Masamba is a strong advocate for entrepreneurship and has played a huge part in building a platform for start-ups and burgeoning businesses to get off the ground, with some notable support at his university. In his second year he became the Outreach Executive for the Venture Capital Fund team for the UCL Entrepreneurs, which has provided over £40,000 worth of funding to a range of start-ups from medtech to fintec. In this role he oversaw the management and processing of 100 applications and interviewed almost 50 start-ups across two terms. He was then required to review business plans and pitch decks and organise the six best pitches to take place in front of Venture Capital professionals.

To take the society to the next level, Masamba decided to go above and beyond his remit and reached out to influential people within the venture capitalist industry. He managed to secure CEOs from companies such as Wintern, a student and graduate assessment centre organisation, and Screen Cloud, a leading digital signage company, to judge the potential of the start-ups. He also spent the year building partnerships with the likes of Seedrs – one of the UK’s largest crowdfunding platforms, and VC Firms such as RLC Ventures and Episode 1. As a result of these ground-breaking partnerships, he was made the Director of the fund for the following year.

In his second year, he was an Associate at UCL’s student-run investment fund, Bloomsbury Capital, leading a team of four analysts in equity research and stock pitching. Here, he taught his team about DCF (discounted fund) analysis, key investment metrics and research styles. Under his guidance the team had the most successful long-position pitch, pitching Adobe at $238, with a target price of just over $300 (now at $280). This stock pitch received an 85 per cent vote share backing from the rest of the fund, higher than any other stock pitch that year. Once again, his efforts were rewarded and he was elected as Investment Officer for the fund, which means in the current academic year, he will be setting the investment mandate and managing the £10,000-plus portfolio alongside the chairwoman.

At the end of his first year, Masamba was one of 40 students from around the world to be accepted into the Zhejiang University Entrepreneurship Summer School Programme in Hangzhou, China.

Where do you see yourself in 10 years?

I am passionate about financial literacy so I want to have started a fund for retail investors, where I not only manage that but teach people about personal finance.