Accelerating the ‘Future Founders’.

Six universities in the UK came together in an exciting collaboration to create real-world impact from world-leading research, commercialise innovation and boost the region’s economy.

We delivered a ‘Future Founders’ programme to academics and researchers who had identified commercial opportunities and wished to take these forward.

We worked with them to diagnose and develop their opportunities, identify and close any information gaps, identify and mitigate risks, identify key milestones, assess options for funding, develop an investor pitch, and deliver this pitch to a panel of investors and mentors. 

To date, we have delivered this programme to eight cohorts of more than 110 researchers. Of these, more than 20 have subsequently spun-out.