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…
Read MoreDave McClure’s 500 Startups, an early-stage seed fund, has launched a startup accelerator program for select startups. And I do mean select. There is no application process. You get into the program via referral. The accelerator’s group of 12 startups will be in residence at 500 Startups’ Mountain View, Calif. HQ for 3 to 6…
Read MoreToday Teens In Tech announced the creation of a startup incubator for young entrepreneurs. The program will select five teams beginning this summer and will last about eight weeks. The program will include mentoring in all the various aspects of starting and running a business, helping the five teams take an idea from concept to…
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 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 MoreIn their lofty, bright office space in the West Loop of Chicago, I recently got a chance to visit Sandbox Industries, a Chicago-based venture firm since 2003 investing in businesses a number of different ways in the Midwest. While attending a community building “lunch with a friend” meetup, I got to meet members of the…
Read MoreReaching the college demographic can be quite challenging for brands. Each school has its own culture and there can be some uncertainty as to whether your marketing efforts will resonate with the students at a particular school. That’s the problem Campus Commandos is trying to solve. The Detroit based startup is funded by the Wayne State…
Read MoreSeed funding programs have been popping up everywhere the last few years and we have worked with many of them from TechStars, LaunchBox Digital and DreamIt Ventures among others as we help amplify the local startups in those various communities. We are excited to connect with the latest seed funding program in our hometown of…
Read MoreI like the startup incubator concept and as we have seen in the last couple of years many have popped up hoping to mimic the success of Y Combinator who has amassed a tremendous track record over the last several years. The concept is simple enough, small companies who have a good idea but lack the knowledge, expertise, and…
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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