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IGNITE Graduate Business Innovation Programme

IGNITE Graduate Business Innovation Programme

Corkucc.ie

Overview

IGNITE Graduate Business Innovation Programme is an international award-winning business incubation programme based at University College Cork that supports recent graduate entrepreneurs to turn their ideas into businesses.

Year Founded

2011

Portfolio Companies

4

Website

ucc.ie

Investments

IGNITE Graduate Business Innovation Programme investments
CompanyDateStageLead
AnaBio TechnologiesJun 2013SeedCo-investor
EcanvasserJan 2013AcceleratorCo-investor
LegitFit-Pre SeedCo-investor
Recruitroo-AcceleratorCo-investor

Key People

Lily Keane

Principal Investigator

Marcus Claesson

Principal Investigator

Sarah Kittel-Schneider

Principal Investigator

Amanda Lohan

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HeadquartersCork
Year Founded2011

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