This will allow investors to track all of their investments in real-time on a single application.
Traction Launching in early 2018.
Get in touch: cryptohaven.contact@gmail.com kcl.ac.uk/entrepreneurship-institute 13
Health & Social Care
Vivum Health Vivum Health is a decentralised patient record that streamlines patient-doctor interaction and provides continuous health monitoring.
King’s Team Leaders: Maximilian Kerz Postgraduate, Doctor of Philosophy, 2011 Additional co-founders: Herkulano Campos
Problem
Market
An increasing life-expectancy in emerging economies has raised the rate of noncommunicable diseases. Current patient pathways are healthcare infrastructure dependent, placing a detrimental burden on staff and clinicians, leading to patient backlogs, high medical costs, and reduced quality of life.
The application is free to download for health providers and patients. Health providers pay a subscription fee based on their number of patients. After initial growth, other revenue streams are possible: micro health insurance, real-time public health data analytics, integrated payment systems.
Solution
Traction
Vivum Health streamlines access to healthcare by relieving stress on local healthcare infrastructures through remote pre-screening and admitting patients, optimising resources through real-time patient-doctor feedback and relaying public health insights.
Launching in early 2018 to health NGOs who work with small healthcare facilities in our countries of interest. Came 2nd in the Kopfadeyemi Fellowship African Healthcare Challenge.
Get in touch: maximilian@vivumhealth.com | vivumhealth.com | @VivumHealth 14 King’s20 Accelerator Lookbook October 2017
Retail & Consumer Products
Attollo Lingerie Attollo is a D+ lingerie brand, for sizes 28D-34GG, co-designed with customers to create lingerie that is beautiful, with unrivaled uplift!
King’s Team Leaders: Fleurette Mulcahy, Alice Holden Alumni, BA Geography, 2011
Problem
Market
9.1 million women in the UK are D+ and market research has shown that 81 per cent of them do not like bras available in their sizes and 52 per cent do not like being fitted for a bra in a store environment. Lingerie available for D+ women is frumpy, beige and matronly, making these women feel self-conscious and unstylish.
The UK lingerie sector is estimated at £3.9 billion, growing on average 5.1 per cent per annum. Currently, 9.1 million UK women are D+ and market research shows that 81 per cent of them don’t like bras available in their sizes. Annually, our target market shop twice a year for two lingerie sets, spending £189.
Solution
Traction
Attollo’s range is co-designed with customers, putting their needs at the forefront of the design process, revolutionising the way our lingerie is made and giving D+ women lingerie that they are finally excited to wear. Tailored to our small band, large cup niche, our bras give unrivaled uplift.
Over £340,000 revenue since launching in 2017, and £170,000 equity investment raised. Featured in Vogue, Cosmopolitan, Tatler, GQ and Huffington Post.
Get in touch: directors@attollolingerie.com | attollolingerie.com | @AttolloLingerie kcl.ac.uk/entrepreneurship-institute 15
Retail & Consumer Products
Beau Nuage Beau Nuage is a French start up specialising in the production and sale of innovative and fashionable rain accessories.
King’s Team Leader: Aurelien Rinaldi Undergraduate, BSc Maths with Management and Finance, 2010 Additional co-founders: Antoine Gros
Problem
Market
Three words best describe our products: innovative, practical and trendy. Our main objective is to simplify people’s life on a daily basis, with ingenious and simple innovations, but also with chic designs in line with fashion and current trends.
Our main target group is women between 25-40 who are typically looking for an trendy and innovative rain accessory, including umbrellas, backpacks (and soon raincoats). They usually spend between £25/30 for an umbrella, and £80/100 for a bag.
Solution Every new product we launch is innovative, for instance, our current main accessory is a high-quality umbrella you can slip into a revolutionary, micro fiber, zipped cover. Thanks to this cover your umbrella can always be kept dry in your handbag or even in one of your pockets!
Traction Made €110,000 from over 5,000 customers since launching in 2016. Have raised a total of £110,000 equity and grant funding so far. Currently have 70 retail sites across France, Belgium and UK, and also sell online. Recently awarded a grant from the Banque Publique d’Investissement, and were featured in the FT, ELLE Magazine national TV in France.
Get in touch: aurelien.rinaldi@beau-nuage.com | beau-nuage.com | @Beau_Nuage 16 King’s20 Accelerator Lookbook October 2017
Retail & Consumer Products
Regal Gentleman Regal Gentleman offers our customer niche high quality, organic products at a competitive price.
King’s Team Leaders: Josh Blackburn Staff member Additional co-founders: Liam Jennings
Problem
Market
Regal Gentleman are addressing three key problems currently in men’s grooming. 1) Lack of natural, organic products at a fair price that’s packaged in a masculine way. 2) Lack of real education in the male grooming sector. 3) Beauty is still seen as a very feminine industry.
Our primary target audience are males aged 24–35. The men’s hair styling market is now valued at $5 billion worldwide. Men’s grooming as a whole is estimated to reach $60 billion by 2020.
Solution We are at first creating a hair styling range that will be using organic extracts, natural plant extracts and no parabens/artificial colouring. We will educate our audience as to the best products for them, how they should be using them, which haircuts will suit them via our blog and Youtube..
Traction 1,500+ customers so far, and social media community of 50,000. Featured in GQ, Men’s Health, Shortlist & Esquire. Founders have been judges for the men’s awards in the beauty shortlist. 20th in the mens grooming top 50 blogs award. Own product line launching in 2018.
Get in touch: info@regalgentleman.com | regalgentleman.com kcl.ac.uk/entrepreneurship-institute 17
Tourism
Awesome Trip.co.uk AwesomeTrip.co.uk is a hotel booking platform with deep discounts for international students through their student societies. King’s Team Leader: Kit Brennan Undergraduate, Law LLB, 2009
Problem
Market
AwesomeTrip.co.uk directly partners with student societies, dramatically decreasing its customer acquisition costs and passing those saving on to students. As a result, the average room is 10 per cent cheaper on AwesomeTrip.co.uk than the best available rate elsewhere.
Our partners are international student societies (2,600 in UK), with a reach of 438,000 international students. Their total spend is £386 million a year on hotel rooms.
Solution
Traction Launching a working demo to student societies at King’s in late 2017 ahead of a full launch in 2018.
AwesomeTrip.co.uk is a hotel booking portal that directly partners with student societies. The student societies receive commission for promoting AwesomeTrip. co.uk and the end customers receive deep discounts.
Get in touch: hello@awesometrip.co.uk | awesometrip.co.uk 18 King’s20 Accelerator Lookbook October 2017
Education
Edvent Edvent is an education and learning company providing a SaaS platform for universities, corporates and SMEs to train and recruit students
King’s Team Leaders: Mark Corbett Undergraduate, BA Philosophy, 2017 Additional co-founders: Umesh Kumar
Problem
Market
The soft skills gap young people face entering employment and building their futures. Universities are under great pressure to prove value for the degree, whilst 50% of graduate recruiters believe students applications lack the skills required to work for them, despite each hire costing £7,000+.
Global university market and entire youth education market, ranging from schools to charities. Universities will spend tens of thousands on enterprise developing societies, and corporates £7,000+ per new hire they bring into the business.
Solution
£14,000 revenue from eight clients so far. Current pipeline includes 25 warm client leads in UK, Canada and India.
A SaaS platform that allows universities to take charge of developing students’ soft skills, whilst giving recruiters clear access to the best talent for the best price.
Traction
Get in touch: mark@edvent.life | edvent.life | @edventlife kcl.ac.uk/entrepreneurship-institute 19
Charities & Non-profit
Museum 2.0 Museum 2.0 creates educational, cultural and entertaining content for children using VR as the main platform.
King’s Team Leader: Olga Kravchenko Postgraduate, MA Arts and Cultural Management, 2016 Additional co-founders: Michael Truong
Problem
Market
Parents struggle with their children spending all day long in useless content on their smartphones and struggle to make them culturally engaged.
Target market is the eight million families with a dependent child in the UK
Solution We offer edutainment that uses virtual reality to deliver fun and useful content for under 12s.
Get in touch: olkrava@gmail.com 20 King’s20 Accelerator Lookbook October 2017
Traction MVP launching November 2017 following successful pilot in June 2017. In negotiation with two major UK events companies to sell and promote product.
Education
Project Access Project Access widens access to top universities for underprivileged students by offering free mentoring.
King’s Team Leaders: Hannah Niese Undergraduate, BA European Studies (Spanish Pathway), 2013 Additional co-founders: Rune Tybirk Kvist, Nicholas Butts, Anna Gross
Problem
Market
Learning potential is equally distributed – access to top academic institutions is not. Underprivileged students are less likely to apply to top universities, are less likely to get accepted and are more likely to drop out due to lack of role modelling, encouragement and advice.
Our service is forever free for the users. Our users are high-achieving low-income high school students from around the world (we’re currently in 20 countries). In 2016 UK top universities alone spent £750 million on access activities though without great progress.
Solution
Traction
Mobilising the current student community. Our volunteer mentors acts as role models and advisors during the application process; providing application guidance, funding tips, feedback on essays and mock interviews
Secured almost 1,000 users and 150 mentors across the world since launching in 2016. £210,000 grant funding secured.
Get in touch: hannah@projectaccess.co | projectaccess.co | @projectaccess_ kcl.ac.uk/entrepreneurship-institute 21
Education
Supernotes Supernotes is an active learning environment that provides a unified, collaborative workflow between educators and their students.
King’s Team Leaders: Tobias Whetton Undergraduate, BEng Biomedical Engineering, 2014 Additional co-founders: Connor Neblett
Problem
Market
The e-learning market is comprised of superficial tools that suffer because they focus on course management rather than the heart of learning: content. As a result, these Learning Management Systems (LMS) tend to be highly frictive environments that are tiresome to use for students and teachers.
Initially, Supernotes is targeting the higher education Learning Management Market market, worth $680 million in 2015 and expected to reach $2.02 billion by 2021. Our customers can be entire educational institutions, the individual departments within them, or students themselves, of which there are 2.28 million in the UK.
Solution
Traction
We are improving the status quo by prioritising content over management. On the Supernotes platform, course materials are front and center in a cleanly unified, available-everywhere interface. All the tools you need to create, adapt, and collaborate are easily accessible right alongside the content.
Trial agreed with King’s Biomedical Engineering department, starting in January 2018. Launching fully-functional and beta-tested product, ready for initial monetisation, in Summer 2018.
Get in touch: info@supernotes.io | supernotes.io | @supernotesio 22 King’s20 Accelerator Lookbook October 2017
Education
Prime Revision App Prime Revision App is an affordable, interactive and effective online and offline test platform for school and professional examination.
King’s Team Leader: Asare Emmanuel Domfeh Alumni, PhD in Medicine, 2015 Additional co-founders: Philip Quaicoe, Nana Aboagye
Problem
Market
Access to revision materials for school and professional exams in the developing world is increasingly difficult, and remains unchanged by advances in technology.
Our aim is to capture at least 2.5 per cent (300,000) of target market (UK, Ghana,Nigeria,Uganda,Kenya & Tanzania) of 12 million students and professionals in the first 12 months. On average each student/professional buys four items. At a cost £1.00 per item, this will amount to £1,200,000 in the first year.
Solution Access to a dynamic, quality and affordable test prep with expert local content can help in addressing this problem. The Prime Revision app provides an affordable, accessible, interactive and effective online and offline test platform for school and professional examination.
Traction Version 1 (WASSCE Ready App) has made £18,000 revenue generated so far from 1000+ unique app downloads, and £25,000 investment raised.
Get in touch: eselectcompany@gmail.com kcl.ac.uk/entrepreneurship-institute 23
Food & Beverage
German Kraft Brewing German Kraft in on a mission to serve freshly-brewed, quality beer to beer lovers.
King’s Team Leader: Michele Tieghi Undergraduate, BSc Business Management, 2014 Additional co-founders: Felix Bollen, Anton Borkmann, Florian Bollen
Problem
Market
We aim to solve the problem of small craft brewers having no access to their own well must rely on of unsuitable tap water for brewing.
Our market is beer lovers, especially those looking for quality. The global craft beer market is forecast to reach over $500bn USD by 2022.
Solution
Traction
Exclusive water distillation and mineralization technology allows us to consistently create the perfect brewing water for beer.
Raised £100k investment ahead of launch in late 2017. Already secured two major food and beverage retailers as clients.
Get in touch: tieghimichele@gmail.com 24 King’s20 Accelerator Lookbook October 2017
Charities & Non-profit
KindLink KindLink is an online platform for corporate social responsibility management and promotion.
King’s Team Leaders: Adriano Mancinelli Alumni, MA Conflict and Development, 2012 Additional co-founders: Iskren Kulev, Jaki Barnett, Desislav Kamenov, Agnese Manfrin
Problem
Market
More than 75% of UK companies contribute to charities by donating, raising funds, or volunteering, and CSR is increasingly recognised as crucial to a company’s image. Yet, there is no digital tool for organising and promoting these activities internally to employees and externally to customers.
We target any business that supports charities causes in the UK and US. The ideal business client has more than 200 employees. There are not rival products comparable to ours, however, companies easily spent between £1,000-£6,000 per year for fundraising fees on more expensive platforms.
Solution
Traction
KindLink provides businesses with an online platform to record and manage their social impact and employee engagement with charities and community causes. All with the mission to improve their engagement with employees and clients while building their brands both internally and externally.
Three client contracts secured, and three more in the pipeline. Featured on the BBC, and recognised as top 10-SME of 2017 from Digital Leaders. Three nominations for Federation of Small Businesses awards.
Get in touch: adriano.mancinelli@kindlink.com | kindlink.com kcl.ac.uk/entrepreneurship-institute 25
Charities & Non-profit
Girls United Football Association Girls United uses football as a tool to empower girls by establishing sustainable grassroots academies for communities in low-income areas.
King’s Team Leader: Romina Calatayud Alumni, BA Liberal Arts, Politics Major, 2012
Problem
Market
We are addressing the large gender gap in sport and education which feed broader limiting notions of inequality, the lack of encouragement for physical activity and good health and the lack of public services offering sport for girls – all of which are accentuated issues in low-income areas.
The target market for the service are girls of the local communities between the ages of 6-20. They are members of low-income areas where economic activity is limited to two or three sectors.
Solution We offer football sessions for girls that are accessible spaces to be physically active and focused on developing essential skills (such as self-esteem, leadership and teamwork) whilst levelling the playing field with the boys. We provide the local community with support to maintain the project.
Traction Almost £25,000 revenue and £15,000 in grant funding since launching in Summer 2017. Has worked with 105 students and secured 16 volunteer coaches.
Get in touch: romina.girlsunited@outlook.com | girlsunitedfa.org | @girlsunitedfa 26 King’s20 Accelerator Lookbook October 2017
Energy & Utilities
Aquae Vitae Aquae Vitae is a water battery that desalinates and purifies water and generates electricity.
King’s Team Leader: Sanaa Saiyed Undergraduate, BSc Physics, 2011
Problem
Market
Finding other sources of renewable energy. Providing clean drinking water in areas where clean drinking water is not available. Also there is an opportunity to save electricity in every household across the world.
The market is household users who spend approximately £575 to £2,500 on similar products. Then there are also commercial users who spend between £1,300 and £5,000 on similar products. In addition, areas where there is a scarcity of clean drinking water and electricity.
Solution Our solution is a device that carries out three functions in one. It can desalinate water, purify water as well as generate electricity. Thereby being another source of renewable energy, providing clean drinking water and saving electricity.
Traction Launching in September 2018. In process of patenting the product. Won the King’s Idea Factory ‘Best Idea Award’ 2017, and secured £1,500 grant funding.
Get in touch: aquaevitaeuk@gmail.com | aquaevitae.co.uk | @AquaeVitae_UK kcl.ac.uk/entrepreneurship-institute 27
About the Entrepreneurship Institute
The Entrepreneurship Institute, King’s College London, serves as the University’s flagship, extra-curricular entrepreneurial hub. We support students, staff and alumni by introducing the concept of entrepreneurship, helping them to meet inspiring, entrepreneurial people; developing their leadership and entrepreneurial skills; offering the chance to launch and scale entrepreneurial ideas and creating a community where experiences are shared and enhanced.
The Institute is student-led, and we co-create our activities with our communities. We focus on diversity, inclusiveness and first and foremost on developing entrepreneurial leaders with skills like self-efficacy, esilience, creativity, collaboration and purpose. Like King’s, we aim to work ‘in the service of society’, with a commitment to up-skilling our students, enhancing their experiences, boosting their future prospects, contributing to societal progress and adding value to our national and gloabl economy.
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