Dragons' Den

QUB’s Dragons’ Den, competition is one of many initiatives organised by SU Enterprise, the entrepreneurial arm of Queen’s Students’ Union which helps students develop enterprise skills and start their own businesses. Dragons’ Den competitors develop a wealth of business skills including pitching, marketing, finance and legal issues.

First place: VioFeel

Project:

VioFeel provides relief for Bilateral Vestibular Loss (BVL) sufferers by capturing head movement data via a comfortable earpiece and translating it into haptic feedback through wristbands.

Students:

David Boriceanu – Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Bailey Mallon – Software and Electronic Systems Engineering
Sean Webb – Software and Electronic Systems Engineering
Scott McNeilly – Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Obada Tellawi – Software and Electronic Systems Mechanical Engineering

Awarded: £10,000 (£3,000 from Engineers in Business)

Positive feedback

It is a privilege to be a part of the Engineers in Business Network and to be a recipient of this prize fund. The prize fund adds significant value to our QUB Dragons’ Den competition, enabling us to award extra funding to extremely talented student engineers with a unique, potentially life-changing business proposition. Being linked to Engineers in Business also contributes to the competition as it encourages more engineers to apply to the competition, ultimately resulting in more high-quality applications.

Judith Maguire
Enterprise Manager
Queen’s University Belfast