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Building connections for my start-up: Insights from Venture Crawl

My Venture Crawl experience
Jack Niu

BA History student (Faculty of Arts & Humanities)

07 April 2025

History student, Jack Niu took part in Venture Crawl to explore opportunities for his start-up. Alongside 40+ students across King's, he visited exciting innovation hotspots, including Red Bull's UK HQ.

Your motivation to take part

I wanted to take part in Venture Crawl because I've always had an enthusiasm for entrepreneurship - I started a company with my friends and wished to gain more information on opportunities.

Your goals for the day

I hoped to explore funding opportunities that are available for student start-ups and I gained the information I needed, through learning about projects at Red Bull UK and Santander

Your Venture Crawl highlight

The highlight of the day was definitely visiting Red Bull UK and hearing from some of the team. They provided intriguing insight into Red Bull's marketing strategy and funding opportunities, including Red Bull Basement. I learnt the importance of relating your entrepreneurial project to greater problems in society. 

Your advice for future Venture Crawl participants

Fully connect with other participants on the day, as I found the opinions and ideas of others extremely helpful and interesting. 

Venture Crawl in one word...

Connection - for the opportunities provided to connect with other interesting minds. 

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Venture Crawl is an annual event, which invites King's students to explore London's innovation hotspots first-hand, and meet entrepreneurial leaders. Previous stops include Grind Roastery, Octopus Ventures, Hello Fresh and Google Campus London.

Read more about Venture Crawl 2025 on the King's website

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My Venture Crawl experience

We caught up with King's students to hear all about their experience on Venture Crawl - touring some of London's innovation hotspots and hearing from entrepreneurial leaders.

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