Copying Y Combinator - Appendix A - List Of Seed Accelerators

APPENDIX A List of a! Seed Accelerator Programmes YC O M B I N AT O R Started summer 2005 http://www.ycombinator.com Paul Graham, Robert Morris, Trevor Blackwell, Jessica Livingston Funding (previously): $5k + $5k*(number of founders) Funding (currently): $11k + $3k*(number of founders) Equity: between 2-10%, average 6-7% Location: Mountain View, CA (2006-present), Boston, MA (2005-2008) Office space: No

TECHSTARS Started summer 2007 http://www.techstars.org David Cohen, Brad Feld, David Brown, Jared Polis Funding: $6k*(number of founders), max $18k Equity: 6% Location: Boulder, CO (2007-present) and Boston, MA (2009-present) Office space: Yes

SEEDCAMP Started fall 2007 http://www.seedcamp.com Saul Klein, Reshma Sohoni Funding: €50,000 Equity: 5-10% Location: London, UK Office space: No

DREAMIT VENTURES Started summer 2008 http://www.dreamitventures.com/ David Bookspan, Michael Levinson, Steven D. Welch, Steve Barsh, Katrina Hayday Wester Funding: $5k-$25k per person, depending on role (Innovator, Strategist, Hacker). Each joins at different time. Equity: 4-8% Location: Philadelphia, PA Office space: Yes

LAUNCHBOX DIGITAL Started summer 2008 http://www.launchboxdigital.com Sean Greene, John McKinley, Mark McDowell, Julius Genachowski (Now FCC Chairman), Matthew Jacobson Funding: Up to $20k, option to invest pre-determined amount at end of program Equity: 6% Location: Washington, DC Office space: No

SEEDROCKET Started summer 2008 http://www.seedrocket.com Vicente Arias, Jesús Monleón Funding: €20k Equity: Unknown Location: Barcelona, Spain Office space: Unknown

ALPHALAB Started summer 2008 http://www.alphalab.org Jim Jen Funding: $25k

Equity: Unknown Location: Pittsburgh, PA Office space: Yes I

VENTURES10

Started summer 2008 http://www.iventures10.com/ Unknown founders Funding: up to $25,000 (compensation limited to $5,000 per team member) Equity: unknown Location: Champaign, IL Office space: Unknown

BOOTUPLABS Started summer 2009 http://bootuplabs.com Danny Robinson, Boris Mann Funding: $50k plus $100k convertable line of credit Equity: 5-10% post-Series A Location: Vancouver, Canada Office space: Yes FB

FUND

Started summer 2009 http://www.)fund.com/ Dave McClure, Andrew Braccia, Enrique Allen, Cat Lee, Julia Lam, Shaykat Chaudhuri Funding: up to $100k Equity: unknown Location: Silicon Valley, CA Office space: Yes

SHOTPUT VENTURES Started summer 2009 http://www.shotputventures.com/

David Cummings, Sanjay Parekh, Allen Graber, Suleman Ali, Wayt King, Dave Wright, Mitch Free, Jeff Hilimire, Dave Williams Funding: $5k + $5k*(number of founders) Equity: 5-10% Location: Atlanta, GA Office space: No

C A P I TA L F A C T O RY Started summer 2009 http://www.capitalfactory.com Joshua Baer, Sam Decker, Bryan Menell Funding: as much as $20k Equity: 5% Location: Austin, TX Office space: Yes

NEXTSTART Started summer 2009 http://www.nextstart.org/ [Unknown] Funding: $5k*(number of founders), maximum $10k Equity: 5-10% Location: Greenville, SC Office space: Yes I

A C C E L E R AT O R

Started summer 2009 http://iaccelerator.org/ Freeman Murray, Kunal Upadhyay, Pranay Gupta, Aditi Gupta Funding: up to 500,000 Rs (~$10,000) Equity: 5-15% Location: Ahmedabad, India Office space: Yes OpenFund

Starting fall/winter 2009 http://theopenfund.com/ Georgios Kasselakis, George Tziralis Funding: €20-30k Equity: 8% Location: Athens, Greece Office space: Yes

SPRINGBOARD Starting fall/winter 2009 http://springboard.red-gate.com/ Neil Davidson, Simon Galbraith, Amir Chaudhry Funding: accomodation and living expenses (no company funding) Equity: None Location: Cambridge, UK Office space: Yes

Defunct YEUROPE (DEFUNCT) Started 2007 http://yeurope.net Paul Böhm, Oliver Olbrich, Michael Rohregger, Stephan Zeinler, Lukas Zeinler Funding: €5k + €5k*(number of founders) Equity: "a little bit", assume 5-10% Location: Vienna, Austria Office space: Unknown