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Alumni Innovation Award Winners 2019/20
Award winners are supported by the University of Bath Alumni department to develop their ideas into viable businesses, encouraging the next generation of entrepreneurs. Through these awards we aim to encourage a culture of change across the University, with students seeing an aspiration to become an entrepreneur as a clear and viable career choice. With the help of the SETsquared network and award winning business incubation programme, the scheme aims to help launch businesses which have the potential for truly global impact. In 2019 there were three winners of the bursary award, with Parimala Shivaprasad - one of the 2018 winners, starting her journey this year instead. You can follow their inspiring entrepreneurial journeys below.
George Griffiths
EXPO EDUCATION
George graduated with a BSc (hons) degree in Biology from the University of Bath in 2019.
George’s startup ‘ExpoEducation’, is creating a bridge between the higher education industry where knowledge is generated, and the meeting event industry where knowledge is distributed. By pairing up students with some of the best industry-specific conferences in the country, ExpoEducation allows conferences to run their events with motivated and engaged volunteers, whilst allowing these students to gain an invaluable insight into their chosen industry for free.
Paul Hetherington
NEURO Ai
Paul graduated from the University of Bath in 2019 with a MEng (hons) degree in Integrated Mechanical and Electrical Engineering.
Neuro Ai is a hardware startup making devices for the high speed processing of AI. The use of AI throughout all industries has exploded but the speed of the computers that AI runs on have not progressed at the same rate.
Neuro Ai is solving this by creating high speed, affordable and versatile hardware giving the power of a supercomputer to everyone.
Matt Barlow
LIVEPRIZE
Matt graduated in 2019 with a BSc (hons) degree in Business Administration from the University of Bath.
Here’s what Matt has to say about Liveprize:
“Liveprize is the home of the most entertaining and rewarding giveaways in the world. Our free app runs scheduled live giveaways in seasonal blocks. These giveaways feature exciting game-show style formats where all users compete in unison for a grand prize”.
Parimala Shivaprasad
RETRA
Parimala completed her PhD research programme in Chemical Engineering at the University of Bath in 2019 and is currently a University Researcher on ICURe.
From festivals to weddings, flowers in India take centre stage in celebrations and religious ceremonies. Flowers are so dominant in Indian culture that they make up one third of the country’s total solid waste. Discarded flowers litter land and waterways, a problem which has inspired Parimala to set up Retra, a company creating a product from flower waste.