Our History

Like most start-ups, the Enterprise Society was created in response to people’s needs. With the worldwide rapid growth in high-tech start-up companies, UCL students sought to understand more about entrepreneurship. However, such a need was not well satisfied and as a response, five students got together to build an organization that aimed at becoming the centre of student-led entrepreneurial activities at UCL.

In the November of 2005, following an invitation from Dr. Dave Chapman (here) Lorenzo Casarosa, Suet-Ping Kee, Edmund George and Michael Emes all from the Engineering Department became the core founding team of ES at University College London.  The ES was then founded by a small group of UCL Graduate students in March 2006 and kept below the radar whilst under development. They looked to gain top-level business advice and experience from industry leaders in the high-tech world, including high-profile CEOs, engineers, and prominent venture capitalists. Chartered with cultivating the next generation of entrepreneurs, these students received valuable insights and learned important lessons as they developed the ES venture from scratch, while continuing their own academic research.

Officially established in February 2007, the ES met the growing need of UCL students/entrepreneurs to learn how to effectively develop viable business models for technology-oriented markets.

Some of the comments were as follows:

“ES aims to become the largest student entrepreneurship organization in the United Kingdom in its first three years”.

“ES provides young entrepreneurs with the unique opportunity to have their business strategies featured and evaluated by some of the most experienced and successful business professionals in the London area”.

“Over the past several years, interest in entrepreneurship has blossomed across the globe. We intend to boost University College London toward improving synergies between its unique teaching, research, and outreaching programs across all departments as well as in university-wide organizations”.

“The ES viral spirit aims to provide opportunities for members to meet one another increasing active referrals and sharing resources when appropriate. Our members want to evangelise and foster entrepreneurial collaboration across campus, and dedicate their energies to facilitate networking, discussion, education, and hands-on experience and, in particular, to inform and rise awareness about the numerous opportunities available and on how to seize them.”

“We are proud about this organization serving the entire UCL community, including the students of all departments, faculty, staff, and alumni. In addition, ES serves as a link and a catalyst between UCL and the surrounding entrepreneurial community in London and beyond.”