MENTORS.
Ignite has a proprietary network of experienced mentors that have started, funded and grown successful, industry leading businesses. Ignite matches qualified entrepreneurs and startups with mentors based on industry, stage and other unique criteria.
Ignite mentors includes the founders and executives of many of Spokane’s most successful and rapidly growing companies including Carbon Quest, Gestalt, HyperSciences, Mercurity, RiskLens, Seven2, Safeguard, Spiceology, The Toolbox, Treasury4 and many more. Once a qualified and matched, Ignite’s mentors will meet with you, hear your pitch and provide constructive feedback. What happens next is up to the entrepreneur and mentor. If there is mutual interest, the relationship may continue and prosper. If not, ideally the time spent will have nonetheless been valuable to the entrepreneur. Mentorship, like friendship, cannot be forced.
To be qualified, entrepreneurs need to have a well-researched business plan/pitch for an explosively growing company, have already started the business (or plan to do so in the next three months) and intend to base their business in Eastern Washington/Northern Idaho.
