APPLY NOW! The 2012 call for submissions is open until March 24th!
The Saïd Business School Venturefund provides entrepreneurs with seed and early-stage capital for new ventures. The annual competition is open to students and alumni of Saïd Business School, as well as members of Oxford Entrepreneurs who are University of Oxford students or alumni. To date the Fund has invested a total of £675,000 in six businesses.
HiretheWorld.com is a hybrid crowdsourcing and outsourcing marketplace which harnesses the powers of crowdsourcing for graphics design, advertising, audio production and ideation. Find out more here.
Jambase, Inc.is an online music Internet company incorporated in California in the late 1990s. The core product is a live music search engine with supporting services such as updates, articles, contests, and personalized user pages.
“My experience with the SBS VF has been very positive. The selection process was exciting and quite challenging. The student and faculty selection committee helped me to sharpen the JamBase story and pitch. The experience of being in the “final four” and presenting to an audience of 400, while being put to the test by David Bonderman and Sir Phillip Green, was one that I will never forget. Being awarded the first investment of the SBS Venture Fund gave me and our investors the confidence needed to quickly close an over-subscribed Series A."
David Rosenheim, CEO, JamBase
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GreenPrint Technologies software eliminates home and office printing waste by eliminating common types of wasteful pages.
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“The SBS Venture fund was a great event. We really enjoyed meeting the other teams and getting to know their business models’ as well as discussing our business with the SBS students and panelists. Getting to present to David Bonderman, Sir Philip Green, and Sir Victor Blank was in front of the full Mandela theater was an incredibly unique and interesting experience. We’d love to do it again.”
Hayden Hamilton, CEO, GreenPrint
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Zoombu helps to find the best travel to any destination in Europe. Its proprietory search engine technology finds complete end-to-end routes including flights, ferries, trains coaches and driving which saves the user from having to visit dozens of websites to build an itinerary. The user simply selects the cheapest, fastest, or most carbon friendly route from the search results.
Zoombu has recently been sold to Skyscanner. Read more here.
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"The SBS Venture Fund presents an exceptional funding opportunity for entrepreneurs emerging from Oxford University and the Saïd Business School. The Fund Committee ensures that every candidate business is put through a rigorous application, selection and due diligence process, which mirrors that at a professional VC firm. Pitching to Sir Philip Green and David Bonderman in front of an audience of 400 people and receiving a thorough grilling on all aspects of our business was a truly unforgettable experience. We are delighted to be part of the Fund’s portfolio and are excited about the development opportunities the investment will provide."
Rachel Armitage, Co-Founder, Zoombu |
MoBank is a service allowing customers to make day-to-day transactions and administer their personal finances any time, any place and from any Internet connected device (mobile or fixed).
ARK Mobile Finance seeks to establish the Gold Standard in credit analytics for M-Banking using innovative behaviour analysis. Customers “qualify” for loans by use of funds. Lending is de-risked and made scalable. M-banking strengthens customer loyalty.