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Studios & Labs

Choose a market. Build inside it.

In Year 3, students choose a venture studio and organise their learning, mentoring, and company-building around one industry direction.

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Proposed venture studios

Industry context changes how you build.

Each studio creates a focused environment for customer discovery, specialist mentoring, relevant partnerships, and venture decisions grounded in the realities of that sector.

01

AI & SaaS

Build software and AI-native services around validated customer problems. Explore recurring revenue, automation, product adoption, and scalable delivery.

02

Healthcare

Investigate problems across access, care delivery, wellness, and health operations. Build responsibly around evidence, privacy, and stakeholder trust.

03

Education

Design learning products, services, and systems for students, educators, and institutions. Test whether the solution improves access, engagement, or outcomes.

04

D2C & Consumer Brands

Create a differentiated consumer proposition and bring it to market. Work across product, brand, sourcing, distribution, retention, and unit economics.

05

Media & Creator Economy

Build ventures powered by audience, content, community, and intellectual property. Develop repeatable systems for attention, trust, and monetisation.

06

FinTech

Explore products and services that improve how people and businesses manage money. Learn to balance user value, risk, compliance, and financial sustainability.

07

Climate & Sustainability

Address resource, energy, waste, and resilience challenges with viable business models. Measure commercial value alongside environmental impact.

08

DeepTech

Translate technical insight into a clear market opportunity. Focus on validation, defensibility, applications, partnerships, and the path from research to adoption.

09

Manufacturing

Build around production, supply chains, quality, industrial services, and operational efficiency. Learn by understanding the system on the ground.

10

Social Enterprise

Create sustainable models for meaningful social outcomes. Treat community insight, impact evidence, ethics, and financial resilience as core design inputs.

11

Family Business Innovation

Develop new products, channels, systems, or growth engines within an existing enterprise. Preserve hard-earned strengths while testing the next opportunity.

Students building collaboratively in a VIIV studio

One venture, every assignment

No hypothetical startups. No random case studies.

From studio selection onward, the student's projects, reviews, systems, financial work, and founder development contribute to the same company.

See the Year 3 journey