SPARK will act as a blueprint for enabling cross-collegiate innovation at Cambridge, nurturing new high-growth businesses in the UK. The programme will scout talent from the University’s 23,000 student and researcher population across 31 colleges and will run from 26 August 2025 for four weeks.
The first cohort will include up to 40 participants, working in teams or individually, with ideas, early-stage products, or social ventures in any technology-led sector. These participants will receive specialised support to turn their concepts into investable ventures that can ultimately feed the pipeline of high impact businesses serving the UK’s long term economic growth.
The programme is free of charge for final year undergraduates (graduating Summer 2025), postgraduates, postdocs, researchers, and alumni who have graduated in the last two years from the University of Cambridge thanks to the generous philanthropic support of a successful King’s College entrepreneur together with funding from the University. It is also open to University alumni (more than two years-graduated) for a programme fee of £1,000.
Kamiar Mohaddes, Co-Founder and Director of the King's E-Lab, commented: “To ignite economic growth, we need to ‘grow up’ our University talent and the next generation of entrepreneurs. The King’s E-Lab, since its inception 3 years ago, is modelling the kind of culture change seen at the likes of MIT and Stanford – where entrepreneurship is in the air. We are thrilled to have King’s E-Lab joining forces with Founders at the University of Cambridge to provide this new platform where both students and alumni can dare to dream big.”
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Applications for SPARK are now open. For more information and to apply, visit www.kingselab.org/spark
