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Demo Day: Austin’s Incubation Station Showcases 6 Startups

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Will Schmidt Jun 11, 2013 0 Comments

Incubation Station marks their second annual Showcase Day event today in Austin, Texas. Six consumer packaged goods (CPG) startups, after a 12-week mentorship program, are getting the opportunity to present their final pitches to Austin’s entrepreneur and investor communities. These startups spent their 12 weeks at Incubation Station focusing on funding, team building, mentorship, and…

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1776 DC Tech Startup Campus and Hub Aims To Tackle Big Problems

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Frank Gruber Jan 27, 2013 5 Comments

Since the Washington, D.C. region is so spread out with Maryland, Virginia and The District making up the unique area, finding a central hub for tech startups has been something the region has struggled with. Last year The Fort, a startup accelerator and work space, opened up shop near the White House to offer capital…

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11 Startups Unveil at TechStars Boulder 2012 Demo Day

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Zach Davis Aug 9, 2012 1 Comment

Holy Demo Day Batman! Tonight marks the unveiling of the 6th class of TechStars Boulder, the top ranked accelerator in 2011.  Last year’s class included FullContact, Mocavo, and FlixMaster.  What does this year hold in store? Fear not, for Tech Cocktail is here to reveal the summer class of TechStars Boulder 2012. DealAngel With nearly…

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14 New Startups Announced at DreamIt Ventures Demo Days

DreamIt Ventures Demo Days

Zach Davis Dec 7, 2011 8 Comments

Today 14 new startups are being announced as part of DreamIt Ventures Demo Days Philadelphia.  This invitation-only event showcases the year’s graduating ventures first with a presentation from each individual start-up, followed by an open gallery where attendees can interact with the companies directly.  For DreamIt Ventures, one of the top 15 ranked accelerators in the U.S.,…

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TechStars Raises $24M, Increases Funding for Its Companies by $100K

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Meg Rayford Sep 21, 2011 4 Comments

Startup incubator TechStars announced today that is has raised $24M from Foundry Group, IA Ventures, Avalon Ventures, DFJ Mercury, SoftBank Capital, SVB Financial Group, RRE Ventures, Right Side Capital Management, TechStars Alumni and several individuals. This new funding will be used to offer every new TechStars company an additional $100,000 in funding in the form…

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Kauffman Labs Education Ventures Program Unveils Inaugural Class

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Monika Jansen Jun 11, 2011 2 Comments

This past week, the Kauffman Labs for Enterprise Creation Education Ventures hosted presentations by 23 founders of education companies who just completed a four-month incubation program.  You can learn more about the program in this video interview with Nick Seguin that we took at SXSW. The 16 business concepts that presented at the reception were…

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AlphaLab Launches 5 Pittsburgh Startups

Frank Gruber May 12, 2011 0 Comments

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In Pittsburgh yesterday, AlphaLab, the three year old startup accelerator program which is part of Innovation Works, one of the most active seed-stage investors in the country, hosted their annual demo day launching five new startups. Innovation Works has created such successes as ModCloth which has raised $19.8 million in funding and mSpoke which was acquired by…

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Launchpad Ignition Blasts Off First New Orleans Startup Class

Frank Gruber May 6, 2011 2 Comments

LaunchPad Ignition

Startup accelerator programs have been spreading like wildfire over the last few years. We have been covering them since 2007 as TechStars launched in Boulder, Colorado to emulate Paul Graham and Jessica Livingston’s Y Combinator model. Since then we’ve seen TechStars expand to other cities, become part of Startup America and open source its model…

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Excelerate Labs Announces Ten Startups To It’s 2011 Incubator

Frank Gruber Apr 28, 2011 1 Comment

Excelerate Labs Summer 2011

In it’s second year, the Chicago startup accelerator Excelerate Labs has just announced its new class. The program runs from June to September and offers $15K to $20K in funding and mentorship throughout the summer months. Last year, Excelerate Labs launched ten startups as we previously covered on demo day. In the six months since…

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7 Startups Unveiled at LaunchBox Digital Durham Demo Day

Frank Gruber Jan 11, 2011 0 Comments

Today in Durham, NC, seven new startups presented at the LaunchBox Digital 2010 Demo Day which is the culmination of 12 weeks of mentoring. This is LaunchBox Digital’s third year incubating new businesses and their first year in Durham, North Carolina. LaunchBox Digital was based in Washington, D.C. for the previous two years, where 17 companies were…

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I/O Ventures Incubates Six Silicon Valley Startups

Frank Gruber Oct 18, 2010 1 Comment

This past week, we saw the first round of six startups launch out of the I/O Ventures incubator program in San Francisco. The incubator offers a four month program to help entrepreneurs launch a product and create a business. It invests up to $25,000 in exchange for 8 percent in common stock. I/O Ventures has…

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A Video Recap of Excelerate Labs Demo Day

Frank Gruber Oct 14, 2010 1 Comment

This past summer Chicago-based Excelerate Labs incubated its first class of ten early-stage startups. We were on hand to cover the demo day event in August. This week, Excelerate Labs released a short video recap from demo day created by Tribeca Flashpoint Media Arts Academy. The video highlights the day which was filled with a…

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Five Austin Startups Launch at Capital Factory

Frank Gruber Sep 9, 2010 2 Comments

Today in Austin, Texas five companies launched as part of the Capital Factory startup accelerator program. The program, which was founded in 2009 by Joshua Baer, an email marketing pioneer and founder of OtherInbox, Sam Decker, Chief Marketing Officer at Bazaarvoice, and Bryan Menell, founder of AustinStartup.com, offers up to $20,000 in cash as well…

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10 Startups Launch in Chicago at Excelerate Labs

Jen Consalvo Aug 31, 2010 7 Comments

Excelerate Labs, Chicago’s new tech startup incubator, debuted their first group of graduates today. Modeled after Brad Feld’s and David Cohen’s incubator, TechStars, the Chicago management team spent time with the Colorado group to ensure they had the right approach and then Sam Yagan,  Kapil Chaudhary, Troy Henikoff and Nick Rosa were off and running,…

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DreamIt Ventures Incubates 14 Startups in 2010

Frank Gruber Aug 12, 2010 2 Comments

We are in Philadelphia this week, the land of independence, where the startup incubator DreamIt Ventures is showcasing fourteen new startups this year. In their third year, the DreamIt Ventures demo day was kicked off by program managing partners Kerry Rupp, Steven Welch, Michael Levenson and David Bookspan.

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TechStars Boulder Launches 11 More Startups

Frank Gruber Aug 7, 2010 3 Comments

This past week the TechStars startup incubator based in Boulder, Colorado launched another class of startups. Interestingly, of the twenty-four startups that have been a part of the TechStars program over the years, six have been acquired. We’ve hosted a few TECH cocktail Boulder startup mixers (as explained here and here) in the past which…

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