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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 |
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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 | ||
Desafia | Early Stage Venture, Seed | San Francisco, California, United States, North America | ||
CITRIS Foundry | Grant, Seed | Berkeley, California, United States, North America | ||
Aurelia Ventures | Early Stage Venture, Seed | Santa Barbara, California, United States, North America |
At SeedRound we track over 200,000 investors and over 1,000,000 people who hold key positions in these firms. We use this directory of investors to highlight top employees, LP’s and funding organisations we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
We’ve ranked the top Incubators Seed investors in California. 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 (California)
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Wearable World Labs
Wearable World Labs is the world’s first accelerator/incubator blend solely focused on wearable technologies and the Internet of Things (IOT). They offer entrepreneurs the opportunity to be immersed in the heart of a growing ecosystem supporting them to build a company, a product, and be ready for investment. They give experienced entrepreneurs the tools, technology, network, and mentorship to take innovation to a mainstream market. But Wearable World Labs is more than just an incubator or an accelerator. They’re the heart of innovation in a new and thriving ecosystem. Providing help and hope needed for entrepreneurs to become the next industry leaders in Wearables and the Internet of Things.
Stages: Crowdfunding, Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: San Francisco, California, United States, North America
Industries: Computer, Incubators, Software, Wearables
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San Francisco Accelerator (aka Society3)
San Francisco Accelerator was founded 2014 in San Francisco, California. Unlike the existing accelerators, the SF Accelerator focused on very specific startup like traction building, growth hacking, creating disruptive business models and formulating a strong vision for the company’s future. A methodical program was developed with immediate success. In 2015 the accelerator was named one of the top 100 globally most influential accelerators. The accelerator developed a proven track record of very high success and funding rates. Today the accelerator provides online programs to help startups all over the world to participate. The founders of Society3 and associated advisers are successful serial entrepreneurs and now helping growth stage companies and startups to gain traction, raise capital, create jobs and grow their business.
Stages: Private Equity, Seed
Location: San Francisco, California, United States, North America
Industries: Angel Investment, Crowdfunding, FinTech, Incubators, Marketplace
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ventureLab Growth Partners
ventureLab is a portfolio operator VC that helps entrepreneurs build and scale early-stage startups across multiple markets through access to seed funds, business resources and global relationships. Our methodology is built on alignment, efficiency, strategy, culture, and transparency. We take a hands-on approach in helping early-stage startups tackle problems that hinder productivity and growth. We provide funding and actively build alongside founding teams, allowing them to grow nimbly and efficiently. We believe in doing things right the first time and optimizing resources, aligning the goals of founders and investors alike. More information about ventureLab and its studio of startups is available at www.goventurelab.com.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: San Francisco, California, United States, North America
Industries: Advertising Platforms, Digital Entertainment, E-Commerce, Health Care, Incubators, Internet, Internet of Things, Mobile, Venture Capital
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42Angelitos
angelitos are professionals helping early bird entrepreneurs to focus on their product and the market entry. They love disruptive business ideas with worldwide growth potential, they prepare the entrepreneur in Europe and then catapult them to Silicon Valley.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Palo Alto, California, United States, North America
Industries: Incubators, Information Technology, Internet, Internet of Things
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New Mindfulness
New Mindfulness is a San Francisco based futurist foundry that designs, funds, and launches iconic, paradigm-shifting consumer ventures focused on the future of self, social, or space. Such ventures target the mass consumer market, and each possess a pathway to $1B+ in revenue. As a venture fund with a foundry model, New Mindfulness does not fund or incubate external companies, but rather expertly ideates, designs, and seeds new companies in-house. The foundry particularly specializes in incubating new consumer ventures 18+ months ahead of market, across a span of different industries, markets, and technologies such as wearables, AI, robotics, sustainability, medtech, XR, fashion, and future cities.
Stages: Seed
Location: San Francisco, California, United States, North America
Industries: Biometrics, Incubators, Mobile Apps, Neuroscience, Personal Health, Smart Cities, Sustainability, Venture Capital, Wearables
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Hut 8 Ventures
Hut 8 Ventures is a venture capital firm with its headquarters in San Francisco in California. It seeks to invest in the software and consumer durable sectors.
Stages: Seed
Location: San Francisco, California, United States, North America
Industries: Angel Investment, Financial Services, Impact Investing, Incubators, Software, Venture Capital
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ActionSpot Startup Studio
ActionSpot is a co-working community and startup incubator that connects entrepreneurs with the resources, funding, talent, and advisors they need to succeed and thrive. Their network of partners, venture capitalists, and advisors work with their startup studio program to help entrepreneurs bring ideas to market. They assess idea, helps with jump-start development, get fund, and expand the team. They provide small firms, entrepreneurs, coders, freelancers, and other professionals the space they need to work, develop their idea, or network with their community.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: San Jose, California, United States, North America
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Communities, Incubators, Marketing
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Expa Labs
Expa is comprised of companies at various stages being worked on by some of the best entrepreneurs in the world. From the Partners who have built products and services used by hundreds of millions of people, to the individuals at each existing company, Expa provides critical guidance that will increase your companies chances of success. The program is designed to maximize time spent on your company, ensure the right support network, and get your company in front of the right investors. You will not find a better deal that combines office-space + capital + equity + support + expert advice anywhere in the world.
Stages: Seed
Location: San Francisco, California, United States, North America
Industries: Business Development, Incubators, Venture Capital
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sFoundation
SFoundation provides a startup ecosystem to ensure founders and entrepreneurs find all their solutions within this ecosystem.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Santa Clara, California, United States, North America
Industries: Incubators, Small and Medium Businesses, Training, Venture Capital
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88ships
88ships is a boutique startup builder platform that partners with innovators, founders and investors to strategically build and scale businesses and position them for growth and future success. Whether you are an investor looking to bring in strategic finance and operations expertise to help prepare your portfolio companies to scale and de-risk their execution roadmap, or you are a startup founder looking for help to build a successful, investable business, we are here to help. We take a very hands-on approach to create value. We tailor our solutions to each startup and work side-by-side with founders directly—no batch classes, no mandatory schedules or activities. Our platform surrounds you with a community of seasoned, passionate, and expert mentors and corporate partners to provide critical support for your startup as you grow. Not only do we help design and develop strategies and implementation plans, but we also help execute them. We typically work with companies in their earlier stages, from late seed through Series B and beyond. Contact us to learn more. Let us help you build something amazing.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: San Jose, California, United States, North America
Industries: Consulting, Finance, Financial Services, Incubators, Venture Capital
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