Ignition Event - where deep-tech start-ups are born!

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THE 22ND IGNITION EVENT

October 6th & 7th, 2023

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WHAT IS IGNITION EVENT?

A unique matchmaking event for ambitious entrepreneurs and world-class scientific teams to launch their deep-tech startups.

Here we blend entrepreneurship and science to create startups based on Commercialization Reactor’s validated Science Commercialization Methodology.

The entrepreneurs become the business leaders and scientists keep building the scientific excellence and core value of the newly formed venture.

AGENDA

* organizers retain the right to change the agenda

IT IS FOR YOU IF:

  • you have an entrepreneurial mindset, and you want to create a truly unique business
  • you have keen interest in technology, science, and innovations
  • you are serial start-upper and now you are looking for a new field and direction in the business
  • you are willing to invest hours and enthusiasm to develop your start-up.

It does not matter whether you are already experienced in entrepreneurship or deep-tech entrepreneurship  – you still can become part of Commercialization Reactor’s community and science-based business ecosystem. We truly believe that deep-tech entrepreneurship is a mindset and craft that one can learn and master!

HOW DOES IGNITION EVENT WORK?

  1. Commercialization Reactor selects 10-15 researchers from all over the world that have reached a certain stage in their technology development
  2. We bring together entrepreneurs and scientists in the Ignition Event™, where scientists present and explain their discovery
  3. The entrepreneurs ask additional questions to their selected researchers
  4. The entrepreneur selects technology and works together with the scientist to develop a brief pitch about the potential market application of the technology and to see, whether there is a team potential
  5. The entrepreneur and the scientist present their pitch to the jury
  6. The entrepreneur and the scientist decide whether they are willing to establish a team, a proto-company.

SUMMARY OF THE 21ST IGNITION EVENT

What a ride! The 21st Ignition Event 🚀, which took place on March 31st & April 1st, has spectacularly concluded!

Organized by the Commercialization Reactor, an international platform for science commercialization, in partnership with the Investment and Development Agency of Latvia, the 21st Ignition Event brought 9 technologies from selected science champions to 60 qualified entrepreneurial-minded individuals, who were prepared to take on the deep-tech journey by graduating one of Commercialization Reactor’s “Ignition Qualifiers” online training programs, designed to equip you with tools and knowledge to create your own deep-tech start-up.

From 9 technologies, which were presented during the event, 7 deep-tech teams were formed:

  1. ORUGA MOTORS – the team is set to revolutionize the off-road bike industry solving current off-roading problems by introducing their off-road mono-track bike, which is easy to use, is lightweight, can be used in any season, is unstoppable and potentially can even be powered by green energy!
  2. Greenext – the team offers a novel method of transforming bio-waste into valuable products like pectin and tannin for use in food and cosmetics industry, while reducing bypass products for agro food factories!
  3. VitalLux – the team has created a technology, which can transform birch bark into betulin nanoparticles, which can be used for a faster skin repair, effectively creating a nature- and people-friendly healthy substance, which can be integrated in various cosmetic products!
  4. Print Concrete – the team provides an algorithm for optimizing large 3D print preparation and assembly!
  5. ViaBio – the team has created a solution for building bioprinted 3D structures, which will not allow for necrosis, by creating an algorithm, which predicts if a structure to be printed will keep cells alive!
  6. Smart Feed – the team has developed a feeder smart device that saves money lost during water analysis, fish observation and feeding!
  7. Acoustic Technologies – the team is creating furniture that increases productivity in a workplace by reducing surrounding sound noise in noise-polluted areas, such as co-working spaces, cafes, banks and many other institutions!

The teams now continue their development in the Founders’ Dive support program, created by the Commercialization Reactor aimed specifically at deep-tech projects.

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