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Student Enterprise Fund – 2024

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The Student Enterprise Fund is designed to support a broad range of early-stage businesses, social enterprises and freelancers. Specifically, the BUILD pathway allows eligible students to win EIBF funding for their innovations. Students can win up to £2,000 via the BUILD pathway which runs twice a year in the Autumn and Spring semester, partially funded by EIBF.

First place: pAiback

pAiback offers an automated travel assistant to view the pricing history of flights and track savings with real-time analytics. The innovation simplifies the process of getting a cheaper flight through tracking changing flight prices and automating this for the customer, saving them time and money.

Students:

  • Morgan Taylor – Environmental Sciences
  • Tom Alner – Computer Science (Imperial College London)

Prize awarded: £500

Second place: Zenicam

Zenicam is a software solution that uses state-of-the-art deep learning and signal processing technology to measure vital signs and assess pain and stress levels only using facial videos. This technology offers an innovative solution for healthcare professionals to monitor patients remotely, without being physically present in the same room.

Student:

  • Eirini Kateri – Computer Science

Prize awarded: £500

Third place: Eos Space Technology Ltd

Eos Space Technology is developing thrusters into propulsion systems for small satellites. The first thrusters aim to solve the lack of supply of spacecraft propulsion systems in the spacecraft market due to the development highly performing but not ‘economically’ optimised thrusters with a simplified design.

Student:

  • Szymon Dworski – Engineering & Environment

Prize awarded: £500