UCL MSc Entrepreneurship Pitch Day

The MSc Entrepreneurship at UCL School of Management is UCL’s flagship Entrepreneurial course. During a one-year programme designed for students who intend to start and run high-impact businesses, they learn to research and develop new ideas. UCL School of Management gives students the skills to take an idea and turn it into a business. Through courses like prototyping, marketing and finance students are being prepared for the range of challenges entrepreneurs face every day, there is also special attention to founder wellbeing. The programme offers three pathways: technology entrepreneurship, fintech and retail and consumer entrepreneurship. Numerous successful start-ups have emerged directly from the course.

Best Idea: What’s Yours Is Mine

Project:

Saoirse Kelly,  MSc Entrepreneurship, won the Best Ideas prize for her innovation What’s Yours is Mine and was awarded a £1,000 Engineers in Business Prize

What’s Yours Is Mine (WYIM) is a platform where university campus students upload pre-loved clothes in exchange for tokens. Users give their items a new life and can swap clothes with people who share a similar fashion sense.

Saoirse said: “The best part of WYIM (not including saving the planet whilst looking chic) is that you get to meet people from your university or other universities in your area. When you check an item out you meet up in person to swap items. If you share the same fashion sense, think about what else you could have in common.”

Awarded: £1,000

Best Pitch: Task Free

Project:

Amanda Alexakos, MSc Entrepreneurship graduate, won the Best Pitch prize for her innovation, Task Free – she was awarded a £1,000 Engineers in Business Prize

Task Free is a marketplace where busy individuals can find instant help with their everyday to-do list, in order to unlock more free time. Services include household chores, shopping, delivery, out-of-home errands, pet care and more.
Amanda’s goal is to help people connect with Task Experts to allow users to free up more time to do the things they enjoy.

Awarded: £1,000

Best Showcase: Callo

Project:

Fassa Sar, MSc Entrepreneurship, School of Management graduate won the People’s Choice prize for her innovation Callo and was awarded a £1,000 Engineers in Business Prize

Callo is a  platform for creatives and business collaborators in film and television to discover, meet, and manage relationships. Fassa understands that a solid relationship fit is the foundation of any creative project, so Callo’s mission is simple: reveal creative partners unique to clients and accelerate projects.

Awarded: £1,000

Positive feedback

Our partnership with the Engineers in Business Fellowship (EIBF) once again created an opportunity for our student-founders to continue working on their startup ideas over the summer and we hope to see some of them at the EIBC Grand Final.

Simon Hulme
Associate Professor (Education)
Programme Director (MSc Entrepreneurship)
UCL School of Management