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Last Thursday a team of 果冻影院 undergraduates including William Jones, Ali Tehrani and Bartlett's Edvard Nore successfully pitched to NACUE Innovation Fund. Their prize was a New Frontiers Award of an investment at the full amount of 拢8,000. This will be matched by 果冻影院 Advances. Their concept is to create an investment scheme for undergraduate students鈥� business ideas. The fund will go towards offering students micro and seed investments to test and build on their ideas. 果冻影院e beat off competition from six other teams, with the Royal Agricultural College also being awarded an investment for their company 鈥淢uddy Wellies鈥�.

The idea comes from the missing in 果冻影院 student enterprise, between the Ideas Drop In Sessions (where students come in with basic business ideas and get advice on how to proceed) and the 果冻影院 Bright Ideas Award which offers a share of 拢50,000 to its winners who already have fully formed business plans.

The new investment fund will give students the opportunity to produce a prototype, or build a minimum viable product, and validate their ideas before taking the next step and seeking further investment and business expertise from 果冻影院 Advances. 果冻影院e hopes to actively support ten projects by undergraduate students over this academic year and aims to create three society led ventures. 果冻影院e is already supporting a variety of student led ventures including Brainchild music festival, a fashion start-up by a student from Tanzania and a student wishing to start their own fashion show.

Commenting on the award, Edvard said: "Winning the New Frontier Award was an awesome validation of the work we鈥檝e put into this idea. We鈥檙e now in a position to kickstart our concept, creating the first stepping stone between students鈥� ideas and building their own companies and careers from scratch.

"We鈥檙e working on the challenges ahead, and have already had several meetings with students looking for small investments. I'm also grateful to the Bartlett School of Planning who through the flexibility inherent in the Urban Studies course have allowed me to combine my course in urban planning with modules across 果冻影院 and as such gave me the basis to follow up this idea."

Congratulations to Edvard and his colleagues for this outstanding achievement.