Female Founders

The Female Founders Pitching At One Of The UK’s First BAME Incubator Programme

These Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) female founders have been chosen to pitch their business ideas at one of the UK’s first incubator programme targeting ethnic minority-led startups – Female Founders Accelerator. Launched recently by Hatch Enterprise – a London-based enterprise charity – together with support from NatWest and eBay, the Female Founders Accelerator […]

KPMG - Black Entrepreneurs' Award

KPMG launches ‘Black Entrepreneurs Award’ – Supporting Black founders to become investment-ready

The UK accounting watchdog – KPMG – launches the ‘Black Entrepreneurs Award’ aimed at supporting three budding black founders to turn their business dreams into reality. Studies show that Black professionals often face barriers in progressing beyond middle management. This has subsequently led to the growth of Black-founded startups and a growing trend in self-employment. […]

CRL Accelerator programme

CRL’s Accelerator Programme Opens For ‘Product and Hardware Focused Startups’

The Central Research Laboratory (CRL) 6-month accelerator programme is once again open – Supporting the next generation of entrepreneurs running product and hardware-focused startups. CRL is an accelerator, incubator, and co-working space part-funded by the European Regional Development Fund to continue their work of supporting innovative startups to create high-tech jobs. The programme aims to help product-focused startups develop […]

ActiveLab

ActiveLab Accelerator programme chooses 12 startups to innovate the health and fitness sector

ActiveLab – a newly launched accelerator from not-for-profit health body ukactive – has chosen 12 startups to revolutionise the health and physical sector. ActiveLab aims to stimulate scalable health solutions to help overcome the UK’s physical inactivity epidemic, which is costing the government ‘£20bn each year and causing 37,000 deaths’. The 12-week accelerator programme, supported by […]

ActiveLab

UKactive’s New Accelerator Programme – ActiveLab

UKactive’s new accelerator programme – ActiveLab – are looking for innovative startups to revolutionise the health and fitness sector. The 12 week initiative, supported by AXA PPP and Tech City UK, will see startups paired up with some of the industry leaders in the business and physical activity sector. Steven Ward, executive director of UKactive, […]

Hangar 51

IAG New Startup Accelerator Programme – Hangar 51

International Airlines Group (IAG) are inviting startups to solve the issues affecting the aviation industry through its newly launched global accelerator programme – Hangar 51. The initiative was created by IAG, the parent company of Aer Lingus, British Airways, Iberia, Vueling, IAG Cargo and Avios, and tech investor L Marks to support new entrepreneurs to innovate […]

Accelerator

Winton Labs ‘Accelerator’ Winter Application opens – Apply

Applications are now open for Winton Labs second accelerator programme for data science startups. The three month programme, second to be launched by Winton this year alone, is aimed at early stage companies focused on the creation of data or application of data science. Winton Labs will be based in the ‘Lab’ co-working space at Winton’s London […]

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BWM Group Financial Services Innovation Lab 2016

BMW Group Financial Services and L Marks are searching for five startups to support in driving innovation in the car finance space – Innovation Lab 2016. BMW Group Financial Services is one of the world’s premium automotive finance providers and they’ve joint up with tech investor L Marks for the Innovation Lab 2016 programme. The […]