A new tech accelerator is coming to town: Fortify.vc, a venture fund from Virginia, will begin accelerating some of its portfolio companies at The Fort in DC. The Fort’s launch is supported by a grant of $100,000 from DC mayor Vincent Gray. Initial startups will include Venga and Social Tables – you’ll find them over…
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The Ivy League school whose super-famous dropouts Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg have revolutionized our lives has launched an incubator. The Harvard innovation lab, or i-lab, will bring together students with big ideas with the entrepreneurs, faculty, and those in the Boston area who can help get those big ideas off the ground. They are…
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Ten more startups launched today as part of the TechStars Seattle startup accelerator program in front of a full house at the Showbox Sodo in Seattle. The day concluded a long voyage for the startups that participated in the 3 month program, which included mentoring, seed capital and probably a pivot or two. In its…
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Today the Silicon Valley based accelerator 500 Startups lead by Dave McClure and Paul Singh has unveiled its latest set of startups which includes 34 companies from across the United States, which is the largest batch size to date. The latest class of startups offers some diversity as eight of them have women founders, fifteen…
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Yesterday in Pittsburgh, Innovation Works’ AlphaLab startup accelerator program launched another 6 companies at its demo day. Twice a year, up to 6 promising companies are selected to participate in the 20 week program. The current group of companies has been at it since June and have worked with mentors, advisors, and the Innovation Works…
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Smarter money is available for less innovative companies Although game-changing innovation is expensive, laborious, time intensive and unplumbed, companies relying on existing technology find the market place (especially the ITC market) to be crowded, competitive, and cheap. Because starting a company is so much less expensive in 2011, many tech startups can succeed without taking…
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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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Last week, Providence, Rhode Island-based startup incubator Betaspring hosted it’s demo day festivities and launched eleven startups. Betaspring is a mentorship-driven startup accelerator program for technology and design entrepreneurs who are ready to build a product, launch a company, and change the world. Betaspring was ranked thirteenth in our U.S. Accelerator rankings. This year the…
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It’s no secret that startups tend to spring up in a handful of already-established tech communities here in the US. Silicon Valley. New York City. Boston. Austin. Let’s throw DC and Chicago in for good measure. That leaves most of the country out of the convergence of money, talent, and tech that is ultra-concentrated in…
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Today in Boulder was TechStars demo day at the Boulder Theater as the top ranked U.S. startup accelerator program launched it’s latest class. We’ve been covering the TechStars Boulder program since it’s inception and you check out last years class here. This year, lead by Nicole Glaros and the founding team of David Cohen and…
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Last month we shared a list of the top ranked startup accelerator and incubator programs in the United States. Through most accelerators and incubators, startup teams receive mentoring, guidance and a small amount of funding in return for a small stake in the company. With all the startup accelerator programs popping up across the globe,…
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There are a number of startup accelerator and incubator programs in the United States. We are fans of these programs (not to be confused with pure co-working spaces) as they offer entrepreneurs a way to spend a few months laser focused on a single idea. Through the accelerator or incubator they receive mentoring, guidance and…
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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 MoreBaltimore has officially extended you an invitation to become part of its “innovation community”. Startup City, a just-launched business accelerator program, is recruiting 10 early-stage ventures for a 12 week program that includes mentorship, $15,000 of seed funding, office space, legal advice and workshops this summer in Baltimore. Why Baltimore, and why now? The term “innovation community”…
Read MoreGoogle recently announced the launch of Umbono, a business incubator based in Cape Town, South Africa. The Umbono program lasts for 6 months and provides a full range of the critical resources young companies need to move forward. Entrepreneurs accepted into the program can expect seed capital funding between $25,000 and $50,000, the use of…
Read MoreCan you tell your story in 10 Tweets or less? Glen Hellman wants you to – and the winner gets $2,000. Not bad for just 1280 characters! One of our special Tech Cocktail contributors, Glen Hellman, is on the board of the Dingman Center at the University of Maryland’s RH Smith School of Business and a Capital…
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There are a number of startup accelerator and incubator programs in the United States. We are fans of these programs (not to be confused with... Read More
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With our Startup Mixology Conference coming up next week followed by our classic Tech Cocktail DC Summer mixer which will showcase a handful of early-stage... Read More
Coming off of one of our biggest Tech Cocktail mixer events in Chicago this past week, which showcased 14 early-stage start-ups, we thought it would... Read More