LSE has built an entire living ecosystem around an entrepreneurial mind in building the next AI-enabled ventures, including the Data Science Institute, Global School of Sustainability and Marshall building.
At Generate, our mission is to cultivate a community of AI founders committed to solving real-world problems. We nurture talent by connecting them with technology and capital, giving them the tools to build responsibly that drive both economic growth and positive societal impact.
There will be programmatic offerings exclusive to AI founders, as well as supplementary enterprise offerings from service providers available to students, alumni and staff who aspire to start an AI-enabled business.
AI Founders Vertical Pilot
In January 2026, we inaugurated the launch of the AI founders program with a legal tech conversation between Professor Larry Kramer, president of LSE and Seed Legal’s founder, Anthony Rose.
The program aims to develop entrepreneurs across four core pillars:
Event Calendar
We have prepared an exciting programmatic roadmap in the pilot year to allow you to fully immerse and debate the complexities, matrixed environment entrepreneurs face when scaling in different sectors, and being given the opportunity to test some of your knowledge and theories with hands-on experience.
Check out our current AI events on Luma here.
- January: AI Founders Vertical Launch with Larry Kramer, Presidence of LSE and Anthony Rose, founder of SeedLegals
- February: AI investor office hours with VCs and angel networks
- March: China Innovation Trek for AI founders
- April: Responsible FinTech thought leadership round table and supperclub with SGN
- May: LSE Generate x Lovable: Access by Design Health Hackathon
- May: AI tooling masterclass webinar
- June: VC pitching day
- June: Generate x Google Better World Summit: Responsbile AI
Notable LSE Alumni in the AI space
Seasoned founders
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Adam French, Founder of Scalable Capital, a unicorn fintech, also the founding partner of Houghton Street Ventures, MD at Antler
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Dr. Parag Khanna, Founder & CEO of AlphaGeo, geospatial predictive analytics platform, widely used by the biggest investment banks
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Terence Zou, Founder & CEO of Ryde, cab-sharing app in Singapore, currently listed on NASDAQ
Rising stars
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Borys Nadykto, Co-founder of Byne, a defence company building infrastructure for users with LLMs, already have contracts with major defense networks
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Ping Chen Lin, Co-founder of CybPass, AI cybersecurity for high-risk industries, closing its first round after winning an Innovate UK grant (~£100k) and a UKRI EPSRC fellowship
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Camin McCluskey, Founder & CTO of Stackfix, AI-powered software comparison website, raise $3m last year
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Tommy Stadlen, Co-founder of Beam, home renovation visualisation, raised Series A five months ago
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Heather Udo, Founder & CEO, Shoppable, E-commerce solution, Series A company based in NYC
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Nicolas Klein, Co-founder of Singulate, Generative AI B2B marketing platform, raised £2.3m last October
AI Perks
As part of the LSE founders community, you will have exclusive access to a selection of enterprise perks and discount codes kindly provided by our friends from the ecosystem, including:
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One month free access to Pro package of Lovable
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Free credits on us to access Letswork.io co-working spaces in seven countries
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One month free access to AI marketing software Cheerio.AI
You can access all these perks by joining the LSE Generate Startup Catalogue here.
Getting Involved
We are actively looking for new community members to contribute to the development of our programming. Here are some quick ways to get involved:
Email Taylor on t.l.w.wong@lse.ac.uk to share your ideas!