Partner with the Ignite programme
We work with a range of companies and institutions from across the globe who support places as part of their mission to foster entrepreneurship and innovation.
Become a funding partner
Why fund delegate places at Ignite?
- If you run your own innovation and entrepreneurship hub, then Ignite can help identify ventures with significant growth potential and provide them with the foundations to help them set and work towards growth goals.
- Over the years many entrepreneurial ecosystems have offered a funded place at Ignite as part of a competition prize and support package. Ignite can increase the value of this support package through the tailored support and connections it can offer to competition prize winners looking to build and showcase the momentum they are building behind their idea.
- If you are interested in discussing the design and delivery of a customised Ignite programme for your hub or ecosystem, then contact the Ignite delivery team at ignite@jbs.cam.ac.uk
Our current funding partners
Accelerating therapeutics from discovery to delivery.
At Cytiva, we envision a world in which access to life-changing therapies transforms human health. With a rich heritage dating back hundreds of years, our wealth of technical expertise and talent, a broad and deep portfolio, and exceptional service help researchers and biopharma advance therapeutics at every stage from discovery to delivery.
Cytiva is part of Danaher, a global science and technology leader. Along with Danaher’s diagnostic and life sciences businesses, we bring an innovative mindset to our collaborations with customers to help them improve patient outcomes.
The University of Tokyo was established in 1877 as the first national university in Japan. As a leading research university, UTokyo offers courses in essentially all academic disciplines at both undergraduate and graduate levels and conducts research across the full spectrum of academic activity. The University aims to provide its students with a rich and varied academic environment that ensures opportunities for both intellectual development and the acquisition of professional knowledge and skills.
Since 1963 we’ve been breaking down boundaries between students and researchers, arts and science, business and social responsibility. We’re redefining what a university is and how it can best prepare you for a future in a rapidly changing world.
The Postdoc Academy is the lead organisation within the University of Cambridge with a focus on the postdoc community. Our mission is to enable Cambridge postdocs to realise their potential.
We work towards this aim through four pillars of activity:
• Information – bringing postdocs the information they need, when they need it.
• Community – fostering a sense of belonging for all postdocs.
• Advocacy – working with the community to solve issues.
• Professional Development – helping postdocs develop for their current role and beyond.
The Postdoctoral Academy (PdA) leads the postdocs 2 innovators (p2i) consortium, which consists of five European Higher Education Institutes and four global businesses. The consortium offers opportunities for postdocs from the p2i partners to connect and engage in programmes to develop an entrepreneurial mindset and gain key skills they can use to pursue careers that will be personally and professionally meaningful both within and outside of academia.
The European consortium offers an international dimension – postdocs are a highly mobile workforce and these collaborations bring cohorts together from different countries, providing a flavour of different entrepreneurial ecosystems. p2i supports the participation of a number of postdocs from across the partnership in Cambridge Judge Business School’s Ignite programme as well as the School’s Venture Creation.
Founded in 1990, UPF is a public university based in Barcelona that is highly competitive in research and aims to transform education to respond to future challenges.
In a context of major global challenges, UPF has undertaken an imperative commitment as a university institution: to help find solutions for the main challenges facing humanity and the planet.
Change begins here. Embrace a transformative year. It will change you. We empower future leaders to reshape global business and society. Whether you seek accelerated leadership opportunities, career change, or an entrepreneurial path, the Cambridge MBA equips you with skills, networks, and confidence to make it happen.
Gain insight into tomorrow’s finance careers today. Surround yourself with the best financial minds. Your class colleagues will all be finance professionals with an average of 4 years of industry experience. Our finance faculty have strong links with global experts in the finance sector who work with us to deliver teaching and networking events throughout the year.
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