Gii Revolution: Are You Up for the Challenge

Call for submission

Are you an SME or a research institute with an assay for human, veterinary, water, soil or food diagnostics testing?

But you’re either struggling to get it to market or need to cut your costs, boost your scalability or improve your current performance?

Gii is our pure carbon nanomaterial which can offer a low-cost, sustainable, scalable, supply-secure and highly sensitive solution.

We are running our inaugural Gii Revolution competition to find the best use case of Gii in diagnostics testing.

We want to hear from you!

 

Submission form will be available from the 4th of November

 

Prizes and Benefits

First prize: £100,000 in dedicated iGii resources to use across any of our services below to either get your business ready for market, or to take it to the next level.

  • Specialist in-house consultancy
  • In-house sample manufacturing and testing
  • Electrodes
  • Prototyping
  • In-house R&D
  • Optimisation services and more

After a 12-24 week period of working with you, we will develop a Gii Revolution Challenge Action Plan

 

Runner up: £25,000 worth of dedicated iGii resources listed above.

 

All participants will receive a discount offer for purchasing Gii-Sens.

 

 

Deadlines and how to apply

November 4th 2024: Application form open.
November 27th 2024: Webinar to learn more and ask questions
January 10th 2025: Application form closed.
January 28th 2025: Challenge results will be released.
February 2nd 2025: Award Ceremony for winners.
February 17th 2025: Project launch.

There are four sections to our entry form

1.Abstract
Submit an abstract no longer than 250 words answering the following questions:

  • What is your current project?
  • What electrodes are you currently using?
  • What is the key feature you are looking to achieve – lower cost, sustainable impact, product performance
  • Which sector do you envisage your project disrupting?

 

2.Gii-Sens requirement

  • Please submit detailed requirements of Gii-Sens for your project. Custom designs can be accepted as long as it is 10cm2 or less.
  • You can find information on our current Gii-Sens designs here.

 

3.Long-term funding

  • Participants must be able to demonstrate a credible means to fund a project with iGii should they win the competition whether that be via existing cashflow, fund raising or joint fund raising with iGii.
  • This can be achieved by:
    1. Submitting the last 3 years turnover and profits in the submission form, or
    2. funding references that iGii can contact, or,
  • Outlining in no more than 250 words how the participating company will raise money on a success case themselves or with iGii.

 

4. Contact information

Once pre-screening is completed, you will receive an email from our team to let you know whether your submission has been moved to the next stage.

If successful, your submission will be reviewed by our panel of experts in January. We will provide you with a discount code that you can use when requesting an order of Gii-Sens.

If your application did not pass through pre-screening, you will receive a discount code for your participation that you can use on Gii-Sens orders.

The competition is for collaboration only in the integration of Gii/Gii-Sens into your products.

To be considered for the initial screening for eligibility you must agree with terms on prompt legal and project progression.