NextChain, the ordering app for chefs, restaurants and cafes, is celebrating two award wins.
While launching the first iteration of its digital platform and mobile app this summer, the Edinburgh-based start-up has been honoured with two award accolades: Scotland and Northern Ireland’s Best University Start-Up, awarded by the Creator Fund and Winner of The University of Edinburgh’s Inspire Launch Grow Award, within the Emerging Enterprise category.
The Creator Fund, powered by the Founders Factory, invests in PhD, academic, and student founders building businesses out of university innovation.
The University of Edinburgh’s Inspire Launch Grow Award initiative is run by Edinburgh Innovations, the University’s commercialisation service, celebrating student and recent graduate enterprise.
Winners were selected by an expert judging panel from a shortlist of 14 finalists across three categories, with each winner awarded £5,000.
In the Emerging Enterprise category, sponsored by Balfour Beatty, the winning NextChain team, undergraduate student Armin Ghofrani and recent graduates Thomas Billam and Gauthier Collas, have developed an app to improve the food supply chain process for restaurants, promising chefs they can “say goodbye to phone calls, emails, paperwork and mistakes”.
Armin Ghofrani said: “We are so grateful for the support and help we’ve received from EI – particularly the co-working space where we got to interact with so many inspiring people. We really wanted to help businesses adapt to the tough conditions they face and with this boost we hope to continue to grow our user base in Edinburgh.”
