King's Entrepreneurship Institute announces new accelerator participants

King's Entrepreneurship Institute has officially launched the first 20 startups it will support as part of its new accelerator programme. The announcement was made at a launch event on Monday in the university's new Bush House buildings, Aldwych. Over 12 months, the accelerator will provide the ventures with mentorship from leading entrepreneurs, revenue generating support, access to investors and accelerator space equivalent to £30,000 worth of investment for free. Startups, from areas such as MedTech, FinTech, hardware, data management, education, logistics and distribution, tourism, media and consumer goods, will take part in the programme. The event kicked off with a welcome from Mark Chaffey and Razvan Creanga, Co-founders of Hackajob , who joined the King's Pop-Up Incubating Space in March 2015 and have now grown to an international team of fifteen working across a community of 25,000 job-seekers and 200 employers. They stressed how valuable the accelerator support had been to their own careers and urged the new entrepreneurs to take full advantage of the opportunity. Speaking ahead of the networking reception, President & Principal Professor Edward Byrne AC, emphasised the importance of supporting student entrepreneurship in the build up to the new Business School at King's and congratulated the students and the institute on their achievements.