Prize Giving

£1k Challenge Awards Ceremony

Amir Chaudhry — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 14:05:30 +0000

Start: 22 Jan 2009 - 19:00

End: 22 Dec 2009 - 21:00

Save the Date!

Come and hear from the winners of £1K Challenge and listen to them pitch their idea direct to the audience. You'll also hear from our guest of honour, Doug Richard of Dragon's Den fame. Doug has a reputation for his straight-talking, no-nonsense approach to business and will share his experiences with you as we open the next stage of the Entrepreneurs Challenge.

Food and drinks will be provided and more details regarding registration will be sent out nearer the time.

Winners of the £100 Challenge!

Amir Chaudhry — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 20:39:31 +0000

A huge well done to everyone who entered and congratulations to the 20 winners!

Aidventure
Ryan Sanderson-Smith
AlgaeLab
Ben Sheppard
Automatic Gear Shift
Edwin Koh
Bloodline
Cong Cong Bo
CamMicrobicide
Arjun Goyal
Cancer Nanobullets
Aron Rachamim
DHX
Li Dong, David Clough, Helen Cavill, Matthew Leung
EZwind
Jun Xu, Jiang Cao
GelHelmet
Stuart Easton, Shamus Husheer
HotCrypt
Tom Craig
Keep Africa Moving
Arif Damji
M-RAM
Chris Baker, Insiya Jafferji, Johann Jakob Napp, Simon Schlachter, B. Trappmann, X.Y. Xue
PK health
Shohta Ueno, Alexandra Park
Securicath
Sarah Gates
SINOLOGI
Michael Tai
SuperTurbine
Ruilin PEI
Therapeutic antibody design by microdroplet microfluidics
Abigail Fox, Dave Marsden, Yanching Chu, Aron Rachamim, Parvez Hakim, Euvian Tan, Rene Gonzalez Campos
There's a Killer in the Kitchen
Allen Chen, Julia Fan Li
WebLink
Joao Pereira, Goncalo Perdigao
Zephyr Systems
Cong Cong Bo, Corentin Roux dit Buisson

CUE Grand Finale

Cong Cong Bo — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 15:21:08 +0000

Start: 11 Jun 2008 - 18:00

End: 11 Jun 2008 - 21:00

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.

£1k Winners

Cong Cong Bo — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 16:25:39 +0000

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:

AI Speech
AutoTB
BeFree!
Cambridge Quantum Technologies
Drive Technologies
Levitech
PowerSilicon Technology - winner of the Cleantech Prize sponsored by Carbon Connections
Rejuvinate
Rescent
Terroir Precision Viticulture
VEINBAY

Well done!

£1k Awards Ceremony, with Levi Roots of Dragon's Den

Cong Cong Bo — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 09:16:29 +0000

Start: 30 Jan 2008 - 18:00

End: 30 Jan 2008 - 20:00

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.

Please signup for this event using the following form:

Where Angels Dare 2007

Rahul Vohra — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 12:23:36 +0000

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.

CUE Triumphs In International Business Plan Competition

Rahul Vohra — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 12:32:07 +0000

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.

TouchSight Delivers Winning Varsity Pitch

Rahul Vohra — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 18:20:25 +0000

Cambridge Triumphs In First Ever Varsity Pitch

Emma Yap — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 18:25:05 +0000

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.

Where Angels Dare 2007

Rahul Vohra — Sun, 11 Feb 2007 20:39:09 +0000

Start: 18 Jun 2007 - 18:30

End: 18 Jun 2007 - 21:30

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:

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