The Pitch@Palace event at Cambridge Judge included tips on effective pitching of ventures in short time frames, offering feedback to entrepreneurs who presented a one-minute pitch of their ideas.
It also featured a panel of alumni of previous Pitch@Palace events hosted at St James’s Palace, who said the connections gained through Pitch@Palace have proved very important in gaining investment and other traction for their ventures.
The panel
The panel included:
- Tim Guilliams of Healx, which repurposes drugs to fight rare diseases
- Raoul-Gabriel Urma of Cambridge Coding Academy, a computer coding community venture
- Hannah Harvey of health app firm Ask the Midwife
- Rebekah Scheuerle of JustMilk, which delivers nutrients and medicine to breastfeeding babies through a silicon device. JustMilk won top prize in the first biotech-themed Pitch@Palace, run in partnership with Entrepreneurship Centre at Cambridge Judge Business School, in March 2016.
The Pitch@Palace event at Cambridge Judge Business School concluded with remarks about entrepreneurship by Lord Karan Bilimoria, founder of Cobra beer and chairman of the Advisory Board of the Business School.