UCL Advances Business Support

Investor-Venture Capital

Overview

UCL Advances, UCL's centre for entrepreneurship and business interaction, helps anyone who wants to learn about, start or grow a business.

Country: United Kingdom

Founded: 2007

Headquarters: London

+44 (0)20 3108 3278

Investment Strategy

Geography

  • Europe

Sector Focus

  • Marketplace Lending
  • Real Estate

Investment Stage

  • Seed

Summary

UCL Advances is a center for entrepreneurship and business interaction that was designed to help anyone who wants to learn about, start, or grow a business. Its main role is to promote a culture of entrepreneurship on the UCL campus and to engage entrepreneurs and small businesses outside of UCL. Additionally, this center works to support start-ups and small business across London by giving them access to the technical and business expertise of UCL’s staff and students through a series of programmes

 

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Investments

Date

Name

Size

Round

Co-Investors

Sector

Country

February 2015

Nexoos

$8K

Grant

  Plug and Play

Marketplace Lending

Brazil

September 2013

We Are Pop Up

$650K

Seed

  Alastair Moore

Real Estate

United Kingdom

Key Employees

Celia Caulcott
Vice-Provost (Enterprise)/ Interim Director of UCL Enterprise Operations and UCL Advances

Alastair Moore
Interim Deputy Director/ UCL Advances