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*Source: FT ranking of ‘Top MBA programmes for entrepreneurship’, published June 2016

and each year a growing number of our students go on to start or scale up new ventures all over the world. Here are just a few of them.

schools in Europe for Entrepreneurship*,Oxford Saïd is one of the highest ranked

Husayn Kassai

Carlos and Jeff founded Seedrs after meeting on the Oxford MBA course in 2008. Seedrs allows people to back businesses by crowd investing, rather than donating, and therefore receive genuine financial returns when their investments are successful.

Jeff Lynn and Carlos Silva

London, UK

MBAs 2008Seedrs is Europe’s leading equity crowdfunding platform.

Srinivas Madipalli

‘AirBnB’ style web portal that helps disabledand elderly people with limited mobility to findaccessible short-let or holiday accommodationaround the world.

London, UK

MBA 2012Srin is co-founder / leaddeveloper of Accomable, an

Erik Abrahamsson

working with social data and fintech to help insurance companies increase sales and customer retention. Their predictive analytics and digital advertising prowess is able to help banks and insurance brokers grow salesfourfold.

London, UK

MBA 2015Erik is a Co-Founder of DigitalFineprint, an organisation

Joyeeta Das

make the unique insights hidden within Big Data accessible to all businesses and not just to data scientists. The company raised more than £1m withinsix months of incorporation and has been featured in the FT.

London, UK

MBA 2014Joyeeta is the founder of GYANA,an organisation that aims to

London, UK

Scott Gabrielson

brand that creates beautiful luxury basics with the lowest possible mark up. For every piece created, the company reveals the costs and tells the story of the factories and people behind the products.

Minneapolis, USA

MBA 2014Scott is the founder of OliverCabell, an online-only fashion

a scalable software solution for small businesses to easily measure and improve their environmental impacts. This is helping companies all over the world to share their green credentials, and is creating greater exposure and demand for responsible business.

Greg FitzGerald andMichael Thornton

London, UK

MBA 2012Michael and Greg are co-Founders of Carbon Analytics, which offers

Joris Magenti, have already had great success with their app, DatePlay. Over 20,000 people have signed up so far and they have already raised more investment than they sought through a Seedrs crowdfunding campaign. They met on the Oxford MBA in 2014.

Vana Koutsomitis and Joris Magenti

London, UK

MBAs 2014Apprentice finalist, Vana Koutsomitis, and co-founder

Singapore

Grace Sai

Singapore, a collaborative platform forentrepreneurs in Singapore. She has helpedbuild entrepreneurial ecosystems in Singaporeand around Asia through co-working spaces,incubation, corporate and governmentalpartnerships.

MBA & Skoll Scholar 2009Grace is the CEO andCo-Founder of The Hub

Melvin D’Souza and Alok Mathur

London, UK

Brendan Baker

San Francisco, USA Bogota, Colombia

Santiago Alvarez

focusing on Financial Inclusion and Access toEnergy in Latin America and is responsible forsourcing, structuring and executing transactions.Santiago is also responsible for monitoringportfolio companies and is Director of the Boardof Banco Popular Honduras and CFE Panama.

MBA 2009Santiago is an InvestmentManager with Bamboo Finance,

Cape Town, South Africa

Aunnie Patton

Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship at theUniversity of Cape Town and an AssociateFellow at Oxford Saïd. She drives the BerthaCentre's Innovative Financing initiative, whichincludes projects on Social ImpactBonds / Development Impact Bonds, impactInvesting and sustainable philanthropy.

MBA 2011Aunnie is the Innovative FinanceLead at the Bertha Centre for

London, UK

Elizabeth Fillipouli

is now the Founder & CEO of a leadership& business development firm Global Thinkersand also Global Thinkers Forum, a think tankwith international operations that aims to createbetter leaders and positive social change.

MBA 2010An international journalistturned entrepreneur, Elizabeth

Cape Town, South Africa

Leanne Viviers

task-based micro-internships platform thatconnects students with businesses to efficientlycollaborate on high impact projects. Thisempowers tertiary students with far moreopportunities to build market-relevant skills andcredibility, and businesses to affordably tacklegrowth tasks while vetting students as potentialfuture hires.

MBA 2009Leanne is the CEO andCo-founder of Mintor, a

Kigali, Rwanda

Sara Leedom

(AEC), which works to provide youthentrepreneurs the skills and resources neededto create jobs through their own enterprises.AEC is an umbrella organization that owns oroperates a network of business accelerators --all with the same impact of creating sustainablesocial change through private enterprise.

MBA 2012Sara is the co-founder ofAfrican Entrepreneur Collective

Vinay Nagaraju

enterprise which addresses the problemsof access in the last-mile of healthcare deliveryin eight Sub-Saharan African countries, throughinnovative and sustainable transport logisticssolutions, reaching over 21 million people.

MBA 2008Vinay is COO and acting CFOat Riders for Health, a social

Abhinav Jain

PowerMarket: a clean-tech venture that helps businesses become greener. PowerMarket uses satellite data to help businesses evaluate the financial viability of a renewable energy project and then helps those businesses find the right source of funds if they want to go ahead.

MBA 2013 Abhinav is a serial entrepreneurwho has most recently founded

Oxford, UK

Louis Dorval

social enterprise based in Ghana which offers a platform to reach the 3 billion people who don’t have internet access.

MBA & Skoll Scholar 2009Louis co-founded VOTO Mobile, a mobile engagement

Boulder, Colorado, USA Kenya

Mike Quinn

operator that helps people send and receive money when they need to most so that communities can thrive.

MBA & Skoll Scholar 2007Mike is CEO of Zoona, a leading African mobile money

Berlin, Germany

Steven Renwick

management system which aims to changethe culture of late payments on invoices sothat businesses get paid on time.

MBA 2010Steven is the founder of Satago,a payment and credit

Keely Stevenson

a digital health company focused on using mobile technology to help people care for eachother in times of crisis, illness and ageing.

MBA & Skoll Scholar 2004Keely is the CEO and Co-Founder of Weal Life,

San Francisco, USA Kenya

Jesse Moore

energy to Kenyan citizens and is currentlyserving over 150,000 homes with 500 morebeing added daily.

MBA & Skoll Scholar 2006Jesse co-founded M-KOPAwhich provides affordable

Ville Lehtonen

from the Biochemistry and Computer Sciencedepartments at the University of Oxford.

MBA 2008Ville founded Lab Minds, arobotics company, with people

Boston, USA London, UK

Andrew Hunt

beauty brand and social business whosemission is to create demand for under-utilisednatural products from small producers in Africa - starting with the extraordinary baobab fruit.

MBA 2008Andrew co-founded Aduna, anAfrica-inspired health and

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Karl Loo

connects customers with cleaners, plumbers, electricians, movers, gardeners and more. The platform empowers local business and allows customers to get quotes from different providers easily.

MBA 2013Karl is CEO and founder ofServisHero, a mobile app that

Oxford, UK

Matthew Richie

venture begun while at Oxford Saïd, with themission of planting 1 billion trees per yearusing emerging unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)and remote sensing technologies.

MBA 2013Matt is Director of BioCarbonEngineering, an early stage

Sydney, Australia

Chris Raine

Sunday Morning, an organisation which provides a simple and effective way for individuals to change their relationship with alcohol.

MBA & Skoll Scholar 2013Chris Raine is theFounder and CEO of Hello

Mumbai, India

Dhruv Lakra

employment and skills for deaf employees. He has since been awarded the National Award from the President of India.

MBA & Skoll Scholar 2007Dhruv founded Mirakle Couriers to provide

Washington DC, USA

Barbara Verardo

fair, affordable and sustainable financing to theunbanked poor of India and Sri Lanka throughits online lending platform.

EMBA 2012Barbara is Founder and CEOof Village Invest, which provides

Arusha, Tanzania

Erica Mackey

now raised over $30M million in venturefinancing to light Africa within the next decade.Before this, she was the Executive Director fora rural health service provider in East Africa.

MBA 2010Erica is Co-Founder and COOof Off:Grid.Electric, which has

San Jose, Costa Rica

Jose Miguel Alfaro

based in Costa Rica. s.e.e.d. makes investments in sustainability, clean tech, conservation, microfinance, fair trade, culture, education, volunteering, health, sports and development. Jose developed s.e.e.d. in Costa Rica and is now rolling it out to other regions.

MBA 2014Jose-Miguel launched s.e.e.d. -an impact investment firm

Boulder, Colorado, USA

Ruthe Farmer

Center for Women & IT, a change leadernetwork transforming the face of thetechnology workforce through research-basedchange programmes and initiatives.

MBA 2007Ruthe is the Chief Strategy &Growth Officer at the National

Paris, France

Henry Gonzalez

management team of responsAbility, facilitating the company’s growth into a leading asset manager in development investments. responsAbility makes investments in companies whose business models work to improve affordability, availability and suitability of core products and services in developing countries.

MBA 2004responsAbility Investments AG – Henry joined the senior

Seattle, USA

Jimmy Jia

Management, which has a financial platformand a service that enables a "Chief Utility Officer" to work with the CFOs of energy companies, enabling confident decision-making around utility operational and capital purchases.

MBA 2008Jimmy is Founder and CEO of Distributed Energy

Mumbai, India

Karan Rai

software product incubator in Mumbai,co-creating technology products in partnership with industry leaders.

MBA 2008Karan is the founder of RedPanda Innovation Labs, a

Los Angeles, USA

Tara Roth

she funds and supports social innovation inLos Angeles.

MBA & Skoll Scholar 2004Tara is the President of theGoldhirsh Foundation where

San Francisco, USA

Owen Scottand Joel Usher

Economics &Management 2008Husayn is Co-Founder and

CEO of Onfido, a background checking company that carries out automated background checks via API. They are the only background checking company using AI and Machine Learning to reduce identity fraud and service over 1,000 clients globally.

MBAs 2014Owen and Scott are Co-Founders of

OpenRide,an app and web-based rideshare platform that connects drivers with available seats and passengers seeking to travel. Their user-friendly platform enables drivers to earn money for their pre-planned trips while providing passengers with a viable, cost-effective, and fun way to reach their destination.

MBA 2009Brendan has workedwith Greylock Partners

(a Silicon Valley venture firm that has invested in Facebook, Airbnb, and Linke-dIn), and AngelList, a platform that con-nects startups and investors.

MBAs 2007Alok and Melvin founded Soul Tree Wine in 2009

with the intention of putting Indian wine on the map. Soul Tree is now a global brand, with salesin the UK, USA, Germany and a growing numberof other countries worldwide.

Cambridge, USA