Today 14 new startups are being announced as part of DreamIt Ventures Demo Days Philadelphia. This invitation-only event showcases the year’s graduating ventures first with a presentation from each individual start-up, followed by an open gallery where attendees can interact with the companies directly. For DreamIt Ventures, one of the top 15 ranked accelerators in the U.S.,…
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Startup incubator TechStars announced today that is has raised $24M from Foundry Group, IA Ventures, Avalon Ventures, DFJ Mercury, SoftBank Capital, SVB Financial Group, RRE Ventures, Right Side Capital Management, TechStars Alumni and several individuals. This new funding will be used to offer every new TechStars company an additional $100,000 in funding in the form…
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This past week, the Kauffman Labs for Enterprise Creation Education Ventures hosted presentations by 23 founders of education companies who just completed a four-month incubation program. You can learn more about the program in this video interview with Nick Seguin that we took at SXSW. The 16 business concepts that presented at the reception were…
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In Pittsburgh yesterday, AlphaLab, the three year old startup accelerator program which is part of Innovation Works, one of the most active seed-stage investors in the country, hosted their annual demo day launching five new startups. Innovation Works has created such successes as ModCloth which has raised $19.8 million in funding and mSpoke which was acquired by…
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Startup accelerator programs have been spreading like wildfire over the last few years. We have been covering them since 2007 as TechStars launched in Boulder, Colorado to emulate Paul Graham and Jessica Livingston’s Y Combinator model. Since then we’ve seen TechStars expand to other cities, become part of Startup America and open source its model…
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In it’s second year, the Chicago startup accelerator Excelerate Labs has just announced its new class. The program runs from June to September and offers $15K to $20K in funding and mentorship throughout the summer months. Last year, Excelerate Labs launched ten startups as we previously covered on demo day. In the six months since…
Read MoreToday in Durham, NC, seven new startups presented at the LaunchBox Digital 2010 Demo Day which is the culmination of 12 weeks of mentoring. This is LaunchBox Digital’s third year incubating new businesses and their first year in Durham, North Carolina. LaunchBox Digital was based in Washington, D.C. for the previous two years, where 17 companies were…
Read MoreThis past week, we saw the first round of six startups launch out of the I/O Ventures incubator program in San Francisco. The incubator offers a four month program to help entrepreneurs launch a product and create a business. It invests up to $25,000 in exchange for 8 percent in common stock. I/O Ventures has…
Read MoreThis past summer Chicago-based Excelerate Labs incubated its first class of ten early-stage startups. We were on hand to cover the demo day event in August. This week, Excelerate Labs released a short video recap from demo day created by Tribeca Flashpoint Media Arts Academy. The video highlights the day which was filled with a…
Read MoreToday in Austin, Texas five companies launched as part of the Capital Factory startup accelerator program. The program, which was founded in 2009 by Joshua Baer, an email marketing pioneer and founder of OtherInbox, Sam Decker, Chief Marketing Officer at Bazaarvoice, and Bryan Menell, founder of AustinStartup.com, offers up to $20,000 in cash as well…
Read MoreExcelerate Labs, Chicago’s new tech startup incubator, debuted their first group of graduates today. Modeled after Brad Feld’s and David Cohen’s incubator, TechStars, the Chicago management team spent time with the Colorado group to ensure they had the right approach and then Sam Yagan, Kapil Chaudhary, Troy Henikoff and Nick Rosa were off and running,…
Read MoreWe are in Philadelphia this week, the land of independence, where the startup incubator DreamIt Ventures is showcasing fourteen new startups this year. In their third year, the DreamIt Ventures demo day was kicked off by program managing partners Kerry Rupp, Steven Welch, Michael Levenson and David Bookspan.
Read MoreThis past week the TechStars startup incubator based in Boulder, Colorado launched another class of startups. Interestingly, of the twenty-four startups that have been a part of the TechStars program over the years, six have been acquired. We’ve hosted a few TECH cocktail Boulder startup mixers (as explained here and here) in the past which…
Read MoreLast week, fifteen teams comprised of Babson College undergraduates, MBA students and recent alums finished up ten weeks of strategy, mentoring, and business development at Babson’s Summer Venture Program. The program provides participants with an entrepreneurial community and support, including work space, mentors, peer reviews, speakers, and other resources. Up to 20 teams are chosen…
Read MoreWith summer right around the corner, the Excelerate, Chicago startup incubator, has announced its first class of startup companies to receive funding. This year they supported ten startups which mostly consist of web and mobile based businesses. There is one outlier in the solar panel space but they too leverage the web to solar panels….
Read MoreYesterday was the demo day for another startup incubator, this time it’s in Pittsburgh. Yes the “Steel City” has more than just steel these days, as six new start-up companies showed off their stuff as part of the Alpha Lab extensive six-month start-up business incubator program. AlphaLab provides funding, free office space, expert business advisors…
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