Application

Venture name (required)Your email address (required)

Describe your venture (required)At least 100 and at most 20,000 characters.

1.What is genuinely new about your technology, and what does it do that existing approaches cannot? Name the closest existing approach and say where yours departs from it. (required)

2.Who else is solving this problem the way you are, and what would it take another team to reproduce your approach from a standing start? (required)

3.If this works at full scale, what changes for the people who use it? Describe the outcome rather than the technology. (required)

4.What intellectual property protects this, filed or granted, and what is deliberately kept unpublished? Include application numbers and territories where you have them. (required)

5.Whose problem is this, how do they solve it today, and what evidence do you have that they want your solution instead? Name the customers or users you have spoken to. (required)

6.How large is the market you are addressing, how did you arrive at that figure, and which part of it can you actually reach in the next three years? (required)

7.How is this market changing, what is driving that, and what is your source for it? (required)

8.How does this business make money, what does a customer pay, and how often, and what revenue have you taken to date? (required)

9.Which market are you entering first, why that one, and what have you already done there? Name any national or regional programme the venture is aligned with. (required)

10.Who on the team has done this technical work before, and where? Name the people and what each of them built. (required)

11.What have the founders built or run previously, and how much of that experience carries over to this venture? (required)

12.Who is on the team today, full time and part time, and which roles are filled by advisers or contractors rather than employees? (required)

13.What capability does this venture need that the team does not have today, and what is the plan for it? (required)

14.Who leads this venture, how are decisions taken, and what have they led before? (required)

15.How long have the founders worked together, and how have they handled a serious disagreement? (required)

16.What is built and working today, what is designed but not built, and what is still unproven? Be specific about the current technology readiness level and how you assess it. (required)

17.What breaks first as usage grows by a factor of a hundred, technically, operationally, and commercially? (required)

18.What does reaching your next milestone cost, in money, people, and time, and what of that do you already have? (required)

19.What is the single thing most likely to stop this venture, and what would have to be true for it not to? (required)

20.What are your next three milestones, when do you expect each, and what has slipped so far and why? (required)