The Ignite Fund offers Hopkins student entrepreneurs access to funding throughout the academic year. The fund’s purpose is to support discrete tasks that will help move a venture forward. In focusing funding this way, we hope to provide student ventures access to capital at key moments. **Award Criteria: **Applications must identify a single discrete task to be funded. Applicant(s) must clearly demonstrate how the task to be achieved by the funding will impact their venture’s next steps. Some examples of discrete tasks: - Train fare for a founder to attend an industry conference to find potential customers - Purchasing a software license critical to building a product/service or getting customers - Purchasing prototyping materials - Paying for incorporation costs to allow your venture to start engaging with clients **Award Size(s)**: All proposals will be considered, but, in light of limited funding, successful applications will emphasize how to make the most out of minor amounts. **Award Duration**: All awards must complete their closing process (provision of final progress report and receipts) no later than May 15, 2021. **Application Deadline**: Rolling, Applications are considered weekly. **Eligibility**: All ventures with at least one current JHU student founder. Ventures who have won Ignite Fund awards previously may apply again if they have completed the closing process (provision of final progress report and receipts) prior to their newest application.