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here's who you'll be building with.

Members come from Oxford, Cambridge, Imperial, LSE, UCL and 65+ universities across the UK, Europe and North America.

More than half live outside London: Manchester, Glasgow, Cardiff, Leicester, Bristol and beyond: 50+ cities in all.

They study everything from Biomedical Engineering to Aerospace, Mechatronics and Robotics.

  • 50+cities
  • 65+universities across the UK, Europe and North America
  • 1,000+attendees across 7+ events
  • £1m+raised by members

some of the people in the community.

  • “Created one of the most accurate black hole visualisations ever at the time… it still took 3 months straight of computing for the final simulation.”

    First year, King's College London

  • “During my year in industry, I worked at a research lab at MIT, where I built an EEG headset in SolidWorks and then 3D printed a lightweight version of it… I built my own startup this summer on AR games for kids with neurological conditions.”

    Imperial graduate

  • “[During my PhD,] I developed an idea into a commercially viable product that is 100 times better than existing incumbents. This research led to 2 patents and a potential spinout in near future.”

    Also trained as a patent attorney during the PhD.

    PhD, Oxford

  • “It was benchmarked against GPT-4 and GPT-5 and it was on par with GPT-5 in accuracy… Also outperformed GPT-5 in engagement for kids.”

    Student, Birmingham

  • “I co-founded [a research group] investigating whether controlled exposure to cosmic radiation can enhance plant growth and yield in Mars-analogue environments… recruit 80+ student researchers from 6 countries.”

    Also ran a high altitude balloon experiment exposing seeds to radiation, backed by government research funding.

    Imperial student

  • “Now serving over 13 million users and counting.”

    Built a Discord bot that runs in 48,000+ servers. It has since passed 14 million users.

    Third year, Liverpool

  • “We have amassed over 280k+ users. We are approaching Series A.”

    Works on growth and marketing at a fast growing startup, and founded its ambassador programme.

    Second year, Imperial

  • Working on a student CubeSat mission, supported by ESA, to detect space debris. Also won a JPMorgan Code for Good hackathon.

    Postgraduate, Strathclyde

  • Co-founded an agentic AI startup for clinics in the medical field. A £112,000 revenue pipeline in 4 months, and now live with paying clinics at £26k ARR.

    Student, UCL

  • Won NASA Space Apps in Bristol, then built the full thermal and hydraulic models for an underwater data centre startup in 7 weeks. Now co-founding a startup.

    Graduate, Bristol

  • Founded a startup in high school that made a card game teaching Hong Kong Sign Language. 255 games sold, a 98% return for 80 shareholders, and 1st of 80 companies in a national competition.

    Second year, Imperial

  • Launched a social app for drivers on a £3k budget. 15,000 downloads in the first month, and No.4 on the App Store within two weeks, ahead of Facebook and WhatsApp.

    Postgraduate, UCL

  • Built an online store to £400k in revenue and 10,000+ customers, then sold it to a US buyer. Now runs a personalised children's book business, built end to end.

    Graduate, UCL

  • Grew a research tool to 200+ users across Imperial, Oxford and Cambridge. 95% retention and 53 paying for six months, then sold the tech to a UK research agency.

    Graduate, Imperial

  • Won 1st of 30+ teams at a FIRST Tech Challenge regional, with a vision system hitting 95%+ autonomous success. Then co-founded an AI website builder piloted with 2 major banks.

    Maths & Computer Science student, Central University, Moscow

  • Built a compiler for real time risk checks on financial data. Demoing a note taking app at a hackathon led to a final round at a top hedge fund. Olympiad gold in maths, chemistry and computing.

    Third year, Durham

  • Building a compliance platform for life sciences manufacturers, with a design partner signed at 35k a year.

    Graduate, King's College London

what you get when you join.

  1. Meet founders, engineers and students working on what you're working on.

    Students in the middle rows of a lecture hall at King's College London, listening to a talk.

  2. A hackathon with Anthropic. A robotics panel with Shadow Robot, ARIA and NextGenRI. An invite only Cambridge talk we took members into.

    Abdullah with a microphone on stage at King's College London, in front of a NextGenRI banner.

  3. Get hands on with live builds from founders in the community. Work you can point to.

    Builders at laptops in a lecture theatre during the hackathon.

  4. Founders and roles that rarely reach a careers fair.

    A drone with a robotic arm on a table, its builder behind it.

  5. Startup roles through Uncooked Jobs and our partners.

    Two men talking and laughing together at the Oxford Cambridge Fellowship mixer, with an Uncooked banner behind them.

start with people.the rest is up to you.

  1. 01

    join Labs

    Find your people and see where you want to get involved.

  2. 02

    build together

    Take on projects and real work with other members.

  3. 03

    go further

    Start your own company, join a startup through Uncooked Jobs, or keep building with us.

join now and shape what we build.

Founding members choose which rooms we run next and what we build after that. First up: a directory of who's building what, and a map of hardware spaces, beginning in the UK.

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questions you probably have.

No. Hardware, robotics and deep tech are the focus, but startups need operators, designers and people who sell too. If you want to work on hard problems, you belong here.

No. When you apply, we look at what you've built or done and how serious you are about it, not your CV. Some members run companies. Some are looking for their first project.

If you want a line on your CV and nothing else. Labs works for people who build and show up.

Apply through the form and tell us what you're building. It's free.

No. It's free.

Get close to the people building them. Come to a Labs event, meet founders and show what you've built. When you're ready, Uncooked Jobs (opens in a new tab) lists live roles at VC backed startups.

Yes. We run hard tech events through the year, from robotics panels to hackathons. See what's coming up on our events page.

No. More than half our members live outside London, plus members across Europe and North America. Most rooms are in London for now, and we're taking them to more cities.

Labs gets you close to the people and the work. Uncooked Jobs (opens in a new tab) helps VC backed startups hire you on what you can prove.

the next room is better with you in it.

You don't need a startup, an elite university or a perfect CV. We read every application and add new members to the group chats in batches, so it can take a little time.

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