The
university's Enterprise Challenge final takes place on Wednesday 23 May.
It is an opportunity for students and recent graduates to commercialise their business idea. The finalists will pitch to win £5,000 towards running their business.
The finalists are:
Abodle:
Sagar Patel, Business Faculty
Affordable, on demand 360 degree virtual walkthroughs of potential properties
to rent or buy. Abodle offers virtual reality (VR) & augmented reality (AR)
services.
Adorn
Events Boutique: Jeanyne Stephen, Business Faculty
'Eventful Box' is a fully
contained party box shipped directly to customers doors, providing a cheaper
alternative to having an event planner. From handcrafted invitations, to
personalised bunting, customers will have full control and can pick and mix
what they would like included in their box to suit their budget.
BeeNice
Sharing: Wei-Chun Tseng, Business Faculty
BeeNiceSharing.co.uk is a secured online service to
facilitate learning and teaching activities. It aims to bridge the gap between
traditional teaching activities, and self-taught learning via the internet.
Boundless
View Ltd: Riad Darawish, Faculty of Architecture, Computing & Humanities
An artificial intelligence solution for recognizing image based cursive
handwriting text in the Middle Eastern market.
Grow
Station: Aivis Atvars, Business Faculty
Self-sustaining farming inside a container. An automated aquaponic system that
can grow plants and fish that are organic all year round, anywhere in the
world, despite weather conditions, without using soil.
Goobie:
Lewis Warner, Faculty of Architecture, Computing & Humanities
Goobie is a website and phone application that provides a revolutionary
platform for organising and managing musical events.
Monova
Polo: Jason Dennis, Business Faculty
An eclectic range of on-trend polo shirts in long and short sleeve with many
variations on designs, fits, sizes and materials.
Rags to
Rich: Mansi Kala, Business Faculty
Upcycled leather bags which will be made from old leather jackets and apparel
which will otherwise be dumped in landfills.
Sprint
Saver: Muhammed Thodi and Abdul Veetil, Business Faculty
Mobile app solution that helps people accomplish their savings goals. The app
is developed based on the applications of behavioural science and gamification.
UnixWear:
Mante Grikienyte, Business Faculty
Comfortable antibacterial socks that last forever, stay odourless, without
getting any holes specifically created for those with an active lifestyle.
Vicuña Royale: Tom Houseman, Business Faculty The first ever UK brand to exclusively produce a range of products made from Vicuña: the world's most luxurious fibre.
