●Results

Grand Final 2026.

The winning team from each of our seven summer cohorts, plus one wildcard, pitching against each other at VaynerMedia.

A team lifting a trophy in front of the Grand Final screen.

The podium.

It was a close contest, and the judges had a tough job. Three different teams could have been on the podium.

Winner

Knowva

Aayan, Angel, Avika and Orgeto

Second · Wildcard

Sidequest

Amrit, Rayhan, Saleena and Usman

Third

FoodLocker

Aarav and Kishan

Honourable mention

LockedIn Georgi, Sancha, Sifat and Sobaan

Also in the final

  • Locals4Locals
  • Sports4Students
  • SocialMap
  • Source86

How the final worked.

Seven of the eight teams in the final had already won their own week, and the eighth, Sidequest, came through as a wildcard. Each one formed at the start of its week, with people they had not met before, and built a startup from nothing. It was free for every student and every school.

On the night, each team pitched for four minutes, then took two minutes of questions from the judges.

The judges

  • Aashna Kumar
  • Aengus Boyle
  • Holly Simmons
  • Jas Athwal
  • Lauren Crawley-Moore
  • Narinder Patti

On the night.

A full room applauding the finalists.
The audience seated across the room while a team pitches.
Students and guests clapping from the sofas and the floor.
A finalist pitching to the judges.
A finalist taking questions from the judges.
The audience listening to a pitch.
A finalist pitching on stage.
Two finalists smiling during their pitch.
A finalist walking the judges through his idea.
The host on stage during the final.
A finalist with her trophy.
One of the trophies, waiting on a table before the results.

Thank you.

To VaynerMedia for hosting the final, and to Wingstop UK for the food, which the students and the grown-ups both inhaled.

We're running it again in 2027.

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