Accelerators & incubators

1776

AcceleratorWashington D.C., United States

1776 is an accelerator that serves as a global hub for startups tackling education, energy, health care, government and other critical industries. The firm plans to pull together a seed fund that will allow it to make equity investments in early-stage tech companies.

Paypal X Startup Accelerator is the incubation arm of PayPal, focused on technology start ups. Paypal had launched an acceleration program as PayPal X Developer Challenge, to encourage the creation of innovative businesses using the PayPal X global payments platform.

The Design Accelerator

AcceleratorPasadena, United States

Provider of acceleration services for early stage design and technology businesses. The company helps early stage, design-driven technology companies with training and other services for an intensive three-month program. It also offers seed-stage investment services.

Women Innovate Mobile

AcceleratorUnited States

Women Innovate Mobile is an accelerator based in New York, New York. The firm provides funding, business support, office space, product development, design support and mobile-marketing promotions. It invests in the mobile, software and information technology sectors.

Boomtown Accelerator

AcceleratorUnited States

Boomtown Accelerator is a startup accelerator that prefers to invest in the big data, media, internet, mobile, software, internet of things, ad-tech, marketing, healthcare technology and design sectors. The firm was founded in 2014 and is based in Boulder, Colorado.

Texas Venture Labs is an accelerator is a campus-wide initiative to accelerate startups in taking their innovations to market in order to transform graduate students into entrepreneurs and business leaders. The firm was founded in 2010 and is based in Austin, Texas.

Useable

AcceleratorUnited States

Useable works with startups to fund and execute on their ideas. The firm provides various services like product creation, venture partnerships, product focus workshops, and capital and strategic workshops. It was founded in 2015 and is based in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Silver Spring Innovation Center is an incubator that provides office space, business support service and lease facility to technology enabled small startup companies based on the East Coast of the United States. The firm is headquartered in Silver Spring, Maryland.

Sling Health Network

IncubatorUnited States

IDEA Labs is a bioengineering design and entrepreneurship incubator founded in 2013 at Washington University in Saint Louis, Missouri. Students, faculty, staff and Saint Louis entrepreneurs team up to tackle unmet needs in healthcare delivery and clinical medicine.

Square One DSM

AcceleratorUnited States

Square One DSM is an accelerator based in Des Moines, Iowa. The firm provides direct mentoring and consulting, along with networking opportunities. It also offers a resident accelerator program for local, high-potential companies that are past the incubation stage.

HardTech Labs

AcceleratorLa Jolla, United States

HardTech Labs is an accelerator that focuses on creating opportunity in the San Diego or Baja California region by funding startups and managing accelerators in the hardware and biotech industries. The firm was founded in 2014 and is based in Del Mar, California.

Catalyst - UAE/Dubai

AcceleratorAbu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

The Catalyst is the go-to for clean-tech innovation in Abu Dhabi, offering not only funding, but also mentorship, incubation, and a launchpad for startups tackling environmental and sustainability challenges under the strategic partnership of Masdar City and bp.

UnLtd USA

Accelerator

UnLtd USA is an accelerator that seeks to provide fund and support to start-up social entrepreneurs working to create long-term solutions to some of the world’s social, environmental and civic problems. The firm is based in Austin, Texas and was founded in 2014.

battlepass studio

StudioSofia, Bulgaria

BattlePass Startup Studio is a venture builder that launches and develops startups together with passionate entrepreneurs. We act as co-founders, helping them build their MVP, find their unfair advantage, find investors, and then proceed with market penetration.

Localore

Incubator

Localore is an incubator that accelerate innovation at public radio and TV stations and sink new taproots into local communities with "full-spectrum" models that blend on-air, screen, and street media. The firm was founded in 2013 and is based in United States.

The Madison Enterprise Center is an office and light industrial business incubator that serves start-up and expanding small businesses. The firm offers an affordable rental rate and shared services including high-speed Internet and video conferencing equipment.

startupfactory.uz

Accelerator

Мы проводим стартап-конференции и мероприятия по женскому технологическому предпринимательству, семинары по генерации идей (Ideathon), организуем 6-месячные программы акселерации стартапов, подбираем менторов, готовим стартапы к питчингу и получению инвестиций.

Brad Wisler

AcceleratorBloomington, United States

Sproutbox is an accelerator that helps entrepreneurs turn their ideas into viable businesses. The firm invest its talent in startup companies with high growth potential in exchange for equity. It was founded in 2008 an is headquartered in Bloomington, Indiana.

Cofound Harlem

AcceleratorUnited States

Cofound Harlem is is the first accelerator out of NYC’s latest tech hub - Harlem. The firm is a non profit accelerator that provides startups resources, mentorship, and free office space. The firm is headquartered in New York, New York and was founded in 2015.

Launchacademy

IncubatorCanada

Launch Academy is a tech incubator that provides the mentorship, resources, network and environment entrepreneurs need to launch, fund and grow their startups. Launch Academy offers three comprehensive programs, depending on a startup’s needs and growth stage.

R/GA Accelerator

AcceleratorUnited States

R/GA Accelerator is designed for startups developing connected hardware products and software services with the goal of helping them to build businesses and brands. The firm prefers to invest in the internet of things (IoT) and connected devices space sectors.

Scale for Climatetech MEIR Fund

AcceleratorUnited States

Venture For ClimateTech is a non-profit global venture studio + accelerator program. We source the most promising ClimateTech innovators from around the world and offer them hands-on support until they are ready for first customers, pilot runs, and investment.

Sproutbox

AcceleratorUnited States

Sproutbox is an accelerator that helps entrepreneurs turn their ideas into viable businesses. The firm invest its talent in startup companies with high growth potential in exchange for equity. It was founded in 2008 an is headquartered in Bloomington, Indiana.

Agora Startup House

AcceleratorUnited States

Agora Startup House offers a program to accelerate and facilitate the growth of venture while the members are still at school. The program runs from August to May in parallel to University of California, Berkeley schedule. It is based in Berkeley, California.

Cintrifuse

Accelerator

Cintrifuse is an accelerator which seeks to invest in the consumer goods and services, energy, life science mobile and technology sectors. The firm also provides mentoring, workshops, customer and talent connections, recruitment and co-working space services.

Contrib is an accelerator specifically designed to utilize a sustainable and socially responsible business network model that turns valuable domain assets into successful operating companies. The firm was founded in 2013 and is based in Delray Beach, Florida.

FbStart is a new program from Facebook that is designed to help early stage mobile start-ups build and grow their apps. It provides startups with an exclusive community, worldwide events, mentorship from Facebook, and up to $80,000 in free tools and services.

Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses

AcceleratorUnited States

Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses is an accelerator that provides education, financial capital and business support services to help entrepreneurs create jobs and economic opportunity. The firm was founded in 2009 and has offices across the United States.

Travelport Labs is an Englewood, Colorado based incubator which accepts a small number of travel startups into its incubation program. It assists the founders in seed funding and a wealth of mentor-ship in exchange for a small amount of equity in its company.

SuperSet

StudioSan Francisco, United States

super{set} is a team of seasoned operators and AI technologists that co-founds and builds AI-native, high potential businesses. With our people-first culture, proven playbooks and capital investment at all stages, we found, fund and build for lasting impact.

СИГМА.Новосибирск серийно создает технологические компании, основываясь на собственных идеях и используя профессиональный инвестиционный капитал. Мы сокращаем время и себестоимость строительства стартапов. Мы продаем компании, когда они становятся бизнесом.

49th State Angel Fund

AcceleratorUnited States

49th State Angel Fund is an accelerator based in Anchorage, Alaska. The firm seeks to invest in companies operating in the information technology sector. It was created by a $13.2 million allocation from the State Small Business Credit Initiative (SSBCI).

Education Design Studio

IncubatorUnited States

Education Design Studio is a hybrid incubator and seed fund that specializes in seed and early stage investments. It prefers to invest in companies operating in the education sector. The firm was founded in 2013 and is based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Braintree Business Development Center

IncubatorUnited States

Braintree is an incubator serving North Central and North East Ohio, providing assistance to business startups and emerging companies. The firm was founded in 1986 and provides counseling, customer referral, access to capital, and training opportunities.

Ohio State University Technology Commercialization Office

AcceleratorUnited States

Ohio State University Technology Commercialization Office is a research center based in Columbus, Ohio. It has an acceleration program know as Accelerator Awards through which it makes early stage investment in software, analytics and healthcare sectors.

Orange Grove

AcceleratorStockholm, Greece

Orange Grove empowers talented individuals to grow their vision into innovative ventures. We support aspiring and early-stage founders through horizontal and vertical entrepreneurship programmes, skills development and transfer of international know-how.

Rearden Companies is an incubator of companies exploring and developing art and technology, with a particular emphasis on the interplay and synergy between the two worlds. Rearden provides infrastructural facilities to new projects before launching them.

10Xelerator

AcceleratorVarious/Remote, United States

10Xelerator is a mentor driven accelerator program focused on early-stage funding to companies in the big data, analytics, educational technology, logistics, retail and cyber security sectors. The firm was founded in 2011 and is based in Columbus, Ohio.

EnergyLab

AcceleratorAustralia

EnergyLab is Australia and New Zealand’s largest climate tech startup accelerator and innovation network dedicated to reaching net zero emissions. We connect talented founders to the mentors, advisors, partners, peers and investors they need to succeed.

Health Founders

AcceleratorEstonia

The AI-first health tech accelerator helping early-stage founders address unmet clinical needs with innovative technologies. HF2.0 provides the playbook to turn teams developing early-stage tech into scalable, investor-ready health technology companies.

Zest Group

AcceleratorItaly

Zest is one of the leading players in Europe dedicated to fostering growth in the Innovation Ecosystem. Zest is the market leader in Italy for early-stage venture capital investments, startup acceleration, scale-up support, and Open Innovation programs.

Co.lab

AcceleratorUnited States

Co.lab was an accelerator that worked with startups leveraging the power of digital games to build transformative educational technologies for PK-12 students and teachers. The firm was founded in 2013 and was headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Jay M. Tenenbaum

Incubator

CommerceNet is a high-tech research-based lab and incubator based in Palo Alto, California and was founded in 1994. The firm prefers to invest focusing on the healthcare by industrializing therapy development, technology, internet and software sectors.

SmartWe

AcceleratorUnited States

SmartWe is an accelerator based in Pao Alto, California. The firm provides various services such as contingent staffing, web design and development and product development. It seeks to invest in companies operating in the information technology sector.

When it comes to startup accelerators, Y Combinator (YC) is one of the most well-known in the world. As an accelerator that provides seed-stage funding, some of the most well-known accelerated companies (e.g. Airbnb, Dropbox, and Reddit) are YC alumni.

JFE Accelerator

AcceleratorUnited States

JFE Accelerator is an accelerator firm based in New York, New York and was founded in 2013. The firm runs programs in New York and San Francisco for 3 months focusing on seed and pre-series A Israeli startups focusing on B2B and enterprise businesses.