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8 Ways An Incubator Can Accelerate Your New Venture

Startup Professionals Musings

More and more entrepreneurs are hearing about the successful graduates and investors queued behind a few well-known startup incubators, including Y Combinator, TechStars, and the Founder Institute. According to the National Business Incubator Association (NBIA) , there are currently over 1,200 members in 30 nations. Initial funding.

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EvoNexus Opens Up New Applications For Incubator

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EvoNexus , the San Diego-based startup incubator, has opened up application for its next program, with a deadline of January 23rd. CommNexus, which is led by Rory Moore, said that it has admitted 39 companies since 2009 to the incubator, with five new companies admitted to the last cycle of the program.

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A Different Kind of Incubator - The Hive

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skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Saturday, February 17, 2007 A Different Kind of Incubator - The Hive I recently met with The Hive a new incubator in Orange County. What I really liked in my conversations with The Hive is that they are willing to work with and fund ventures that would never get VC dollars.

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What Future for Accelerators?

Both Sides of the Table

I had witnessed a number of early-stage tech startups in LA raise seed capital from the Bay Area and relocate. It was 2009 and it was terribly difficult to get any financing (if you can remember a time like that!) Throughout all of these years I was a full-time VC so Launchpad really came out of evenings and weekends for me.

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Clearstone Portfolio Firm Cetas Acquired By VMware

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Cetas was incubated in Clearstone's Palo Alto offices by Sudhakar Muddu, a Ph.D. The acquisition is the third acquisition involving either EMC or VMware from Clearstone's portfolio, including Muddu's last company, Kazeon (acquired by EMC in 2009), and IT management software provider Integrien (acquired by VMware in 2010).

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SoftBank-led $114M Round Puts Qualcomm’s Brain Corp. on New Path

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founded in 2009 as a Qualcomm-incubated startup to develop software and computer systems that emulate the human brain, seems to have found a new path forward. Qualcomm Ventures, which previously invested about $11 million in Brain Corp., San Diego’s Brain Corp., was the only other investor in the Series C funding round.

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Here’s Why a Booming Tech Market May Fool You into Thinking You’re Successful

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Since 2009 we’ve been in an unequivocal bull market. Venture capitalists have raised increasing amounts of money from their investors (LPs) every year. An impressive number of new VCs have been created – most of them with new seed funds. And importantly we’ve had revenue. It has been a good run.

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