Imperial Entrepreneurs Showcase Their Startups at London Demo Day
10/24/22 • Imperial College London
Entrepreneurs from Imperial College London, King’s College London and UCL pitched their businesses to investors at this year’s Demo Day.
15 companies from the three universities took part in the event held at Imperial, hoping to raise between £100,000 and £1 million. The businesses ranged from sustainable nappies and wastewater disease surveillance to real-time blood analysis.
The annual collaboration event celebrates an innovative way of introducing investors to innovation and entrepreneurial talent at London universities, and demonstrates the new and deeper ways universities are contributing to the civic agenda and helping to drive economic growth.
Research from the Higher Education Statistics Agency found that graduate startups and social enterprises contributed over £822M to the UK economy alone in 2018. The 30 teams who pitched at the first two London Demo Day events have gone onto raise £54.36M and created 397 jobs.