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A list of startup accelerator programs

79 points by philipDS 16y ago

triviatise 16y ago
someone needs to make an app that lets you enter your info once and then auto submit to all the accelerators.
- fernandose 16y ago
  Hopefully the TechStars network can implement something like this (http://www.techstars.org/network/ http://www.techstars.org/network/)
- impendia 16y ago
  You can apply for faculty positions in math like this, see http://www.mathjobs.org/jobs http://www.mathjobs.org/jobs. It is great for applicants, but a little bit annoying for departments who want to hire -- it is now easy and common to simply apply for every job out there, so departments get tons of applications from people who are probably not actually interested.
metachris 16y ago
Good list. I think it would help to sort them by country first and then by city though.
yurisagalov 16y ago
Great list, I figured I'd give you a few more for the corner of the world that I do know: Toronto also has "Basecamp Ventures"/Mantella Venture Partners (http://mantellavp.com/ http://mantellavp.com/), which is focused on early stage companies. PushLife (which just last weekend sold to Google for a reported ~$25M) was a graduate of that system. There's also the Waterloo Accelerator center (http://www.acceleratorcentre.com/ http://www.acceleratorcentre.com/), which is part of the Ontario Center for Excellence, and is loosely affiliated with the Toronto counterpart, MaRS (http://www.marsdd.com/ http://www.marsdd.com/) edit: removed the Velocity accelerator, I saw you have them mentioned under university affiliated :)
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toast76 16y ago
We've just graduated from the first intake at an Aussie program called StartMate (http://startmate.com.au http://startmate.com.au)
hansy 16y ago
Does the "brand name" of an accelerator matter? I figure more well-known accelerators come with a larger, more established network to pool from, but I imagine there must be a great deal of merit to be gained from any accelerator you choose, right?
treblig 16y ago
Another to add to the list: 10xelerator.com was launched last week for this summer in Columbus, OH. It's $20k, and grant-based w/ no equity stake.
- kovar 16y ago
  It's also focused on younger applicants - "At least 50 percent of the team members must have been enrolled in a college within the last three years."
Alex3917 16y ago
There's also MagicBeansInc.com in San Francisco, and Startup-Insights.com in Taiwan.
bdclimber14 16y ago
One of these I noticed isn't actually a startup accelerator in the sense that they offer funding. GangPlank is more of a collaborative workspace than anything.
rbreve 16y ago
Startup Chile http://www.startupchile.org http://www.startupchile.org
rgrieselhuber 16y ago
In Japan, there is also Open Network Lab, run by Digital Garage, the company responsible for bringing Twitter to Japan, Netprice and Kakaku.com (both are big players in ecommerce there). http://onlab.jp/ http://onlab.jp/
ndaugherty18 16y ago
For people just out of college there is a new one launched at The Ohio State University http://10xelerator.com/ http://10xelerator.com/.
- ndaugherty18 16y ago
  woops missed the comment below.
nhebb 16y ago
The portlandten.com link is dead. I don't know if there's an official voice for the Portland startup community, but Rick Turoczy at http://siliconflorist.com http://siliconflorist.com does a pretty good job rounding up the local startup news (among other topics).
Stormbringer 16y ago
I've often thought that for the exceptionally bright but really technical hands on programmer that some of these startup incubator or shared workspace environments might be the ideal place to work. The problem is that at any one company there aren't enough challenges to keep you interested, you're the heavy hitter, the impact player. You can come on the field, and in 15 minutes score more goals than everyone else put together, but then you get bored and need to go off and do something else. I think there is an analogy to science - there is the big glamourous science with its breakthroughs, and then there is the 'janitorial' science of the guys who coem along behind and tidy everything up. The problem with trying to create a 'floating' programmer type position is how do you compensate them? But that will come back to a much more fundamental (and unsolved) problem, how do you measure the input of programmers. Additionally, if we buy into some of the recent discussion about personality types and programming, it may be that the best impact players are the manic/depressive types. They might come in to the shared workspace for two weeks and flit from company to company solving an amazing quantity of problems... and then they go and hide under their bed for four weeks and you don't see them again for a month. Someone's got to keep the momentum going in that time (so we can't all be impact players). Additionally, thinking back to the times that I've been the guy to walk into the room, take a quick glance at the other programmers source code and say "there's your problem" and then ride off into the sunset, you really need to have some kind of base level of understanding of what they're trying to do. For me I think I also have 'language snobbery' issues. I'm not going to want to help some 20 year old MBAs put some scammy B2B together by coercing two fundemantally different PHP frameworks to talk to each other (and even if I did the compensation would be even more of an issue, because they'd never believe just how difficult it is). So it'll probably always be a pipe-dream for me...
joshhepworth 16y ago
There's also a really new one (they just launched their site a week or two ago) in Baltimore. http://thestartupcity.com/ http://thestartupcity.com/
togasystems 16y ago
Bootuplabs (No. 69) in Vancouver is now defunct. Anybody out there know about anything new in the British Columbia area?
rmason 16y ago
Judging from my home state of Michigan it's not a very comprehensive list. They missed Momentum in Grand Rapids http://momentum-mi.com/blog/entry/momentum-targets-regions-investment-culture/ http://momentum-mi.com/blog/entry/momentum-targets-regions-i... Also there are two incubators (one for MSU students only) at the East Lansing Technology Innovation Center (known locally as the TIC) http://www.cityofeastlansing.com/tic http://www.cityofeastlansing.com/tic Pretty sure there's an incubator at Michigan Technological University in the states upper peninsula but I couldn't find a link. I think the University of Michigan also has a student incubator. The only one of them that functions like a typical YCombinator style incubator is Momentum.
adsahay 16y ago
Great list. Google maps mashup, anyone?

79 points by philipDS 16y ago

triviatise 16y ago

someone needs to make an app that lets you enter your info once and then auto submit to all the accelerators.

fernandose 16y ago
Hopefully the TechStars network can implement something like this (http://www.techstars.org/network/ http://www.techstars.org/network/)
impendia 16y ago
You can apply for faculty positions in math like this, see http://www.mathjobs.org/jobs http://www.mathjobs.org/jobs. It is great for applicants, but a little bit annoying for departments who want to hire -- it is now easy and common to simply apply for every job out there, so departments get tons of applications from people who are probably not actually interested.

metachris 16y ago

Good list. I think it would help to sort them by country first and then by city though.

yurisagalov 16y ago

Great list, I figured I'd give you a few more for the corner of the world that I do know: Toronto also has "Basecamp Ventures"/Mantella Venture Partners (http://mantellavp.com/ http://mantellavp.com/), which is focused on early stage companies. PushLife (which just last weekend sold to Google for a reported ~$25M) was a graduate of that system. There's also the Waterloo Accelerator center (http://www.acceleratorcentre.com/ http://www.acceleratorcentre.com/), which is part of the Ontario Center for Excellence, and is loosely affiliated with the Toronto counterpart, MaRS (http://www.marsdd.com/ http://www.marsdd.com/) edit: removed the Velocity accelerator, I saw you have them mentioned under university affiliated :)

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toast76 16y ago

We've just graduated from the first intake at an Aussie program called StartMate (http://startmate.com.au http://startmate.com.au)

hansy 16y ago

Does the "brand name" of an accelerator matter? I figure more well-known accelerators come with a larger, more established network to pool from, but I imagine there must be a great deal of merit to be gained from any accelerator you choose, right?

treblig 16y ago

Another to add to the list: 10xelerator.com was launched last week for this summer in Columbus, OH. It's $20k, and grant-based w/ no equity stake.

kovar 16y ago
It's also focused on younger applicants - "At least 50 percent of the team members must have been enrolled in a college within the last three years."

Alex3917 16y ago

There's also MagicBeansInc.com in San Francisco, and Startup-Insights.com in Taiwan.

bdclimber14 16y ago

One of these I noticed isn't actually a startup accelerator in the sense that they offer funding. GangPlank is more of a collaborative workspace than anything.

rbreve 16y ago

Startup Chile http://www.startupchile.org http://www.startupchile.org

rgrieselhuber 16y ago

In Japan, there is also Open Network Lab, run by Digital Garage, the company responsible for bringing Twitter to Japan, Netprice and Kakaku.com (both are big players in ecommerce there). http://onlab.jp/ http://onlab.jp/

ndaugherty18 16y ago

For people just out of college there is a new one launched at The Ohio State University http://10xelerator.com/ http://10xelerator.com/.

ndaugherty18 16y ago
woops missed the comment below.

nhebb 16y ago

The portlandten.com link is dead. I don't know if there's an official voice for the Portland startup community, but Rick Turoczy at http://siliconflorist.com http://siliconflorist.com does a pretty good job rounding up the local startup news (among other topics).

Stormbringer 16y ago

I've often thought that for the exceptionally bright but really technical hands on programmer that some of these startup incubator or shared workspace environments might be the ideal place to work. The problem is that at any one company there aren't enough challenges to keep you interested, you're the heavy hitter, the impact player. You can come on the field, and in 15 minutes score more goals than everyone else put together, but then you get bored and need to go off and do something else. I think there is an analogy to science - there is the big glamourous science with its breakthroughs, and then there is the 'janitorial' science of the guys who coem along behind and tidy everything up. The problem with trying to create a 'floating' programmer type position is how do you compensate them? But that will come back to a much more fundamental (and unsolved) problem, how do you measure the input of programmers. Additionally, if we buy into some of the recent discussion about personality types and programming, it may be that the best impact players are the manic/depressive types. They might come in to the shared workspace for two weeks and flit from company to company solving an amazing quantity of problems... and then they go and hide under their bed for four weeks and you don't see them again for a month. Someone's got to keep the momentum going in that time (so we can't all be impact players). Additionally, thinking back to the times that I've been the guy to walk into the room, take a quick glance at the other programmers source code and say "there's your problem" and then ride off into the sunset, you really need to have some kind of base level of understanding of what they're trying to do. For me I think I also have 'language snobbery' issues. I'm not going to want to help some 20 year old MBAs put some scammy B2B together by coercing two fundemantally different PHP frameworks to talk to each other (and even if I did the compensation would be even more of an issue, because they'd never believe just how difficult it is). So it'll probably always be a pipe-dream for me...

joshhepworth 16y ago

There's also a really new one (they just launched their site a week or two ago) in Baltimore. http://thestartupcity.com/ http://thestartupcity.com/

togasystems 16y ago

Bootuplabs (No. 69) in Vancouver is now defunct. Anybody out there know about anything new in the British Columbia area?

rmason 16y ago

Judging from my home state of Michigan it's not a very comprehensive list. They missed Momentum in Grand Rapids http://momentum-mi.com/blog/entry/momentum-targets-regions-investment-culture/ http://momentum-mi.com/blog/entry/momentum-targets-regions-i... Also there are two incubators (one for MSU students only) at the East Lansing Technology Innovation Center (known locally as the TIC) http://www.cityofeastlansing.com/tic http://www.cityofeastlansing.com/tic Pretty sure there's an incubator at Michigan Technological University in the states upper peninsula but I couldn't find a link. I think the University of Michigan also has a student incubator. The only one of them that functions like a typical YCombinator style incubator is Momentum.

adsahay 16y ago

Great list. Google maps mashup, anyone?