Programme overview
Impulse is a three-month action-learning programme designed to transform high-potential innovations into investment-ready commercial propositions. Running from late April through early July, the programme delivers a structured curriculum that takes you from idea validation through to investor pitch.
Over three transformative months, participants will participate in interactive workshops, one-on-one mentoring sessions, and peer-to-peer learning with fellow innovators. The programme covers essential topics including customer discovery, business model development, IP strategy, fundraising, and pitch preparation. Each cohort concludes with a Demo Day where you'll present your refined proposition to an audience of investors, industry partners, and the wider Cambridge innovation community.
Programme elements
Workshops (hybrid)
Serial entrepreneurs and successful innovators deliver our workshops.
Sharing practical insights and examples helps our participants to question, refine and improve their business cases.
Mentor sessions (hybrid)
Each mentor group has 4-6 participants. We assign participants with similar innovation areas and needs to each group, e.g. technology readiness level, industry. Our mentors have worked with us for many years to support our participants with practical help, experienced mentoring and guidance. We select our mentors carefully, so that they can bring practical experience and assistance to our participants.
One-to-one discussions (online)
We offer our participants a wide range of expert sessions with lawyers, accountants, marketing professionals and other service providers, to address some of their key issues in advancing their business cases. Participants can book these one-to-one, individual sessions based on their needs.
Networking (in person)
Our "invitation only" events connect participants to the wider community of high profile entrepreneurs, investors, corporate "intrapreneurs" and business professionals from Cambridge and beyond. In a friendly atmosphere our participants can build their network.
Pitch session (online)
Together with their mentors, participants work towards a pitching session at the end of the programme. Our participants deliver their pitch in a supportive and constructive online pitch panel setting. Panel members, who are typically business angels, venture capitalists, entrepreneurs and corporate innovation managers, provide honest and detailed feedback to build confidence for our participants to successfully raising investment in future.
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