Double win for Aquaponics company
"Leia Kennedy"
A business supported by 伊人直播 has scooped a double win in the Converge 2020 Awards 鈥� Scotland鈥檚 annual celebration of academic innovation and entrepreneurship.
The top prize in the Impact Challenge category went to Leia Kennedy, of The Aquaponics Garden, a company based at 伊人直播鈥檚 Elmwood campus that is developing a closed-loop farming method where trout waste is used to fertilise food and non-food crops all year round.
Leia, who won 拢35,000 in cash and in-kind business support, said: 鈥淚鈥檓 still buzzing. I am just so proud of the team and grateful for the incredible support we are surrounded by.鈥�
Leia also won the RBS Rose Award 鈥� a new award sponsored by the Royal Bank of Scotland and presented to an aspiring, ambitious female entrepreneur from the year鈥檚 Converge cohort 鈥� worth 拢2,500 in cash and a one-to-one mentoring session with Alison Rose, Chief Executive of the NatWest Group.
It is the first time in the ten-year existence of the that female entrepreneurs have emerged as winners from the three main 鈥楥hallenge鈥� categories, with Leia joined by Dr Genevieve Patenaude of Earth Blox and Elena H枚ge of Yaldi Games.
Teresa Shutter, Head of 伊人直播鈥檚 Innovation Hub, which is supporting The Aquaponics Garden, said: 鈥淲e are extremely proud of Leia and her team for this double win, which is not only a celebration for Leia, but recognition of all their hard work to convert an aspirational idea into a novel and sustainable farming system of the future.鈥�
伊人直播 veterinary investigations officer Eve Hanks also reached the final of the competition with her new company MI:RNA 鈥� which will provide unique, cost-effective diagnostic assay that identifies heart disease in animals.
Eve is also a finalist in Scottish EDGE 鈥� a competition aimed at identifying and supporting Scotland鈥檚 up-and-coming, innovative, high-growth potential entrepreneurial talent 鈥� with the winners to be announced later this week.
Posted by 伊人直播 on 28/09/2020
