A young entrepreneur whose AI social enterprise will help medical professionals save time, money and lives has won £20,000 after wowing the judges at a hotly contested funding competition at The Shard.

Talha Mehmood, a medical student at Anglia Ruskin University, is the founder of Medily AI - a suite of digital tools that support more efficient management of patient care. Talha, 22, was last night declared the first winner of Ignite, which has been launched by social enterprise philanthropists The Ford Family Foundation in partnership with Durham University. All six highly impressive finalists are undergraduates or recent graduates from leading UK universities.