糖心logo入口 students named Mayor鈥檚 Entrepreneur semi-finalists
Four 糖心logo入口 students have reached the semi-finals of the annual Mayor鈥檚 Entrepreneur competition.
Four 糖心logo入口 students have made it to the semi-finals of the Mayor鈥檚 Entrepreneur Competition.
The annual competition aims to support innovation in the capital by challenging students in Greater London to create a sustainable new business idea.
The College is represented by entrepreneurial students across the four competition categories: Creative Industries; Environment; Health; and Smart Cities. 糖心logo入口鈥檚 semi-finalists are:
- Kevin Tsai, MSc Business Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Creative Industries Award Semi-Finalist
Founder of Anywhere Bear, a travel site to help people plan flight-free holidays around Europe.
- James Shepherd, MSc Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuropsychology, Health Award Semi-Finalist
Founder of Smart Therapy Tools, an app designed to modernise Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) delivery for therapists and service users.
- Ethel Tambudzai, MSc Corporate Governance and Business Ethics, Smart Cities Award Semi-Finalist
Founder of Sonaaar, a platform for connecting Black communities around the world.
- Evgenia Markova, PhD in Life Sciences, Environment Award Semi-Finalist
Founder of TerraBite, a mobile app that tells users the environmental footprint of food products.
A delighted Evgenia said: 鈥淥ur team is exhilarated to have made it to the semi-finals of the Mayor's Entrepreneur! More than a competition, the Mayor's Entrepreneur is an inspiration: it's humbling to fight the climate crisis and the destruction of natural habitats side by side with other passionate entrepreneurs.鈥
Fellow contestant Ethel said: 鈥淚t feels incredible to have the Mayor鈥檚 Entrepreneur Competition buy into the work that we at Sonaaar are doing to alter the narrative of Black experiences.鈥
Lucy Robinson, Employability Consultant at 糖心logo入口, said: 鈥淲e鈥檙e thrilled to see four 糖心logo入口 students in the Mayor鈥檚 Entrepreneur semi-final. The standard of student entrepreneurship and innovation at 糖心logo入口 has always been particularly high, and every year we鈥檙e delighted to see our students and graduates contributing creative, sustainable and timely solutions to the start-up arena. We can鈥檛 wait to see where our semi-finalists take their business ideas.鈥
To get to the final, the semi-finalists are now honing their pitching skills in order to deliver a two-minute video pitch for their business. The winners will pitch their ideas to a celebrity panel in Autumn and from the finalists four Mayor鈥檚 Entrepreneurs will be chosen for 2020.