500
MARCH 26, 2020
It’s what led me to San Francisco, and, ultimately, what drew me to 500 Startups. When I moved to San Francisco in 2012, I was working on my fourth startup and looking to join an accelerator. No one would’ve envisioned me as a venture capitalist.
GAN
AUGUST 5, 2020
Accelerators have been around for almost fifteen years now. Throughout that time, they’ve supported and funded thousands of startups, many of which have turned into powerful companies and positively impacted communities large and small. The reason for that success is, in many ways, due to what accelerators offer every startup that works with them: A Community of startup peers to grow your company alongside.
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500
DECEMBER 20, 2019
It’s been a crazy journey for us from a small first batch of startups in our Silicon Valley Accelerator to running accelerators across the globe and investing in founders from over 76 countries. Going into 2020, 500 will be entering it’s tenth year of operation.
GAN
FEBRUARY 11, 2020
Every year, some 30,000+ startups vie for just 1,300 spots at GAN Accelerators. Success rates for startups after they graduate from a GAN Accelerator are pretty impressive, too—more than 80% continue to be in business today. Most startups end there.
500
JUNE 9, 2020
From taking all aspects of our accelerators digital (including our Demo Day) to rethinking the opportunities of the future, we’ve taken this moment to analyze what innovations can come from this time and new opportunities that arise from our changing environment.
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.
GAN
JULY 23, 2019
Each year, GAN asks the accelerators in our community hundreds of questions on their programs with one goal in mind—to gather concrete insights into the state of the accelerator industry as it stands in any particular year. Responses from our yearly survey culminate in a giant data report available to any accelerator from the community that provided us with their data. Applying to Accelerators in 2019. On average, accelerators receive 594 applications for just 9.6
500
NOVEMBER 21, 2019
Under no circumstances should any of the below content be construed as legal, tax or investment advice from 500 Startups or any of its affiliates. The post Inside Batch 25 at 500 Startups appeared first on 500 Startups.
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. I had witnessed a number of early-stage tech startups in LA raise seed capital from the Bay Area and relocate. 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. None of us was convinced the market really needed 5 accelerators.
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 17, 2023
Africa’s largest innovation hub Co-Creation Hub (CcHUB), is launching a $15 million accelerator program, dubbed The Edtech Fellowship Program, to back and support 72 startups across Nigeria and Kenya over the next three years, TechCrunch has learned.
TechCrunch
JANUARY 10, 2022
Startup accelerator Y Combinator announced this morning that it has updated its terms, providing participating companies with more total cash. The group will now invest $500,000 in batch startups. Our favorite startups from YC’s Summer 21 Demo Day, Part 1.
TechCrunch
DECEMBER 13, 2022
One of the ways that those pots of cash are being invested is through venture capital, which means the money flows to the coasts — New York, Boston, Silicon Valley. “These communities are taking their dollars and investing it elsewhere. The U.S.
TechCrunch
APRIL 20, 2022
Amazon Web Services (AWS) today launched a new program, AWS Impact Accelerator , that will give up to $30 million to early-stage startups led by Black, Latino, LGBTQIA+ and women founders. of total venture capital invested, according to Crunchbase. based startups.
Gust
SEPTEMBER 30, 2012
By way of a definition, a business or startup incubator is a company, university, or other organization which provides resources to nurture young companies, helping them to survive and grow during the startup period when they are most vulnerable. A few are still trying to make money doing it, but it is hard to make money off startups. Business accelerators” is another term often used interchangeably with incubators. Invested Interests accelerators incubators startups
Dream It
JANUARY 13, 2021
In this Dreamit Dose, associates Alana Hill and I, Elliot Levy , offer five things we wish founders knew after screening over 1,000 startups in the last year. Alana suggests that before speaking to an associate, you gain a basic understanding of the fund’s focus and stages they invest in.
Entrepreneurs' Organization
AUGUST 12, 2019
We brought together the best of all worlds: Conscious customers invested in uplifting the underprivileged, a low-cost and motivated rural workforce, and passionate leaders in urban communities who nurture and grow global opportunities,” Ravi explained in a 2018 interview published on Inc. The EO Accelerator program is the catalyst that enables first-stage entrepreneurs to catapult their business to the next level.
Paul G. Silva
JULY 23, 2021
I’ve been a fan for years, and now Launch413 and I have the honor of being on the Angel Invest Boston podcast. Listen to hear how Launch413 helps startup CEO’s beat the odds and attain sustained success. Innovation AcceleratorLinkedIn post w/ mini-video | main interview page.
500
OCTOBER 4, 2019
If 500 has learned one thing from investing in over 75 countries, it’s the importance of placing bets in all the right founders and helping build ecosystems for them to thrive in. One of these often-overlooked regions is Russia, which despite challenges, has a booming tech and startup ecosystem. Thirty hand-selected startups took. The post 500 Around the World: Takeaways from the Sberbank-500 Accelerator appeared first on 500 Startups.
GAN
OCTOBER 9, 2019
You face a lot of challenges—anything from your commute time, to finding great talent, to landing big investments, to connecting with your target customers (fashion and beauty companies come to mind, for instance). Staying in business in a small city or an emerging market can be truly difficult, so what if you invest in a company that doesn’t make it? When a company raises another round of financing, it comes at a higher valuation than when we invested in it.
Haystack
OCTOBER 2, 2019
Those of us in the early-stage tech ecosystem by now well know that saying “there are a LOT of seed and new startups” is a gross understatement. And one of the sources of that flow are the new accelerators (I’m lumping incubators, accelerators, etc. Yesterday, I tweeted this: I get emails from friends @ accelerators, asking me what kind of co’s I’m interested in, or to watch online demo day (no), etc. ” Startups, don’t outsource your BD.
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 18, 2021
Austin, Texas, is becoming the new home for large companies (Tesla), investors and startups alike. . It is now also the new home for Tim Draper’s newest initiative to help support early-stage founders: Draper Startup House Accelerator Program.
Gust
MARCH 21, 2016
With startup growth up 61% since 2014 and more investment programs emerging, it can be overwhelming for founders to know just where to jump in. As the most startup-friendly accelerator on the planet, MassChallenge has helped 835 startup companies around the world, who have raised over $1.1 We have seen startups at. The post From Accelerators to Venture Capital: What is best for your startup?
500
MARCH 18, 2019
Six weeks ago, we launched the inaugural batch of the Misk 500 MENA Accelerator Program, bringing the best of our flagship Seed Accelerator program to the MENA region in partnership with Misk Innovation. Each company received an investment from 500 Falcons upon acceptance into the program. The post Announcing Batch 1 of the Misk 500 MENA Accelerator Program appeared first on 500 Startups.
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 23, 2022
When Female Invest launched in 2019, it did so with the goal of creating a community where women who wanted to invest in the stock market, but weren’t sure where to start, could gain the knowledge and confidence to take the plunge.
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 23, 2023
Incredibly, prior to the investment, ProsperOps had only raised around $800,000. “This investment allows us to expand the scope of the work we perform for our customers and continue growing our engineering and sales teams.” The cloud is growing expensive.
TechCrunch
DECEMBER 6, 2022
Inferencing chips accelerate the AI inferencing process, which is where AI systems generate outputs (e.g., A number of vendors — both startups and well-established players — are actively developing and selling access to AI inferencing chips.
Entrepreneurs' Organization
APRIL 28, 2016
By Lauren King, Director of the EO Accelerator Program. As someone who’s dedicated her career to helping small-scale entrepreneurs grow their businesses, I’ve heard many skeptics say a business accelerator program is just a cover for startups looking to increase capital.
TechCrunch
AUGUST 17, 2021
Among Apple’s more recent social good initiatives is the Impact Accelerator, an effort launched about a year ago intended to find and elevate minority-owned small businesses taking on sustainability and climate change.
GAN
APRIL 8, 2021
Each year, GAN asks the accelerators in our community hundreds of questions about their programs with one goal in mind—to gather concrete insights on the current state of the accelerator industry. Responses from our annual survey culminate in a giant data report that we make available to any accelerator within the community that provided us with their data. Applying to Accelerators in 2021. On average, accelerators receive 576 applications for just 11.2
TechCrunch
DECEMBER 14, 2021
I’ve visited Brinc’s headquarters the last few times I’ve been to Hong Kong, and been impressed with the range of different startups the accelerator works with. Last year, the pair launched the blockchain/NFT accelerator Launchpad Luna.
TechCrunch
OCTOBER 6, 2022
Techstars , a network of startup accelerators and an investment company, is launching a new accelerator in Paris called Techstars Sustainability Paris. With this sustainability-focused accelerator, Techstars is hitting the reboot button.
TechCrunch
APRIL 12, 2022
Snap’s in-house Yellow accelerator program, which invests in startups, has debuted its fifth batch of investments. The company invests $150,000 in each Yellow startup for an equity stake as part of the accelerator program, which first launched in 2018.
Paul G. Silva
JUNE 28, 2022
Startups don’t die from laziness. Innovation AcceleratorAbout The Workshop. They die from working really hard… on the wrong things. You’ve launched your venture… now what? The financial lives of your team depends on you. When do you raise money? From who? On what terms?
GAN
MAY 27, 2020
Lately, I’ve been often asked how startups are handling COVID-19. Based on my conversations with GAN Accelerators, GAN Corporate Partners, GSSN Studios, and the startups GAN Ventures has invested in, here is how startups seem to be faring in this season.
TechCrunch
DECEMBER 16, 2021
Juan Carlos Hernández is the executive director at parallel18 , a top-level, performance-driven international startup program with a social mission, part of the Puerto Rico Science, Technology and Research Trust. However, I believe that accelerators can be the glue bringing the two together.
TechCrunch
JANUARY 21, 2022
Partech Shaker , the innovation division of the Paris-based VC firm Partech , has launched an accelerator program christened Chapter54 to help European startups launch in African markets. Partech has 15 investments in nine countries across Africa, including Wave; a U.S.
GAN
NOVEMBER 26, 2019
While I’ve been in the startup world for over a decade now, I know my mom (and many of my friends) have no idea about all of the startup jargon we throw around, especially when it comes to the type of support startups can receive. Words like accelerator, incubator , venture studio, and others are terms that sound the same or are very confusing. So, I thought it might be helpful—for my mom and yours—if I put together a “startup support terminology guide.”
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