Bloomsbury Startup Academy - UCL Entrepreneurs

Start and Grow Your Startup While Studying

We are UCLe’s startup accelerator helping budding student entrepreneurs navigate the difficult early stages of their startup creation. We’ve already supported +100 groups in their journey of innovation and entreprise – and we can’t wait to help more! We are looking for 10 motivated teams/individual with a startup idea or an MVP to take part in our first 2022 programme. Apply below 👇

How it works

1:1 Mentoring

You will be matched with a real entrepreneur who is working in the same or similar sector to your idea, providing you tailored advice, support and mentorship throughout the programme.

BSA get-togethers

Meet your fellow participants in the programme a little better through our occasional meet-ups and bounce your idea off them, maybe even team up, it's up to you.

idea surgeries

Throughout the 5-week programme, you will be delivered weekly workshop style sessions called 'Idea Surgeries' to refine your idea into a business plan, how to build your MVP, etc.

lift off

The culmination of the programme, you will pitch your business plan to some of London's top entrepreneurs for a chance to win £1,000 of non-equity seed capital.

London's Top Entrepreneurs

We invite some of London’s most relevant and uprising entrepreneurs to become BSA mentors and ultimately pass on the knowledge they have acquired through their experience to you in order to provide tailored support and advice in an effort to make entrepreneurship accessible to all.

From Idea to Business Plan

All you need to start is a rough idea, we’ll help you chip away at that idea and polish it into a business plan through our 5-week weekly series of Idea Surgeries. Lead by top Founders, Accelerators, Venture Capitalists and FTSE 100 companies, you will be taught by the most experienced there is.

Meet Like-Minded People

You’re not alone on your entrepreneurial journey. Bloomsbury Startup Academy is full of budding student entrepreneurs, a great opportunity to expand your network and maybe even find your co-founder. We host get-togethers throughout the programme to give you an opportunity to do so.

Elegibility

Got a STARTUP Idea / MVP?

Great news, as long as your’re a UCL student or your team is comprised of at least one UCL student, your’re on track. If you are a recent graduate and now an alumni of UCL that’s not a problem either. Not got a team? No worries, as long as you’re keen and ambitious we want you onboard.

You couldn’t join our programme? We support Kickstart London who offer a similar sector agnostic cross-university pre-accelerator programme, co-founded by a former UCL Entrepreneurs President. We sync our cycles so they don’t clash. Why not check them out?

Contact Us

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