In another example, Alexandria Real Estate Equities, a developer of bioscience space, has invested in and partnered with Accelerator Corp., Seattle - based start -
up accelerator, to create Alexandria LaunchLabs, a collaborative life science and technology co-working incubator concept, located within bioscience clusters.
Orange County, Calif. - based The Irvine Company, a real estate investment firm, entered into a similar venture with start -
up accelerator EvoNexus, providing free space for two tech incubators: The Vine San Diego, in a downtown office tower for software developers, and a La Jolla / UTC incubator for hardware developers.
Other judges include Lee Hayhurst, editor of Travolution, The Travel Tech Show at WTM's official media partner, Joakim Everstin, innovations manager, Sabre Travel Network as well as start -
up accelerator ignite 100's Paul Smith.
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up accelerator and steering feel as well as engine acoustics.
Telefónica's Wayra start -
up accelerator also played a critical role in fostering Dattch's early success.
When Memebox (pronounced mee - mee - box), a start - up that delivers boxes of Korean beauty products to subscribers, became the first South Korean company at prestigious Silicon Valley start -
up accelerator Y Combinator, South Korean president Park Geun - hye sent the brand a congratulatory rice cake.
By Ycombinator, a start -
up accelerator program in Mountain View, California, and angel investors.
AX Ventures investment opportunities will be identified through a corporate accelerator program called Xcelerate, which will be run by Mr Sullivan's team and start -
up accelerator BlueChilli and which will seek applications from entrepreneurs and early - stage companies to build a pipeline of investable businesses.
Xcelerate is a corporate accelerator program to operate in Australia and New Zealand - powered by leading start -
up accelerator BlueChilli.
He is also the Co-Founder of Propel ICT, a start -
up accelerator, the Co-Founder of the Pond - Deshpande Centre at the University of New Brunswick, and the Co-Founder of East Valley Ventures, an accelerator for Atlantic Canadian start - up companies with a mission of helping passionate entrepreneurs launch meaningful and enduring technology companies.
But Nicolas Colin, a co-founder and director at the Family, a Paris - based start -
up accelerator, argued that «people tend to give that permission to companies they trust.»
Vacayo was recently accepted into start -
up accelerator 500 Startups.
Start -
up accelerator Y Combinator plans to roll out its initial cash handout trial to thousands of people across two U.S. states.
Kristján Kristjánsson, one of Startup Weekend's global coordinators and the CEO of Reykjavík - based Innovit Entrepreneurship Center, an early stage start -
up accelerator, flew to Tehran to help facilitate the event.
Maybe a stint at a start -
up accelerator or training program can have an influence?
As a partner at High Peaks Venture Partnersand a former associate at DFJ Gotham Ventures, Davis serves as a mentor for start -
up accelerator TechStars.
Here's how one group of young entrepreneurs caught the eye of one of the U.S.'s top start -
up accelerators.
There are a lot of start -
up accelerators, and we've even got a Whole Foods now!»
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up accelerators for different groups and disable deletion of browsing history, among other things, so that you know what others have been doing on the Internet.
Major companies with a vested interest in the economic growth of a community or industry sector are also getting involved in helping entrepreneurs grow their companies by partnering with start -
up accelerators to create incubators in free or discounted spaces.
Not exact matches
Five beauty tech start -
ups have been selected for an
accelerator backed by L'Oréal, it was announced Monday.
When Roman came on, he set
up an R&D operation in Waterloo, Ont., at Communitech, an
accelerator with lots of techie startups.
Seoul, home to half of South Korea's 50 million - person population, also houses
up to 3,500 start -
ups and around 100
accelerators, most notably in its famed Gangnam district.
Novartis snatches
up cancer «radiotherapy» firm Advanced
Accelerator Applications.
While Acceleprise has been running its
accelerator program in San Francisco since 2014, many of its portfolio companies have set
up shop and found success beyond the Bay Area.
Before the SBA funding came through to pump
up small - business involvement, the cluster was serving as an innovation
accelerator with the federal government.
Because these organizations are specialists at providing the type of hands - on assistance that entrepreneurs need at the pre-seed stage, and because entrepreneurs are co-located with the
accelerator directors, the people running
accelerators can provide more intense help to startup companies than most angels and venture capitalists, speeding
up the development of the companies.
Startup
accelerator programs are popping
up every day, available to a wider range of entrepreneurs than ever before.
In fact, a recent study undertaken by the Blackbox seed
accelerator found that many tech start -
ups failed because they focused more on their product than on their potential customers.
Cash and Counsel For many startups, the initial draw to an
accelerator is the potential for securing capital to refine their concept or get their business
up and running.
Or, as Christian Busch, CEO of German
Accelerator Tech NY, sums it
up, «Lack of focus on solving a specific problem / need, (poor) timing (too early / too late), and scaling too fast.»
Musk's plan would rev
up the pods from their stations using magnetic linear
accelerators, but once they're in the main travel tubes, they would be given periodic boosts by external linear electric motors.
Though Graham himself argued that start -
up factories (or incubators, or
accelerators) like Y Combinator would work best in Silicon Valley, with its large base of entrepreneurs and investors, David Cohen, the TechStars CEO, thought the model could be adapted to other places.
Related: Start -
Up Chile and Why Many Americans are Itching to Enter This Early - Stage
Accelerator
If you want to impress investors, you can pick
up some pointers from the participants in this hot business -
accelerator program.
The founders are also finishing
up programming at the Digital Health
Accelerator in Philadelphia.
Having just wrapped
up their three - month stint working out of Techstars» New York City - based office, the entrepreneurs that make
up the tech
accelerator's graduating class know a thing of two about staying productive amidst chaos.
In order to participate in an
accelerator, you need to be prepared to have your entire business broken down in order to be built back
up again.
Some companies have complained that
accelerators over-promise and under - deliver, which means you may be giving
up equity without getting the rewards you expect.
You'll be asked to give
up between six and ten percent equity in your company, which may hurt you in the long run if you're not one of the startups to gain from your
accelerator experience.
Fee - based entrepreneurship
accelerators and incubators are increasingly sprouting
up.
While typical U.S. incubators and
accelerators offer cash - strapped startups funds in exchange for equity, Start -
Up Chile is ponying up $ 40,000 equity - free to each startu
Up Chile is ponying
up $ 40,000 equity - free to each startu
up $ 40,000 equity - free to each startup.
Size them
up It's important to be as scrutinizing of
accelerators as they are of you.
The Santiago - based
accelerator program is now gearing
up for its seventh class of a 100 startups, and if it is anything like the prior classes, the majority of founders will be American.
Business
accelerator programs offer start -
ups low cost space, business services, talented employees, and contacts who can help find customers and partners in exchange for a small stake.
Startups can apply to EVP's
accelerator and if accepted,
up to five members of the startup team and their families will be immigrated to the Canadian city of their choice and started on the path to Canadian citizenship.
If the start -
up meets those milestones, it can tap the
accelerator's network of investors to raise venture capital.
And for the venture capitalists, the
accelerators serve a valuable function — by forcing the start -
up to demonstrate that it can get a customer before they write a check.
The application's instructions are clear: In order to be accepted into TechStars, the prestigious
accelerator program, start -
up founders are asked to submit two videos — one to describe the company's product or service, and the other to introduce the team.
The more selective the
accelerator, the more likely they will accept the «hottest» start -
ups — which have the greatest odds of yielding a bidding war among the most prestigious venture capital firms.