Student Success at Venture Competition 2025

Two students from Dundee Law School have achieved remarkable success at this year’s Venture Competition, hosted by the University of Dundee’s Centre for Entrepreneurship. This annual event showcases innovative business ideas from staff, students and graduates. 

Aroob, a 2024 graduate in English Law and Finlay, a 3rd year Scots and English (Dual Qualifying) LLB student presented AI-MZ, a private platform designed to make contract management easier for lawyers: automating routine tasks; flagging compliance issues; and helping legal teams focus on what actually matters.

Competing across three stages, Aroob and Finlay pitched their idea to multiple judges. 

Aroob and Finlay were successful in 3 categories:

The Student and Recent Graduate Award (£4,500);
The Digital Award sponsored by Techscaler (£5,000); and 
The McGhee Award (£12,500).

They also picked up the award for Best Pitch.

For Aroob, “Winning means we can actually start building AI-MZ without relying on outside investment. It’s surreal, but this is just the beginning.” 

Finlay added, “Our success was more than we could’ve hoped for. This has secured us opportunity for real development. We will continue to work hard towards even more significant milestones.” 

Aroob and Finlay are now moving forward into the development stage, getting the tool ready for beta testing.

This is an inspiring example of how legal education at Dundee Law School encourages students to think innovatively, pursue interdisciplinary ideas and make a real-world impact.