Formation 01 · Applications open · Limited seats

Walk in solo.Walk out a founder.

One day. One room. 40–50 of the sharpest Muslim operators, engineers, and domain experts. By dinner, teams are formed, ideas are picked, and the strongest walk out with cash, credits, and a five-week sprint to Demo Day.

40–50
Seats total
1 day
In the room
5 wk
Venture sprint
£ + credits
For top teams
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The programme

Idea to investment.
In forty days.

40–50 hand-picked builders. A day of problem discovery, team formation and pitching. The strongest teams win a cash grant plus AI and tech credits, then enter a five-week sprint with mentors from top founders, operators, and investors — ending in Demo Day.

01
Room
02
Team
03
Sprint
04
Demo Day

The arc

Hour by hour,
week by week.

01
00:00

Doors open · signal check

Curated intros. No pitches. Just the 40–50 people you'd want in the trenches with you.

02
00:45

Problem discovery

Rapid-fire workshops surfacing the sharpest problems worth building around this decade.

03
02:00

Teams crystallise

Founding pairs and trios lock in — engineer + domain + operator. Real chemistry, not LinkedIn matches.

04
03:30

Pitch · selection · grants

Teams pitch. Judges vote. The strongest walk out with cash, compute credits, and a starting line.

05
Wk 1–5

Venture sprint

Five weeks. Mentors on speed dial. Validate, build the MVP, get first users.

06
Wk 5

Demo Day

Pitch to investors, angels, and ecosystem leaders. Idea to check in 40 days.

What the top teams get

We back the winners.
Same day.

£££
Awarded
Cash grant

Non-dilutive capital, wired to the strongest teams from the day.

Awarded
AI & tech credits

Compute, model access, and the stack you need to go idea → MVP fast.

5w
Awarded
Mentor bench

Founders who've done it, operators who've scaled it. On call for five weeks.

Apply

Get in
the room.

40–50 seats. Every applicant is read by a human. Hear back within days.

01 · Tell us who you are
02 · Idea or expertise
03 · We review, we reply
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