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Student start-up talent was celebrated at the University\u2019s third annual Southampton Dragon\u2019s Den competition,\u00a0where\u00a0a smart academic search platform and a Japanese learning app secured \u00a350,000 of investment.<\/h2>\n

Six start-up schemes pitched in front of a live audience on Saturday 13 May. The event, run by the University\u2019s Future Worlds start-up incubator and the\u00a0Fish on Toast\u00a0and\u00a0ECS Entrepreneurs\u00a0student societies, offered a snapshot of a mounting entrepreneurial culture, with record numbers of attendees hoping to follow the fortunes of the promising student businesses.<\/p>\n

Computer science, geography and acoustical engineering students Maciej Szpakowski, Przemek Zientala and Mauro Cozzi Gasparotti led with a confident pitch for FuseMind<\/a>, an online academic search tool, and were offered \u00a330,000 of investment from alumnus Chris Broad (BSc Electronic Engineering, 1984) and confetti.co.uk co-founder\u00a0and alumnus Andrew Doe (BSc Electronic Engineering, 1986).<\/p>\n

Web scientist Travis Ralph-Donaldson also secured \u00a320,000 of investment for Handy Kanji<\/a>, a language learning app that uses intelligent stroke recognition and scoring algorithms to teach the Japanese writing system.<\/p>\n

Other entrants included computer science student Varun Gupta with his \u2018All in\u2019 information-sharing app, PhD students Daniel Martinho-Corbishley and Jamie Lomeli with their\u00a0Aura Vision Labs\u00a0<\/a>start-up, mechanical engineering student Landon Vago-Hughes\u00a0with events app Igglu and international relations student Andreas Ostrovsky-Pereira\u00a0with social enterprise Sagar Energy Solutions<\/a>.<\/p>\n

For more information about wider student enterprise opportunities at the University, visit the dedicated entrepreneurship section of the Careers and Employability Service website<\/a>.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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