Ignity

Year founded: 2000
Sector: Innovation, Defence, Aerospace

Ignity (formerly WSL) is Wallonia's technology incubator and accelerator, created in 2000 by the Walloon government as Europe's first tech incubator. It supports deep tech entrepreneurs from pre-incubation to scale-up, for up to five years, in aerospace, electronics, defence, healthcare and cleantech. Accredited under NATO's DIANA program, it also takes part in EUDIS, the EU defence innovation scheme.

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Startups pitching to the Ignity community at the Garden Party, in an industrial workshop.

The Ignity team, then called WSL, in front of its offices at the Liège Science Park.

Members of the NATO DIANA cohort supported by Ignity, gathered in Eindhoven.