Varsity Pitch Competition Now Open: £15,000 Prize for Student and Graduate Entrepreneurs
Entrants must be either a current student at a UK university, college or further education institution, or an individual who has graduated after 2017.
The Varsity Pitch Competition rewards UK students and recent graduate entrepreneurs who have enterprising ideas that they wish to turn into viable businesses; enabling participants to showcase their unique, creative ideas to the wider community.
The business/idea must be the entrants’ own idea and/or an idea that they are free to disclose. Additionally, entrants must be able to own and run a business or social enterprise in the UK.
The 2024 award categories are as follows:
Social Impact: for social enterprises, sustainable, and ethically conscious businesses with passion to drive positive impact, seeking out solutions to pressing social problems.
Early Stage: for businesses with fledging ideas and early-stage concepts, which have not yet become revenue generating but with an idea that could be transformational.
Genuine Innovation: for businesses seeking to disrupt, improve or enhance the way things are done in an enhanced or unique way.
Digital and Technical: for fast growing businesses in the global economy through apps, hardware and online products or services.
Creative and Design: for businesses working within the creative industries, arts, design, fashion, gaming, marketing, media, music, and software development.
Health and Wellbeing: for innovative ventures aiming to promote physical/mental health, those that seek to change current medical practices and those finding new ways to serve communities.
Category semi-finals will take place later in the year. The final will take place during Global Entrepreneurship Week in November, when seven start-ups will be competing to win £15,000 of equity-free cash for their start-up.
The closing date for applications is 6 September 2024 (12:00).
Tata Varsity Pitch Competition (nacue.com)