After winning WE Innovate in 2017, Dr Olivia Ahn, CEO and founder of Fluus went on to win the Mayor’s Entrepreneur Competition, was nominated in the Young Achiever category for the Asian Women of Achievement Awards UK and in 2022 won the NatWest Chairman’s Award. Fluus, which created the world’s first flushable period pad, will soon be closing a crowdfunding campaign, having raised more than ÂŁ830,000.
In 2022, Olivia was one of the first alumni to sign the Imperial Entrepreneurs’ Pledge​. The Imperial Entrepreneurs’ Pledge is an opportunity for student and alumni founders to “pay it forward” by pledging to make a philanthropic gift to Imperial in the future to support the next generation of entrepreneurs and innovators.