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 Award winner: 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 Award winner: 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 Award winner: 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
Circalit
www.circalit.com
Circalit is a social marketing platform for authors to market their books directly to readers.
UCL Award winner: 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
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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 Award: London Entrepreneurs’ Challenge 2011 Runner-up in postgraduate/staff category
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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 Award winner: UCL Bright Ideas Awards 2011
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 Award winner: 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 Award winner: 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 Award winner: Winner of a UCL Bright Ideas Award 2009
Gourmandie
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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 Award: London Entrepreneurs Challenge 2010 Runner-Up (PG/Staff) and Provost's Prize
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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
Kit4troops
www.kit4troops.org.uk
Kit4troops is a
charity that allows you to provide British troops with the kit they
need.
UCL Award winner: London Entrepreneurs Challenge 2010 Innovation Central Bursary
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Lifefully
Content to appear soon
UCL Award winner: 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 Award winner: UCL Bright Ideas Awards 2011
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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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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 Award winner: 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.
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
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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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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
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 Award winner: London Entrepreneurs Challenge 2008, Innovation Central Bursary 2008, UCL Bright Ideas Award 2009
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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 Award winner: UCL Bright Ideas Awards 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 Award winner: UCL Bright Ideas Awards 2010
Threegoodmeals.com
Content to appear soon
UCL Award winner: 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 Award winner: UCL Bright Ideas Awards 2010
Tigersense
Website: www.tigersense.com
Description: 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 Award winner: 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 Award winner: 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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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 Award winner: 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 Award winner: London Entrepreneurs Challenge 2010, UCL Bright Ideas Awards 2010
