Value proposition

Investment company that ran from 2011-15 backing students and recent graduates.

Student Upstarts invested up to £15,000 in exchange for up to 8% equity in student teams to startup their own business.

The criteria was simple – one member of your team must have been a full-time student at a UK or European higher education institute, or had graduated from one in the last 12 months. This applied to both undergraduate, postgraduate and PhD students.

Investments included Loot Bank & FanBytes.