SPARK | Maisie Williams at Hult Prize 2024 Finals

Maisie Williams attend the Hult Prize Global Finals in London on September 6th, 2024. During an on-stage interview with Lori van Dam, Williams highlighted her experience and lessons learned while launching Daisie, a digital platform that empowers creators to present their work, identify opportunities, and collaborate with others to develop and advance their careers.

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Maisie Williams for Hult Prize

The annual Hult Prize competition challenges for-profit student entrepreneurs from around the world to create and launch businesses aimed at tackling the most pressing challenges they see in their communities. This year, the competition welcomed 200,000 participants and 40,000 entrepreneurs from approximately 113 countries and 2,000 international universities who put forward 9,400 startup ideas. Every startup must align with at least one U.N. Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) and have a “triple bottom line” focus on people, planet, and profit.

The Hult Prize Foundation today held its Global Final in London at the Mermaid Theatre on September 6th, 2024 and named the social impact startup Korion Health from University of Pittsburgh as the winner of the annual $1M USD Hult Prize.

Korion Health is developing a home health monitoring kit that empowers patients to better understand their own healthcare, working in conjunction with its hardware design partner, Hellbender, Inc., a Pennsylvania Social Benefit Corporation. The company’s flagship product is an electronic stethoscope that teaches users how to collect their own heart and lung sounds.

The competition welcomed past Hult Prize winners, current partners, and influential leaders involved with sustainability and social impact investing to serve as judges, including Earth Day Network President Kathleen Rogers , LinHart Group Founder and Chairman Tsun-yan Shieh, BuuPass, Inc. CEO Wyclife Omondi (winner of the 2016 Hult Prize), and Sharjah Entrepreneurship Center Vice-Chairperson Najla Al-Midfa.

The winner was announced with featured speaker, actor, startup founder, and environmentalist Maisie Williams, who played Arya Stark on Game of Thrones. During an on-stage interview with Lori van Dam, Williams highlighted her experience and lessons learned while launching Daisie, a digital platform that empowers creators to present their work, identify opportunities, and collaborate with others to develop and advance their careers.

Spark negotiated the involvement of Maisie Williams in the Hult Prize final including a general search for a suitable candidate, fee negotiation and contracting with Maisie Williams.

Here’s Korion Health’s successful pitch: