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

Have a look at previous year's winners: