Imperial Enterprise – October Newsletter 

We’re looking for sustainability startups that deserve major support to scale

I’m proud that Imperial is an Official Nominator for The Earthshot Prize 2024, a major global award that will support innovations with potential to address environmental challenges such as climate change, air and sea pollution, waste, and protecting nature.  

One of the 2022 winners was Notpla, an Imperial startup developing biodegradable seaweed packaging, which used the £1 million prize money and year of dedicated support to expand its staffing and R&D capabilities and successfully grow its commercial partnerships.  

This year, our nomination panel is working on behalf of The Earthshot Prize to put more brilliant startups from Imperial and further afield into contention for this major recognition, prize money, and support. 

To help them pick their nominees, our panel – Dr Fabian Lim (Imperial Enterprise), Alyssa Gilbert (Undaunted) and Dr Gbeme Oluleye (Centre for Environmental Policy) – are asking startups to put themselves forward for consideration.  

Candidate startups should have demonstrated impact and potential to scale. They can be drawn from our thriving community of staff and student entrepreneurs, our accelerator programmes, and the startup spaces on our campuses. They can also come from outside the Imperial community and need have no prior link to the College. We know that thanks to our fantastic extended network – which means you – we will find some wonderful nominees. 

If you work for a startup that deserves consideration for this major prize, please complete this web form. And if you know any startups that fit the bill, please forward them the link. 

Best wishes,

Dr Simon Hepworth

Director of Enterprise

Imperial College London

News

Climate startups pitch

Fifteen startups from Undaunted's climate accelerator programme pitched business ideas to investors at the Royal Institution as part of the Greenhouse Demo Day.

Making repair the first choice

Researchers are looking at ways to encourage people to repair small electrical items instead of disposing of them in an initiative with a consortium of London councils.

Accelerating medical innovation

Some of the medical innovations under development at Imperial have potential to be as transformative as penicillin, according to Imperial's President Hugh Brady.

FlexSea raises £3m for bioplastics

A startup with its roots at Imperial has raised seed funding to commercialise a range of sustainable packaging solutions it has developed, based on plastics derived from seaweed.

The long read

Materials as a service

As we grow accustomed to accessing goods such as cars as services instead of owning them, circular economy pioneers aim to extend this concept to the materials and components used by manufacturers. Could this radical business model call into question the very idea of ownership?

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