{"id":7272,"date":"2026-05-15T14:01:40","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T14:01:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/early-career-researcher-noticeboard\/?p=7272"},"modified":"2026-05-15T14:01:40","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T14:01:40","slug":"venture-catalyst-challenge-2026-applications-open-deadline-14-june","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/early-career-researcher-noticeboard\/2026\/05\/15\/venture-catalyst-challenge-2026-applications-open-deadline-14-june\/","title":{"rendered":"Venture Catalyst Challenge 2026 &#8211; Applications Open (deadline: 14 June)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Applications are now open for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imperialenterpriselab.com\/programmes\/vcc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"0\"><strong>Venture Catalyst Challenge (VCC) 2026<\/strong><\/a>, Imperial\u2019s flagship entrepreneurial competition for Students, Alumni and Early Career Researchers.<\/p>\n<p>Over three months, 25 teams will receive 1\u2011to\u20111 coaching, expert meetings, evening workshops and pitch training to help turn bold ideas into real\u2011world ventures, competing across five tracks for a share of a \u00a3100,000 equity\u2011free prize fund.<\/p>\n<p>The programme starts in August 2026, with applications open now and <strong>closing on Sunday, 14 June 2026.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Find out more and apply: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imperialenterpriselab.com\/programmes\/vcc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"2\">https:\/\/www.imperialenterpriselab.com\/programmes\/vcc\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Any questions: <a href=\"mailto:vcc@imperial.ac.uk\">vcc@imperial.ac.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1937\" height=\"1097\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7273\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/early-career-researcher-noticeboard\/files\/2026\/05\/VCC-2026-Official-Poster.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Applications are now open for the Venture Catalyst Challenge (VCC) 2026, Imperial\u2019s flagship entrepreneurial competition for Students, Alumni and Early Career Researchers. Over three months, 25 teams will receive 1\u2011to\u20111 coaching, expert meetings, evening workshops and pitch training to help turn bold ideas into real\u2011world ventures, competing across five tracks for a share of a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":245,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[320927],"tags":[320929,320930,320931],"class_list":["post-7272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-competitions-projects","tag-doctoral-students","tag-masters-students","tag-research-staff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/early-career-researcher-noticeboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/early-career-researcher-noticeboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/early-career-researcher-noticeboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/early-career-researcher-noticeboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/245"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/early-career-researcher-noticeboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7272"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/early-career-researcher-noticeboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7275,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/early-career-researcher-noticeboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7272\/revisions\/7275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/early-career-researcher-noticeboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/early-career-researcher-noticeboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/early-career-researcher-noticeboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}