Accelerating the ‘Future Founders’.

Four regional 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 in a ‘Dragon’s Den’ setting.  

To date, we have delivered this programme to three cohorts – the first face to face and then two more virtually. Next, we will welcome back some of the alumni of the first cohorts, who are now running start-up businesses and have secured funding and first customers.