Launchpad, London Met’s flagship startup business programme gives students and graduates the knowledge, tools, support and momentum needed to fast track a business idea into a viable startup venture. Run by the Student Enterprise team based at Accelerator every [...]
On Thursday 18 June, we hosted and live-streamed the 2020 Big Idea Challenge Awards from Accelerator, London Met's business incubator. During our online awards evening we announced all of the competition category winners, the People's Choice winner and our overall [...]
This year’s Big Idea Challenge has once again blown us away, having uncovered a treasure trove of amazing ideas and the passionate people behind them. More than 200 London Met students, graduates and staff entered this year, and the [...]
On Wednesday 11 March over 40 students and graduates of London Metropolitan University and Kings University of London joined the 2020 London Venture Crawl. The daylong event takes students on an epic entrepreneurial journey across the capital to experience and explore London’s Startup [...]
Social enterprises are businesses with predominantly a social or environmental objective. So, for students looking to make the world a better place through business, we recently ran Hack For Good, our very own 48 hour social enterprise focused hackathon at [...]
Recently we ran Startup Sprint at Accelerator, one of our most popular programmes for students looking to learn new entrepreneurial skills, develop business ideas and practice their presentation and pitching. Accelerator is London Met University's business incubator and specialises in [...]
Big Idea School and College Bootcamp Day 2020 On Monday 2 March, Accelerator ran the Big Idea Challenge for 18 Schools and Colleges from across London at The Natwest Bishopsgate Conference Centre. Working alongside the London Met Schools and Colleges [...]
2019 was a record-breaking year for our community of more than 30 tech startup businesses based at Accelerator, London Met's business incubator. Overall our startup community have generated an impressive £25m in revenue and achieved a 22% increase since 2018. [...]
The HubbleHQ Office of the Future Awards (HOFFAs) are back for 2020 and we are thrilled that Accelerator, London Met's business incubator has been nominated again this year! We were ecstatic when Accelerator won the Community Focus Award last year. [...]
Here at Accelerator we love hearing about all the new and exciting products being developed by our tech startup community, so we recently caught up with Damiano La Rocca, Founder of Seable to find out more about the company, why [...]
