Experience Heritage advances to National Finals in startup funding competition

We’re elated to announce that we are advancing to the National Finals of the Santander University Emerging Entrepreneurs competition! We’ve been selected as one of eight startups out of 81 who competed in the semi-finals on 23 September.

The finals will be held on 29 September and are open to the public to watch by registering here. We will be competing for the prize of £30,000 seed funding as well as a paid intern. There will be a panel of prestigious judges who include Theo Paphitis (TV Dragon), Prue Leith (Chancellor, Queen Margaret University and judge on The Great British Bake Off), Warwick Hill (Business executive and entrepreneur), Julie Devonshire OBE (Director of the Entrepreneurship Institute at King’s College London), Nathan Bostock, Chief Executive, Santander UK, and Susan Allen, CEO, Retail and Business Banking, Santander UK.

We were originally accepted to represent the University of York in the Emerging Entrepreneur competition in April 2020 and have been taking part in their accelerator program throughout the summer via online webinar sessions. It has been a great learning experience and we are so excited to take part in the next chapter of this journey!

Experience Heritage selected for Santander Emerging Entrepreneurs Programme 2020

Santander Universities Emerging Entrepreneurs Programme 2020

We are very excited that Experience Heritage has been selected to represent the University of York in the Santander Emerging Entrepreneurs programme for 2020! This program, taking only one business per partnering university, provides business support, workshops and a chance to win £30,000 equity free funding, a fully funded intern as well as other prizes. A two-day national final with pitches from the selected business will determine the final prize winners.

Chosen as one of 80 business selected out of 2000 business applying across the UK, we are very honoured to represent the University of York and look forward to the support that it will provide in the coming months. If successful, we hope to use the seed funding to create the framework for an Augmented Reality heritage trail app.