Meet the Tata Varsity Pitch 2020 Semi-Finalists The shortlisting for the Tata Varsity Pitch 2020 is now completed! We have students and graduates from every industry finalising their ideas to be ready to pitch online at the semi-finals, in partnership with NatWest Accelerator, next week. All of the judges, from every category, were impressed with the high calibre of applicants and are eager to ...
Our 10th Student Enterprise Conference 2019 has now been wrapped up and what a weekend it was!! NACUE along with 473 ambitious young people, entrepreneurs and industry experts took over the Sibson Building at the University of Kent for a packed weekend of entrepreneurial discussion, collaboration, advice and networking like you ...
Yesterday, Tuesday 16th October 2018, some of the UK’s brightest entrepreneurs headed to NatWest Accelerator Hub in London to pitch for their place in the NACUE’s 9th Varsity Pitch Semi-Final. The Varsity Pitch Competition invited students and graduates to pitch their business ideas for the chance to win £10,000 equity free cash. Thirty competitors ...
On Monday, we saw another outstanding Varsity Pitch Competition Grand Final, in partnership with Tata. Our seven finalists faced stiff competition at this year’s semi-finals as they battled it out to win the grand prize of £10,000. The business pitches were highly innovative and demonstrated exceptional examples of forward thinking. This was, by far, one of the most challenging Varsity Pitch Competitions ever, as at the opening stage there was no inkling who the winner might be. Invited guests from all walks of industry, from tech companies ...
The shortlisting for our 2018 Varsity Pitch Competition is completed! We have students and graduates from every industry finalising their ideas to be ready to pitch at the semi-finals next Tuesday, 16th October, at NatWest Entrepreneurial Accelerator London. All of the judges, from every category, were impressed with the high calibre of applicants and are eager to hear their pitches next week. This year, the judges are from Tata Ltd, New Beacon Group, NatWest, Ideas ...
Stitcht, is an exciting emerging app that enables friends and followers to easily create videos together. Varsity Pitch applicants will be able to use the app, to document their journey, throughout the competition. This will allow applicants to gain greater exposure for their business as well as get an insight ...
The Varsity Pitch Competition wouldn't be able to be the success that it is today without its impressive line-up of sponsors and for this reason we've dedicated this blog to our amazing category sponsors. We will reveal their motivation for getting involved in the competition and you'll also be able to find out what they're looking for in the ideal application. How have start-ups and young entrepreneurs influenced or shaped ...
It is acknowledged that for start-ups more than 50-80% of a business’ value is derived from intangible assets. That means that the vast majority of a company’s value is derived from its intellectual property (IP) assets. IP is any form of creation/innovation, artistic or technical, that an individual and/or business produces, ...
Last year we had a whopping 300+ applications, shortlisted to seven fantastic startups Twipes, Savi Technology, Intore, HausBots, Aircard, BombPetite and Motus Innovation competing at our finals. The impressive robotic gaming hand company Motus Innovation ended up wowing the judges with their fantastic pitch and claiming the Grand Prize of ...
We've achieved a great deal in a short number of years, though there's much more too do in supporting our mission of 'Powering the Enterprise Generation'.
NACUE is a charitable organisation that supports 32,000 students and young people every year. As funding becomes harder to obtain, we rely on the generous support of donors to ensure our programs can continue to change the lives and aspirations of the younger generation.
A donation of any size goes a long way to furthering our work and really is greatly appreciated. Every gift matters in aiding our mission of ‘Powering the Enterprising Generation' but we mainly rely upon the generosity of our members and alumni to do this. By making a single or regular donation you can make a big difference. To learn more about how you can donate, please follow the links below.
NACUE are delighted to have supported a huge number of student-led societies over the years. You can see the number of established student-led societies on an interactive map below
College
University
Society
Our events offer the young people we work with the opportunity to connect with our wider network, the experts and seasoned entrepreneurs in our community and the chance to be inspired to take the leap of faith into entrepreneurship. These events are attended by students and graduates from universities and colleges up and down the UK, as well as students from across Europe. Student Societies take centre stage at our events, alongside innovators, game changers and trail blazers of the UK startup ecosystem.
It has been a great pleasure working closely with NACUE. NACUE has supported me both on big and small issues within my role. Without NACUE’s support, Entrepreneurs Durham wouldn’t be where it is today.
The pleasure of seeing young people start something from nothing and watching them as they’re growing is wonderful. If we hadn’t had NACUE, we couldn’t do a lot of what we’re doing now. I can absolutely, categorically say that.
I am enjoying it (the enterprise society) a lot, and it’s great to be achieving something real. So often in college we plan to the point of doing the activity but then never actually do it.
