Entrepreneurship

From remote sensing businesses to virtual reality startups. UCL students, academics and alumni are leading the way, using their knowledge and ideas to run thriving social enterprises and spinout companies.

A medical professional updating a patient's vaccine record

UCL startup Nodanni: saving lives one necklace at a time

Startup Nodanni LTD, founded by Victoria Ndoh (2019, MSc in Ethnographic Documentary Filmmaking) and supported by UCL, has developed Vactraca, a necklace that’s helping to save children from vaccine-preventable diseases.

Margot and Alexia de Broglie, founders of Your Juno

Financial education app Your Juno revolutionises access to financial knowledge

Set up by a UCL Economics alumna and her sister, the financial education app Your Juno already has over 65,000 users and has raised over £2.5 million in investment.

Rachael Twumasi-Corson, co-founder of Afrocenchix

UCL entrepreneur builds multi-million pound afro haircare business from just £100

UCL Anthropology alumna Rachael Twumasi-Corson co-founded Afrocenchix to develop natural and safe afro haircare products.

Graduate-led political startup attracts interest from distinguished thinkers and writers

The political startup DecipherGrey, set up by a King’s College London graduate, and UCL student is attracting significant interest from students and world-leading experts alike.

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UCL startup develops technology to make social networks safer

A UCL business is using the latest machine learning techniques to help tackle disinformation on social media.

The two founders of Stasher, sitting among a number of bags and suitcases

There’s now somewhere safe to leave your luggage, thanks to a UCL startup

The world’s first luggage storage network, developed by UCL alumnus and friend, is now a multi-million dollar operation.