Hult Prize at UCL Quarter Finals

Known as the “Nobel Prize for Students” and recognised by TIME Magazine as one of the top five ideas changing the world, the Hult Prize leads in creating and launching disruptive companies in the impact sector amongst youth worldwide. In nearly a decade, the movement has deployed more than $50m of capital and mobilised more than 1 million young people to rethink the future of business as it continues to breed disruptive innovation on college and university campuses across 120 countries.
 
For the second time, University College London has been selected to host a local on campus round of the Hult Prize. Mascha Samkova is leading the Hult Prize at UCL On Campus Program, and is confident that her peers on campus can go all the way to realise their disruptive ideas solving this year’s United Nations Challenge.

On 8 December at UCL’s startup space Base KX, the top 32 teams will gather to pitch their ideas to compete in the Hult Prize Regional Finals and win £1,500 in seed funding sponsored by the UCL School of Management. The winning team will then advance to one of 25 Hult Prize Regional Finals hosted in global cities representing all the geographic regions around the world to compete against more than 1200 other universities. The goal is to secure a spot in the 2019 Hult Prize Summer Accelerator hosted at Hult Castle in the United Kingdom. Here they will spend six weeks within a global ecosystem of business leaders, mentors, investors and corporate partners, and be in with a chance to pitch at the Global Finals held at the United Nations HQ, New York.

The 42nd President of the United States, Bill Clinton announced the 10th Year Anniversary Hult Prize Challenge which focuses on youth unemployment. He asked students around the world to think about how their startup could create meaningful work opportunities for 1 million young people.

Last year, the team selected as best team in the Hult Prize at UCL on 9 December 2017 ended up winning the 2018 Hult Prize competing against over 200,000 annual applications. They received the prestigious award of $1m in seed funding to launch their social enterprise Rice Inc, which was presented by Bill Clinton himself at the United Nations HQ. Read more here.

Whether or not you know anyone competing in the Hult Prize at UCL Quarter Finals come along for a day full of inspiration and social entrepreneurship. Invitation to the event is exclusive so please request to be included on the guest list via email.

The event will also be live-streamed on social media platforms including Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.