The tech startup accelerator at the University of Southampton

Deep tech startups are hard to build, particularly for first time founders. Future Worlds introduced us to a large and diverse group of supportive experts who freely gave their time.

This provided Aquark with a strong foundation and the confidence to gain investment of over €5m and grow the team to a dozen staff, with plans for further investment and rapid expansion of our team next year.”

A key moment in the growth of VidiriCO2 was an early trip accompanying the founders cohort to San Francisco and Silicon Valley. The structure of the visit afforded me the flexibility to plan my own meetings with investors and key partners.

This enabled me to strengthen relationships with members of the Future Worlds ecosystem who’ve gone on to be major investors, supporting ViridiCO2 and helping it scale.”

The Royal Academy of Engineering (RAEng) Enterprise Fellowship allowed me to tap into the expertise of their extensive network. This opened a vast array of commercial opportunities for my startup.

With expert-level mentoring, guidance and coaching throughout the application process, Future Worlds was instrumental in my receiving the fellowship. I highly recommend anyone applying to get in touch with Future Worlds.”

I first met the Future Worlds team in 2019 as part of a team working on an AI water sensor. We’d just won a hackathon. Since then, they have supported me as I worked on startups with different co-founders and in different sectors, growing and learning with each iteration.

This culminated with LZero (now Bloctopus) being part of Cohort 23, and I know that I will apply all these learnings and experiences as I drive the company forward.”

My involvement with Future Worlds started small with just going to a few events. When the time was right to do more, they were so approachable and supportive.

As well as the progress I made in developing Zenicam, I underwent personal growth, giving me the confidence to progress from being in the audience to pitching on stage as part of London Tech Week to a capacity audience of investors and industry partners.”