We invite you to our annual I&E START! Challenge Prize Giving Ceremony. 

Now in our seventh year of this competition, we promise to showcase our most excellent start-ups from Imperial College Business School.
The I&E START! Challenge is also the culmination of our yearly “Innovation, Entrepreneurship & Design” programme—a multidisciplinary course which has business, design and engineering students working together on live new business ideas. This year we have opened the Challenge to teams across Imperial College Business School.

Each participating team provided online pitches of which the judges selected the best eight to go forward to the second stage of the Challenge where, these teams pitch to a panel of professional investors. Here the final three teams will be selected and participate in a dragons den style challenge in front of you at the Prize Giving Ceremony for a chance to win a £10,000 cash prize. Dragons on the night include Tim Davey, Co-founder of One Fine Stay and Joe Charlesworth, Partner at Playfair Capital.

Come and join us to learn more about this year’s finalists, and see the finalists battle it out in front of a live audience! Places are limited, register for your free ticket here http://bit.ly/icstart2015 

Last year's winners were SasaDoc - A social enterprise project who developed a premium text and voice message service allowing Ugandans to receive doctor consultations over the phone. Users of the service will pay a fee to text a number which will connect them to doctors in order to receive medical advice. A portion of the revenue generated by this service will then be used to fund projects that aim to improve access to doctors and healthcare for Ugandans who cannot afford to pay. Uganda's healthcare performance is ranked as one of the worst in the world by the World Health Organisation, with the country ranked 186th out of 191 nations. Many Ugandans do not have access to healthcare, with one doctor for every 13,000 patients in some areas. SasaDoc hope to address this issue by capitalising on Uganda's growing mobile phone industry to help bring more medical care to the people in Uganda, as 95 percent of Ugandans have access to a mobile phone. 

RSVPs close 12.00pm Wednesday 23 September 2015. Book your free ticket here http://bit.ly/icstart2015 or contact us for more information on [log in to unmask]

With Kind Regards