London Business School Alumni

With the recent launch of the Institute of Entrepreneurship and Private Capital (IEPC), Academic Directors Luisa Alemany and Florin Vasvari are outlining the new initiatives that the new merger will enable. The IEPC will promote new ideas that drive sustainable economic growth in private markets.

They aim to provide a bridge between the LBS community and the entrepreneurial ecosystem by facilitating real-world learning opportunities. You can read more on the institute and the team here:

Meet the Institute of Entrepreneurship and Private Capital | London Business School A new London Business School institute will help bridge the gap between founders and investors

As we reach the end of this year, we’d love to highlight some of the well-deserved successes of our alumni – the winners of this year’s Alumni Awards:

2021 Service Award winners
Myra Tabor MSc19(1985)
Alumni Council member; Class Rep; Entrepreneur Mentor in Residence

Jun Kigoshi MBA29(1990)
President, Japan Alumni Club

2021 GOLD Award winners
Misha Engineer MBA2012
Co-Founder, Northumbria Pharma

Parminder Basran MBA2010
Founder and Managing Partner, VGC Partners

Sinan Geylani EMBAG2016
Founder & CEO, Virtual i Technologies

Accomplished Entrepreneurs Award Early stage winner
Will Pearson MiM2018
Founder & Co-CEO, Ocean Bottle

Nick Doman MiM2018
Founder & Co-CEO, Ocean Bottle

Accomplished Entrepreneurs Award Later-stage winner
Akshat Garg SLN2019
Founder & Director, DCDC Kidney Care

Congratulations to all 2021 Alumni Awards winners!
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Alumni Award Winners 2020 & 2021

London Business School remains in second place in Financial Times’s 2021 ranking of European graduate business schools. Since the ranking’s inception in 2004, LBS has maintained its position in the top three European schools. Read more here:

LBS recognised again as a leading European business school | London Business School FT European Business Schools ranking recognises excellence across Degree and Executive Education programmes

Congratulations to LBS Alumnus Tushar Ahluwalia MIM2011, who has achieved unicorn status for his startup, Razor Group in the latest funding round.

Razor Group, a Berlin-based startup, acquires and scales Amazon Marketplace merchants into bigger, multichannel businesses using its proprietary platform.

You can read more here in the latest interview with Tushar: http://ow.ly/Ys6E30s10Vu

LBS Alumnus founded Razor Group achieves unicorn status with the... Razor Group, a Berlin-based startup, acquires and scales Amazon Marketplace merchants into bigger, multichannel businesses using its proprietary platform. In October, it raised $125 million in equity which on top of a $400 million raise in May gave it a valuation exceeding $1 billion and made it...

Congratulations to LBS Alumni Will Pearson MiM2018 and Nick Doman MiM2018, Co-founders of Ocean Bottle, who've picked up the early-stage entrepreneurs award, and to Akshat Garg SLN2019, Co-founder of DCDC Kidney Care, winning the later-stage business category at this year's LBS Accomplished Entrepreneur Awards!

You can read more here:

Akshat Garg, Nick Doman, and Will Pearson win the 2021 LBS... Established in 2010 to showcase the success of alumni in launching innovative businesses, this year’s award for early-stage entrepreneurs has gone to ocean Bottle co-founders Will Pearson and Nick Doman, while Akshat Garg scooped the award for later-stage companies for cofounding...

Thank you for all your support at this year’s . Together we raised thousands of pounds and were able to surpass our target of 500 donors. We couldn’t have done it without you!

Your support means that we can invest in our faculty research, strengthening our diversity, building and innovating our learning environments and invest in our global community so that together, we can make a difference in the world.

Now is the time where together, we can make a difference for LBS and the world. LBS students, faculty and alumni are finding solutions to the global challenges facing us all. By giving today, your gift goes twice as far towards our community – the thing that truly sets LBS apart.

Make your gift here: http://ow.ly/OlVU30rYaoN and help us build a better future we are all striving for.

Today is the day we have all been waiting for, ! Haven’t registered? Don’t worry you still have time, visit here: http://ow.ly/CnKn30rXF9C. Don’t forget this year’s event is open to the entire LBS community. See you at 09:00 BST sharp for a warm welcome from Françoise Michel MBA2000 Jun Kigoshi MBA29(1990).

The London Business School Incubator programme celebrates its 12th year with the news that more than 100 businesses have now been developed and supported through the programme, with an overall staggering £100m raised in seed capital. Read more here:

Celebrating £100m Raised By LBS Startups | London Business School LBS Incubator programme welcomes 2021/22 Cohort

We are now officially two weeks away from this year's WAC 2021! Taking place virtually over 11 hours, now is the time to come together and celebrate the strength of the incredible LBS community.

If you haven't already, you can book your spot here: http://ow.ly/geYy30rWjVP. You can also view the agenda for the day by visiting this link: http://ow.ly/35cD30rWkhY

We look forward to seeing you on 21st October.

Congratulations to London Business School alumnus Fabian Sinn whose data and machine learning company, Tanso, have just closed $1.9 million pre-seed funding. Beginning life in 2021, Tanso aims to remove structural barriers that hamper corporations from achieving climate neutrality.

“As technology enthusiasts, we came together to leverage the latest insights from science and state-of-the-art technology to tackle climate change”, says Fabian.

Read more here:

Tanso – leading the way to a low-carbon economy with $1.9m... London Business School alumnus Fabian Sinn (LBS M.Sc. Analytics and Management) describes data and machine learning company Tanso as “purpose-driven”. And so it is. An early-stage startup, which began life in 2021, Tanso, aims to remove structural barriers that hamper corporations from achieving...