Catalyst Grant Event London: What Makes a Successful Scientific Startup? #CatalystGrant

Join Digital Science in London on 7th September at 6.30pm for the announcement of our latest Catalyst Grant awardee, plus some entrepreneurial advice from Brent Hoberman!

Where: The Stables, Digital Science, Kings Cross, N1 9SR (view map)
When: Wednesday, 7th September 2016, 18.30 – 21.00

The Catalyst Grant Program is an international initiative by Digital Science to support the innovation of new software tools and technologies for scientific research. To-date, we have awarded more than $100,000 in grants. Awards of up to $25,000 are intended to provide initial support to take ideas from concept to prototype and are considered twice per year, once in December and once in June.

Our evening event will include a keynote from British entrepreneur, Brent Hoberman, Co-Founder of lastminute.com, made.com, Founders Forum and Founders Factory, who will talk about what makes a successful startup and how he recognises and nurtures talent.

The rest of the evening will form a workshop for sharing and offering up tips and tricks on how to get your ideas off the ground! You will hear from those in the Digital Science portfolio including John Hammersley, the founder of our portfolio company Overleaf.

Brent Hoberman is Chairman and Co-Founder of Founders Factory, a corporate-backed incubator/accelerator based in London. He is Co-Founder of made.com, a direct-from-factory consumer crowd-sourced homewares retailer in the UK and he also co-founded lastminute.com in April 1998. He was CEO from its inception and the team took the company to profit and gross bookings of over $2bn. lastminute.com acquired 14 businesses after the IPO to supplement the annual growth of the core brand which was over 100% from 1998 – 2004. In 2005 lastminute.com was sold to Sabre for $1.1bn. Brent sits on the Advisory board for LetterOne Technology (a $16bn investment fund) and the UK Government Digital Advisory Board. He is a board member of The Economist. Brent is a YGL and Prime Minister’s Business Trade Ambassador. Brent was awarded a CBE in the 2015 New Year’s Honour’s List. Brent co-founded and chairs Founders Forum; a series of intimate annual global events for the leading entrepreneurs of today and the rising stars of tomorrow. Founders Forum also has an innovation consultancy for top corporates (Founders Intelligence) and a recruitment company (Future Founders). It has launched SmartUp.io, a new business in gamified mobile learning for entrepreneurs, which Brent co-founded and chairs.

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