Post-Showcase: Support our LSE Generate Accelerator Founders
Thank you for joining us at last week’s showcase. We were thrilled to have over 100 people attend to support our first LSE Generate Accelerator cohort of companies. After some tough questioning and song breaks to the Barenaked Ladies, many of you wrote in to say how much you enjoyed the event and hearing the founder journeys.
One of the reasons this showcase was held was to more widely socialise the mission of LSE startups and also offer ways in which you could support their mission.
We’ve included key asks from the companies below. Do reach out if you are able to help. In the meantime, we are planning a virtual demo day on September 10th. Follow us on LinkedIn, Twitter, Instagram, or Facebook for more information, or bookmark our webpage!
If you have questions on the next accelerator, send an email to generate@lse.ac.uk
Kajal & Team Generate
Our company’s asks
1001 Stories: A luxury D2C footwear brand with a social purpose; we create beautiful statement shoes whilst lifting marginalized communities out of poverty and into business.
Move stock: introductions to wholesalers and boutiques in London (help move our stock from last year)
Raise brand awareness: connections to press, influencers, potential brand ambassadors etc.
Build partnerships: introductions to young and vibrant brands in a similar space
Alxedo: We are a sustainable water company, offering a smart water purification system
How do you engage with your future clients before launching the actual product?
How do you build a sustainable brand with content marketing instead of advertising?
How do you keep your community vital through active participation of the customers?
What are the best community growth hacks with low marketing budget?
Atlas: A game-based learning platform that teaches 21st century in-demand skills.
We are looking for partners to post challenges.
Programme directors, professors, TA’s
Companies who would like to sponsor/partner
CauliBox: A digitally-enabled reusable lunchbox scheme that rewards good behaviours.
Industry links to the hospitality and waste management sectors
We are opening up our pre-seed round so if any investor is interested, please contact us at jo@wearecauli.com
Crowdless: Provides live data on the crowdedness of supermarkets so that you can choose the best place and the best time to visit.
Commercial - Contacts in the supermarket, hardware, and pharmacy chain space for a pilot
Data - Introductions to sensor analytics companies, telecom companies, location intelligence service companies.
Funding - Currently raising a pre-seed round (£250k)
Gaïa: A sustainability startup that helps you to find zero-waste alternatives to toiletries and say goodbye to plastic in your bathroom.
Looking for partnerships with other zero-waste companies (all sorts of products)
Connections to sustainability influencers
Mentors with experience in either marketplaces or subscription boxes or businesses/beauty and consumer goods (BPC) products.
Artists that are engaged with protecting the environment
G.APP17: A digital platform that facilitates strategic partnerships between businesses and non-profit organisations through the SDGs, so that together they can lead the change we need to see in society.
Connections to the B Lab UK decisionmakers
Networking with potential target charities and businesses
GenesisAI: Providing crowdsourced data for curable diseases
Biotech links
Mentors in data, healthcare, and crowdsourcing business models
Grounded: We make functional drinks without the cr*p.
If you know anyone with connections in food, retail or gyms please get in touch!
If you know any savvy marketers or sales people, we’re hiring!
Investors: if you’d like to be kept up to speed with our progress please send an email to Bryn@groundeddrinks.com and we’ll add you to our ‘friends of grounded’ quarterly mailing list.
KAYTEA: Bringing tea back to the limelight by making it fun and relevant for a new generation of consumers by becoming a value-added tea supplier to food service operators and a consumer packaged iced tea brand.
Mentors in the FMCG and F&B industries
Warm intro to distributors and supermarket buyers
Ocafi: We stand for relationship coffee that makes farming worthwhile.
Advice and financing to kickstart growth
Platform scaling: growing smartly
Financing: working capital financing and currency hedging
Petal App: A mobile app that helps people to build a happy and healthy relationship with food.
Introduction to people in the mental health space
Introduction to someone with a bigger audience
Project Happy Note: A personalised gift series over a 3-month period with behavioural science to help your loved one create a positive ritual and to help people connect and reconnect during a difficult time.
Introductions to businesses working to boost morale, connect, and humanise their employees
We are looking for talent and expertise in operations. Please get in touch.
ValidApp: Uses AI-powered data-driven applied forensic linguistics techniques to verify school applications and coursework with the aim of detecting fraudulent applications and ghost-writers.
Introductions to overseas education contacts to expand customer research globally
Introductions to universities, scholarships committees etc. to acquire beta-partner for testing
We are looking for talent and advisors. Please get in touch.