Impulse Programme

The flagship Cambridge entrepreneurship programme for science and technology innovators

Impulse is a unique entrepreneurship programme created specifically for early-stage tech and life science innovators as they embark on the journey from scientific insight to validated commercial proposition.

Held over three practical and intensive months, you will explore and develop the startup potential of your idea, develop entrepreneurial skills and knowledge through workshops led by successful founders, and build invaluable new relationships within the world-leading Cambridge ecosystem.

Over ten years, this powerful formula has delivered consistent real-world impact, helping many participants win investment, launch new ventures, and spin out their research to commercial success.

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Is Impulse for me?

Impulse is open to participants from both within and beyond the University of Cambridge.

Are you working on research in tech or life sciences that may have commercial application, but you need help to explore its potential? 

Perhaps you have already begun to implement your idea, incorporated a company or formed a team, but need guidance and access to the right people to take the next steps? 

If so, we’d love to hear from you.

Impulse and its sister programme for more established projects, Impulse AMP, cater to the needs of early-stage founders, from initial idea right through to investment and launch.

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