TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

SparkLabs Korea , a Seoul-based seed to early-stage accelerator, held a demo Day on Thursday for its 19th cohort of companies. The latest demo day marks its tenth year after SparkLabs launched its accelerator program in December 2012. Not all teams end up pitching at demo day. and Asia. .

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Alchemist Accelerator , the enterprise-focused startup incubator, is hosting a demo day today for its 31st batch of companies. The accelerator itself, meanwhile, has some news: new leadership. For many of these companies, it’s the first time they’ve shown their efforts to the world.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2020

In 2018, Leslie Feinzaig , the founder of Female Founders Alliance , launched a free, equity-free accelerator for women called Ready, Set, Raise. This year, as funding for female founders drops to 2017 levels , Feinzaig realized why accelerators, hers included, might not work for women as well as they work for men: demo day.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

These groups are easy to find and fairly inexpensive to join.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2021

Medical and biotech had a strong showing at Y Combinator’s latest demo day , with nearly a dozen companies in the space catching my eye. Forcyte is another company I highlighted in our favorite demo day companies roundups : It’s less about chemistry and molecular biology than the actual physical phenomena experienced by cells.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 29, 2020

So it’s no surprise that accelerators and incubators are pumping out new startups that are ready to tackle the problems of 2020. One such accelerator is the Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator , which is graduating 11 new startups out of the program today with its Summer 2020 Demo Day.

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StartupNation

MAY 16, 2025

Startup Incubators and Accelerators Startup incubators and accelerators are relatively recent innovations that can help new businesses get off the ground. Incubators, often locally based, offer guidance, mentorship, legal advice, and funding. They may fund new and risky endeavors, but you must give up equity.

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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

We have collected a wide range of freebies, contests, accelerators, online communities, and VCs designed for student tech founders. The Microsoft Student Accelerator , though it has the word “accelerator” in its name, is a free, 4-month boot camp teaching students advanced analytics and AI, Azure and cloud fundamentals, and web apps and APIs.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 19, 2025

Additionally, the program requires that the business enter into a collaborative relationship with a New Jersey-based public or private research university, technology startup, incubator, accelerator, or similar entity. For more information, including additional eligibility requirements, click here.

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Tomasz Tunguz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

We had a conversation about the role of incubators and accelerators (or the moniker of your choice) within the startup ecosystem. Fund raising assistance (aka Demo Day) - These events are designed to build auction pressure in financings by generating simultaneous investor interest. Yesterday, I spoke at Columbia Business School.

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NZ Entrepreneur

MARCH 16, 2025

We run programs like Founder Catalyst, which is our flagship incubation nine-month long program that happens year-round. In 2022-23, we started having a lot of demand for our programs so our premier program Founder Catalyst, that incubation program, started accepting more and more companies from outside the region.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2021

The sold-out expo area is the virtual home to hundreds of innovative startups ready to demo their tech and talent. A quick tangent: If you’re not already familiar with CELA or what it does, the NYC-based company matches early-stage startups to world-class accelerators and incubators that align with a startup’s vertical and business goals.

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AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 7, 2023

The financial institution recently organized the ‘2023 HUB Day,’ a startup demo day held at the KB Innovation Hub Center in Seocho-gu, Seoul. The session facilitated valuable exchanges between government officials, investment organizers, venture capital funds, accelerators, and digital platform managers from KB Financial.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

Womxn Ignite is organized as a live-in incubator. The community of women, many of whom plan to return to school, aren’t focused on classic accelerator tropes like Demo Days or first checks simply because of the stage of life they are in. To do so, teams go through a variety of mentor sessions. A team photo.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 2, 2022

K-Startup Grand Challenge (KSGC) Program is the flagship accelerator program for international startups looking to enter the competitive Asian market. The accelerator program ends with top startups getting additional financial incentives and the possibility of doing business in Korea. were chosen from the pool of applications.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Supabase , a YC-incubated startup that offers developers an open-source alternative to Google’s Firebase and similar platforms, today announced that it has raised a $6 million funding round led by Coatue, with participation from YC, Mozilla and a group of about 20 angel investors.

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2022

Brick & Mortar Ventures , headed by Darren Bechtel of the Bechtel family, is teaming up with BuiltWorlds , which describes itself as a network of buildings and infrastructure professionals, to launch an early-stage accelerator program called Formwork Labs. Construction tech startups are poised to shake up a $1.3-trillion-dollar

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2021

In March, two Nigerian startups, Treepz ( formerly Plentywaka ) and TalentQL got into the Techstars Toronto accelerator program alongside eight other companies. Out of the 12, eight startups focused on the continent have been selected to participate in the three-month program (culminating in a Demo Day) slated to start today.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

In Africa, incubators, accelerators, angels and seed investors easily outnumber larger funds — simply because it’s much harder to raise a large fund here. We have strong relationships with most of the continent’s leading incubators, accelerators and venture-building studios.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Countless tech giants and startups have thrown their tech at the automated call handling problem, from Google (and Google’s Area 120 incubator ), Microsoft and Amazon to Got It AI , Replicant and Tenyx. “Labor shortages following the pandemic have caused many companies to accelerate their plans for voice automation.

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Impact Hub

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

What if all startup incubators and accelerators took the step towards integrating design principles that foster circularity? Impact Hub Kigali is part of the process and has recently concluded the Circular Economy (CE) Acceleration Program, a unique 6-month program dedicated to enabling startups to become more circular.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 2, 2019

The Aspen Tech Policy Hub is a West Coast policy incubator, training a new generation of tech policy entrepreneurs. We model ourselves after tech incubators like Y Combinator, but train new policy thinkers and focus the impact of their ideas. “Our Google for Startups Accelerator. See Conveners Impact Accelerator Selection Tool.

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American Entrepreneurship

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Fearless Fund in collaboration with Amazon awards grants between $10,000 and $20,000 to black women in their B lack Business Accelerator program and the Minority Business Development Agency in the past has awarded g rants to college and universities that assist undergraduate students with entrepreneurship. Accelerators found h ere.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

“Tufts, Brandeis, Boston [University], UMass, all these universities now have entrepreneurship programs, incubators, on campus accelerators that are often included in the curriculum.” VC is adapting too; Pillar is working directly with the student-led non-profit incubator Nucleate to find and fund university spinoffs.

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Angel Capital Association

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

For the early stage community, the amendments include a very useful provision that excludes “Demo Days” from being considered general solicitations provided certain conditions are met. The amendments retain the same “menu” of exemptions but make incremental improvements.

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Don Dodge

APRIL 6, 2015

Ycombinator is the largest and most successful startup incubator in history, and it was started right here in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Startup incubators and accelerators are everywhere today, but were relatively unknown when Ycombinator started 10 years ago. Ycombinator has deep roots in the area.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

Called Reactor , the program combines curriculum from classes Miura-Ko teaches at the Stanford School of Engineering and consists of two components – a pre-summer lecture series and a summer accelerator. Were you incubating companies together? Somewhat relatedly, Y Combinator just wrapped up its latest Demo Day.

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David Teten VC

JUNE 9, 2021

Preqin (free demo). Grey House (free demo). NACD (National Association of Corporate Directors)’s Accelerate program provides participants with “ the tools, resources, and exposure that are essential to launching a successful career as a director”. Private Equity. Venture Capital. S&P Global Market Intelligence . Thomson One.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MARCH 6, 2016

Median seed rounds are then dominated by the +/- $150k initial investments of incubators and accelerators with large new portfolios like YCombinator and 500Startups whose demo days are fast approaching. We can segment the data by round size: rounds less than $2.5M, $15M, $50M, and greater 50+.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 18, 2022

Register South Korea’s leading accelerator program K-Startup Grand Challenge (KSGC) , considered ‘a gateway’ to do business in Asia, invites global startups to participate. Its startup ecosystem is active and well designed, attracting the attention of investors, accelerators, and incubators worldwide.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 2, 2019

The Aspen Tech Policy Hub is a West Coast policy incubator, training a new generation of tech policy entrepreneurs. We model ourselves after tech incubators like Y Combinator, but train new policy thinkers and focus the impact of their ideas. “Our Google for Startups Accelerator. Peacetech Accelerator.

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Impact Hub

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Despite this surge in initiatives, the available technical support and idea incubation opportunities remain limited. Wërngël-Bi supported a diverse range of projects, from eco-construction to ecological toilets, with the top three projects qualifying for funding opportunities following a Demo Day where participants showcased their progress.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2014

Accelerators have had quite a good run the past 5+ years. Not just Y Combinator and TechStars but a host of other accelerators across the country. There were a lot of requests for us to turn our mentorship program into a physical accelerator with a fund, office space and full-time staff. Yeah, he was LA, baby!

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Y Combinator’s latest participants are the second batch to land a $500,00 check as part of the accelerator’s recently refreshed standard deal. Our 11 favorite companies from YC’s S22 Demo Day: Part 1. That’s why I was surprised, then impressed to see Almond take the stage at Y Combinator Demo Day this week.

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