Sophie Bree

The Oxford Seed Fund is a founder-friendly team comprising students and alumni from the University of Oxford. We invest up to £100,000 in early-stage startups where the founding team has at least one current student, alumni or academic staff member from the university, and provide additional support to scale. Supported by the Oxford Saïd Entrepreneurship Centre at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford.

Jua is a frontier AI lab building a foundation model for reality. We started with the atmosphere and set the global benchmark for weather and energy prediction, outperforming every incumbent including the institution that defined the field for forty years. Today, our agent Athena drives decisions on energy trading desks worldwide. Language models learned the digital world from text. The physical world is larger, older, and governed by different laws. It needs a different model. The last three years transformed everything we do on a screen. But the physical world is where most of our economy actually lives. It is where our energy comes from, where our families live, where the decisions that shape real life are made. AI has barely touched it. Our foundation model learns the dynamics that govern the physical world directly from data, and because physics is shared across domains, that understanding transfers: from the atmosphere to fluid dynamics to any system governed by the same fundamental laws. The last three years changed everything we do on a screen. The next three years will change everything else.

MAYD delivers meds to your doorstep in 30 minutes, 365 days a year. We are building Europe’s healthcare platform for easier access to medication, offering over 5,000 healthcare-related goods in a more convenient, supportive, and consultative way. Backed by world-class investors with over $45M shortly after launch, our team consists of serial entrepreneurs and experienced operators passionate about helping people get their meds faster when they need them most. Interested in joining us on our mission to make people’s lives healthier and easier? See all our job openings here: https://www.getmayd.com/en-de/career/

START Global is building the seeding ground for entrepreneurial talent. Our non-profit student initiative was established in 1996 at the University of St. Gallen. Since then, we have built a community of like-minded founders and entrepreneurial-minded individuals deeply embedded in Europes startup ecosystem. Our organization hosts the annual START Summit x Hack, organizes the START Fellowship program, and connects entrepreneurial minds. Through these efforts, we aim to unleash the innovative potential of entrepreneurial ecosystems. Since 2016, START has been supported by the START Foundation and its advisory board, which includes ten distinguished Swiss entrepreneurs and investors, amongst others, Daniel Gutenberg, Urs Wietlisbach and Florian Schweitzer.