Two programmes. One ladder.
Most accelerators run a batch and then hand you back your life. Ignite runs a ladder: ten weeks to build the first version, a winter to turn it into a company, and a building that stays open in between. You keep 100% of it at every step.
Ignite X
Ten weeks. Summer. Open applications.
For first-time founders with an obsession and no company yet. Ten weeks full-time in Otaniemi to build the first version and put it in front of real people.
Ignite Y
Eight weeks. The cohort after.
For teams that have proved they can execute. Where the first version becomes a company — mentoring every week, the building year-round, and the network that comes with it.
What never changes
Zero, at every stage
No equity, no programme fee, no revenue share, no right of first refusal. Not in X, not in Y, not later.
The same building
24/7 access, hardware lab, desks and rooms of your own — in Otaniemi, open between the programmes as well as during them.
The same people
Coaches who have built and sold companies, matched to your industry. They do not disappear when a cohort ends.