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Is there a YC equivalent in Canada, China, India, Israel or UK?
I'm curious b/c I want to find a way to reach out to entrepreneurs in these countries to drive participation in a survey of startup executive compensation (http://www.compstudy.com/) which has been going for 9 years in the US but is launching for the first time in 5 new countries.
- paulgb 17y agoNot that I'm aware of, but YEurope (unaffiliated with YC, despite the Y) in Austria may appeal to people in the UK. In Canada, there's been a few murmurs about starting something (most notably here: http://www.startupnorth.ca/2009/04/13/incubators-accelerators-and-ignition/ http://www.startupnorth.ca/2009/04/13/incubators-accelerator...), but nothing solidly in the works as far as I know.
- SwellJoe 17y agoY Combinator is the Canadian, Indian, Israel, and UK Y Combinator. I don't think they've had any Chinese founders, but they've certainly had a number of companies from all of the others in your list. What makes you think Y Combinator is a local business rather than an international one? (Also, this has been discussed many times.)
- pedalpete 17y agoFor canada, look into BootUp labs, their based out of Vancouver. Their doing lots of stuff in the Vancouver Start-up community, part of which includes operating an incubator fund.
- braindead_in 17y agoIndia has iAccelerator program from IIMA. IISc recently launched an incubator as well, not on the lines of YC though.
- nimbix 17y agoSeedcamp sounds sort of similar. They're based in UK, but are funding startups from all over Europe. http://www.seedcamp.com/ http://www.seedcamp.com/