Free 12 week expert-led support and mentorship programme to help knowledge sector organisations and businesses overcome current challenges, identify new opportunities and realise their future potential. The programme is for newly created companies, social enterprises and CICs that are led [...]
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 [...]
This month we're catching up with Lou Dillon, who graduated Food Science MSc in July 2019. She recently launched her small-batch, craft-brewed kombucha brand called Twisted Kombucha and made her first sale. Lou developed the concept for Twisted Kombucha through the Food Product Development and [...]
Launchpad, London Met’s flagship business startup programme gives students and graduates the knowledge, tools, support and momentum needed to fast track a business idea into a viable startup venture. This year's Launchpad programme has seen its most diverse group ever form from the [...]
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! We received more than 200 entries from London Met students, graduates and staff this year and with many innovative Big Ideas we've added [...]
Over the weekend of 8-10 February, 40 dedicated students from both London Met and London Southbank focused their time and energy on learning how to start and pitch a new business in just 48 hours. The students were taking part in [...]
Every year we offer London Met students the opportunity to trade at one of London’s famous Christmas markets; on one of the busiest shopping days of the year. This year we received close to 100 applications from students and graduates looking to [...]
This Sunday, 9 December, a group of London Met students and graduates will be setting up shop on one of the busiest shopping days of the year at Brick Lane’s Sunday UpMarket. Run at the Old Truman Brewery, traders at Upmarket sell everything [...]
Good news for the creative and tech startups here at Accelerator! Nesta has released a report – The Geography of the UK’s Creative and High-Tech Economies – showing fast growth in the UK’s creative, high-tech and STEM industries. The report [...]
