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Venture Further
Business start-up competition
Awards Brochure 2020
#VentureFurtherUoM alliancembs
Venture Further 2020
Welcome from the Director of
the Masood Enterprise Centre
The University of Manchester’s annual Venture Further Awards
event is the showcase that allows us to celebrate the amazing
entrepreneurial talent of our students and recent graduates.
The Masood Enterprise Centre is the focal have the opportunity to receive support
point for enterprise and entrepreneurship. from expert groups across the University
Designed to nurture and highlight the wide and its wider networks.
range of entrepreneurial students and
alumni at The University of Manchester, the Finding financial support to go from an
Venture Further competition continues to idea to an actual business is one of the
evolve and grow. Now in its 15th year, the most difficult hurdles that entrepreneurs
competition has helped to launch many face and the cash prizes in this competition
successful new ventures and careers and will support the winning teams to get the
we will continue to encourage and support business started.
the development of new businesses based
on the innovative opportunities identified As we uncover real talent for business,
by our students and graduates. we hope you will agree that here at
Manchester we are creating graduates
Venture Further enables students and with the skills and confidence to identify
recent alumni from all disciplines across and act upon new opportunities.
the University to gain practical business
planning skills and receive expert support I would like to offer a special thank you for
in progressing their business ideas. all the help and support we receive from
Over five categories – business, creative, our alumni, our colleagues across the
environmental, social and technology – University, our wider support partners
the finalists have submitted detailed and this year’s competition sponsors
business plans and pitched their Fuel Card Services, IBM, Manchester
proposals to panels of expert judges. Science Partnerships and Vita Student.
Yet again, the standard of entries has been
incredibly high – it is great to see so many
entrepreneurial students from a range of
academic disciplines that are serious about
starting a business. This year’s winners will Lynn Sheppard
receive prize money totalling £75,000 and Director, Masood Enterprise Centre
Venture Further 2020
Awards Host
Professor Vikas Shah MBE
Serial-entrepreneur and philanthropist, Vikas Shah MBE
is a Visiting Professor of Entrepreneurship at MIT Sloan
(The Lisbon MBA), Honorary Professor of Business at
the Alliance Manchester Business School, The University
of Manchester and an Honorary Industry Fellow at the
University of Salford Business School.
Vikas started his first technology business Vikas is a member of the UK Industrial
aged 14, and is currently CEO of Swiscot Development Advisory Board, which
Group - a diversified international trading advises the UK Government on over
business. He is a venture-investor in £4.5billion of investments and a board
fast-growing technology businesses and advisor on digital strategy to the British
sits as a Non-Executive Director and Council. He is also Former President and a
advisor to numerous organisations. Board Member of TiE UK (a chapter of the
Vikas was awarded an MBE for Services to world’s largest entrepreneur’s network).
Business and the Economy in Her Majesty
the Queen’s 2018 New Year’s Honours List. As a philanthropist, Vikas sits as Chairman
of the Board at FutureEverything, a social
Vikas has mentored hundreds of enterprise and festival at the forefront of
businesses, guiding many from the earliest digital culture and In Place of War, an
seed of their idea, to IPO and exit. Through international peace building and
his career as an entrepreneur, investor and entrepreneurship NGO. He is also a
strategist, he has had personal experience trustee at Mustard Tree, a social enterprise
of starting, building and operating tackling poverty and homelessness.
businesses at scale, across the world.
Since 2007, Vikas has interviewed some of
As a speaker at the largest TEDx event in the leading thinkers in the world on his
Europe, Vikas is no stranger to public journal, ‘Thought Economics’. Some of his
speaking. With international experience interviewees include; Melinda Gates, Sheryl
delivering keynotes, Vikas has provided Sandberg, Buzz Aldrin, Usain Bolt, Steve
insights at industry panels and business Ballmer, Will.I.Am, Cmdr. Chris Hadfield,
conferences, and is frequently called on to Noam Chomsky, Maya Angelou, Sir James
provide commentary by the media including Dyson, John Sculley, Bear Grylls and 4
The Economist, Guardian, BBC, Sky News, Nobel Peace Prize Winners on global
Bloomberg and The Financial Times. peacebuilding to name just a few!
Venture Further 2020
Previous Award Winner Guest Speaker
Dr Scott Martin Professor Andy Stanford-Clark
Scott Martin is founder and CEO of Andy Stanford-Clark is IBM’s Chief
Recourse AI, a qualified doctor, and a Technology Officer for the UK and Ireland.
fellow of the NHS England Clinical He is an IBM Distinguished Engineer
Entrepreneur Programme. Scott studied and Master Inventor with more than
at Alliance Manchester Business School 40 patents, and has a long background
in 2018 and applied to the Venture in Internet of Things technologies.
Further competition with Recourse AI Andy is a corporate entrepreneur, an
- at the time named AI Patient. He went innovator and a serial problem solver.
on to win the Digital category along with
co-founder Maksim Belousov, who Andy is based at IBM’s Hursley Park connecting his house via the MQTT
recently completed his PhD in Artificial laboratories in the UK, and has been working protocol to Twitter.
in the area that we now call the Internet of
intelligence at the University. Things for more than 20 years. He has a BSc In 2010 he became Chief Technology
in Computing and Mathematics, and a PhD Officer of Smart Energy Technologies, as
in Computer Science. He is a Visiting part of IBM’s smarter planet strategy, based
The success in the Venture Further conversational role-play with virtual Professor at the University of Newcastle, on his background in pervasive messaging.
competition led Scott to secure private humans, accelerating learning for critical an Honorary Professor at the University of
investment for the company during his final communication skills, making learners East Anglia, an Adjunct Professor at the A self-confessed electronics hobbyist,
year of medical school, going on to raise more confident, and increasing knowledge University of Southampton, and a Fellow specialising in technologies which help
over £450,000 in funding including national retention. As a result, medical students of the British Computer Society. to make the planet smarter, Andy is a
government grants. Most recently, the can now gain clinical experience remotely software engineer with a difference. His
team were successful in Innovate UK’s through voice-based consultations with Andy joined IBM in 1991 in the hobby of home automation and his passion
highly competitive “Business-led virtual patients, and receive instant Communications Software group, for energy saving converges with the
innovation in response to global feedback on their diagnoses. performing a number of roles focusing Internet of Things. This has led to projects
disruption”, to support the NHS in their primarily on parallel processing and that have helped alleviate energy poverty
response to the Coronavirus pandemic. In this time of uncertainty with mental pervasive messaging. In 1999, Andy in social housing, and technology that is
ill-health on the rise, Recourse are on collaborated with Arlen Nipper to author helping look after elderly and vulnerable
Scott identified the need for a “healthcare a mission to provide exposure to the first version of the MQ Telemetry people in their homes. As a TEDx speaker
flight simulator” during his medical training, challenging interactions so that whether Transport (MQTT) protocol, enabling and with appearances on the BBC, Andy is
leading Recourse to develop Virtual Human you are a doctor, manager, or university telemetry or lightweight sensor and mobile well versed in sharing his amazing career
training technology powered by artificial tutor, you can be prepared to have that systems to provide information to highlights and what life is like at IBM – an
intelligence. The platform simulates lifesaving conversation. computer programs via a publish/subscribe environment in which it’s OK to innovate.
mechanism. In the late 2000s, Andy gained
international media attention for this after
Venture Further 2020
Manchester is the place where people do things. It is good
to talk about doing things, but better still to do them.
Venue Edward Abbott Parry
Facebook Live
The judging panel
Programme
16:30
Welcome Competition Organiser Creative Social
Ellie Buckley Emily Austen Dr Leigh Wharton
16:40
Enterprise Business Development Executive, CEO, EMERGE Director, Bubble Partnership Ltd
Previous Award Winner Masood Enterprise Centre, Lecturer in Entrepreneurship &
Scott Martin, Recourse AI Alliance Manchester Business School Rachel Kenyon Innovation Management,
Business Engagement Lead, The University of Manchester
The University of Manchester
16:45 Richard Wolff
Awards Presentation Chair Dr Simon Parry CEO, Javelin Group
Business Lecturer in Drama and Arts
Creative Lynn Sheppard Management & Associate Director Anne Woolhouse
Director, Masood Enterprise Centre, for Social Responsibility, Investment Manager, Resonance
Environmental
Alliance Manchester Business School The University of Manchester
Social
Technology
Business Environmental Technology
17:30
Guest Speaker Saq Rasul Chris Bradley John Holden
Andy Stanford-Clark, IBM Head of Integrated Business Engagement, Head of Group Sales, Fuel Card Services Associate Vice-President for Major Special
The University of Manchester Projects, The University of Manchester
Jason Gould
17:35 Mark Sibley Founder & Director, Percipient Capital Kevin Lomax
Q&A Managing Director, Deutsche Bank AG Chairman, Envestors Ltd
Dr Claudia Henninger
Lecturer in Fashion Marketing Management, Martyn Spink
18:00 The University of Manchester Programme Director, IBM UK Research
Close Team, IBM
Venture Further 2020
Business finalists
If you’ve got an idea,
start today. There’s no AroundU Entrant:
better time than now AroundU is an app for students, which replaces traditional hospitality
temp agencies. By facilitating direct communication between businesses
James Augustin
BA Politics, Philosophy and Economics
to get going. and students, students are enabled to find work that fits around them
at the touch of a button. Unique to AroundU is a developed rating and
School of Social Sciences
reference system which empowers ambitious students to take control
Kevin Systrom,
of their futures providing real post-university employability benefits.
co-founder of Instagram
Echelon Health Entrant:
Echelon Health is a ‘conveyor belt’ connecting SME generic Arinze Ekwem
manufacturers of specialty medicines in the UK with prescribers PhD Innovation Management and Policy
in sub-Saharan Africa, focusing on treatments where the patient Alliance Manchester Business School
numbers are too small to attract big pharma investors and the
production technology is beyond most Asian manufacturers.
Echelon health leverages an already existing supply chain for
medicines research developed during a PhD.
Everything 3D Printing Entrant:
3D printing has the power to allow anyone to make anything. Jay Sahnan
At Everything 3D Printing we aim to make additive manufacturing BEng Aerospace Engineering
accessible to all! Initially focused on the start-up ecosystem, we School of Engineering
consult, design and print. We are making it easier and faster for a
business to get their idea to market by forgoing traditional
manufacturing techniques. From concept to reality.
Spice Story Entrant:
We are an authentic and sustainable food brand, which provides Frozen Rijul Shukla
Indian Ready Meals to people looking for convenience. The meals are MSc Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship
meat-free and are cooked by our chefs using traditional cooking Alliance Manchester Business School
methods in the kitchen. Our USP is the transparency provided to our Alumni Class of 2019
consumers through QR code on the label, which provides information
about the ingredients and processes involved in the dishes.Venture Further 2020
Creative finalists Environmental finalists
Blue Shoes Productions LTD Entrants: Catalight Wastewater Solutions Entrants:
Blue Shoes Productions is a socially responsible production company Alexander Deniston, Jake Gill & Liam Steers We are a team developing lower energy consumption solutions for wastewater Niting Zeng, Daniel Foster & Huatang Cao
that creates audio and visual content based on underrepresented MA History treatment using innovative photocatalytic materials. Our mission is to provide PhD Material Science
voices in society. We primarily create documentaries, but we also School of Arts, Languages and Cultures a cost-effective alternative to the current energy intensive methods by using School of Natural Sciences
produce podcasts, promotional videos and short films. Our priority Alumni Class of 2018 novel photocatalytic materials. Our vision is to become a leading solution Colin Tan
is to have a positive social impact on the subjects of our films and on provider by designing, producing and commercialising tailored solutions Co-applicant
society as a whole. using clean solar energy, achieving a sustainable water treatment industry.
e-Agri Entrants:
Kelly Green Entrant: e-Agri is a company dedicated to providing smart technology to assist Abbey Woodyear, James Grierson & Russel Mclean
Kelly Green is an inclusive unisex clothing company established in Kelly Sharman the agriculture industry, with a particular interest in farm management. BEng Electronic Engineering
response to the outdated gender divides of the fashion industry. Kelly MEnt Business Current work is on creating an electronic device to assist farmers with School of Engineering
Green creates thoughtful clothing for people and planet, using Alliance Manchester Business School their crop yield, by detecting the presence of disease on crop leaves that Matthias Trilsbach
co-creation to develop environmentally conscious products that the Alumni Class of 2019 enable them to make informed decisions. BEng Mechatronic Engineering
customer truly wants.
School of Engineering
Skybox Entrants: Hai Entrants:
We make potato growers’ potential a reality, reducing harvest losses Diego Corona-López
Skybox is a mobile game that allows you to travel through time and Luigi D’Introno
while identifying the root of the problem. We help our clients by PhD Electrical and Electronic Engineering
space, collect resources, and create your very own time portals. BEng Mechanical Engineering with Management
informing them with accurate insight on harvest timing to maximise School of Engineering
Imagine being able to explore a galaxy far far away or see how School of Engineering
their profit, avoiding losses and ensuring they can access specific
dinosaurs dominated the Earth. Our goal is to facilitate education Andrea Izquierdo Ruiz
Jang Belche market segments guarded by retailer’s size restrictions. Our goal is to
to the next generation of learners by combining immersive PhD Electronic Textiles in Material Science and Engineering
BSc Computer Science with Human Interaction push progress, improving quality and reducing waste.
technologies and gaming. School of Natural Sciences
School of Engineering
Charles Veys
PhD Electrical and Electronic Engineering
School of Engineering
That Muslim Tourist Limited Entrant: Alumni Class of 2018
A media platform sharing quality travel content and tourism product Mohamed Rahouma
information, to an engaging Muslim audience, helping them discover MBA
the world. That Muslim Tourist connects the audience and travel Alliance Manchester Business School
The Green Energy Guru LTD Entrants:
businesses through social media and a dedicated website. A unique The Green Energy Guru allows businesses and homeowners to research and buy Finn Lawton
‘Muslim Friendly’ rating is used to help the audience differentiate the products that promote a sustainable future. We compare prices on products MEnt Business
between the various tourism products with their needs in mind. such as heat pumps, solar panels and electric vehicle chargers, providing the Alliance Manchester Business School
customer with the best suggestions for their budget and requirements. Alumni Class of 2019Venture Further 2020
Social finalists Technology finalists
C+ Wellbeing Entrants: FE3D Entrant:
C+ Wellbeing enables Chinese international students studying in the (Tiffany) Wing Sum Leung FE3D is one of the world’s first 3D food printing companies, pioneering Matthew Kibble
UK to combat and prevent mental health problems by offering self- DCounsPsych Counselling Psychology the crossroads between food science, future technology, creative PhD Regenerative Medicine
development training and opportunities. We are devoted to enhancing School of Environment, Education and Development design and education. FE3D is putting food printers into schools, Centre for Doctoral Training in Regenerative Medicine
awareness and reducing stigma surrounding mental health. Through a Alumni Class of 2019 restaurants and the home, by offering workshops, selling printers and
range of self-development training provisions, students will have a voice (Rene) Yu Ting You fabricating pre-made printable ingredients for those who need them –
in managing their wellbeing, attain transformative growth under the MA Education (International) the food of the future is here.
global lens and lead a happy life in the UK. School of Environment, Education and Development
OCUFLOW LTD Entrant:
Electric Bazaar Entrants: Our mission is to visualise underground utility flows in a cost effective Simon Langdale
Electric Bazaar is a social enterprise that was born out of a passion for Shamima Khonat and minimally invasive way. We do this so that we can maximise the Global eMBA
designing clothes that give talented artisans the recognition they deserve, BA Comparative Religion & Social Anthropology availability of real-time data, future proofing the networks enabling Alliance Manchester Business School
whilst preserving the rich art of handicrafts from the Subcontinent. When School of Arts, Languages and Cultures decentralisation. We provide a selection of tooling, sensors and
sourcing fabric and embroidery patches, we only partner with small, locally Alumni Class of 2018 software to capture subterranean flow data to provide detailed
producing makers as we envision an inclusive economy that empowers Alicya Mamo understanding behind today’s increasingly complex utilities networks.
low-income, highly skilled garment workers and artisans to earn a MSc International Development
livelihood that benefits themselves, their families and their communities. School of Environment, Education and Development
PuzzleBot Systems Entrants:
Generation Purple Limited Entrant: PuzzleBot Systems aims to create the world’s most accessible robotic Mario Guillermo Martinez Guerrero,
platform, appropriate for the entire learning cycle, from entry-level Dr Eduard Codres & Dr David Morales Aldana
Generation Purple aims to enhance diversity in graduate recruitment through Riddi Viswanathan tutorials to professional and research level prototyping. PuzzleBot PhD Electrical and Electronic Engineering
digital initiatives. We are on a mission to make workplaces accessible for BA Economics and Social Studies Systems embraces robotics democratisation by developing a School of Engineering
every underrepresented student community such as the ethnic minorities, School of Social Sciences cost-effective, user-friendly, versatile platform for learning robotics
women, LGBTQ+ students, disabled students and students from lower Alumni Class of 2017 Dr Mohamed Mustafa
and creating advanced applications; in the same way that Raspberry Pi
socio-economic backgrounds. Our social mission is aligned with the UN Co-applicant
has done for computer science.
Sustainable Development Goal 10 - Reducing Inequalities.
Stressless Entrants:
Tatu Nurse Entrants:
We make neuroscience-powered smartphone games, for stress relief. Nikhil Kurian Jacob
Most countries, especially least developed African countries, face a Samuel Mugisha Popular stress management apps like Headspace and Calm are mostly PhD Electrical and Electronic Engineering
critical shortage of nurses. As a result, the few nurses are burnt out and MSc Advanced Computer Science meditation based and require effort, focus and willpower to stick with, School of Engineering
patient outcomes are poor. Tatu Nurse is a non-profit initiative that School of Engineering especially for novice users. We aim to reduce this ‘effort factor’ via games
builds technologies to make nurses smarter so they can save more lives. Alumni Class of 2018 Nathan Newman
designed for stress relief; ones where the longer you play, the more
Our mission is to boost the performance and efficiency of nurses. Co-applicant
Patience Nagaba relaxed you become.
MSc Communication and Signal Processing
School of Engineering
Philip Nomwesigwa & Lydia Mbaziira Birungi
Co-applicantsVenture Further 2020
Thank you to our partners for their support
A vision is something
you see and others don’t.
Fuel Card Services and its parent company DCC hold IBM is a global enterprise that has “Innovation that matters Some people would say
innovation as a key principal for success. We strive to create for our Company and the World” as one of its key values. With
products and services that bring genuine value to our over 3,000 researchers in 19 locations on six continents, IBM that’s a pocket definition of
customers and people. This is why we were delighted to be pioneers the most promising and disruptive technologies in AI,
given the opportunity to support such amazing talent and blockchain and quantum computing and we have research and lunacy. But it also defines
ideas and the people who are at the start of their brilliant innovation at the heart of everything we do. With innovation
journeys via the Venture Further programme. We have been as one of its key tenants, it is natural that we would support a entrepreneurial spirit.
truly inspired by the incredible ideas and business plans. great initiative like Venture Further that has innovation and
entrepreneurship at its heart as well as helping to develop
Anita Roddick, founder of The Body Shop
the next generation of business leaders.
MSP is proud to support Venture Further as a hugely Vita Student is a business born out of the last global
important initiative to encourage and celebrate the creativity recession and this is why we are particularly proud during
and entrepreneurial talent within the Manchester student these challenging times to sponsor Venture Further and
and graduate community. MSP was established to help support the Alliance Manchester Business School in
transform new ideas in science and technology into encouraging young entrepreneurs to fulfil their potential
commercial reality and has a long association with the and build the businesses of the future.
awards, being home to a number of previous award winners.
Vita Student supports the journey of ambitious students
by putting their health and wellbeing first, providing an
Be your own boss,
environment and a community in which to thrive. Far from
being just an accommodation provider, our teams deliver
the highest standard of service to make students feel at
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home whether that’s through world class virtual
community events, ensuring a clean and safe environment
to study or providing inspiring talks from industry leaders.W: ambs.ac.uk/enterprise E: enterprise@manchester.ac.uk T: +44 (0)161 306 8484 /EnterpriseAtManchester @EnterpriseMCR @AllianceMBS #VentureFurtherUoM Masood Enterprise Centre alliancembs In partnership with:
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