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Amarachi Clarke

Amarachi is the founder of Lucocoa Chocolate and PalmVault. She is redesigning systems so they’re fairer, more human, and built for trust.

Amarachi Clarke

Andy Bushby

Andy Bushby founded Ultima Forma, creating high-performance metal components while prioritising sustainable growth over big investment.

Andy Bushby

Asad Aslam

Asad is the founder of Kangaroocare AI, an AI-based infant incubator solution aimed at improving neonatal care and saving lives.

Asad Aslam

Dave Ronan

David Ronan's journey from PhD student to founder of RoEx is transforming music production for all skill levels.

Dave Ronan

Hamit Soyel

Hamit Soyel highlights the importance of leadership in scaling Dragonfly AI, focusing on innovation and teamwork.

Hamit Soyel

Hannah Spence

Hannah started Clockflower Solutions, a visibility agency helping underrepresented founders stop hiding and start being recognised online.

Hannah Spence

Karim Fawaz

Karim founded Playback to ensure that every sports game, goal, and milestone can be captured, shared, and remembered.

Karim Fawaz

Madusha Peiris

Madusha Peiris turned unexpected research findings into a promising solution for obesity.

Madusha Peiris

Navjoy Sawhney

Navjot Sawhney is the founder of the Washing Machine Project, after seeing his neighbor in India hand-washing clothes for hours every day.

Navjoy Sawhney

Ros Hannen

Ros Hannen is pioneering innovative skin testing with Keratify, enhancing dermatological research.

Ros Hannen

Shreeya Patel

Shreeya is the founder of SmartX Tutoring, putting mentorship at the heart of tutoring.

Shreeya Patel

Dr Suzanne Eldridge

Dr Suzanne Eldridge is a Senior Lecturer of Musculoskeletal Regenerative Medicine, and the Co-founder of ReFleks

Dr Suzanne Eldridge

Tristan Derry

Tristan is the founder of Orbion Connect, an AI-driven platform that helps companies find the exact clinical expertise they need.

Tristan Derry

QUEST Newsletter

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QUEST LinkedIn

Join our LinkedIn group to connect with other Queen Mary students, staff, and alumni interested in entrepreneurship

QUEST Idea Surgery

Talk to one of the team about your idea or business and how we can help with next steps

Grow it Awards

Already selling and have customers? Win up to £5,000 to grow your business. Open to Queen Mary students and recent graduates.

Grow it Awards

QIdea

The Ideas to Impact competition at Queen Mary designed specifically for students and researchers exploring an idea.

QIdea

QIncubator

Our flagship incubator programme designed to help students, graduates, and researchers turn early-stage ideas into viable businesses.

QIncubator

Cancer Innovation Programme

Explore how cancer research can be translated into real-world impact

Venture Crawl

Discover East London start-up and innovative ecosystem with other students

QHack

Two days, one real challenge, one team: build it, test it on the street and pitch it

Grow it Awards pitch night

Watch Queen Mary student and graduate founders pitch live for funding to grow their businesses. Free to attend. All welcome.

Grow it Awards pitch night

London Demo Day

Join us for an exciting showcase of the best and brightest startups from London’s leading universities

London Demo Day

Barclays Eagle Labs Academy

Browse the library of free online courses, designed to help tech founders as they start, develop and scale their business

SantanderX

Looking for a practical solution to help your day-today business needs? Through Santander X you can access a wide selection of free, on demand courses

SantanderX Awards

Win a share of £150,000 and take your business to the next stage. University. Startup. SME.

Tata Varsity Pitch

A national early-stage business pitching competition that celebrates the best student and graduate businesses across the UK.

Amarachi Clarke

Amarachi is a serial entrepreneur with expertise in consumer goods and cybersecurity. She is an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at QMUL

Josh Reiss

Josh is a Professor at the Centre for Digital Music, serial academic entrepreneur, and Entrepreneur-in-Residence at QMUL.

QIdea: Cancer Launch

Have an idea? QIdea is the starting point. Join us for a run through of the QIdea questions and what will make a successful application.

What Good Looks Like: Building a Cancer Innovation That Can Progress

Understand what makes an early-stage cancer innovation credible, fundable and capable of progressing beyond initial idea

Patient Outcomes & Changing Lives: Why Cancer Innovation Matters

The human impact of cancer innovation and the role researchers can play in helping new technologies, diagnostics, treatments and services reach people

Henry Majed

Henry is a serial entrepreneur with experience in medtech, ai, and fintech. He has a PhD in Neuroscience and and MBA from Oxford.

QHack

A high-impact development programme that provides a testing ground for early-stage projects.

QIncubator

8-week incubator programme designed to help students, graduates, and researchers turn early-stage ideas into viable businesses.

Sign up for QHack

Work on your idea in a high-energy, fun, intensive in-person bootcamp, 7-9 November

Be inspired by QM's entrepreneurs

A small selection of our exciting entrepreneurs!

Work through the QIdea LinkedIn Learning Pathway*

Made just for this programme!

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