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Spring into STEM | Tech Entrepreneurship: Scaling a UCL MSc project to 1 million users and beyond
20 May 2022, 1:00 pm–1:30 pm
Discover how an MSc student applied his STEM research to become CTO & Co-Founder of global Edtech startup, Unibuddy, and raise $20 Million USD Series B funding to reinvent student recruitment.
This event is free.
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- All
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- Free
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Computer Science Communications and Events
How do you apply your STEM skills and programming skills to create a successful tech startup? In 2016, Kimeshan graduated from UCL's Computer Science department and turned his MSc thesis project into a company which has since raised $32 million, grown to 120 employees and has a team of 50 engineers developing delightful software products used by 1 million+ global users.
He'll walk through how to test-and-learn, rapid prototype, find a business model that captures your value and finally scale a prototype to a reliable, production ready product that can serve millions of users.
In this lightning lecture (15 minutes talk, 15 minutes Q&A), Kimeshan explains his experiences before taking questions from the audience.
About the Speaker
Kimeshan Naidoo
Kimeshan Naidoo is a South African computer scientist and technology entrepreneur. He is the CTO & Co-Founder of Unibuddy, a London-based EdTech company used by UCL among many other universities.
Kimeshan graduated from the University of Cape Town with a BSc Electrical Engineering degree. He moved to the United Kingdom in 2015, and graduated with a Computer Science MSc from University College London. He was featured on the Forbes 30 under 30 Europe list in 2020.
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