In the Press

The Oxford Foundry and Director Ana Bakshi are regularly featured in local, national and international press.

Inspiring Fifty UK award – influential women in tech announced. Oxford Foundry Executive Director Ana Bakshi, named as one of the 50 most influential women in tech in the UK. 

No need to drop out, uni is just the place to build your start-up 

Pressure is not a burden, it’s a privilege

The former All Blacks player Dan Carter on how learning to cope in the tough moments made him a winner.

Oxford foundry partners with FMDQ to grow Nigerian start-ups

The Oxford Foundry, University of Oxford and FMDQ Group Launch Global Partnership

University of Oxford, FMDQ to accelerate Nigeria’s start-up ecosystem

HealthTech raises £4.6m for painless COVID testing

This startup just created a fast, accurate COVID test that only needs saliva and links to an app. 

Rugby great Dan Carter on his legacy, building resilience and influential new career moves

Dan Carter announced as Oxford Foundry Leader in Practice. 

ALL BLACKS RUGBY LEGEND DAN CARTER NEW LEADER IN PRACTICE FOR OXFORD FOUNDRY

Dan Carter becomes first 'leader in practice' at University of Oxford entrepreneurship centre​

European Universities Are The Newest Deep Tech Hotspots

Business chief's £100,000 boost for Covid memorial: Entrepreneur Mohamed Amersi's family is 'honoured' to back campaign for national monument.

Oxford University rejected me. Then I took a gap year, reapplied and got in. 

"Oxford is also the ideal place for me to figure out how these interests would play a part in my future career. Apart from clubs and societies, students also have access to the Oxford Foundry, an entrepreneurship centre set up in 2017 by the Saïd Business School and Apple’s Tim Cook. I see the foundry as a great place to connect with people interested in learning about tech, and interested in using multidisciplinary solutions to solve problems in sectors like education. 
 

Business School briefing. The Oxford Foundry, the university’s entrepreneurship hub, created with the help of Saïd Business School, is also attempting to foster greater diversity in business education. It is launching an Entrepreneurial Fellowship Initiative to fund eight-week summer internship placements for 20 students from black, Asian, and minority ethnic (Bame) backgrounds with some of the high-growth start-ups based at Foundry.

Oxford University launches new education and enterprise initiative for BAME students

Oxford fellowship to promote diversity in business

Oxford highlighted as a leading institution in UK Knowledge Exchange Framework

Wimbledon-based student aims to combat pollution

Why universities must seize the chance to help "reset" society, by Mark Dodgson and David Gann.

Oxwash, the ‘Ocado of laundry’, ready to take its chance to clean up

How the COVID-19 pandemic has led to unprecedented innovation

Starting a business is easier when you’re among friends

This isn't an outdated ivory tower': how Oxford university leapfrogged its rivals

Campus start‑ups cram for recovery

Good News For Oxford On The Job Front As It Prepares For A Year Unlike Any Other

Introducing the 100 Best Workplaces for Innovators

These are the most innovative workplaces (and not headed by Google or Amazon).

Oxford start-up iLoF receives £1m from Microsoft's venture fund.

Balancing Oxford’s Business School: More Women, More Africans

Today’s students want to become startup founders.

OXFORD DEEP TECH COMPANY WINS MICROSOFT’S GLOBAL FEMALE FOUNDERS COMPETITION

Ana Bakshi, Director, Oxford Foundry, Opinion: Our big university challenge: University startup ecosystems could help speed up our recovery from the pandemic.

Novoic seeks a million volunteers to cough up and help curb Covid-19

App designed by caregivers combats loneliness in care homes.

Roundup: Touch free entry range to help NHS return to normal, study on VR training for care workers and more briefs

‘Never let a crisis go to waste’: entrepreneurship in the age of coronavirus

How to make supermarket shopping feel safer and more normal

Oxford Foundry selects innovations for COVID-19 recovery

Oxford Foundry launches £120k grant fund for start-ups responding to COVID-19  

Oxford Foundry grants £120,000 to startups aiding economic recovery 

Oxford Foundry launches four new innovations for COVID-19 recovery 

GUEST BLOG: Coronavirus (COVID-19) - Oxford Foundry

The Oxford Foundry and Crowdless app for Covid-19 recovery

Oxford Foundry announces four new innovations for COVID-19 recovery

Oxford Foundry backs four new COVID-19 recovery innovations

Oxford eco-laundry service pivots to support health professionals in Covid-19 pandemic.

Oxford Foundry announces Coronavirus products

Oxford student launches app to help social distancing

BLOG: Entrepreneurs stepping forward to tackle COVID-19

Crowdless app tracks supermarket lockdown queues.

Covid-19: Oxford Foundry action plan helps tech ventures fight coronavirus challenges.

NYE HEALTH: Free call and video service brings patients and their doctors safely together.

COVID-19: Oxford Foundry, an entrepreneurship centre at Oxford, accelerates innovative solutions

Oxford Foundry launches two-part plan to accelerate COVID-19 solutions.

Oxford University launches plan to solve COVID-19 crisis

New digital service ‘to allow every UK GP surgery to offer remote consults’.

OXFORD UNI STUDENTS WIN PRIZE FOR IDEA TO REDUCE POLLUTION FROM WORLD’S SHIPPING INDUSTRY

Oxford and Cambridge remain the gold standards for generating ideas

IS THE PATHWAY FROM EDUCATION TO BUSINESS WORKING WELL ENOUGH?

How can businesses best integrate college/university leavers and apprentices into their business? Ana Bakshi, Director of Saïd Business School’s Oxford Foundry

The Company Making Tutors Into Influencers. After closing a $760,000 pre-seed round from Biz Stone and joining University of Oxford’s accelerator Oxford Foundry, Scoodle now boasts 100,000 users.

Twitter co-founder Biz Stone backs tutoring platform Scoodle

Scoodle is also the first ed tech company to join the University of Oxford’s accelerator, Oxford Foundry.

Entrepreneur Is Funding A New Oxford Scholarship For Black British Students

US entrepreneur, Arlan Hamilton, is funding Oxford’s first scholarship for disadvantaged black British students.

New Oxford University scholarship for Black British students

US ENTREPRENEUR SETS UP OXFORD SCHOLARSHIP FOR BLACK UK STUDENTS 

Arlan Hamilton grant to cover costs for undergraduates from disadvantaged backgrounds.

BLACK STUDENTS AT OXFORD UNIVERSITY TO GET SCHOLARSHIPS FROM BLACK AMERICAN TECH ENTREPRENEUR

Technology investor and entrepreneur Arlan Hamilton is funding a new scholarship for black undergraduate students at Oxford University, a first for the educational institution.

Oxford startup receives €2m through accelerator for Alzheimer's treatment

A ‘startup’ based at the Oxford Foundry, has received €2 million from an EIT Health acceleration programme to combat Alzheimer’s through artificial intelligence and photonics. 

Oxford Joins Ripple’s UBRI As Kyoto University Fires Up XRP Validator

An entrepreneurship center at the University of Oxford says it’s joining Ripple’s University Blockchain Research Initiative (UBRI).

CONNECTIONS COUNT WHEN IT COMES TO START-UPS 

Successful university incubators forge links across disciplines.

Oxford partners Ripple to solve tech skills gap

The Oxford Foundry has announced plans to tackle the growing technology skills gap in the UK via a partnership with blockchain technology provider Ripple and its University Blockchain Research Initiative (UBRI).
 

BRITAIN'S BEST UNIVERSITIES FOR FEMALE FOUNDERS

Oxford is among the top three institutions, identified by Tide, as best for women's entrepreneurship

Here are the members of the Fast Company Impact Council

Oxford Foundry looks for new donors to help its entrepreneurial start-ups

Wanted: donors to leave mark on Oxford Foundry start-ups

THE RISE OF STUDENT ENTREPRENEURS AT BRITISH UNIVERSITIES 

The site is now home to Oxford University’s entrepreneurship campus, known as Oxford Foundry. 

INNOVATION PRIMER - HOW OXFORD UNIVERSITY IS PREPARING STUDENTS FOR ENTREPRENEURIAL LIFE

The Foundry aims to support venture creation and growth, but it is not necessarily science and technology research-driven. 

The Oxford Foundry Recognizes ‘There’s A Creator In All Of Us’ In Milestone Partnership

OXFORD UNIVERSITY SPIN-OUTS ARE ATTRACTING MORE CASH THAN EVER

Since 2011, Oxford companies have raised just short of £1.9bn in external fundraising and £506m of this has been generated over the past 12 months alone.

OXFORD UNIVERSITY'S NEWEST START-UP ACCELERATOR WELCOMES ITS FIRST COHORT

The Oxford Foundry is showcasing the first cohort of start-up teams to join OXFO L.E.V8, the University of Oxford’s newest start-up accelerator.

Millennials are less entrepreneurial and fail more often. But reports suggest a new confidence is emerging at the younger end of the cohort

PROGRAMME LAUNCHES AT FOUNDRY FOR WOMEN ENTREPRENEURS

Start-up centre The Oxford Foundry is launching a programme to nurture women business leaders.

Students learn the art of business. Universities are giving young entrepreneurs the courage — and sometimes the financial backing — to start companies

APPLE BOSS TIM COOK OPENS THE OXFORD FOUNDRY

A new Oxford University facility aimed at developing the entrepreneurial skills of students has been launched by Apple CEO Tim Cook.

TIM COOK OF APPLE TO OPEN OXFORD UNIVERSITY START-UP HUB

High-profile backers for The Foundry endorse institution’s entrepreneurial credentials

DON'T TRUST INVESTORS ASKING HOW YOU'LL EXIT TO APPLE, SAYS APPLE CEO

If you’re a budding entrepreneur and the VC you’re pitching switches gears and asks you about your exit strategy that’s your cue to get up and leave, says Apple CEO Tim Cook.

Cook was speaking to an audience of students and would be entrepreneurs at the opening of the Foundry startup hub in Oxford, UK yesterday. During a Q&A session at the end of a hour long conversation an audience member asked Cook how entrepreneurs should handle investors who seem to be trying to steer them towards a quick exit to a tech giant like Apple or Google.

OXFORD UNIVERSITY LOOKS TO RAISE ITS GAME WITH START-UP HUB

Push to set up Foundry is recognition that city needs to attract entrepreneurs

OXFORD FOUNDRY DIRECTOR PLANS TO HELP STUDENT ENTREPRENEURS

The director of a new entrepreneurial space for students at Oxford University said she aims to create a diverse community where people with “different” perceptions can come together.