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MassChallenge UK Awards 2015

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The inaugural MassChallenge UK Awards were held in the Old Truman Brewery in London on Thursday 22nd October 2015. Attended by over 600 people there were keynote addresses from Thomasina Miers, Co-Founder and Executive Chef of Wahaca Restaurants and Amzat Yusuf, CEO & Founder of Citymapper.

The Awards were the culmination of a four month accelerator programme for 90 start ups and social entrepreneurs. During the programme the startups and social entrepreneurs were connected with a group of mentors and investors and given free office space to catalyze their growth and gear up for a successful future.

26 out of the 90 startups made the finals and were given the opportunity to make a last pitch before MassChallenge awarded £500,000 in no equity, no strings attached grants to 14 startups.

Lord Verjee presented the final award to MOM Incubators, who have created an inflatable incubator which could help save the lives of up to 1 million prematurely born children worldwide.

Read more about the event here.

Always focused towards identifying talent, The Rumi Foundation partners individuals and organisations in the UK and all across the globe who share our vision to nurture inspiring initiatives with the capacity to create a richer and hopefully better society for us all.

It is our mission is to see potential realised and we serve this goal, passionately, whenever the opportunity presents itself, by enabling access to our networks, our mentoring and our experience.

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