One Million Opportunities - Cohort I Founder Spotlight

Who they are

Hussnain Khan, Bilal Ahmed, and Mansoor Saad are three University of Liverpool students who didn't come from a startup background.

Hussnain, CEO, studied Mechatronics and Robotics, completed a placement year at Bentley Motors, and was named a top 3 intern out of 100+. Mansoor, CTO, is a two-time scholarship winner whose code ran aboard the International Space Station as part of a European Space Agency mission. Bilal, studying Computer Science, interned at NatWest and was building adversarial machine learning tools in his own time.

Three engineers. Zero startup experience. One shared frustration.

Why they're building it

In 2025, the three of them sat down for brunch in Manchester and asked one question: what problem could they actually solve?

The answer kept coming back to the same thing. Students are capable. The system just doesn't give them a way to prove it. Work experience is gatekept. The job market rewards connections over ability. And for most students, there's no clear path from potential to opportunity.

That's the problem OMO exists to fix.

What they built

One Million Opportunities is a platform that makes it easy for employers to bring students in — without the usual friction.

The insight is simple: most companies want to support the next generation, but the process of finding, vetting, and onboarding student talent is slow, expensive, and uncertain. OMO removes that barrier. Employers get access to motivated students ready to contribute. Students get real work experience that actually shows up on their record. No bureaucracy. No guesswork. Just a direct connection between ambition and opportunity.

In January 2026 they joined the StudentVenture x UNiDAYS x Canopy Community accelerator. Six weeks of 1-1 mentorship, customer interviews, and late nights turned a brunch idea into a validated product. By pitch day, OMO wasn't just a concept — it was a business with a clear model, a defined customer, and a mission that resonated in the room.

Where are they taking it?

On 27th May at Revolut HQ, they got three minutes on stage. They were the first to receive investment from Simon Squibb on the day — and the moment was everything it deserved to be. Emotional. Electric. Real.

From day one of the accelerator, Team OMO said they were there to win. They meant it. They drove through the night to London, turned the whole journey into a pitch prep session, and didn't sleep. When they walked into Revolut HQ they had done everything possible to be ready.

Simon Squibb invested £10,000 in exchange for 1% equity, with one condition baked into the deal: when OMO becomes profitable, 10% of profits go back into helping students. They agreed instantly. A handshake became a hug.