Date: Wednesday 11 June 2008
Time: 6pm for 6.30pm start
Venue: The Cambridge Union Building (Map)

Dress code: business dress 

Please register for this event here.

Back in October, we took groups of students, added a dash of inspiration, sprinkled with £1k prizes and nurtured with mentoring and business training - what did we get? 12 hugely promising teams ready to set up businesses.

At the CUE Grand Finale we will announce the winners of the Entrepreneurs' Challenge 2008. In addition to being awarded £5k each to kick-start their companies, each team will have the chance to pitch for further prizes before a panel of angel investors including Robert Sansom, Jonathan Milner, Adrian Critchlow and Ewan Kirk.

After the ceremony, you will be able to mingle with the winners and business community over drinks and refreshments at the Union bar.

We really do hope that you will be able to make it and look forward to welcoming you to our end of year finale. Please let us know whether you’ll be there either by registering online.

This event is part of Enterprising Cambridge, three days of intense entrepreneurial activity. Visit www.EnterprisingCambridge.com to find out more.

The quality of the entries into the £1k Challenge this year is the highest it's ever been. In fact, the judges were so impressed that they decided to award 11 prizes this year instead of the usual 10. To all those who didn't win, we'd like to remind you that you had stiff competition and that there's no such thing as failure - only feedback, which is on its way to you.

So this year's £1k winners are:

1. AI Speech
2. AutoTB
3. BeFree!
4. Cambridge Quantum Technologies
5. Drive Technologies
6. Levitech
7. PowerSilicon Technology - winner of the Cleantech Prize sponsored by Carbon Connections
8. Rejuvinate
9. Rescent
10. Terroir Precision Viticulture
11. VEINBAY

Well done!

Date: Wednesday 30 January 2008
Time: 6pm
Venue: Engineering Department, Trumpington Street, Cambridge CB2 1PZ.

Last term, teams of budding entrepreneurs from Cambridge entered their business ideas into the £1k Challenge. On 30 January, 10 teams will be crowned winners and will walk away with £1000 each.

The Entrepreneurs’ Challenge has a history of success in creating companies. Since the first competition 9 years ago, we have had over 450 entries and awarded over £320,000 to 41 business ideas. These business ideas are now companies currently valued at more than £42m.

Join us at the CU Entrepreneurs’ £1k Awards Ceremony to meet the hottest entrepreneurs in Cambridge, network with the Cambridge business community and be serenaded by Britain’s entrepreneur of the moment, Levi Roots.

Levi Roots is a reggae musician, chef and entrepreneur. He gained widespread fame after singing his way into a £50k cash injection for his "Reggae Reggae Sauce", a barbeque sauce made to his grandmother’s secret recipe, on Dragons’ Den. Weeks later, Reggae Reggae Sauce sold out on its first day on the shelves of Sainsbury’s.

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Four teams of budding entrepeneurs took to the Cambridge Guildhall stage on Monday 18 June to pitch their high-tech business ideas to a panel of angel investors in a thrilling, Dragons' Den-style showdown. They were competing in Where Angels Dare 2007, organised by Cambridge University Entrepreneurs (CUE), for a total prize fund of no less than £30,000. Click here to browse photographs of the event.

Five teams of entrepreneurs from around the world competed for cash prizes, international exposure and venture funding in the Next Generation Entrepreneur Forum (NGEF) Business Plan Competition.

The teams had ten minutes to pitch their ideas to a panel of internationally recognised entrepreneurs, followed by five minutes of intense Q&A from the panel and the assembled conference of two hundred.

The University of Cambridge won first place with the grand prize of €1,000 going to Cambridge student venture TouchSight.

This week six teams of Cambridge and Oxford student entrepreneurs competed for a total of £10K prize money in the first Varsity Pitch competition. The Varsity Pitch is a showcase for the best entrepreneurial ideas of the brightest students at Oxford and Cambridge.

Cambridge University Entrepreneurs (CUE) warmly welcomes you to its flagship and most exciting event of the year: Where Angels Dare 2007.

CUE will award £30,000 in cash prizes to the winners of our prestigious business creation competitions in an exciting Dragons' Den style showdown!

Since 1999, CUE has had over 450 entries and has awarded over £280,000 in grants to 31 business ideas. These companies have raised more than £15m further funding and are currently valued at more than £30m. Our competitions help create global companies.

Details of the event are as follows:

This year's Cambridge University Entrepreneurs £1k Business Ideas Competition came to a fitting and climactic conclusion on 24 January 2007 with the £1k Awards Ceremony. Held in the grandeur of Cambridge's Guildhall, the awards attracted over 200 students, staff and sponsors to network with one another, browse the 86 ideas entered, and hear the 10 winners announced. Click here to browse photographs of the event.

The winners were:

Cambridge University Entrepreneurs would like to invite you to our £1k Awards Ceremony on 24 January 2007. The £1k Awards Ceremony will begin with a Poster Exposition of all the entries into the £1k Business Ideas Competition. This is a great opportunity to network with all the entrepreneurs who entered the competition and find out about their ideas. CUE will then announce the winners of the £1k Business Ideas Competition and award 10 cash prizes of £1,000! The winners will be asked to do short pitches of their ideas. Come along to find out more about enterprise and meet the stars of the future.