Cancer Research UK have selected six ventures to enter the final phase of the OVC, and the community has chosen its favourite. Check out the front page of the website to see which ventures were chosen!

We need your help!

From now on, these ventures will be working closely with Cancer Research UK to develop their businesses. They’ll need to do research, build websites, get the word out, find contacts, and more. Once again, in the spirit of Open Ventures, we’re hoping the community can help them out. In the Help Out section of the site, you can interact with the venture teams, find out what problems they have yet to solve, and help solve them.

Update: as of 11:59pm Sunday 26th April, voting is closed. The venture with the most votes will be announced shortly!

I’m excited to announce that, as of noon on Monday, we have more than twenty great ventures entered into the Challenge! They’re superb ideas, with really high-quality business plans, and I expect the judging panel is going to have a hard time choosing the shortlist.

That’s where you, the Open Ventures community, come in. Nearly all of the venture teams chose to enter their venture into the Community Choice Award, and you can now vote for your favourite ventures on the OVC website.

If there’s a venture you really want to succeed, or you’re in a venture team and want to improve your chances, the Community Choice Award could make the difference. So get voting, and get your friends voting too!