The New Enterprise Competition

Every year we award £35,000 of funding to entrepreneurial students, staff and alumni. These start-ups cover a broad range of areas from jewellery design to novel vertical farming technologies.

We provide funding for all levels of start-up through three stages; supporting University of Bristol Entrepreneurs from Ideation, through Development Stage to Growth Stage of their ventures.

Winners join a prestigious group of start-ups and spinouts and are part of the 20-year tradition of celebrating and rewarding entrepreneurship at the University of Bristol.

The three stages of the New Enterprise Competition

Each section has a resource link with more information about that stage.

• IDEATION

  For the idea generators, explorers and creators; anyone wishing to develop entrepreneurial skills or a budding start-up idea.
• DEVELOPMENT

  For all the entrepreneurially minded who want to build up skills and knowhow; for creators who have early-stage businesses with a clear vision. 
• GROWTH

  For the bold and ambitious and for registered businesses seeking to expand their operation and are ripe for investors.

Email basecamp@bristol.ac.uk if you have questions about:

• enterprise support
• sponsoring our programming
• becoming a mentor.

Meet the 2023-24 winner of the New Enterprise Competition - SLANT.

‌‌We are thrilled to announce our overall winner, SLANT, winning £15,000 plus 12 months of incubation at SETSquared. They also won a £3,000 bonus prize from competition sponsor, Engineers in Business.

SLANT is building electric trolleys – called ‘e-carriages’ – to help shoppers get their groceries home. They want to reduce the 4.5 billion car journeys made to the shops in England each year and help those who do not drive to get their shopping home easily and sustainably.

SLANT co-founder, Artemis Fragkopoulos (pictured above) said:

“It is amazing. We’ll use this to develop a minimal marketable product, to get pre-orders and start generating revenue”.

Meet our other winners:

Weronika Stelmach (Weaving Change) won £7,500 and a six-month membership at SETsquared Bristol for her fashion app Swerv, which aims to connect people with their wardrobes through an app that lets you digitise your clothes, and try them on your own customisable avatar.

Louisa Billington (Accomodeep) won £2,500 for her start-up, Accommodeep, which is developing the first wearable deep-pressure device that is suitable for people with breasts.  

Deeshen Shah (Lettus Digest) also won £1,500 in the People’s Choice Award, receiving the most votes in an extremely close public campaign.