Student Business Directory
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This page documents businesses and social enterprises started by UCL students and recent graduates.
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AAAS Steering
AAAS (Annularly Arranged Articulating Segments) Steering is a unique, patent-pending design, which provides noteworthy advantages over conventional steering.
UCL Awards: London Entrepreneurs Challenge 2010 Innovation Central Bursary and UCL Bright Ideas 2010
AliveandGiving.com
www.aliveandgiving.com
AliveandGiving.com
is an innovative charity fundraising website designed to encourage and
facilitate consider giving.
UCL Awards: London Entrepreneurs Challenge 2009 (UG), Povost's Prize 2009, UCL Bright Ideas Award 2009, London Entrepreneurs’ Challenge 2010, Innovation Central Bursary 2010
Founders: Founder - Chester Mojay-Sinclare, Co Founder - Melissa Johnson
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Carbon Auditors Ltd
www.carbonauditors.com
The business is
carbon monitoring and verification in the Land Use, Land Use Change and
Forestry (LULUCF; i.e., Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use)
sector.e best way for people to meet new like minded people from around the globe!
UCL Awards: UCL Bright Ideas Award 2008
Charity Checkout
www.charitycheckout.co.uk
Charity Checkout is a payment provider for small charities that enables
them to receive recurring tax-efficient donations online and set-up
custom payment pages for specific campaigns, without the burden of
up-front fees.
Founders: Chester Mojay-Sinclare
Cravify
www.cravify.com
Cravify is a rental property search engine in the UK. It crawls data from the most popular sources and displays them on a very intuitive map. Easy-to-tune filters allow users to easily choose to display only related results. With Cravify, your house hunting experience will never be the same as before.
Founder: Trung Huynh
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Eeve
www.geteeve.com
Eeve is an iPhone app
that allows people to create location-based photo albums that sort of
clump together to document events. There are hits and misses in this
space. Gowalla tried to get people to tell stories with check-ins and
photos. Color, and largely failed, to group location with photos. The EyeEm app introduces a location-based element. Few apps have really captured the imagination, other than maybe Instagram, but that won’t let you ‘join’ a location-based group. Eeve does.
UCL Awards: London Entrepreneurs’ Challenge 2011 Runner-up in postgraduate/staff category
EventIgnite
www.eventignite.co.uk
EventIgnite is an interactive, cross-device app for events and
conferences. EventIgnite connects all attendees through social media and
enables speed networking at events. Also, it allows all content to be
published to mobile devices saving money and the environment.
Year Founded: 2012
Founder: Thomas Walczak, graduated 2012
Type: Commercial Concern
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Footzie Ltd
www.footzie.co.uk
Footzie is a virtual player trading game, which combines the best
aspects of fantasy football, online football manager and the financial
markets, to provide a challenging, enjoyable and superior gaming
experience. Footzie operates like a stock market, except it is Premier
League players which are traded, with prices fluctuating based on match
performances and market forces.
Year Founded: 2012
Founders: Shabbir Merali, Zaki Ahmed, Rikesh Samani (We are all studying Bsc Economics at UCL and have just completed our 2nd year)
UCL Awards: UCL Bright Ideas Award Finalist 2012
Type: Commercial Concern
Frame Medical
www.framemedical.com
FRAME Medical is a social enterprise committed to improve the health and
social well-being for people with chronic illnesses. At FRAME Medical,
we truly believe that caring makes the difference. Through our patient
centered pathway we encourage patients to adopt activities, behaviors
and attitudes which lead to better health and well-being
UCL Awards: UCL Bright Ideas Award 2011
Type: Social Enterprise
FreeLens
FreeLens will change the way publishers and freelance photographers interact through a photography-trading platform. The exchange will be based on geographically matching photographers and assignments via a job bidding process.
UCL Awards: London Entrepreneurs Challenge 2009 (PG/Staff)
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Gearch
www.gearch.com
Gearch helps
everyone take small green steps and then adds them up to make one big
green change. It’s a green community that allows you and your friends to
help the environment doing something that you already do every day
online.
UCL Awards: London Entrepreneurs Challenge 2009
GetMyCloset
www.getmycloset.com
GetMyCloset is an
online platform connecting Fashionistas, enabling you to swap AND shop
in a very interactive and user-friendly environment.
UCL Awards: UCL Bright Ideas Award 2009
Gourmandie
Content to appear soon
UCL Award: London Entrepreneurs Challenge 2010 Runner-Up (UG)
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H2-NRG
www.h2-nrg.co.uk
H2-NRG is a new startup
company addressing the use of Hydrogen gas to store energy from
renewable or recycled sources.
UCL Awards: London Entrepreneurs Challenge 2010 Runner-Up (PG/Staff) and Provost's Prize
HelpYouApply
www.helpyouapply.co.uk
A website designed for students who wish to apply to spring
weeks, summer internships, year placements and graduate schemes. The
website offers a service that will require the applicants to complete
just one generic form, and then have their information input into their
desired applications for their desired companies.
Year Founded: 2012
Name of Founders: Anish Vinayak, BSc History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science, (expected 2013)
Type: Commercial Concern
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Inovaz
Inovaz employ the best engineering practices to make sure they develop stable, maintainable and extensible code.
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Kansara Hackney Ltd
www.kansarahackney.com
KH are an international consulting firm specializing in the Arabian
Peninsula. We have experience in Tunisia and Libya (Magrib), Kuwait,
Qatar, Bahrain, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Lebanon and Jordan. We consult
on sustainability in the built environment, with a view to achieving
zero carbon zero waste communities. The two directors have a background
in Economics (Tia Kansara) and architecture and construction (Rod
Hackney).
Year Founded: 2009
Founders: Dr Rod Hackney, PhD and Tia Kansara, UCL PhD Candidate: Design of Future Cities
Type: Social Enterprise
KinSync
www.kinsync.com
KinSync is a webapp that connects your Kindle to your Mendeley account. The service enables you to seamlessly grab and read your academic papers on your Kindle and thereby avoid cluttering up your life with paper copies.
Kit4troops
www.kit4troops.org.uk
Kit4troops is a
charity that allows you to provide British troops with the kit they
need.
UCL Awards: London Entrepreneurs Challenge 2010 Innovation Central Bursary
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Lifefully
Content to appear soon
UCL Awards: London Entrepreneurs Challenge 2008 Innovation Central Bursaries
Literary Kitchen
www.literarykitchen.co.uk
Literary Kitchen is a creative writing enterprise offering courses, events, manuscript services and an online shop
UCL Awards: UCL Bright Ideas Award 2011
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MiniManuscript
www.minimanuscript.com
MiniManuscript is a website where people work together to summarise
academic literature. Spend two minutes rather than two hours deciding
whether a paper is relevant to you and create a more efficient, open and
connected academic world.
Year founded: 2012
Founders: Jake Fairnie (PhD Cognitive Neuroscience, 2012) and Anna Remington (PhD Developmental Science, 2009).
UCL Awards: UCL Bright Ideas Award 2012
Movement for Hope
www.movementforhope.org
Movement for Hope (MFH) is a charitable organisation which raises
awareness and support for neurological diseases through multimedia art.
MFH also recognises and celebrate the scope of multimedia art and the
importance of all art forms. MFH funds awareness projects for
neurological diseases and neurological disease charities to support
cutting-edge research, professional education and advocacy programmes,
equipment purchase for sufferers such as wheelchairs and provide
services to help support sufferers of neurological diseases and their
families to cope with illness.
Year Founded: 2011
Founders: Amber Hill, PhD Institute of Neurology, 2015
Type: Social Enterprise
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NearNote
www.nearnote.co.uk
NearNote is a platform for aggregating, searching and licensing of local content between users, local bloggers and large media providers. SoLoMo media is beating large media providers to the punch, often by more than 30 minutes, and we want to reward those citizen content creators by monetizing access to their content. We have obtained a small round of seed funding from Student Upstarts and were fortunate enough to pitch in the startup competition at LeWeb London and Seedcamp Zagreb.
Founders: William Hines, BSc Computer Science - to graduate 2013, Matthias Link, MSc Management - 2012
Type: Commercial Concern
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One 2 One Medicine
www.one2onemedicine.com
One 2 One Medicine Limited (One 2 One) is a company run by medical
students for future and current medical students and the public. Our aim
is to improve the nation’s health by providing focused tools and advice
to future doctors and, ultimately, to the general public.
UCL Awards: ICL Bursary Award, London Entrepreneurs’Challenge Runner-up
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Paloma Networks
www.palomanetworks.com
Paloma
Networks aims to provide highly innovating communication solutions for
enterprises. We are pleased to propose our unique and universal
Fixed-Mobile Convergence (FMC) solutions for enterprise, dedicated to
telephony applications.
PlanetTech News (PTN)
www.planettechnews.com
PTN is an online Science and Technology news aggregator. It's main audience is students at senior school and university as well as others interested in science and technology news and it's application to business. The material has wide coverage (topics include space, environmental, medical and computer sciences) but it is presented clearly and in a magazine format with an opportunity to comment and engage with with the community.
Year Founded: 2011
Founder: Alex Muller (Computer Science/Information Management for Business, expected to graduate in 2013)
Type: Social Enterprise
Poq studio
www.poqstudio.com
Poq studio is a platform where fashion retailers can get their own
branded mobile-commerce applications. Our mobile apps are supported
cross-platform: iPhone, iPad, Android (later also Windows Phone). We
want to make it easy and affordable for our customers to start selling
on mobile.
Year Founded: 2011
Founders: Oyvind Henriksen (MSc Technology Entrepreneurship, 2011), Michael Langguth (MSc Technology Entrepreneurship, 2011)
Type: Commercial Concern
UCL Awards: UCL Bright Ideas Award 2012
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ReadWave
A Circalit company
www.readwave.com
ReadWave.com is an online platform which enables authors to publish and
distribute their ebooks on web and mobile. ReadWave aims to do for
writers what SoundCloud and Youtube have done for musicians and
filmmakers, respectively
Circalit
www.circalit.com
Circalit is a social marketing platform for authors to market their books directly to readers.
UCL Awards: UCL Bright Ideas Awards 2011, ICL Bursary Award 2011
Year Founded: 2010
Founders: Raoul Tawadey, Natural Sciences Bsc 2008 Robert Tucker English Literature PhD 2012
Type: Commercial Concern
RolePoint
RolePoint is an employee referral platform that incentivises employees within professional service companies to recommend quality candidates within their social networks.
We believe that talent knows talent; employee referrals are proven to deliver the best hires that stay longer and performbetter. RolePoint helps companies increase the number of referrals through introducing competition among employees and rewarding them with financial incentives and social status based on the value of the candidates they introduce to the employer.
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addition, a trackable chain-based referral mechanism incentivises 2nd
and 3rd degree connections, enabling companies to extend their reach
through leveraging their employees’ wider networks.
Founders: Kes Thygesen, UCL Alumnus MSc Technology Entrepreneurship 2008
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Satalia
www.satalia.com
Satalia provides
'optimization as a service'. Our unique automated solving process can be
accessed on-demand or installed on-site.
UCL Awards: London Entrepreneurs Challenge 2008, Innovation Central Bursary 2008, UCL Bright Ideas Award 2009
Simplence
www.simplence.com
Simplicity meets excellence in made-to-measure suits for men. We organise regular informal events to measure, consult on styles and fabrics and provide you with affordable tailored suits.
Year Founded: 2012
Founder: Markus Gnrick
Stardust Ashes
www.stardustashes.com
Stardust Ashes will scatter the ashes of your loved one into the
stratosphere, so that they may be released back into the universe. Our
environmentally-friendly balloons will carry ashes to a height of up to
100,000 ft, where they will be released from a lightweight urn into the
stratosphere, so that they may circulate the globe.
Year Founded: 2011
Founders: Chester Mojay-Sinclare
Stuxbot Technology Ltd
www.stuxbot.co.uk
Stuxbot Technology is a mobile and web application development house that builds custom applications across a variety of platforms. Whether for small business or corporate clients, we are a team of innovators, specialised in building functionality solid and visually stunning applications
Year Founded: 2012
Founder: Kishan Gupta, MSc. in Information Security, 2011
Type: Commercial Concern
Stylavie Ltd
www.stylavie.com
Stylavie has been created to help all women find their perfect look. Have you ever found yourself shopping with a ‘look’ in mind, but couldn't seem to find it? Many women go from store to store with a look or style in mind. Normally this look has been inspired by magazines, fashion shows or friends. What inspired the look doesn’t matter, but where to find it certainly does! With Styalvie you are able to search precisely for what you are looking for and find just that!
Year Founded: 2012
Founders - Ayo Ajayi, Vitcor Jegede & Parham Saidi
Type: Commercial Concern
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TagChats Ltd
www.tagchats.com
TagChats Limited is a UCL based student startup which won the bright
ideas award 2011. The aim of the site is to provide an extremely easy
and fun way to meet new friends online. Users simply select their
interest "tags" which define what they like and want to talk about, and
the system will find another like minded person who shares interests and
place them into a 1-to-1 chatroom featuring text or video chat.
TagChats aims to be the best way for people to meet new like minded
people from around the globe!
UCL Awards: UCL Bright Ideas Award 2011
Year Founded: 2011
Founders:
(1) Ahmad Naveed (Managing Director), Electronic and Electrical
Engineering, Class of 2012 Name of founder (2): Alex Muller (Technical
Director), Computer Science, Class of 2013
Type: Social Enterprise
The Sport Review
www.thesportreview.com
The Sport Review
is a UK-based website founded in 2008 with the simple aim of providing
an independent, in-depth look at the world’s major sporting stories.
UCL Awards: UCL Bright Ideas Awards 2010
Threegoodmeals.com
Content to appear soon
UCL Award: Provosts Prize London Entrepreneurs Challenge 2008
Three O nine Exclusive Design Ltd
www.threeonine.co.uk
Three-O-Nine make custom
clothing based on your own unique designs.
UCL Awards: UCL Bright Ideas Award 2010
Tigersense
TigerSense is a
User Experience agency based in London. We create Instinctive User
Experiences, which are all about helping people deliver successful
products, such as websites, by making them easy to use.
UCL Awards: London Entrepreneurs Challenge 2010 Innovation Central Bursary
Tipgain
www.tipgain.com
Tipgain is a mobile app that rewards people for sharing in-store
promotions with their friends while at the same time marketing the
store’s products and services. You and your friends gain from the
tip-off of the deal and the store gains a following by way of this
unique, new age, word-of-mouth concept.
UCL Awards: London Entrepreneurs’ Challenge 2011, China UK Entrepreneurship Challenge 2011
Tripbod
www.tripbod.com
tripbod.com connects curious
travellers with trusted locals (‘Tripbods’) who can advise them on their
trip.
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Ubiquity Press
www.ubiquitypress.com
Ubiquity Press is a researcher-led, 100% open access publisher,
operating on a low-cost, rapid publishing model. We enable open access
not only to articles and books, but through our metajournals platform
also to research data and software.
Year Founded: 2009
Founders: Brian Hole, PhD Archaeology, in progress, Tom Pollard, PhD Space and Climate Physics, in progress
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WPGeek LTD
www.geekchamp.com
GeekChamp.com is the leading Windows Phone development community web site with Marketplace for Windows Phone app development Components, high quality development articles, tutorials, source code, examples, tips, resources, demo videos, latest development news and more.
Year Founded: 2012
Founders: Boryana Miloshevska : MSc Technology Entrepreneurship at UCL, 2012
Yordan Pavlov : MSc Technology Entrepreneurship at UCL, 2012
Type: Commercial Concern
UCL Awards: UCL Bright Ideas Award 2012
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Yearbook Machine
www.yearbookmachine.com
Yearbook Machine creates
yearbooks for students leaving school or university using its online
system. The system acts as a private social network for those
coordinating the book.
Year Founded: 2008
Founders: Tom Allen, studied History at UCL 2008-2011
Your Frontier Ltd
www.yourfrontier.co.uk
Your
Frontier Ltd is a film company tailored to provide environmental and
social responsibility projects with a chance to be seen. We work with a
range of corporates, universities, governments, charities and NGOs to
provide tangible evidence of what they are doing to change the world. We
are a company, but aim to establish a foundation which will allow us to
provide projects that may not be able to afford it, exactly the same
services we provide to our main clients.
Year Founded: 2011
Founders: Jennifer Pate (UCL BA Geography 2010; UCL MSc Environment, Science & Society 2011); Finnian Moore (UCL BSc Biological Sciences 2012); Alex Nunes (non-UCL; University of Westminster BA in Film & Television Production)
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Zooza
www.zooza.co.uk
ZOOZA is an
original online
commerce platform known for its quirky and light-hearted approach to
marketing and its unusual sales model - hosting just one deal each day.
UCL Awards: UCL Bright Ideas Awards 2010
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36Zero
The 36Zero Board is a patented snowboard training aid that allows the rider to perform all the maneuvers associated with snowboarding, without the need for snow.
UCL Awards: London Entrepreneurs Challenge 2010, UCL Bright Ideas Award 2010
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