What is State School Ventures? Take it away Tim Morgan : 1. 8 week accelerator programme; 2. free monthly to anyone that attended UK state school; 3. so far 5 programmes, 8 founders and 2 fundraisings.

🚀 AI & The Great Divide: Why Social Mobility is the Key to Prosperity AI is set to widen the gap between the haves and the have-nots like never before. 📢 What do you think? Should the UK be prioritising social mobility in the age of AI? Is venture inherently elitist?

We have a great batch of founders for our March programme and there's still time to join them. If thats you or someone you know, see the application form on our website, applications for March close on Monday.

"AI could cut public service waiting time in half" Delighted to see the Science, Innovation and Technology Secretary @Peterkyle championing State School Ventures class of November 2024 graduates Caddy on Sky News today. It's time to build Britain 🇬🇧

🚨 State School Shoutout for computational chemists 📣 We have a founder on State School Ventures working on materials and drug discovery pipelines looking to speak with research scientists or engineers that use computational chemistry within the materials discovery sector.

We have an incredible roster of talent on the March programme moving from idea to startup day by day ⏲️ + 🗣️ + 💻 = 🚀 Could you be next? The deadline for our April programme is this Friday 28th March 🗓️

Great wisdom from the OGs. Founders should ask themselves these two things but they have a seeing the wood for the trees problem. good mentors/investors/advisors can inject this rigour.

Congrats to SSV participants Cloudpeek on winning Tech Nation Rising Stars. CloudPeek is the UK's only native cloud security company and they focus on the industries that matter the most starting with the one they know best: Defence ⚔️ 🇬🇧

Since its the last day to apply for our June programme, a good day for a testimonial from founders on the last programme

Applications are open for our July programme: 1. Attended a UK state school? 🇬🇧 2. Have a unique idea to turn into a business? 💡 3. Want help from top UK tech experts? 🥼 Visit our website. Image courtesy of Grok ("British invention")

We're very proud early backers of Nancy and Rude: 1. $177bn market with poor quality incumbents ✅ 2. demonstrably resourceful and talented founder✅ 3. non-obvious opportunity ✅ 🚦we're good to go linkedin.com/pulse/female-f…

Congrats to the AI Vikings that won the prize we sponsored at the Basis Capital X Looking for Growth hackathon last week....and of course to all the other prize winners, but you know, especially to AI Vikings 😉