Venture Crawl, the Entrepreneurship Institute’s popular annual event that invites King’s students on an exploration of London’s entrepreneurial ecosystem returned in-person this March, after two years online.

Over 30 King’s students from a variety of subject areas and year groups hopped on the Venture Crawl bus to experience entrepreneurship first-hand by connecting to real-world businesses, hearing from founders and CEOs and developing their entrepreneurial skills. Students also had the chance to network between stops, by chatting with peers and sharing thoughts and ideas.

This year’s packed agenda featured stops at:

• Grind Roastery to hear from David Ambrahamovitch, founder and CEO of Grind, followed by a tour of the Roastery to learn all about Grind’s business model, brand and future goals for their home-compostable coffee pods.

• Crisis Venture Studio to see how entrepreneurship can be a force for good by investing in ideas that aim to end homelessness or prevent it from happening in the first place. 

• Mercato Metropolitano to learn how Mercato supports start-ups to scale through their key values of sustainability and community.

• German Kraft Brewery to hear from co-founder Michele Tieghi, King’s Alumnus (Business Management 2017) who shared his own start-up journey. Founded six years ago, the German Kraft Brewery now brings fresh, authentic German-style beers to five different sites in London. 

• Science Gallery London to learn how science and art come together to explore disruptive thinking and debate some of society’s big questions, including AI, ethics and more.

 

Over 200 students took part in crawls across London through a collaboration with Brunel, SOAS, Greenwich, London School of Economics, Loughborough London University, Queen Mary, London College of Fashion, London Metropolitan University, University of East London, Imperial College London, Goldsmiths and University of Westminster. Crawls also took place in Wolverhampton and Surrey and in cities around the world, including Chicago and Sydney.

The day finished with an online Pitch Off event where 10 London-based universities battled it out to be crowned this year's London Venture Crawl Pitch Off Champion. Last year's winner, Mercy Ofuya, King's Alumna (PhD Medical Statistics) and founder of Mami, kicked off the event by delivering her winning 90-second pitch and sharing the progress of her idea to date. 

Venture Crawl will return in 2024 on Wednesday 13th March.