Venture Competition
Funding competition for new business ideas brought forward by the University's community of staff, students and graduates
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Applications for Venture 2026 will open in late November – look out for our launch.
Venture 2025 winners
The final of the venture competition took place on Thursday 27 February
10 winners took home a share of externally sponsored prize fund £65,000
Microfinance sponsored by Converge
- Resourie Studio – Bethan White £2,500
- AFRE – Daniel Afe £1,000
- Pathway – Cathal Gibson £500
- CryoProtecX – Shravan Rathod £1,000
Student and Recent Graduate Award
- accessAble Scot - Amy Winter £1,000
- AI-MZ - Aroob Manzoor & Finlay Macken £4,500
Staff Award
- SolDefender - David Bajek & Ewan Eadie £2,000
- Earthclust - Hajk-Georg Drost £7,000
Digital Award sponsored by TechScaler
- AI-MZ - Aroob Manzoor & Finlay Macken £5,000
Social Award sponsored by Ruby Capital
- accessAble Scot - Amy Winter £2,500
McGhee Award
- MammoCheck – Athina Grigoriou £12,000
- EarthClust – Hajk-Georg Drost £12,500
- AI-MZ - Aroob Manzoor & Finlay Macken £12,500
Science and Engineering Student/Recent Graduate Award – Sponsored by Engineers in Business Fellowship
- NaeWhisky – Clara Seyfried & Mudather Mohamedhassan £1,000