London startups looking for a boost can win up to £50,000 investment, a trip to Silicon Valley and mentoring from an esteemed panel of entrepreneurs through TiE London’s TISC Competition 2018.
Hopefuls can enter their business plans until the end of May which will be judged by a panel of top businessmen and women. Successful start-ups will be invited to pitch in front of TiE’s Charter Members in September at a final Pitch and Awards dinner in Mayfair.
This is could be your chance to get your start-up noticed by some of London’s most influential entrepreneurs, investors and business owners.
Sid Narang of thesqua.re is the TiE Board Member Championing this event, he said, "London is a mecca for dynamic and disruptive startups, we wanted to create an exciting way of supporting them whilst offering a bedrock of excellent mentoring and strong links with Silicon Valley. TiE’s main aim is to support entrepreneurialism so we are really excited to meet London’s startups."
To give a flavour of what TISC are looking for you only need to scan over last years winners which included -
Rotaheat - A Start Up commercialising patented technology to convert rotational energy directly into thermal energy (heat) without carbon or greenhouse gas emissions.
AYR - A beautiful new vaping product that aims to totally disrupt the vaping sector
Medical Magnesium - A company that creates High-Tec magnesium implants able to perform therapy and then dissolve completely. In orthopedics a successful, stabilized fracture healing is secured before the bone uses the nutrition, which the dissolving implant releases, to regrow his natural structure
Medical Magnesium went on to secure $7mil in funding at TiEcon after winning TISC during their trip to Silicon Valley.
Nina Amin, President of TiE London said “This is precisely TISC’s strong USP. It connects London to Silicon Valley’s investors and routes to market so winning it is just the start of what could be a whirlwind journey. It also has the backing of TiE’s 2,500 strong Charter Members, all deep technical experts with access to a large pool of ‘smart money’ meaning this is serious business and if you win? Well, you are destined for big things”.
For startups reading you can enter here until the end of May. Good Luck!
