The City Launch Lab is an incubation space for City’s alumni, student and graduate entrepreneurs.

Three different membership tiers are created to serve different stage of startups.

The Membership Criteria

The Criteria	Gold membership	Silver membership	Bronze membership
Pay membership	No	No	Yes
Founding team	At least one of the founders should be City student or alumni.	At least one of the founders should be City student or alumni.	At least one of the founders should be City student or alumni.
MVP	Must be able to prove that you have an MVP (can be website, prototype etc)	Don’t need to have an MVP but you need to show that you have well researched idea and evidence that you have initiated or done research related to the business idea.	Yes. We expect that you already have a quite mature product / service.
Company has to be registered and it operates in the UK	Yes	Planning to register and operate in the UK	Yes
Company’s age (from the date of founded)	Not more than 4 years	-	Not more than 5 years
Company’s income level	Not making any profit (Total revenue < total cost) or Break even	Not making any profit (Total revenue < total cost) or Break even	Making profit
Motivation	Actively be part of the community and want to proactively give back to the community (sharing knowledge, skills and information)	Must want to be and motivated enough to build the business.

The Membership Benefits

Benefits	Gold membership	Silver membership	Bronze membership
Desk and meeting room credit	Full access. (Unlimited) Visitors: 3 people/month	Desk booking: 20 hours/week Meeting room booking: 6 hours/week Visitors: 2 people/month	Desk booking: 10 hours/week Meeting room booking: 4 hours/week Visitors: 1 person/month
Access to paid events. (founders event, free legal support)	Yes	Yes	Limited
Free AWS credit up to $10,000	Yes	Yes	Yes
Access to newsletter	Yes	Yes	Yes
Register their business address at The City Launch Lab	Yes	Yes	No
Request for permanent desk? (need to show the consistency of using the space)	Yes	Yes	No

REGISTER NOW!!!

If you meet the criteria for one of our membership plan above.

Extra information

If you are still at the problem-solution fit or customer discovery phase of your startup journey and you need to develop further your research and join some workshops, we advise that you consider participating in the other City services available which can be found on our Start your business page, which will provide you with more useful tools and resources relevant to your business development.

City Venture Accelerator Programme 2024

Want to partner with us?

The City Launch lab is always open to new partnerships, mentors, volunteering opportunities and to speak to investors who are interested in our launch lab businesses.

Get in contact with us at launchlab@city.ac.uk if you are interested in exploring a partnership.

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