Ignite Y
Built businesses before? What haven't you had time to build?
You may have a business idea, service, new route to market or opportunity you still believe in — but no intention of becoming the person who builds it day to day.
Ignite Y helps turn opportunities like these into real businesses that motivated young aspiring entrepreneurs can take on and build.
You bring the opportunity and the experience behind it. We help shape it into a business that a motivated young aspiring entrepreneur can take on, build and grow.
How Ignite Y works
Step 1
You bring the opportunity
A business idea, service, unused opportunity or new route to market that you genuinely believe could work.
Step 2
We help shape it
We help turn what you already know into a clear Business-in-a-Box that a young aspiring entrepreneur can understand, take on and build.
Step 3
We find the right person
We look for young aspiring entrepeneurs with the energy, commitment and drive to take responsibility for building the business.
Step 4
They take it forward
They build under real commercial conditions — finding customers, generating revenue and earning ownership through what they deliver.
What's in it for you?
Sometimes the most satisfying outcome is seeing something you believed in get the chance to become real.
Put something useful to work
Give an idea, service, route to market or opportunity that is currently sitting unused the chance to become something real.
See it become something
There is real satisfaction in seeing something you created or spotted taken forward, built properly and given a chance to succeed.
Help someone else get started
Give a motivated young aspiring entrepreneur the chance to build something of their own from an opportunity you created.
What we are looking for
Low cost to get started
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The opportunity should not depend on significant upfront investment.
Commercially realistic
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There needs to be a real customer, a genuine need and a believable way for the business to make money.
Straightforward enough to hand over
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A motivated young aspiring entrepreneur needs to be able to understand the business and take responsibility for building it.
Capable of generating revenue
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There should be a realistic route to customers and income.
More than just an idea
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There should already be enough thinking, experience or evidence behind it to show that it is worth taking forward.
Good fit opportunities
A business idea you never launched
An underdeveloped service or proposition
A new route to market for something that already exists
A product or service that could work in a different market
A repeatable service or way of working sitting inside an existing business
An opportunity you still believe in but are unlikely to build yourself
Got an opportunity worth another look?
If you have a business idea, service, unused opportunity or new route to market that you still believe in, we’d like to hear about it.
You don’t need a finished business plan, let's talk and see where it can lead.