Judge Business School MBAs Venture Forth with ‘Accelerate Cambridge’
Ideas for entrepreneurial ventures need a combination of elements in order to take form, and The University of Cambridge’s Judge Business School’s Accelerate Cambridge program allows MBAs a forum in which these elements can synthesize.
Accelerate Cambridge provides students with three-month programs involving mentorship, coaching and training, as well as shared workspaces. Two recent MBA graduates from Judge recently shared their stories of how their ventures took off with the help of the program.
Cambridge Judge’s First FinTech Weekend to Challenge the Big Bank Theory
Accelerate Cambridge, Cambridge Judge Business School’s in-house start-up “accelerator”, is hosting the first ever Cambridge FinTech Startup Weekend between November 21st and 23rd.
This three-day intensive event will bring together finance and innovation entrepreneurs who want to address challenges for banking’s future.
Participants will have 54 hours to test their idea, build a team and pitch to a panel of judges. FinTech weekend will start on Friday, when delegates will have an opportunity to pitch their best ideas and inspire others to join their teams. Then on Saturday, participants will work with their teams and with the support of experienced mentors will validate ideas and build minimal viable product.
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Voice Reading App from Judge’s “Accelerate Cambridge” Program to Be Pitched at St. James’s Palace
VocalIQ, a smart platform that controls devices through a person’s natural conversation flow, was chosen to participate in the Pitch@Palace event for entrepreneurs at St. James’s Palace in London on 5 November. VocalIQ has been incubated and accelerated at Accelerate Cambridge at Cambridge Judge Business School.
VocalIQ was one of three Accelerate Cambridge start-ups to participate on October 20th at a Pitch@Palace “Bootcamp” held at Microsoft Ventures offices in London. The Bootcamp served as a warmup to the final Palace event in November, at which start-ups pitch to investors and other business people in order to secure funding and strategy suggestions.
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