by Admin on JUNE 24, 2013 The government’s Social Incubator Fund is strengthening its panel with a startup female entrepreneur joining the advisers. Zoe Peden, the entrepreneur behind the educational iPad app for people with communication difficulties MyChoicePad has been invited to become an Advisory Board Member for the Cabinet Office’s £10m Social Incubator Fund […]

By Jack Millner, Reporter Friday June 21st, 2013 £10m social venture fund appoints new advisory board member Zoe Peden, the entrepreneur behind the educational iPad app for people with communication difficulties MyChoicePadhas been invited to become an Advisory Board Member for the Cabinet Office’s £10m Social Incubator Fund for start-up social ventures. This comes after David Cameron announced […]

We were delighted to learn that Prince Andrew, the Duke of York yesterday met our award winner Zoe Peden and saw the incredible work of MyChoicePad as he visited the Wayra Enternships digital start up careers fair yesterday. And we were even more delighted to open the Metro this morning and to find a photo of the […]

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The Wayra Academy in London is one of Europe’s newest and most-exciting start-up labs. The space houses 16 new businesses chosen from a pool of more than 1,000 applicants, and is just the latest local outpost of the Wayra brand, which also has inc…