Pitch@King’s offers you the opportunity to practice your pitching skills with support from across the E-Lab, and a chance to compete for a prize pot of £9000.

Pitch@King’s offers you the opportunity to practice your pitching skills, build your confidence, and secure support for your ventures with input from across the E-Lab community.

Across Michaelmas and Lent terms, teams and solo founders pitch their ventures. After each term’s pitching session, three standout ventures will be selected as favourites. These six finalists will go on to compete in a showcase just before Easter term, where they will pitch to members of our SAB and a panel of esteemed judges in a finale.

Each session offers constructive feedback from our E-Lab community, including Visiting Entrepreneurs, mentors, and Research Associates, who bring industry insight and practical expertise. The knockout format will give team and solo founders the chance to refine their pitch across multiple rounds, compete for a place in the Pitch@King’s Finals in Lent term, and gain exposure within the entrepreneurial ecosystem at King’s.

This is a supportive yet challenging environment designed to mirror real venture development and investment scenarios—perfect for those looking to test ideas, attract collaborators, or simply boost their presentation skills.

We welcome entrepreneurs from all disciplines and at all stages, from early ideas to fully formed ventures.

Prizes

There is a prize pot of £6000 which is divided up between the winners of the Finale.

For the 2026/7 academic year, we will also delighted to announce that we will partner with Engineers and Scientists in Business Fellowship (ESBP) to offer an additional £3,000 as prize money to participating engineers and scientists.

As well as receiving prize money, competitions winners can also receive mentoring from our wider ESBF community and any participating team can apply for further funding and awards through our national Champion of Champions Competition – a two-day event held at the Royal Academy of Engineering in London.

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