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Rushed for time? Here is the top 5 Seed investors for Incubators startups. Scroll down for more information on these investors or to view the rest of the investors.
Name | Website | Stages | Location | Socials |
|---|---|---|---|---|
SkyDeck Berkeley | Non Equity Assistance, Seed | Berkeley, California, United States, North America | ||
LAUNCH | Convertible Note, Early Stage Venture, Seed | San Francisco, California, United States, North America | ||
Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator | Seed | New York, New York, United States, North America | ||
Desafia | Early Stage Venture, Seed | San Francisco, California, United States, North America | ||
Healthbox | Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed | Chicago, Illinois, United States, North America |
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We’ve ranked the top Incubators Seed investors in United States. The companies, startups and institutions listed in this article are all exceptional companies, well worth a follow. We have included links to their websites, socials and CrunchBase (if you’re interested in their financials).
We selected the organisations listed in this article based on:
- Track record
- Executive leadership
- Market share
- Innovation
- ESG rating
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Top Incubators Investors & Funds (United States)
SkyDeck Berkeley
Beginning with the Spring 2018 SkyDeck cohort, each of the 20 companies accepted into the SkyDeck full cohort will be eligible for investment of up to $100,000 from the Berkeley SkyDeck Fund. Created as a joint venture among UC Berkeley’s College of Engineering, Haas School of Business, and the Vice-Chancellor for Research Office, SkyDeck Berkeley has become the apex startup launchpad for UC Berkeley-affiliated entrepreneurs. As one of the first in-house public research university accelerator programs, its goal is to foster entrepreneurial excellence through personalized and specialized engagement to its teams by providing access to their network of advisors, investors, workshops, and other resources.
Stages: Non Equity Assistance, Seed
Location: Berkeley, California, United States, North America
Industries: Finance, Incubators
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LAUNCH
We Back Builders. Founded by @Jason Team behind This Week in Startups: https://www.youtube.com/c/ThisWeekIn @twistartups The LAUNCH Accelerator https://launchaccelerator.co/ @launchincubator The Syndicate https://thesyndicate.com/ @thesyndicate415 Founder university: https://www.founder.university/ @founderuni Remote Demo Day https://remotedemoday.com/ @remotedemoday
Stages: Convertible Note, Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: San Francisco, California, United States, North America
Industries: Digital Media, Email Marketing, Events, Incubators, News, Venture Capital
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Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator
Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator (ERA) is New York City’s leading technology accelerator and early-stage venture capital fund. It has invested in more than 265 start-ups since launching in 2011. Its alumni companies, who come from all over the world, are already playing leading roles in the evolution of virtually every major global industry. To date, ERA alumni companies have raised more than $1 billion in capital and collectively exceed $6 billion in market capitalization.
Stages: Seed
Location: New York, New York, United States, North America
Industries: Incubators, Internet, Venture Capital
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Desafia
Spain Tech Center is sporting a new brand. We’ve changed our name to Desafía but you can rely on the same quality programs to get actionable tools to plan your US market entry and execute on it.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: San Francisco, California, United States, North America
Industries: Collaboration, Incubators, Non Profit
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Healthbox
Healthbox helps organizations build and sustain innovation strategies through consulting and fund management services. The firm works inside organizations to develop innovative programs that engage caregivers and assess the commercial potential of internal projects. It also helps organizations source potential solutions or investments from outside the organization. Healthbox launched in 2010 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, United States.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Chicago, Illinois, United States, North America
Industries: Health Care, Incubators, Venture Capital
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CITRIS Foundry
Headquartered at UC Berkeley, the CITRIS Foundry accelerator supports entrepreneurs who are working to commercialize cutting-edge technology within their scientific field. Our founders are scientists, engineers, builders, and hackers from top-tier research universities.
Stages: Grant, Seed
Location: Berkeley, California, United States, North America
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Biotechnology, Clean Energy, Genetics, Hardware, Incubators, Machine Learning, Semiconductor, Sensor, Software, Universities
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Grand Central Tech
GCT is a community of startups and strategic partners that breaks from the traditional accelerator model by providing an unparalleled value proposition. Housed in Facebook’s former NY Headquarters overlooking Grand Central, GCT’s provides NYC’s premier early-stage startups all the critical resources to achieve scale. Accepted companies receive a full year of free office space, in-house talent recruitment team, a global network of investors, access to Fortune 1000 corporate partners, access to mentors/advisors, as well as legal/tax/PR/accounting services. GCT takes NO EQUITY and charges NO RENT. Applications are open now until November 22, 2019: www.grandcentraltech.com
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Non Equity Assistance, Seed
Location: New York, New York, United States, North America
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Incubators, Real Estate, Venture Capital
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CanopyBoulder
CanopyBoulder is a mentorship-driven seed-stage investment program for startups in the cannabis industry, with a focus on ancillary products and services.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Boulder, Colorado, United States, North America
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Incubators
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Aurelia Ventures
B2B Accelerator & VC. We supercharge B2B software founders. Our goal is to increase your sales, hire the right people, get investors for your follow-on rounds and extend your runway with $1.25M+ in perks & benefits.
Stages: Angel to Series A
Location: San Francisco, California, United States, North America
Industries: AI/ML, Fintech, Cybersecurity, Big Data
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Zetta Venture Partners
Zetta Venture Partners is the first focused fund committed to delivering exceptional returns from the high-growth analytics market. The firm, founded by industry veteran Mark Gorenberg, launched in 2013. With offices in San Francisco and Utah, and a worldwide network of partners, entrepreneurs and investors, Zetta Venture Partners is at the forefront of the next huge and long-lasting investment opportunity. Focused funds deliver exceptional returns. In fact, over the past 10 years, focused funds have outperformed all funds by 72 basis points, according to the National Venture Capital Association. As an analytics-only fund, Zetta delivers the expertise, network and portfolio to create ongoing, exceptional deal flow.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: San Francisco, California, United States, North America
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Finance, Incubators, Venture Capital
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Betaspring
[Betaspring](http://betaspring.com) is a mentorship-driven Providence-based startup accelerator program for technology and design entrepreneurs who are ready to build a product, launch a company, and change the world. Betaspring runs two 13 week accelerator sessions a year (Spring and Fall) that attract top-quality startup teams from across the US and around the world.
Stages: Seed
Location: Providence, Rhode Island, United States, North America
Industries: Automotive, Education, Incubators, Internet, Mobile
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BioGenerator
The BioGenerator, the non-profit venture development organization of BioSTL, facilitates the formation of successful, sustainable bioscience companies in the St. Louis region. It provides start-up bioscience companies with pre-seed and seed investment funds, shared lab space with specialized equipment, and in-depth management support.
Stages: Debt, Early Stage Venture, Grant, Seed
Location: St Louis, Missouri, United States, North America
Industries: Biotechnology, Incubators, Pharmaceutical
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Burch Creative Capital
Burch Creative Capital is a Creative Capital Firm with a decidedly different approach to creating value. The company’s investment philosophy is an expression of Christopher Burch’s entrepreneurial values and his vision for new market opportunities, using a creative skill set along with sound financial practices to create, incubate, support, and scale disruptive brands and businesses. In his 30-year career as an investor and entrepreneur, Christopher Burch has participated in the rise of more than 50 companies. By combining an intuitive understanding of consumer behavior with international and direct sourcing experience, he has a built a long track record of connecting innovation to impact. Creative Capital represents the evolution of venture capital based on Chris’ belief that the activity of successful investing also includes creativity. In the past, we were investors looking for existing opportunities. Today, we are entrepreneurs who invent and attract new ones. We apply more than funding to earn a return. We invest our creativity, passion, and insights to create value. Burch Creative Capital’s brand portfolio includes the recent introductions of Nihiwatu Resort, Poppin and ED by Ellen to a list of established brands previously embraced by Chris including the Faena Hotel + Universe, Jawbone, Next Jump, Powermat, Tory Burch and Voss Water. The company is currently supporting the development of several lifestyle and consumer products brands ranging from retail, apparel and home furnishings to the hospitality, mobile device and technology industries
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: New York, New York, United States, North America
Industries: Finance, Incubators, Venture Capital
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Science
Science identifies entrenched markets and societal shifts and invests in disruptive companies with new ideas and highly focused teams. The company has co-founded and invested in more than 60 companies, including DollarShaveClub, DogVacay, HelloSociety, FameBit, Mammoth Media, Pray, and PlayVS among others.”
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Santa Monica, California, United States, North America
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Incubators, Venture Capital
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The Engine
The Engine, which was publicly announced on October 26, 2016, was built by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Prioritizing breakthrough ideas over early profit, The Engine represents an exciting new system for startup support, one that shortens the time from idea to investment, and from investment to impact. To fuel The Engine, MIT is seeking to attract hundreds of millions of dollars of support and to provide hundreds of thousands of square feet of space for entrepreneurs in Kendall Square and nearby communities, starting with 26,000 square feet in its Central Square headquarters. The Engine provides a physical space where an idea can begin to take shape. It also streamlines the legal processes and agreements required to get products to market. And it links entrepreneurs to “patient capital” from investors who share their vision of addressing big challenges with big ideas. The Engine will eventually support up to 60 locally based startups concurrently; these companies will participate in the accelerator for up to 12 months. The Engine will make meaningful investments that will allow participating startups to get off the ground quickly and operate long enough to prove their concepts’ viability. It will also provide business planning, legal, and administrative support. The Engine will require less equity than is typical, allowing founders to maintain more control over their companies and the ideas they’ve created. Through the Engine Room, The Engine will provide access to a wide network of lab space, specialized equipment, business guidance, and other resources, at MIT and beyond.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, North America
Industries: Angel Investment, Incubators, Social Impact, Venture Capital
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ICONYC labs
ICONYC labs is a accelerator firm specializes in early-stage and startups. It invests in early-stage Israeli tech startups looking to accelerate growth and cut time to market. ICONYC seeks investments in Enterprise Software, Internet of Things (IoT), Artificial Intelligence (AI), Digital Health, Drones, Fintech, Digital Media. Arie Abecassis and Eyal Bino founded it on March 29, 2015, with its headquarters in New York City.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: New York, New York, United States, North America
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Incubators, Information Technology, Marketing
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Imagine K12
Imagine K12 is a startup accelerator that provides support and funding to tech companies focused on the education market. Starting a company is hard, and the education market presents unique challenges. At Imagine K12 we have a singular goal: improving your company’s chances of success. We do this through a combination of strategic advice, mentorship, seminars designed to help founders make better decisions, highly engaged networks of entrepreneurs and educators, and $100,000 of initial funding.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Redwood City, California, United States, North America
Industries: Education, Financial Services, Incubators
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InnoSpring Seed Fund
InnoSpring Seed Fund is a $5M fund affiliated with the InnoSpring US branch. InnoSpring is the holding company for a multi-national ecosystem of technology industrial parks, incubators, and venture capital funds ($200M under management). We exist with a mission to become the global start for startups.
Stages: Seed
Location: Palo Alto, California, United States, North America
Industries: Automotive, Incubators, Internet, Mobile, Social Media, Software
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Chobani Food Incubator
Chobani Incubator is a program for companies taking on broken food systems to bring better food to more people. they are here to help small companies with big hearts and ideas challenge the food industry, improve broken systems, and make a difference.
Stages: Seed
Location: New York, New York, United States, North America
Industries: Impact Investing, Incubators
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Rose Tech Ventures
The Incubator at Rose Tech Ventures is the new Flatiron entrepreneurial tech center in the heart of Silicon Alley, NY. A fully-equipped start-up work space at the epicenter of New York’s early stage community, it overlooks the ShakeShack and is co-located with everything from New York Angels (the leading funder of early stage startups in New York) to the New York Software Industry Association. Member of the Business Association of New York State.
Stages: Debt, Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: New York, New York, United States, North America
Industries: Incubators
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TYLT Ventures
TYLT Ventures (formerly TYLT Lab) is a venture capital and venture advisory group based in Los Angeles, California. Our focus is to invest with innovative early stage companies on the verge of significant growth. As entrepreneur-investors with native operating experience, we deploy a hands-on approach in our work with founders. Put simply, we believe in adding value beyond just contributing capital.
Stages: Seed
Location: Santa Monica, California, United States, North America
Industries: Finance, Incubators, Venture Capital
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Conquer Accelerator
As a summer accelerator with a strong bench of experienced entrepreneurs, business leaders, and motivated investors, Conquer provides select teams with an intensive ten weeks tailored programming and mentorship. Our startups focus on goal-driven benchmarks, honing their ventures and bringing their solutions to the market. Conquer Accelerator is a collaborative effort at Michigan State University made possible through generous partnerships with the MSU Foundation, its subsidiary, Red Cedar Ventures, and Michigan State University Federal Credit Union. Any qualifying business may apply to program—an existing affiliation with Michigan State University is required. For those companies who are part of Michigan State University’s entrepreneurial ecosystem, Conquer Accelerator fills a crucial gap in their development cycle. Conquer’s selected teams receive an investment of $20k and work through an intensive ten-week season. In addition to capital investment, Conquer Accelerator teams receive one-on-one mentorship and support, a creative co-working space, and strategic resources. Startup applicants should reflect the following attributes: • products or services that solve problems for specific target customers • capital-efficient business, operational at less than $1M in external funding • scalable distribution or proven ability to scale sales • simple revenue model: transactions, subscriptions, affiliates • functional prototype or prior product success • measurable traction (engaged users, revenue, attractive unit economics) • three (or more) members in a cross-functional team • ability to be located in East Lansing, Michigan for the duration of the program Find our previous cohort teams, learn how to apply, and follow the journey: conqueraccelerator.com.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: East Lansing, Michigan, United States, North America
Industries: Angel Investment, Incubators, Venture Capital
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Comet Labs
Comet Labs is an early-stage intelligent machines venture capital fund based in San Francisco. We help startups scale, guide innovation, and generate discussion in the fields of robotics and artificial intelligence. We’re a venture fund and incubator founded in 2015. We invest in early stage artificial intelligence (AI) and deep technology companies transforming the world’s biggest industries. Our thesis is that AI and Robotics will revolutionize productivity in every vertical and unlock human potential. AI and machine learning technology have matured dramatically in just the past few years. The line of what is possible has been pushed back. However, it has become apparent that introducing AI to traditional industries requires a new and more collaborative approach. We started as a fund focused on investing in AI startups, but quickly understood that AI startups have little trouble raising money. Instead, they have a whole assortment of other common needs and challenges with building their businesses. That’s why we didn’t stop at the fund. We created the Labs programs, each providing an environment in which to build and grow companies. We partner with established industry brands to give startups access to vital resources and knowledge that otherwise would be out of reach. Together, we set up programs to help startups and partners discover new insights about how AI and robotics can transform industries like healthcare, agriculture, construction, transportation, and more. We’re always on the lookout for new thoughts and ideas about how AI will impact our society in the not-so-distant future. We’d love to hear yours.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: San Francisco, California, United States, North America
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Hardware, Incubators, Machine Learning, Robotics, Venture Capital
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TechSquare Labs
TechSquare Labs is an incubator, seed fund and 15k sf of coworking and corporate innovation space. They are driven to Build Something From Nothing with companies ranging from two guys and a laptop to established enterprises looking to stay ahead of the pack. They do this by combining experience in patents, research, and team building with a network that spans from freshman coders to Fortune 500 CEO’s. TechSquare Labs is in Atlanta for its incredible density of educational institutions, enterprises, and entertainment. Over 250,000 students call Atlanta home along with 27 Fortune 1000 companies that generate nearly a half a trillion dollars in revenue. The city drew in $6 billion from film production budgets in the last fiscal year alone. They have hung their hat in the middle of it all in Technology Square. In addition to a cluster of corporate innovation labs and startups, the area is swarming with tech talent from Georgia Tech – where more engineers graduate than MIT and Stanford combined. TechSquare Labs was founded by Dr. Paul Judge and Allen Nance, two technology entrepreneurs with a track record of building, advising, and investing in successful technology companies.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Atlanta, Georgia, United States, North America
Industries: Incubators, Venture Capital
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Z80 Labs Technology Incubator
Z80 Labs’ mission is to serve as a catalyst, transforming Buffalo and Western New York into a technology hotbed. By creating an environment that gives entrepreneurs exposure to industry leaders typically available only in New York City or Silicon Valley, Z80 Labs will kick-start entrepreneur-driven tech businesses within an accelerated environment, bolstering the local economy. Founded by investors, Jordan Levy and Ron Schreiber, to ignite the Internet-based technology sector in Buffalo and Western New York. Z80 Labs will be funded by Softbank Capital, with additional funding from SCP Incubator LLC via a $5 million Innovate NY grant awarded by Governor Cuomo’s Empire State Development (ESD). Corporate support in services and personnel will be provided by The Buffalo News, Campus Labs, PC Business Solutions and Synacor.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Buffalo, New York, United States, North America
Industries: Finance, Incubators, Internet, Mobile, Software, Training
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Oxeon Partners
Oxeon is an executive search and venture firm partnering with impactful growth stage healthcare businesses to solve our nation’s most complex challenges. We connect our healthcare company partners with the fundamental drivers of business growth: great people, transformational business development partnerships, strategic investments, next generation business ideas, as well as various advisory and other growth-related services. Oxeon’s foundation is built on our deep relationships with leading companies and executives in healthcare IT and services. Through these relationships, we: – find the right leaders to drive business growth for our clients – connect companies across our network to build business – translate insights about unmet industry needs into new companies or products – invest at every step to ensure our interests are aligned with our clients and partners
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: New York, New York, United States, North America
Industries: Health Care, Incubators, Recruiting, Venture Capital
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Tumml
Tumml is a startup hub for urban technology. We provide resources to early stage entrepreneurs tackling major urban challenges: – Ongoing support to Tumml’s portfolio of urban innovation startups – Thought leadership on issues important to urban-focused entrepreneurs – Events and workshops where startups can engage with funders, policy makers, etc. If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to [email protected]
Stages: Seed
Location: San Francisco, California, United States, North America
Industries: Apps, Incubators, Non Profit
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Flashstarts
Flashstarts is a Cleveland-based business startup accelerator and venture fund focused on unique and innovative uses of software and technology. Flashstarts provides the resources, capital and guidance necessary to support the earliest stage entrepreneurs. The Flashstarts Accelerator is powered by rapid cycles of feedback and iteration, customized guidance from coaches, an extensive network of mentors, and a team of talented interns. Our formal accelerator program runs for 12 weeks, and our third class begins in May of 2015. However, our relationship with teams truly starts with the application process – not every team that applies is admitted, but everyone receives feedback. While we will review any team with any idea, our sweet spots are Enterprise IT (EIT) and Healthcare IT (HIT). For our 2014 summer accelerator class, we have defined six “R&D labs” filled with vertical-specific resources to give Flashstarts teams valuable expertise and access. Each lab has a robust network of resources, mentors and corporate partners for our startup teams to leverage. Our Cleveland location is home to a world-class healthcare ecosystem with top 10 hospitals, 700+ health-related companies and institutions, 230,000 workers, and has received $1.3 billion in recent investment. A $465 million, 1 million-square-foot Global Center for Health Innovation has opened in the Fall 2013. Flashstarts teams are ideally positioned to leverage these extraordinary assets. We are continuously seeking like-minded entrepreneurs with truly unique, breakthrough ideas that have the potential to change the world. We are also open to outstanding entrepreneurs even if they don’t have an idea – if you share our passion, we will help generate the idea. Our Venture Capital fund operates our startup accelerator and will create, fund and support 12 new software companies in 2014. The fund is currently open, with 50 units available to accredited investors. Interested investors can visit www.flashstarts.net.
Stages: Seed
Location: Cleveland, Ohio, United States, North America
Industries: Automotive, Finance, Health Care, Incubators, Software, Venture Capital
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Vodafone Ventures
Vodafone Ventures firm specializes in investments in seed/start up, early stage, and mid stage in wireless and Internet sectors. It invests between £2 million ($3.6 million) and £10 million ($18.1 million) in the portfolio companies. Vodafone Ventures was formed in 2000 and is based in the Newbury, United Kingdom. Vodafone Ventures is the investment arm of Vodafone Group PLC.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Redwood City, California, United States, North America
Industries: Incubators, Mobile, Social Media
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Loeb.nyc
Loeb NYC is a startup lab and early-stage private investor built on the belief that aligning the right people with the right ideas creates successful companies. They are entrepreneurs, strategic partners, mentors, and industry experts who have launched and scaled enduring companies across industries utilizing proven strategies and techniques.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: New York, New York, United States, North America
Industries: B2B, B2C, Brand Marketing, Digital Marketing, Direct Marketing, Impact Investing, Incubators, Industrial, Marketing, Social Entrepreneurship, Venture Capital
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Launchpad LA
Launchpad LA is a seed fund startup accelerator that specializes in investments in startups. The company offers businesses with investments, office spaces for four months, perks and discounts, and access to a network of mentors, advisors, and investors. Their goal is helping talented local entrepreneurs build relationships, get funded, and grow. Launchpad LA is a U.S.-based company that was founded in 2009 by Sam Teller, Mark Suster, and Adam Lilling.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Private Equity, Seed
Location: Santa Monica, California, United States, North America
Industries: Incubators
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PIE
We’ll give you $20,000 and office space to spend up to nine months — three months of the program plus a potential six additional months rent-free — with us in beautiful Portland, Oregon. You and other promising cofounders will learn from our startups-in-residence, successful alumni, Wieden+Kennedy, and our mentor network. Not to mention we’ll connect you with thought leaders from some of the world’s most successful brands.
Stages: Seed
Location: Portland, Oregon, United States, North America
Industries: Automotive, Incubators
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Prehype
Prehype is venture development firm HQ in NYC with offices in London, Copenhagen and Sydney, Detroit. Prehype is a venture development firm, building new businesses in partnership with the world’s finest corporations and VCs. They run workshops for companies like Diageo, NewsCorp, Mondelez, LEGO, and Verizon, in which they identify problems or missed opportunities and resolve them through their startup/early-stage approach. Some of their very successful ventures are Bark & Co (barkbox), basno.com, and Managed By Q.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: New York, New York, United States, North America
Industries: Finance, Incubators, Venture Capital
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Hult Prize Foundation
The Hult Prize is a start-up accelerator for budding young social entrepreneurs emerging from the world’s universities. Named as one of the top five ideas changing the world by President Bill Clinton and TIME Magazine, the annual competition for the Hult Prize aims to identify and launch the most compelling social business ideas—start-up enterprises that tackle grave issues faced by billions of people. Winners receive USD 1 million in seed capital, as well as mentorship and advice from the international business community. The Hult Prize is offered in partnership with Former US President Bill Clinton and the Clinton Global Initiative. It is hosted and supported by Hult International Business School. And it is generously funded by Swedish entrepreneur Bertil Hult and his family. Open to universities, colleges and students on every continent, the Hult Prize has grown to become the world’s largest student movement for social good. It is also the world’s largest crowd-sourcing platform. Participating annually are thousands of students from 130 countries, representing over 350 institutions of higher education. Competing schools included Stanford, Harvard, INSEAD, Hult International Business School, NYU, Columbia, American University Beirut, LBS, Hitotsubashi, St. Petersburg, and Tel-Aviv University. Nearly all of the Financial Times’ Top 100 MBA programs participate.
Stages: Seed
Location: San Francisco, California, United States, North America
Industries: Finance, Incubators, Non Profit, Social Entrepreneurship, Venture Capital
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SKU
SKU is an accelerator program for stellar consumer product startups. Startup companies with market-validated consumer products apply to its accelerator program to receive the resources and relationships that they require to become breakout successes and household names. SKU surrounds those stellar startups with a wraparound infrastructure of seasoned entrepreneurial mentors, customized educational content, advanced operations support, and access to funding. Since SKU’s start (as Incubation Station) in 2011, their alumni companies have gone on to raise an average of about $2M in follow-on funding. Every company is still in operation today. Several of our alumni companies are turning heads across the consumer product sector.
Stages: Seed
Location: Austin, Texas, United States, North America
Industries: Incubators
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Raptor Ventures
Raptor Ventures is a venture capital company based out of 10101 Southwest Fwy, Houston, TX, United States.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States, North America
Industries: Financial Services, Incubators, Venture Capital
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Gateway
Gateway is California’s first cannabis incubator, and the first program of its kind anywhere. As a funding business incubator located in San Francisco’s Bay Area, Gateway is providing cannabis entrepreneurs exposure to the mentorship, capital, and expectations proven in Silicon Valley. Entrepreneurs in the cannabis space have great passion and creativity for the products they produce. Their goal is to not only cultivate great entrepreneurs in the space, but to create world-class business leaders. This is what it will take to bring the cannabis industry to the mainstream.
Stages: Seed
Location: Oakland, California, United States, North America
Industries: Angel Investment, Incubators, Venture Capital
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CivStart
CivStart is a non-profit accelerator focused on identifying startup technologies that address the challenges and meet the needs of the state. It provides 24 months of customer development, product development, network building, and expert guidance for startups, all in preparation for securing state and local contracts. Not only will it help to craft solutions to meet these challenges, but it provides direct exposure to interested state and local governments, providing honest feedback and leading to new opportunities. The CivStart ecosystem and curriculum are designed to help cohort members position themselves as more than just government vendors, but as true partners in sustainable impact for its communities.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Washington, District of Columbia, United States, North America
Industries: GovTech, Incubators, Non Profit
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Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator
Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator (LACI), a City of Los Angeles-established nonprofit organization, is creating an inclusive green economy by unlocking innovation through working with startups to accelerate the commercialization of clean technologies, transforming markets through partnerships with policymakers, innovators and market leaders in transportation, energy, and sustainable cities; and enhancing communities through workforce development, pilots and other programs. Founded as an economic development initiative by the City of Los Angeles and its Department of Water & Power (LADWP), LACI is recognized as one of the most innovative business incubators in the world by UBI. In the past seven years, LACI has helped 78 portfolio companies raise $221M in funding, $220M in revenue, create 1,750 jobs, and deliver more than $393M in long term economic value.
Stages: Seed
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States, North America
Industries: Clean Energy, CleanTech, Incubators, Smart Cities, Sustainability, Transportation, Waste Management, Water
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Startup Next
Startup Next is a Techstars program, that prepares startups for accelerators and seed investment, by providing high quality mentorship and leveraging a global network of investors, mentors and founders.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Non Equity Assistance, Seed
Location: Boulder, Colorado, United States, North America
Industries: Angel Investment, Business Development, Incubators, Venture Capital
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Accretive LLC
Founded in 1999, Accretive is an industry-defining private investment firm dedicated to creating great companies. Accretive employs a rigorous, systematic approach to analyzing markets and uncovering large opportunities for value creation. The goal of our deep research is to understand a set of customers’ pain points and the variety of offerings brought by the marketplace to solve them. Through this process, we determine if we can create a meaningfully higher value solution for the market. If so, we design a customer-centric business model, ideally with win-win characteristics for all constituents, that is capable of driving the desired outcome. We implement this design by aggressively backing a team of top executives that we hand-pick to build the company from the ground-up or by investing in the growth of an exceptional like-minded enterprise. This approach has resulted in a superior track record of building companies that reinvent industries. Accretive companies have directly created over $8 billion in value shared by customers, our teams, and investors.
Stages: Seed
Location: New York, New York, United States, North America
Industries: Business Development, Incubators, Venture Capital
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SteelBridge Laboratories
SteelBridge Laboratories is an early-stage FinTech investment firm that equips pre- or early-revenue firms with capital, technology, and leadership.The Lab offers seed capital, financial technology expertise, and a proven methodology for taking FinTech innovation from infancy into established financial services firms. As an incubator, SteelBridge Laboratories provides more than capital, including: services that focus on idea review and market positioning, legal agreements and registrations, regulatory challenges, telecommunication and internet, hardware, marketing and fundraising material, human capital, operations and insurance support, financial accounting and tax, payroll and expense management, product development and management, relationship management, and more. SteelBridge Laboratories has offices in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and Miami, Florida.
Stages: Seed
Location: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, North America
Industries: Angel Investment, Finance, Incubators
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ideaTree Inc.
Our goal at ideaTree is simple: Give extraordinary ideas access to the resources to create exceptional startup’s which eventually would have a potential to be Unicorns. Surrounded by our resources and ongoing mentorship helps nurture great ideas into real products and services. Building a conglomerate of mobile and internet brands which are successful is not easy, and we approach this by identifying, accelerating new ideas with proven internet business models and in some cases transferring them to new and untapped markets where it seeks to scale them into market leaders. Focused on traditional and disruptive models in mobile and internet space across multiple sectors including fintech, social media, point of sale, sports, ai, cloud data, blockchain, crypto and travel. Since 2012, ideaTree has invested, co-founded, founded and funded multiple startups across ten countries and multiple verticals.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Non Equity Assistance, Seed
Location: West Hollywood, California, United States, North America
Industries: FinTech, Incubators, Mobile, Social Media, Social Network
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Starttech Ventures
Starttech Ventures is a private Venture Builder launched by serial tech entrepreneurs and focused on early-stage B2B SaaS with high-velocity business model and commercial focus on North America.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: San Francisco, California, United States, North America
Industries: Financial Services, Incubators, Venture Capital
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Coca-Cola Founders
Coca-Cola Founders is a new model for creating startups. First, we partner with experienced entrepreneurs around the world. Then we immerse them in the power of Coca-Cola – our relationships, resources, and reach – before they create a startup. Together we focus on big problems lots of people have. This model creates a win-win for everyone. Founders are given a powerful unfair advantage and Coca-Cola gets early access to new, fast-growing markets and solutions.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Atlanta, Georgia, United States, North America
Industries: Business Development, Incubators, Venture Capital
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Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence
The Allen Institute For Artificial Intelligence (AI2) is an artificial intelligence research and engineering institute. Research focuses include deep learning, computer vision, natural language processing, and building common sense AI systems. AI2 also invests in and builds early stage start-ups through its incubator program. AI2 was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington. The Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence is based in Seattle, United States.
Stages: Convertible Note, Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Seattle, Washington, United States, North America
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Finance, Financial Services, Incubators, Venture Capital
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MuckerLab
MuckerLab is the operating and acceleration platform of Mucker Capital. MuckerLab is a mentorship-driven, pre-seed startup accelerator focused on working with a small number of exceptional technology entrepreneurs to help them launch and scale their businesses through collaborative ideation, productization, go-to-market, marketing, user acquisition, sales, legal guidance, and fundraising.
Stages: Seed
Location: Santa Monica, California, United States, North America
Industries: Cloud Data Services, Incubators
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Waldencast
Waldencast is a holding company and investment fund that incubates and accelerates early stage beauty and wellness brands and helps them rapidly create scale and profitability via industry specific operational expertise. Waldencast invests in brand-led business models and goes beyond traditional incubation and acceleration to develop a collective of innovative and unique brands that place responsible entrepreneurship at the heart of its operations. Waldencast has offices in New York and London and has an investment portfolio in North America, Europe, and Latin America.
Stages: Convertible Note, Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Private Equity, Seed, Venture
Location: New York, New York, United States, North America
Industries: Financial Services, Incubators, Venture Capital
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YouWeb
YouWeb entrepreneurs spend a year coming up with ideas, building technologies and products, and launching their own companies – typically in consumer internet and mobile computing sectors. Created by Peter Relan, a successful serial entrepreneur, Silicon Valley executive, angel investor and technology veteran for over 20 years, YouWeb works with the best and brightest young technical talent in the industry to create new products and business models.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Mountain View, California, United States, North America
Industries: Consulting, Finance, Incubators
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OneValley
OneValley supports thousands of innovators through our Innovation Centers, Passport OS for Organizations, and OneValley Passport, the world’s most comprehensive online innovation platform for founders
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: San Mateo, California, United States, North America
Industries: Communities, Consulting, Coworking, Incubators, Information Technology, Innovation Management, Internet, Venture Capital
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Launch Alaska
Launch Alaska is a business accelerator that invests in scalable startups in food, water, transportation, and energy. Harnessing Alaska’s distinct mix of resources, markets, and opportunities, we work side by side with some of the world’s brightest startups to help them scale solutions to the planet’s hardest problems. We’re on a mission—to accelerate the resource revolution. To change our relationship with carbon fueled energy. To liberate our food, water, transportation, and energy systems from the prison of what past generations thought possible. To work with dynamic startups innovating real-world solutions to important problems. To get out of the rut of production and consumption we’ve been in for decades, stepping forward into a brighter future of access, independence, and efficiency. www.launchalaska.com/apply
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Anchorage, Alaska, United States, North America
Industries: Agriculture, Energy, Incubators, Transportation, Water
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MBC BioLabs
MBC BioLabs is the premier biotech incubator in the Bay Area and we lower the barriers to entry, minimize the start-up hurdles and provide a launchpad to take theories from hypothesis to data. With state-of-the-art equipment, a vibrant community, and a la carte business services, we enable and empower entrepreneurial scientists to run their lab fast, frugal, and focused.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: San Francisco, California, United States, North America
Industries: Biotechnology, Business Development, Incubators
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Start Garden
Start Garden invest $5,000 every week in a new business. Start Garden is based in Michigan and provides investment, and a space to work and connect.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States, North America
Industries: Coworking, Developer Platform, Incubators
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Venture Hive
Venture Hive Miami is a haven for world class startups and entrepreneurs. Daily programming from recognized best-in-class mentors and business leaders, regular events to support the greater South Florida tech community, and a magnet for international startups who want to make Miami home, Venture Hive supports both an accelerator and incubator for starting and building high growth technology companies in Miami.
Stages: Grant, Seed
Location: Miami, Florida, United States, North America
Industries: Finance, Incubators
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Curious Minds
Founded in 2004, CuriousMinds starts technology companies. They brainstorm the fastest methods to tackle everything from internet security loopholes to unbalanced supply and demand in healthcare. Many of these methods require no more than a basic communication technology—the telephone. Whether fun or serious, all of their businesses present egalitarian solutions to traditional challenges. CuriousMinds continually breaks new technological ground while also breaking social, cultural, and financial barriers. Their partnerships range from Fortune 500 companies to online question-and-answer communities; their clients include bankable Hollywood stars as well as budding YouTube talent. They all find a niche within their telecommunications cloud. This commitment to equality is reflected internally. Their unique company structure blurs divisions between marketing and technology. Regardless of his or her role, every member of their tight-knit team is an entrepreneur first. They sound off different ideas, identify the promise in each, and build cohesive, revenue-generating platforms. Driven by a collective imagination, they engineer new twists on old interfaces and tend to focus on industries ripe for a technological disruption. At CuriousMinds, and since 2004, they have envisioned the telephone as being more than just for standard audio calls. CuriousMinds-incubated Companies are proud to call the majority of the 10 largest Internet sites “clients”, and will continue to spawn concepts that re-imagine internet and smartphone technologies.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: West Hollywood, California, United States, North America
Industries: Automotive, Finance, Incubators
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Awesome Inc
Awesome Inc exists to create and grow high tech startups. We do this by hosting community events, leading technology education courses, and offering a shared workspace environment.
Stages: Non Equity Assistance, Seed
Location: Lexington, Kentucky, United States, North America
Industries: Higher Education, Incubators, Information Technology
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CommerceNet
At CommerceNet, they harness the power of the Internet to transform existing processes—making them better, faster, and more efficient. They do this by: -Finding the right talent and backing it -Tapping the collective intelligence to solve problems and improve decisions -Redefining processes to put more intelligence into software -Dramatically lowering transaction costs, creating new categories of products and services As a result,they’ve created a balanced portfolio of initiatives—long-term and short, high risk and sure thing, never been tried and retried at the right time, too theoretical to work and so obvious it must have been tried long ago. Currently, their two biggest passions are changing how Internet security is done and improving healthcare by industrializing therapy development. Both of these initiatives utilize the Internet to radically alter the status quo, introducing novel approaches to long-standing problems.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Palo Alto, California, United States, North America
Industries: Financial Services, Incubators, Venture Capital
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Think Big Partners
Think Big Partners is an early-stage startup accelerator and mentorship-based collaborative network located in Kansas City, Missouri. Think Big Partners has successfully launched or grown over 150 successful companies with its creation of coworking spaces (Think Big Coworking), entrepreneurial conferences (Think Big Kansas City and iKC), essential services, startup resources and funding (Think Big Ventures).
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Kansas City, Missouri, United States, North America
Industries: Incubators
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Bir Ventures
Bir Ventures develops knowledge-based products that solve real world problems and launches them into the market. Our vision is to create a world where people can collaborate with each other regardless of physical distance between them, and use our collective intelligence to solve complex problems. Whether you are an individual with a great idea, a business with a fresh concept, or a community with an innovative idea of solving a real world problem, we partner with you in reducing your risk of investment in the new product and increasing the probability of success.
Stages: Non Equity Assistance, Seed
Location: Bloomington, Minnesota, United States, North America
Industries: Impact Investing, Incubators
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RockaLabs
RockaLabs is a venture builder with a focus on Tech Startups. We are in constant analysis to find new opportunities. We prototype, test and turn ideas into products. We work remotely and create MVPs to validate ideas. After validation we focus on building teams and raising funds for promising products, we stay focused on the execution and helping each of our ventures to succeed.
Stages: Seed
Location: New York, New York, United States, North America
Industries: Finance, Incubators, Internet
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Be Great Partners
Be Great Partners is a technology incubator that builds successful products by investing in entrepreneurs. In addition to the capital, it also provides office solutions which include world-class office space, legal support, innovative in-house developers, and influential mentorship. Be Great Partners hosts weekly and monthly events curated for start-ups, including workshops, guest lecture series, conferences, networking opportunities, and exclusive private parties. Be Great Partners was founded in 2012 by [Lin Miao](https://www.crunchbase.com/person/lin-miao) and is based in Los Angeles, C.A.
Stages: Seed
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States, North America
Industries: Finance, Incubators, Internet, Venture Capital
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Seed Equity Ventures
Seed Equity Ventures is the investment bank for startups. Seed Equity is a registered broker dealer with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and is a member of both FINRA and SIPC. Seed Equity Ventures provides investment banking services to startups and growth companies from around the world. They believe the best entrepreneurs in the world should be funded, no matter who they are or where they live. Investors throughout the world, no matter where they are, should have a voice to choose what the future should look like. They should be able to support entrepreneurs who will build that future. In contrast, right now, only entrepreneurs in a few select areas who know the right people can be funded and only then if their vision matches the criteria and schedule of certain VC firms or angel investors. There are a few thousand VCs in the world who control which entrepreneurial ventures live and which die. They believe that power should be given to millions of people throughout the world. Seed Equity was founded to provide growth equity to entrepreneurs and their startups in exciting industries throughout the world. Whether they are located in San Francisco, Sao Paulo, Bangalore, London, Shanghai or Tel Aviv, Seed Equity’s mission is to help find the best and brightest entrepreneurs and connect them with global investors.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: San Francisco, California, United States, North America
Industries: Banking, Finance, Incubators
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Berkeley Ventures
Berkeley Ventures is a for-profit incubator that helps startups in sectors, including internet, software, mobile, clean energy, and gaming. It offers access to mentors and advisors, introductions to investors, incubator space, connections to local resources, and a program to help startups grow. Berkeley Ventures aims to find early-stage companies and provide them with facilities, advisors, introductions, and more. The company was founded in 2009 by Chris Doner. Berkeley Ventures is headquartered in Berkeley, California.
Stages: Seed
Location: Berkeley, California, United States, North America
Industries: Enterprise Software, Incubators, Web Hosting
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Michelson Runway EdTech Accelerator
The Michelson Runway Higher EdTech four-month accelerator program includes: • Minimum $25,000 SAFE investment • >$500,000 in partnership perks and services • Direct access to 10+ partner institutions including the CSU Chancellor’s office and over 50 industry mentors • Office space at Runway with customized educational programming and mentorship • Pilot implementation and evaluation support with committed institutional partners • Demo day with hundreds of school administrators, investors, and policymakers
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: San Francisco, California, United States, North America
Industries: Education, Higher Education, Incubators
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Elevar
Elevar is a San Francisco-based advisory firm that provides services for large enterprises and early-stage startups. The company helps enterprises identify where innovation is appropriate to address challenges in their organizations and create opportunity for high-potential startups to provide their solutions to a large enterprise customers. Elevar also provides strategic consulting services to support their client’s emerging innovation strategies. The company was founded on August 1, 2013, by Casey Le Jeune, Chris Edell, and Avtar Varma.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Non Equity Assistance, Seed
Location: San Francisco, California, United States, North America
Industries: Business Development, Consulting, Health Care, Incubators, Venture Capital
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Two Coins Group
Two Coins Group is a startup accelerator focused in the gaming, media & entertainment, and technology industries. As venture builders, we develop many systems, models, or projects at once, and then build separate companies around the most promising ones by assigning operational resources and capital to those portfolio companies. To this end, we raise capital, staff resources, host internal coding sessions, design business models, work with our legal and accounting teams, build MVPs (minimum viable products), hire business development managers, and run very effective marketing campaigns during our ventures’ pre- and post- launch phases.
Stages: Convertible Note, Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States, North America
Industries: Incubators, Venture Capital
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FLIP.Ventures
A new startup investment model – Forward Looking Intellectual Property Ventures (FLIP.Ventures). When funding a new tech idea or startup there are never better odds than 50/50. The idea will simply take hold or it won’t. However, if one looks at startups as whole, industry reports show 90% of them fail. Even though the 1-in-10 odds can pay off handsomely, all investing requires a strategy to beat the odds of failure and losses. At FLIP.Ventures we defy the odds. We are a very unique, one of a kind, startup investment syndication strategy. For example: What if a startup secured $5 million in funding, then ran out of money, stopped operating and then EXITED for $25m? It can be done, it has been done. Or maybe this one? Great idea, great company, market crash, financial markets dry up, everyone laid off and then the eventual bankruptcy- and then EXIT for $50m! It can be done, it has been done. Our formula is simple: 1. We assemble seed investment syndication groups (SISG). 2. The SISG is its own company investing in not one start-up but two at the same time. 3. The unique fact in this case is IF the best is always 50/50, then let’s leverage the risk across two startups. But the FLIP strategy does not stop there. 4. These two startups MUST conform to our very strict participation rules: a. We as a company and SISG participate in all management decisions, and; b. We assure the startup has a MINIMUM of 10 Defensive Patents(DP) protecting the startups innovations, and; c. The SISG goal is to provide seed, get the 10 DP’s filed and get to Proof of Concept (POC), and; d. The patents are NOT to file suits but to force market leverage so the company can be form strategic partnerships and then be FLIPPED (now you see where FLIP comes in). 5. The very worst case is – regardless of the outcome of the startup the Intellectual Property secures the investment. 6. In conclusion, as an SISG participant you get twice the opportunity for your investment to succeed and twice the security there is some form of exit at the end of the road. FLIP.Ventures has perfected this model. Our group not only has the startups with amazing IP, but also we have the very unique track record of being able to push through ground breaking patents in 11 months’ time, where most companies hope for 3 to 5 years for a patent to grant. We prove our expertise at this achievement almost quarter after quarter. If the startups are winners and stand up on their own, then great for the SISG and FLIP.Ventures. If both startups win, then it’s a double win. One win and one loses, then there is still an exit to be had of some kind for the losing startup. Even if both startups fail to mature then the IP always presents an exit strategy. We specialize in ventures where there is from $1.5m to $20m for full POC with the IP and then look to stand them up, prove them out and then FLIP for $200m to $1b or more. We promise you will FLIP when you see what FLIP. Ventures does and how we do it. Send an email or message to dialog with our team. If we are a match for you and your investment dollars and you are a match for the type of SISG member we seek as well, then let’s do this FLIP together.
Stages: Seed
Location: Dallas, Texas, United States, North America
Industries: Angel Investment, Artificial Intelligence, Business Development, Computer Vision, Incubators, Intellectual Property, Machine Learning, Venture Capital
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Agility Collective
Agility is a collective of inspired business leaders with a shared methodology for building the next generation of direct-to-consumer brands. Our resources, talent, and evolving technology stack serve as a launchpad for our portfolio companies. Come build with us.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: St Louis, Missouri, United States, North America
Industries: Incubators, Venture Capital
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SaltMines Group
SaltMines Group incubates social media and mobile application ideas into free-standing enterprises and viable businesses. From designing exceptional user experiences and assisting with customer acquisition, to raising seed funding and bringing to market, the SaltMines team has capacity to aid in the acceleration of outstanding mobile & social media products. If you are ready to pivot your idea into a prototype and then an investor-ready and market-ready business, SaltMines can help. They provide entrepreneurs and enterprises with access to services, leadership and capital to quickly transform ideas into reality. Their seasoned experts span across multiple industries and verticals are key stakeholders in the evaluation, design, development and launch of early stage ventures. For qualified start-ups & ideas, SaltMines employs a mutually beneficial, partnership approach to ensure alignment of interests and a sustainable incubation timeframe.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Vero Beach, Florida, United States, North America
Industries: Android, Consulting, Incubators, Internet of Things, iOS, Mobile Apps, Venture Capital
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Angel Investors Network
Angel Investors Network, an online investment platform, providing investors with the resources to assess investment opportunities. It empowers entrepreneurs with best-in-class resources to succeed at funding when pitching to investors. Similarly, they provide investors with best-in-class resources to assess investment opportunities and access hidden gems. Ultimately, Angel Investors Network wants to be where entrepreneurs and investors meet.
Stages: Convertible Note, Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Las Vegas, Nevada, United States, North America
Industries: Angel Investment, Communities, Consulting, Corporate Training, E-Commerce, Finance, Incubators
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Whiteboard Venture Partners
Whiteboard Venture Partners is focused on helping entrepreneurs create, build and scale the next generation of consumer and enterprise companies. We are early stage investors partnering with entrepreneurs early in their brainstorming when their ideas are still on the whiteboard. Join one our proprietary communities: ‘CISO Ventures’, ‘Rutgers Ventures’ and ‘Parents Ventures’
Stages: Convertible Note, Early Stage Venture, Seed, Venture
Location: Palo Alto, California, United States, North America
Industries: Incubators, Management Consulting, Venture Capital
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Garini Ventures
Garini Ventures invests in early-stage technology startups. They excel at connecting the dots between business and technology. Using their foresight, they are able to seed and invest in early-stage ventures that show promise but may be incomplete in terms of either business or technology.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Denver, Colorado, United States, North America
Industries: Angel Investment, Incubators, Venture Capital
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3Si Microventure & Holdings
3Si invests in breakthrough innovations within early-stage ventures that can disrupt markets. We build our portfolio based on compelling people, transformative ideas, significant intellectual property, deep market understanding, and the opportunity for capital efficiency and leverage.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Private Equity, Seed
Location: Fredericksburg, Virginia, United States, North America
Industries: Angel Investment, Hedge Funds, Incubators, Social Entrepreneurship, Venture Capital
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Momentum
Momentum is a project of Pomegranate Studios, a business incubator focusing on web-enabled business, social entrepreneurship and empowering individual voices through technology. Located in Grand Rapids, Michigan, it is the brainchild of Rick DeVos and the source of other successful projects including ArtPrize and Spout.com.
Stages: Seed
Location: Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States, North America
Industries: Financial Services, Incubators, Infrastructure
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Ximyx
An incubator can be the perfect bridge to make the big step from idea to execution, offering startups guidance , business network and capital. At Ximyx, we create, partner with, and operate Travel, Hospitality and Media Technology startup companies, providing active support with strategy, structure, business development in new markets, senior talent recruitment, follow-on fundraising and exit planning. Our portfolio companies are based on ideas that challenge the status quo, and change the way people think, live, and work. We commit to help, advise, mentor, and work with entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley, Bangalore, and Shanghai who have a deep passion for Travel, Hospitality and Media.
Stages: Non Equity Assistance, Seed
Location: Palo Alto, California, United States, North America
Industries: Financial Services, Hospitality, Incubators, Travel
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North Shore InnoVentures
As a non-profit, public/private partnership, North Shore Ventures want to ensure the best use of invested public and private resources through careful screening and selection of only the highest-potential candidate companies. All InnoVenture Center companies will have access to extensive support systems focused entirely on turning breakthrough technologies into thriving businesses. That support comes in the form of first-rate facilities, but also in access to experienced business leaders, investors, professional and technical experts, including our Board of Directors and Advisory Board. The thriving businesses that graduate from the North Shore InnoVentures accelerators will help advance the vision of vibrant technology clusters leading the future of the region’s economic growth.
Stages: Seed
Location: Beverly, Massachusetts, United States, North America
Industries: Biotechnology, Incubators
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ReadWrite Labs
ReadWrite Labs is a computer software that helps businesses and companies to grow and serves as a research analyst for the internet of things industry. Its software specializes in digital transformation, mobility, infrastructure, and the internet of things. ReadWrite Labs was founded in 2013 and headquartered in San Francisco, California.
Stages: Crowdfunding, Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: San Francisco, California, United States, North America
Industries: Automotive, Computer, Incubators, Internet of Things, Mobile, News, Software, Wearables
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MouseBelt
When other accelerators expect you to become experts in development, marketing, and business development during their program, we have an internal team to help you hands-on. Creating a unique full-service blockchain startup accelerator model, where we go beyond cash investments. When you need development, we have developers. When you need partnerships and real-world adoption, our business development specialists will land those partnerships for you. When you need marketing, our in-house experts will handle it for you. Our unique model attracted great companies for our first batch, classOne. Companies in classOne: Pledgecamp Stardust Co-Lab ReviewChain
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Initial Coin Offering, Seed
Location: San Francisco, California, United States, North America
Industries: Blockchain, Digital Marketing, Finance, Incubators, Marketing, Venture Capital
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SMASHD Labs
SMASHD Labs is a 10-week accelerator program in Los Angeles, led by Troy Carter and the multi-disciplinary team at Atom Factory. We are inviting early-stage companies at the intersection of culture and technology to work alongside our team to accelerate growth. Join us and our roster of world-class mentors for a masterclass in hustle.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Culver City, California, United States, North America
Industries: Coworking, Incubators, Information Technology
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Cultivate Ventures
Cultivate Ventures is an investment and advisory firm built to catalyze growth for promising food, wellness and fitness companies. We focus specifically on investment, business concept incubation, seed-to-growth stage acceleration and turn around advisory services. We believe strongly in strong returns on capital combined with collaboration, transparency, conscious consumerism. We take a long-term, collaborative and flexible approach to each company and client we work with and invest in, allowing our financial and operational stake to grow as our partners grow.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Private Equity, Seed
Location: Washington, District of Columbia, United States, North America
Industries: Angel Investment, Fitness, Food and Beverage, Incubators
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Preccelerator Program
The Preccelerator® Program is a platform offered to select start-up companies out of the Santa Monica office of Stubbs Alderton & Markiles, LLP that provides interim office space, sophisticated legal services, mentorship and access to a strategic perks portfolio with the objective of helping you grow your idea from business concept to funded startup. The Preccelerator® Program provides these benefits to as many as 10 promising young startups in separate growth tracks.
Stages: Seed
Location: Santa Monica, California, United States, North America
Industries: Digital Media, Incubators, Venture Capital
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Indus River Ventures
Indus River Ventures are healthcare leaders, powered by programs, platforms, and devices. They are inside-out leaders and developers, innovators in acceleration, acquisition, and commercialization.
Stages: Seed
Location: Houston, Texas, United States, North America
Industries: Health Care, Incubators, Venture Capital
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Ellis Energy Investments
Ellis Energy Investments is a Seed Investment Company that helps early stage companies launch, monetize and grow. By applying specific patents from existing companies, or through the acquisitions of companies developing products and services, Ellis Energy Investments provides the ability to enhance the lives of future generations.
Stages: Seed
Location: Bakersfield, California, United States, North America
Industries: Angel Investment, Financial Services, Incubators
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Los Angeles Syndicate of Technology
Los Angeles Syndicate of Technology, Inc. (OTC: LAST) is a publicly traded Startup Incubator that builds web and mobile technology companies. LAST provides retail investors with their first opportunity to participate in the extremely lucrative world of startup tech investing normally limited to VCs and Silicon Valley Insiders. The LAST structure allows investors to access early stage tech venture capital by investing in our diversified and professionally managed portfolio, and provides exciting dividend return potential along with the liquidity of a publicly traded stock. LAST’s investment process begins with incubating ideas and seed financing the initial product. LAST then builds tailored management teams and help raise growth capital to launch each product into the market. LAST has made six investments to date and the portfolio is currently valued over $10 million.
Stages: Seed
Location: Santa Monica, California, United States, North America
Industries: Automotive, Finance, FinTech, Incubators, Venture Capital
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NCLUSIVE
NCLUSIVE is a Creative Agency & Venture Studio with the digital expertise and technology resources to build brands, elevate talent and transform companies from ideation through development and scale. The company discovers, invests and grows concepts through innovative best practices. We infuse brands with creativity and are equipped with the intellectual capital to ignite ideas. We create bespoke solutions that focus on branding, design, web & app development, customer acquisition, social media engagement, e-commerce and monetization. Our clients include celebrities, athletes, influencers and brands. On the venture-side, NCLUSIVE’s platform offers both our agency services and collective intellectual capital to early-stage companies & emerging brands. This allows the entrepreneur to focus solely on their core business operations with the support of a diversified group of talented advisors. Jess Richman and Justin Giangrande founded NCLUSIVE and have built the company culture around employing an incredible team of creatives, entrepreneurs and visionaries. At the heart NCLUSIVE’s strategy, the company is focused on growing the Los Angeles startup ecosystem, elevating brands and building next generation companies.
Stages: Seed
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States, North America
Industries: Advertising, Brand Marketing, Digital Media, Incubators, Mobile, Social Media, Venture Capital
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The Incubation Factory
The Incubation Factory has a nearly twenty-year history in identifying, accelerating, launching and governing early stage companies. By institutionalizing lessons learned from the Inc. 500 successes and applying those principles to the tech-transfer industry, the company properly addresses the needs and solves the inefficiencies of the current system. Using techniques prevalent amongst the fastest growing companies in the country, and then improving upon these based on real-world lessons, The Incubation Factory has successfully established two tranches of portfolio companies and is in the process of creating a third tranche. 1993 – 2003: TIF Tech Fund evolved from Anthony, Allan & Quinn, Inc. (“AAQ”) which was founded in 1993 by AAQ’s current CEO Dan Schmitt and two partners. AAQ successfully launched eight companies from 1993 to 2003, three of which grew rapidly enough to qualify for the Inc. 500 List of the Fastest Growing Private Companies in America. In 1997, recognizing a tremendous need and opportunity for streamlining back office claim processing for the healthcare industry, AAQ founded Advanced Business Fulfillment (“ABF”) to serve insurance companies, managed care organizations, HMOs and third-party administrators. By 2003, ABF ranked No. 23 nationally and No. 1 in Missouri on the Inc. 500 List. In July 2003, ABF was sold to publicly-traded WebMD for $260 million. Through this experience AAQ performed an in-depth study of their Inc. 500 peer group, analyzing what made these companies successful as well as why other companies fail. These findings created an opportunity to introduce a paradigm shift in the innovation process, as it was discovered that companies make the same mistakes and missed out on the same opportunities across industries and businesses.
Stages: Seed
Location: St Louis, Missouri, United States, North America
Industries: Incubators
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The eFactory
The eFactory Business Incubator welcomes big thinkers and entrepreneurial spirits searching for the American dream – business ownership. Being your own boss is a major draw to starting a business, but often making the necessary business plans, securing funds, and making the leap into business ownership can be difficult for an individual alone. That’s where The eFactory steps in – helping you acheive your business goals by taking the guesswork out of the process. Explore the links to the left to learn more about the mission of Business Incubator, the programs and services offered, and how you can get involved.
Stages: Seed
Location: Springfield, Missouri, United States, North America
Industries: Incubators
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Brooklyn Incubator
Brooklyn Incubator is an independent investment firm providing early stage funding & start up assistance in support of great ideas. Brooklyn Incubator was founded in New York by Hernan Romero van Gompel, an investor with over a decade of experience in private equity and public equities markets across industries and geographies.
Stages: Seed
Location: New York, New York, United States, North America
Industries: Incubators
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Greentown Labs
Greentown Labs enables entrepreneurs to solve the world’s biggest energy and environmental challenges. Our mission is to enable a vibrant community of entrepreneurs to work on their visions and to provide access to the space, resources, and funding that allows their early-stage companies thrive. We offer 33,000 sq. ft. of prototyping lab and co-located office space, a shared machine shop and electronics lab, immersion in a growing community of energy and clean technology entrepreneurs, and on-site events and programs designed to enable start-ups to rapidly grow their networks and their companies.
Stages: Seed
Location: Somerville, Massachusetts, United States, North America
Industries: Automotive, Clean Energy, Energy Efficiency, Incubators, Power Grid, Solar
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M ACCELERATOR
At M Accelerator, we built multiple programs that help founders connecting their startups to the right market. In the first 3 years, at M Accelerator we helped more than 250 participants from 30 countries. #everyoneiswelcome We run group coaching sessions providing guidance through the several stages of startup development: Ideation, Bootstrapping, Traction, Funding, and Growth. M Accelerator programs: – MA Founders Cohort, a community-based approach, start a business with us. – Startup programs for ideation, early-stage, and later-stage startups. – Innovation Labs for larger public and private institutions. – Custom acceleration style programs for international higher-education institutions, accelerators, and incubators. Our primary focus is designing and deploying hands-on programs that help founders acquire clarity and direction on their businesses.
Stages: Convertible Note, Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States, North America
Industries: Angel Investment, Education, Incubators, Venture Capital
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Capital Engine
Capital Engine® is a fast-growing FinTech company facilitating the creation of efficient, trusted and scalable online private capital and alternative investment marketplaces, through our tiered business technology ecosystem: • private label platforms • strategic partnerships / revenue share and • inhouse marketplace for private placements Our clients include broker dealers, family offices, wealth managers, incubators, accelerators, social impact and real estate funds, in providing customized SaaS solutions to power private capital and alternative investment platforms, with a strong focus on investor management services. Our software helps leverage the opportunity to better originate and showcase a diverse selection of private investment deals and offer these to investors i.e. a deal’s potential viability can be better assessed, market appetite determined and transaction promptly closed. The company has an exceptional team (ex Wall St veterans from Goldman Sachs and BlackRock), traction and products to support the entire investment lifecycle for DeFi projects and traditional fundraising ecosystems. See link to short video showing some of Capital Engine® software functionality we built for Reg CF https://youtu.be/LXuieoQKzdA Capital Engine® Marketplace Our online marketplace is filling a massive gap in the US market in funding private capital markets and alternative investments: Reg D 506 (c) and Reg S (International) based real estate, venture capital, healthcare, renewable energy, social impact and crypto projects, with UK and South Africa following soon.
Stages: Crowdfunding, Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Secondary Market, Seed
Location: New York, New York, United States, North America
Industries: Incubators, Online Portals, Real Estate, Renewable Energy, SaaS, Social Impact, Venture Capital, Web Development
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Elix
Elix is a social impact incubator for teen entrepreneurs promoting a positive teen driven change. Elix’s Cohort 1 Venture Group was produced over six successful social enterprises including Savvy, Eco Wash Network, Cozy, Smart Paint, and Noviaris.
Stages: Grant, Seed
Location: San Francisco, California, United States, North America
Industries: Incubators, Social Entrepreneurship, Social Impact
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Runway
Runway is a coworking space and innovation hub bringing together entrepreneurs, startups, VCs, mentors, Fortune 500 companies, and industry experts. We also host accelerator programs for high-growth startups, provide corporate innovation services to global companies, and host amazing events.
Stages: Seed
Location: San Francisco, California, United States, North America
Industries: Coworking, Incubators
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Hope & Main
Hope & Main provides access to industry-specific resources & low-cost, low risk shared-use commercial kitchens to local entrepreneurs. Hope & main empower an inclusive community of entrepreneurs to jumpstart and cultivate thriving food businesses.
Stages: Seed
Location: Warren, Rhode Island, United States, North America
Industries: Incubators
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100K Ventures
100K Ventures is an accelerator located in Flint, Michigan. It invests in early-stage companies who receive a high assessment from the 100K Ideas pipeline. The 100k Ideas pipeline provides a helping hand in business development to anyone regardless of their prior experience or background, while ranking the business viability throughout the process. Robert Wolf, Victor Cruz, Draymond Green, Philip Hagerman, Meena Harris, Christina Weiss Lurie, Michael Nutter, Soledad O’Brien, Reshma Saujani, Michael Strahan, Jaime Taicher and Frank Thomas, are all a part of the team who founded it in 2018.
Stages: Seed
Location: Flint, Michigan, United States, North America
Industries: Angel Investment, Incubators, Venture Capital
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Innovation Incubator Inc.
Innovation Incubator offers incubator services for information technology solutions companies. Its services focus on product design, market strategy, and fund raising. It offers its services for companies that focus on cloud, mobile, big data, internet of things, cognitive computing, gaming, and social innovations. Innovation Incubator offers its customers with information technology solutions design, development, and prototyping services for real estate, travel and transportation, automotive, healthcare and life sciences, finance, and energy and petroleum industries. Innovation Incubator is headquartered in New York and has offices in Boston, Massachusetts; Leesburg, Virginia; Freehold Township, New Jersey; and Kerala, India. It was founded by Antony Satyadas, Mahesh Nair, and Matt Kumar in 2015.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: New York, New York, United States, North America
Industries: Incubators
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Clippership International
Clippership International is a boutique seed and venture capital investment firm. The firm invests in early-stage startups, SaaS, financial technology, and health technology. It provides value by helping its investments in business development, financing, marketing, technology, and other strategic areas.
Stages: Seed
Location: New York, New York, United States, North America
Industries: Banking, Financial Services, FinTech, Incubators
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Founders Space
Founders Space brings together founders, angels, VCs, advisors and innovators to help startups rock the world. They’re building a global network of founders and advisors who help one another succeed.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: San Francisco, California, United States, North America
Industries: Angel Investment, Digital Media, E-Commerce, Hardware, Incubators, Internet of Things, Mobile, Venture Capital
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Incuvation Labs LLC
Incuvation Labs offers startups with seed capital and research, incubation, and acceleration services. It offers its services in Artesia, California and focuses on projects in digital media, website development, and real estate investment. Incuvation Labs was founded by Kenneth Tran and Ghassan Gholmieh in 2013.
Stages: Seed
Location: Artesia, California, United States, North America
Industries: Incubators
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