Our finalists have been selected for this year’s Enterprise Challenge with the top ten ideas competing for a prize pool of £14,000, generously funded by Santander and Engineers in Business. The live finals event on Thursday 25 March will see our finalists pitch their business and social enterprise ideas and fend off questions from the panel of external judges.
The Enterprise Challenge is an annual competition presented by Generator that provides mentoring, training and funding for entrepreneurial students who want to pursue an idea. All students and recent graduates of up to two years are eligible to apply; and you don't need any prior business experience to take part.
Generator aims to inspire and encourage students and graduates with new ideas. Our centre helps students and graduates to develop entrepreneurial skills, start new ventures, and connect with experts via our 1-to-1 appointments, funding competitions and events.
Over 100 students applied to take part in this year’s Enterprise Challenge, from which the top twenty pitched their ideas live in the semi-finals, and a panel of external entrepreneurs then selected our final ten ideas across the Social and Commercial categories.
Our finalists
This year we have students from all year levels, including PhD candidates, representing in the finals from a range of courses, including nursing, international business, software engineering, marketing, law, science and aquaponics.
- Alina Hlihor – first year Civil Engineering: The Green Atom – solution for lack of space in normal classrooms during pandemic times.
- Amina Deria – first year Learning Disability Nursing: Lexi – a virtual assistant tool to break down barriers people face with dyslexia.
- Bradley Cory – PhD candidate in Science: Barrier Free World – to use 3D printers to produce equipment to help those with disabilities.
- Lorenzo Fruscella – PhD candidate in Aquaponics: Growing Futures – modular aquaponic units to be used in Young Offenders Institutions.
- Siva Chettiappan Muthaiya – MBA International Business graduate: Kumbhaa – zero-waste edible tableware.
- Connor Lynch – third year Software Engineering: CloseBuy – an app which promotes local businesses and offers discounts to the user.
- Faustyna Rozanska – Business (Marketing) graduate: Ecocini Activewear – an activewear brand for women that stands for green fashion.
- Mahid Miah – first year Law LLB: MyLab – get any service delivered (car cleaning, dry cleaning etc.)
- Nina Rovnova – third year Business Logistics and Business Management: easyPALLET – only paying for the pallets you need, not the whole truck.
- Ollie Stewart and Harry Stanford – second year Advertising and Digital Marketing Communications: Faster Social – Marketing agency employing students.
Join the finals live event
Our finalists will compete for the title of Greenwich Entrepreneur of the Year, with a £5000 cash prize from Santander to support the development of their enterprise idea, as well as winners in each category.
You can vote for your favourite idea for the People’s Choice Awards and join the live finals event to support our finalists.
The finals will be broadcast via Zoom at 4pm on Thursday 25 March. Register here.
