OUR PROGRAMS
Through a range of equity-driven programs and a powerful network of industry partners, startups, higher education, and nonprofits, Ignite connects underrepresented students and innovators to academic, technical skills-building, mentoring, job placement, and board and leadership preparation opportunities that fuel biotech diversity and transform careers.
The LabCentral Ignite Golden Ticket contest provides support to biotech entrepreneurs who identify as women, Black, Latinx, Indigenous, or people of color by giving winners access to shared lab space in Cambridge. In addition, winners participate in a year-long Ignite Fellowship program that aims to supercharge their networks.
IgniteVC is a membership-based platform offering a range of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) tools and resources created specifically for VC firms and their portfolio companies to help cultivate a highly inclusive life sciences venture capital community and to grow more diverse and inclusive portfolio companies from inception to success.