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Finishing our #GenZ #founders series with a bang, today we profile four young businesses setting out to make the world a better place. They include: 💥 Anahita Laverack, who co-founded Oshen, which makes autonomous micro vessels for ocean data collection, with Ciaran Dowds, after meeting at Imperial College London. The pair have raised more than £100,000 in angel investment and around £400,000 in grants and employ a team of five in Plymouth. Their backers include: Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and European Space Agency - ESA. 💥 Zeezy Qureshi, the founder and CEO of Motion, a platform to deliver fun, chair-based activity and exercise sessions in care homes. The company has raised £130,000 in grant funding, including from Innovate UK, and employs five at its HQ at Sheffield Technology Parks. The team has worked with more than 2,500 older adults in more than 60 care homes. 💥 Conor Walsh, founder of ReelHelp which makes tools to make electricians' lives easier. He explained how mentors have helped him. "All you need is people around you to tell you that you can do anything... then you start believing it," said Walsh, who previously won a spot on the prestigious Royal Academy of Engineering's regional talent engines programme. 💥 Aurélia Le Frapper, co-founder of No Impunity, a legal tech start-up launched in 2022, with the goal of making the justice system more accessible to all, irrespective of financial status of background. Le Frapper and her co-founder Yanis Lunetta met while studying at UCL and are putting in the long yards to try and make a success of the company. “I work six days out of seven, ten to 12 hours per day, because I really want this to succeed.” she said. “Gen Z entrepreneurs are activists at heart, but they showcase it in a practical way.” #GenZ #founders #activism
