=List ==As of 05/21/2018 the Google Sheet Workbook has been downloaded to the E drive. The now Excel Workbook is saved at E:\McNair\Projects\Accelerators\Summer 2018\Accelerator Master Variable List.xlsx. This is now the master file.===1. 10Xelerator
Google Master Sheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ikuxYwp9JIRrjz4qQcbdwTpbHOne-q2PterYTjzofjw/edit?ts=5aa2f1f9#gid=0*Cross-reference sheet with data from Peter's old accelerator consolidation file ("accelerator_data_noflag" and "accelerator_data" in "All Relevant Files") and fill in missing data*Variables that are 100% NOT in these 2. 1440files:**Cohort Breakout?**Subtype**Designed for Students?**Campuses**Stage**Software Tech**What stage do they look for?
3TODO: McNair/Projects/Accelerators/Fall 2017/unfound_founders.txtA 0 means we don't have founder data for that accelerator.Specs: A tab delimited text file with the following fields: Accelerator First Name Last Name LinkedInURL(if possible)Getting the LinkedInURL will ensure accuracy, but will work without it. 1776
4. 33entrepreneurs
5. 3DS Princeton University Spring 2014*Shrey: Find "demo day" keywords, so that we can search AcceleratorName Year Keyword and get back potential demo day pages
6. 500 Startups
7. 9Hive==Accelerator Type project==
8File to edit is called "Accelerator type list". Located in the folder E:\McNair\Projects\Accelerators\Spring 2018\Grouping project of ListOfAccs. More systematic information and instructions are in"Instructions for Accelerator type project" in E:\McNair\Projects\Accelerators\Spring 2018\Grouping project of ListOfAccs. 9Mile Labs
9NOTE: until we get through all 270 accelerators, we will just categorize each accelerator into the following three categories as quickly as possible with short notes in teh "other info" column for these; once we have this, we will go back through the ones that aren't categorized and add notes to the "other info" column. AIA Accelerator
10. ARK Challenge
11Type list:*Private*Corporate*Academic Note: if DEAD, noted here. AT&T Aspire Accelerator
12. ATDC Community
13. AZ TechCeleratorOther info:*nonprofit? (y/n)
14. AccelFoods*Subtype abbreviations:**S: for if a social entrepreneurship initiative**I: for if an incubator**A: for an angel group**F: for foreign**C: for in coworking space/hub/etc**V: for if part of venture fund**G: for if government funded/partnered**T: for international
15. Acceleprise
16 Note: subtypes (from individual text files in E:\McNair\Projects\Accelerators\Spring 2017\Code+Final_Data) were only found for 23 of the 270 accelerators. These accelerators were initially intended to be removed from the master list. Remaining subtypes are currently being added. Accelerate Baltimore
17. Accelerate Geniusother info:
18international offices, founders, industries, org type, program duration, or other interesting, easily accessed variables. Additional information is especially important for accelerators that have no other subtype abbreviation listed. Accelerate Tectoria Accelerator
19. Accelerator Centre
20. Advanced Technology Development Center (ATDC)===Steps to research an accelerator===
211. Airbus BizLabCopy/paste URL listed in Accelerator type list file into google. If website is insufficient, try googling: the name of the accelerator the name of the accelerator + "crunchbase" the name of the accelerator + "nonprofit"
22. Alchemist Acceleratorthe above steps sometimes lead to other helpful databases/news articles
232. Note whether: 1) Academic/Corporate/Private 2) For Profit/Nonprofit. Sometimes this isn't directly stated but can be inferred through their description of, say their investment process. If they don't address this at all it's probably For Profit. 3) subtype (S, I, A, F, C, V, G, T). 4) Additional, easily-accessed info. Number 4 is really important if there's no subtype. AlphaLab
24All 270 need to be done by the end of the semester. Amplify.LA
25. Angel Capital
26Type list file saved as "Accelerator type list" in E:\McNair\Projects\Accelerators\Spring 2017\Grouping project of ListOfAccs.The list of ListofAccs, from which we drew Accelerator type list, should have no matches with any of the flagged accelerators in E:\McNair\Projects\Accelerators\Spring 2017\Code+Final_Data. There are 23 matches though. So all subtypes must be searched and entered manually. Whether some were a nonprofit was listed in E:\McNair\Projects\Accelerators\Spring 2017\Grouping project of ListOfAccs, called "whether nonprofit...". Accelerators with no info there on whether nonprofit need to have info entered manually. Angelcube
27. Angelpad=Funded By Accelerators=
28. Annual Business BootCampReference the like-named portion in [[Crunchbase Data#Funded by Accelerators|Crunchbase Data]]
29=End of Semester Report=The end of semester report will focus on ranking accelerators and environments based on the variables we have gathered. Arizona Center Our primary form of categorization will be ranking individual accelerators based on their venture capital raise rate. We can probably generate information over time for Innovationaccelerators and the amount of VC they raised to get a sense of what locations have developed in the past five years from the dates of transactions recorded by SDC. To obtain these rankings, we will identify which cohorts companies were trained in, as well as complete details of the accelerator and the details of cohort companies. We will focus only on accelerators because there are many other entities in each ecosystem. We will also utilize information on IPO or acquisition by companies, obtained through Crunchbase, to gain some sense of how successful startups emerging from a particular accelerator are. To obtain the data over time, we will need to fill out the cohort date information column in our cohort data, which will require the help of either Crunchbase or the Wayback machine for older accelerators. In ranking the accelerators across regions, we can also track industry-specific hotspots for accelerators such as medicine in Memphis or technology in San Francisco.
30. Arizona FurnaceTo complete the report, we need to fill information in:*Industry and focus*Location*Name, description*Matched VC data*Founder information (maybe)
31=Overview=This project is developing broad and near-population data on accelerators and their cohort companies. The objective is to identify which cohorts of which accelerators a cohort company was trained in, obtain details of the accelerators, and obtain details of the cohort companies, including information about any venture capital investment that the cohort company might have received and any IPO or acquisition the company may have experienced. Arrowhead Tech Incubator 2016
32The primary use of this data is for an academic paper detailed on the [[Matching Entrepreneurs to Accelerators and VCs (Academic Paper)]] page. Aspire 3 Accelerator 2017
33However, this project can also provide useful data to other academic papers ([[Urban Start-up Agglomeration]], [[Hubs (Academic Paper)]], and [[Hubs Scorecard (Academic Paper)]]), projects ([[Houston Entrepreneurship]]) and blog posts (under the [[Emerging Ecosystems]] umbrella project). Atlanta Ventures Accelerator
34This project needs the results of the [[Industry Classifier]], [[Whois Parser]], and other tools. AutoXLR8R
35. Awesome Inc.=Current Project Write-Up=
36==Things To Do==*Obtain all URLs for accelerators in order to run through the Wayback Machine to find out when they started. Axel Springer Plug *Match Crunchbase Data with our Accelerator List to see if they have any accelerators that we do not.*Obtain an example of accelerator that started early and Playhas multiple companies but does not separate them into cohorts and figure out a way to determine which companies went through each cohort.
37==What Each File in the "Accelerator" Folder on the RDP Contains==*"Accelerator List Sources" (Folder) - This folder contains most of the sources that we pulled accelerator names from at the very beginning of the project.*"Code+Final_Data" (Folder) - This folder contains Peter's code for pulling the data from the text files in the "Data" folder.*"Crunchbase Snapshot" (Folder) - This folder contains the data we obtained from Crunchbase. There is a massive amount of data which we will need to sort through to find useful information and hopefully match that data with our current cohort data.*"Data" (Folder) - This folder contains all of our data on accelerators including cohort information and the html files of each cohort page. I would estimate that it is about 95% clean currently.*"Data - Copy" (Folder) - This is just a copy of our current "Data" folder.*"Data_Copy" (Folder) - This is a copy of our original "Data" folder before we did any manual cleaning.*"Enclosing_Circle" (Folder) - This folder seems to contain some data on VC but I'm not sure how it pertains to the Accelerator project. B 4 Change Impact *"F6S AcceleratorHTMLs" (Folder) - This folder contains the HTML pages of all the pages on the F6S website. We used it to add more potential accelerators to our list.*"Google_SiteSearch" (Folder) - This folder contains Python code for Google searches.*"Industry_Classifier" (Folder) - This folder seems to contain Python code but I'm not sure what for.*"Matcher" (Folder) - This folder contains the Matcher.*"Python WebCrawler" (Folder) - This folder contains code that is a work in progress for pulling descriptions from accelerator websites. It is Jeemin's project.*"Cleaned Cohort Data Copy" (Excel File) - This file contains a copy of our cleaned cohort data.*"Cleaned Cohort Data" (Excel File) - This file contains the most current, completely cleaned data on cohort company information.*"NormalizeFixedWidth" (PL File) - This is the normalizer.*"PortCoNames" (TXT File) - This file contains all of the names of the cohort companies as well as the accelerator they went through.*"VC Data" (Excel File) - This file contains all of the names of the companies that have ever received VC funding.*"VC_Data" (TXT File) - This file contains that non-normalized data of all of the VC information.*"VC_Data_Names" (TXT File) - This file contains all of the names of companies that have received VC funding.*"VC_Data_Names_Matched_PortCoNames" (Excel File) - This file contains all of the cohort companies that have also received VC funding. Still needs to be sorted through.
38==Process==After accumulating the massive amount of data on accelerators, their cohorts, and their html files, we began cleaning those text files, which are located in the "Data" folder within "Accelerators". After going through the first round of cleaning, we ran a code through the cohort data which put all of that information into an Excel document called "Cleaned Cohort Data". There were still some mistakes in the cohort information unfortunately, which we fixed within the Excel file itself. Therefore, there are some text files within the "Data" folder that do not match with the "Cleaned Cohort Data" file. If we were to run the cohort code through the "Data" folder, we would get something that does not match with the "Cleaned Cohort Data" file, which is problematic. The solution to this (other than manually cleaning the text files again) would be to write a code from the "Cleaned Cohort Data" file which would allow us to clean the data in the "Data" folder through the format of the Excel file. We have also matched all of the cohort companies with our list of all companies that have received VC funding. B2B Acceleration Program
39. B4C Social Venture Accelerator=Current To Do=
40#Work on the [[Crunchbase 2013 Snapshot]]#Match cohort companies to VC-backed portfolio companies#Refine our data to work out which cohort each cohort company was a member of, cohort start dates and locations, etc. BBC Worldwide Labs#Make a list of top accelerator lists (e.g., http://tech.co/top-startup-accelerators-ranked-2012-08) and check that we have those accelerators
41. BMW Startup Garage=End of Semester Notes=
42*We have compiled a very long list of accelerators from many different databases. For the past couple of weeks, everyone in the center has been going through this list, 20 at a time, classifying each one as an accelerator or not an accelerator, and then proceeding to gather data on the accelerator using the process outlined below. This process went very smoothly. We have successfully gone through about 80% of the list. We are still missing information on the last hundred or so names. All of the collected data is located on the RDP, within the "Accelerators" folder under "Data" or on the [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ikuxYwp9JIRrjz4qQcbdwTpbHOne-q2PterYTjzofjw/edit?ts=5aa2f1f9#gid=1132417337 "Accelerator Master Variable List" Google sheet].*We have listed all of the startups from the accelerators that have break out cohorts on their website on the [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ikuxYwp9JIRrjz4qQcbdwTpbHOne-q2PterYTjzofjw/edit?ts=5aa2f1f9#gid=1132417337 "Accelerator Master Variable List" Google sheet]. This contains the following information in the "Cohort List (new)" sheet: accelerator name, year, cohort name, company name, description, founders, category/sector, and location. *Next steps include going through the demo day pages that have been downloaded and writing notes on the different types if possible (see [[Demo Day Page Google Classifier]]). BRANDCELERATE
43. BUNKER Labs New York=Data Collection Notes=
44. Bank of Ireland Accelerator Programme==MATCHING==
45The files we used to match are located in the E drive. Bantunium Labs AcceleratorWe used the matcher to match our portfolio company names from the cohort file located in E:\McNair\Projects\Accelerators. *The files used to matching are located E:\McNair\Projects\Accelerators\Matcher*Portco is the name of the companies pulled from the cohort file*AccCo includes both the cohort company name, along with the name of the accelerator itself*In the matcher, the inputs are the PortCo names, as well as the VC data from our pull in SDC*The outputs include the AccCo_VC data located in E:\McNair\Projects\Accelerators which give a lot of information on the matches, including::*name of the match itself:*number of investments:*dates that the company received its investments
46. Barclays Accelerator==SDC Pull==
47We accessed SDC platinum and pulled information on round-based funding that all registered companies received from between the years 1999 to 2017. Barclays New York Summer 2015
48. Berkley VenturesThe receipt is as follows:
49Session Details---------------Request Hits Request Description 0 - DATABASE: Portfolio Companies (VIPC) 1 96155 Venture Related Deals: Select All Venture Related Deals 2 79572 Round Date: 1/1/1999 to 3/1/2017 (Custom) (Calendar) 3 Custom Report: VC Data (Columnar) - Save As: E:\McNair\Projects\Accelerators\VC Data. Bessemer Business Incubation Systemtxt�Billing Ref # : 2054025Capture File : riceuniv.2054025Session Name :
50. Beta-iThe VC data pull includes the following variables:
51. Beta.MNCompany Name Date Company Date Company Company Company City Company Street Address, Line 1 Company Street Address, Line 2 Total Known Company Industry Sub-Group 3 Company Industry Major Group Round Company Stage Level 3 Round Amt, Round Amt,
52. BetaFactory==3 files==
53For each accelerator in the list, put files in E:\Projects\Accelerators\Data*AcceleratorName. BetaSpringtxt - copy and paste the variables below into a (tab-delimited) txt file and complete*AcceleratorName.cohort - your cohort text file (see below)*AcceleratorName.html (possibly automatically with a folder too) - save a copy of the html of the cohort page
54==. Betabloxtxt Variables==
55. Betaspring RevUp Name Score Flag CohortURL Address Duration Vintage Industry Description Equity NonProfit Notes
56. Bethnal Green Ventures
57Try to get '''Name, Score, Flag, Cohort URL and Address''' for all. ONLY GRAB OTHER VARIABLES IF EASY. Just leave things blank if you can't find them quickly. BioAccel
58'''If the score is 0, or the flag is S, I, A, or F just stop''' - don't bother downloading a cohort list, saving an HTML file, etc. If possible, do stick a very brief description of the problem in the notes field. BioInspire
59Notes:*Score: is 0-1 where 0 is definitely not an accelerator, 1 is definitely an accelerator*Flag: (leave blank if not needed), if multiple then separate by comma**S for social entrep**I for incubator**A for an angel group**F is for foreign**C for in coworking space/hub/etc**V for if part of venture fund**D is for Dead*Put just the root URL in Cohort URL if there isn't a Cohort page*Duration: in wks (months x 4.33 and round)*Vintage is year of first cohort if possible*Industry is industry focus but only if clear focus*Equity is a number (don't put %) or Y/N*Notes is only there if need it. Particularly try to use this field to note discards. Bir 2015
60==. BitAngel Engagement Levelcohort files==
61Your . BitAngels Startup Summer Program of 2013cohort files must:*Be tab delimited txt*Have a header*The first column must be the portfolio company name*Grab as many columns as you can easily (and name them)
62. Bizdom==Standardized format for text files==
63. Black Forest AcceleratorInformation Text file*1 tab only after each category*No spaces after commas for flags or industry*For duration put only a number in weeks but do not write "weeks"*Equity is either only a number (no percent sign) or a Y/N
64. Blue Startups
65Cohort Text file*1 tab between each column*Titles of each column on top*Make a new category for "Cohort Number" and write either "1 2 3 4 etc. Blueprint Health"*Matthew: 1-225 (done) Shrey: 226-550 (done)
66. Bolt Boston==Link to Crunchbase API application==
67https://about. Bonnier Acceleratorcrunchbase.com/forms/research-access-apply/ (Does not work anymore)
68https://data. BoomStartupcrunchbase.com/v3/docs/using-the-api (Has new instructions for application)
69. BoomStartup Winter 2017==Sign-Ups==
70. Boomtown Accelerator Ed - 1-10 (done) Carlin - 11-20 (done) Carlin - 21-40 (done) Christy - 41-60 (done) Avesh - 61-80 (done) Eliza - 81-100 (done) Meghana - 101-120 (done) Peter - 121-140 (done) Ramee - 141-160 (done) Will - 161-180 (done) Matthew - 181-200 (done) Julia - 201-220 (done) Peter - 221-240 (done) Shrey - 241-260 (done) Matthew - 261-280 (done) Eliza - 281-300 (done) Julia - 301-320 (done) Shrey - 321-340 (done) Carlin - 341-361 (done) Julia - 362-380 (done) Dylan - 381-393 (done) Jake - 394-404 (done) Dylan - 405-410 (done) Avesh - 411-415 (done) Dylan - 416-423 (done) Peter - 424-460(done) Carlin - 461-480 (done) Peter - 481-490(done) Julia - 491-510 (done) Peter - 511-515 (done) Julia - 516-529 (done) Ben - 530-540 (done) Shrey - 541-551 (done)
71. Boomtown Health Tech=List of Accelerators=#10Xelerator72. Boost VC#1440#33entrepreneurs73. BootupLabs#500 Startups#9Mile Labs74. Brandery#AIA Accelerator#ARK Challenge75. Brooklyn Beta Summer Camp#AT&T Aspire Accelerator#ATDC Community76. Budweiser Dream Brewery#AZ TechCelerator#AccelFoods77. Buildit#Acceleprise#Accelerate Baltimore78. BuiltinPGH Companies#Accelerate Genius#Accelerate Tectoria Accelerator79. Business Innovation Center#Accelerator Centre 80. Business Opportunity Academy 201781. Business Technology #Advanced Technology Development Center (BizTechATDC)#Airbus BizLab82. CLT Joules Energy #Alchemist Accelerator 2014#AlphaLab83#Amplify. CWI VenturesLA#Angel Capital84. CWI Ventures Application#Angelcube#Angelpad85. CableLabs Technology Tours 2016#Annual Business BootCamp#Arizona Center for Innovation86. Capital Factory#Arizona Furnace#Arrowhead Tech Incubator 201687. Capital Innovators#Aspire 3 Accelerator 2017#Atlanta Ventures Accelerator 88. Capital Investment Network (Startups)#AutoXLR8R 89#Awesome Inc. Caroline Plouff#Axel Springer Plug and Play90. Catalyst Partners#B 4 Change Impact Accelerator#B2B Acceleration Program91. Cause Collective : #B4C Social Innovation LabVenture Accelerator#BBC Worldwide Labs92. Center for Entrepreneurial Innovation#BMW Startup Garage#Brandcelerate93. Chain Reaction Innovations 2017#Bunker Labs#Bank of Ireland Accelerator Programme94. Chemical Angel Network#Bantunium Labs Accelerator#Barclays Accelerator95. Chinaccelerator#Barclays New York Summer 2015#Berkley Ventures96. Cisco Entrepreneurs in Residence#Bessemer Business Incubation System#Beta-i97#Beta. Citi AcceleratorMN#BetaFactory#BetaSpring98. Citrix Startup Accelerator#Betablox#Betaspring RevUp (DUPLICATE)99. Claremont/Upland Makerspace Fablab#Bethnal Green Ventures#BioAccel100. Climate Ventures 2.0 Accelerator#BioInspire#Bir 2015#BitAngel Engagement Level101. Co.Lab accelerator#BitAngels Startup Summer Program of 2013#Bizdom102. Code for America #Black Forest Accelerator#Blue Startups103. Cohab's Traxtion Point#Blueprint Health#Bolt Boston104. Collision Conference Investors#Bonnier Accelerator#BoomStartup105. Common Bond#BoomStartup Winter 2017 (DUPLICATE)#Boomtown Accelerator106. Communitech Hyperdrive#Boomtown Health Tech (DUPLICATE)#Boost VC107. Conquer Accelerator#BootupLabs#Brandery108. Coolhouse Labs#Brooklyn Beta Summer Camp#Budweiser Dream Brewery109. CuriousMinds Incubator / Accelerator#Buildit110. CyberTECH San Diego#BuiltinPGH Companies#Business Innovation Center111. DBS Accelerator#Business Opportunity Academy 2017#Business Technology Development Center (BizTech)112. DPD Last Mile labs#CLT Joules Energy Accelerator 2014#CWI Ventures113. DV X Labs#CWI Ventures Application (DUPLICATE)#CableLabs Technology Tours 2016114. Dat Ventures#Capital Factory#Capital Innovators115. Decatur-Morgan County Entrepreneurial Center#Capital Investment Network (Startups)#Caroline Plouff116. Deep Space Ventures#Catalyst Partners#Cause Collective : Social Innovation Lab117. Demo Accelerator 2016- #Center for Entrepreneurial Innovation#Chain Reaction Innovations 2017#Chemical Angel Network118. DeveloperTown#Chinaccelerator#Cisco Entrepreneurs in Residence119. Difference Engine#Citi Accelerator 120. Digital Malaysia Corporate #Citrix Startup Accelerator Program#Claremont/Upland Makerspace Fablab121#Climate Ventures 2. Digital Media Zone Incubator/0 Accelerator 122#Co. Disney AcceleratorLab accelerator 123. DogFish #Code for America Accelerator#Cohab's Traxtion Point124. Domi Station#Collision Conference Investors#Common Bond125. Dotforge accelerator#Communitech Hyperdrive#Conquer Accelerator126. Dream Funded#Coolhouse Labs#CuriousMinds Incubator / Accelerator127. DreamIT Health#CyberTECH San Diego#DBS Accelerator128. DreamStart - Free Mentoring Program#DPD Last Mile labs#DV X Labs129. Dreamit #Dat Ventures#Decatur-Morgan County Entrepreneurial Center130. Ducky Diggy Lloyd #Deep Space Ventures 131. E#Demo Accelerator 2016-Capital Summit2017#DeveloperTown132. EC Mentor Skills Inventory#Difference Engine#Digital Malaysia Corporate Accelerator Program133. EIGERlab#Digital Media Zone Incubator/Accelerator134. ETRAC#Disney Accelerator#DogFish Accelerator135. EY Startup Challenge#Domi Station#Dotforge accelerator136. Eco Holding#Dream Funded#DreamIT Health137. Eleven Startup Accelerator#DreamStart - Free Mentoring Program#Dreamit Ventures (DUPLICATE)138. Emerge Xcelerate#Ducky Diggy Lloyd #E-Capital Summit#EC Mentor Skills Inventory139. EnterpriseWorks Incubation Program#EIGERlab#ETRAC140. Entrepreneur #EY Startup Challenge#Eco Holding#Eleven Startup Accelerator#Emerge Xcelerate#EnterpriseWorks Incubation Program#Entrepreneur Development Center 141. #Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator 142. #Environmental Business Cluster 143. #Equity Legal 144. #Excelerate Labs 145. #Execution Labs 146. #Exhilarator 147. #Extreme Startups 148. #Extreme University 149. #FOOD-X 150. #Factory45 151. #Fargo Startup House 2014-2015 152. #FastTrack Propero Healthcare 153. #FbFund 154. #Female Propeller for High Flyers 155. #FinTech Innovation Lab 156. #FinTech Studios 2015 157. #Fintech Founders Club #2 158. #First Growth Venture Network 159. #Fishbowl Labs AOL 160. #Flagship Enterprise Center 161. #FlashStarts 162. #Flashpoint 163. #Flat6 Labs 164. #Fledge9 165. #Flextronics Lab IX 166. #Food Future Scale-up Accelerator 2017 167. #Food System 6 (FS6) Accelerator 168. #FoodForwardX 169. #Fortify Ventures 170. #Founder Institute 171. #FounderFuel 172. #FoundersPad 173. #Fownders Accelerator 174. #French Accelerator 2016 175. #Fund the Food 176. #Fuse Corps Host 177. #GAKKEN Accelerator Program 178. #Gainesville Technology Enterprise Center 179. #Game CoLab Incubator Program 2014 180. #GameFounders 181. #GammaRebels 182. #Gazelle Lab 183. #Gener8tor 184. #German Accelerator Life Sciences 185. #German Accelerator Tech 186. #Global Accelerator Network 2015 187. #Good Works Houston Lab 188. #GoodCompany Ventures 189. #Google Launchpad Accelerator 190. #Grants4Apps Accelerator 191. #GreenStart 192. #Greenlite Labs 193. #GrowLab 194. #Growth Hacking Accelerator 2015 195. #Gulf Coast Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship 196. #H-Farm Ventures 197. #HACKT Mission for International Founders 198. #HAXLR8R 199. #HCC Entrepreneurship Launchpad 200. #HIGHLINE Academy 201. #HUB 202. #HUBB Accelerator 203. #HUBB GTLA 2016 204. #HackFWD 205. #Hatch 206. #Health Wildcatters 207. #Health accelerator 208. #Healthbox 209. #Hero City Co-Working Space 210. #High Street Startups Accelerator 211. #Highway1 212. #Honda Xcelerator 213. #Houston Technology Center 214. #Hub Ventures 215. #HugeThing 216. #I/O ventures 217. #ICONYC labs 218. #IDC Elevator 219. #INcubes Funnel and Accelerator 2014/2015 220. #INcubes Online Form 221. #INcubes Startup Visa 222. #Illumina Accelerator 223. #Illuminator, New York Accelerator 2015 224. #Imagine K12 225. #Immokalee Business Development Center 226. #Impact Engine 227. #Impact USA - 2017 228. #Incubate Miami 229. #Infuse Accelerator 230. #Ingenuity Partner Program 231. #InnoSpring 232. #Innov&Connect 233. #Innov8 for Health#Innova Memphis234. Innova Memhis Application235. #InnovateOC 236. #Innovation Depot 237. #Innovation Pavilion 238. #Innovation Showcase Winter 2017 239. #Insight Accelerator Labs 240. #Intel Education Accelerator 241. #Investment Preparedness Lab 242. #Invoke Collective 243. #Iowa Startup Accelerator 244. #JFDI.Asia 245. #JFE Accelerator SF 246. #JLAB 247. #Jaguar Land Rover Tech Incubator 248. #Jolt 249. #JumpSchool 250. #JumpStart Foundry 251. #Jumpstart! Boulder#JusticeXL252. JusticeXL253. #Kairos Boston Spring Program 254. #Kaplan EdTech 255. #Kick 256. #Kick Boise 257. #Kick LA 258. #Kick Victoria 259. #Kicklabs 260. #Kinetiq Labs 261. #L-SPARK Accelerator 262. #LAUNCH incubator 263. #LAUNCHub 264. #LI TechCOMETS 265. #LabFunding Project Accelerator 2014 266. #Labs Venture Accelerator 267. #Launch Chapel Hill 268. #Launch Memphis 269. #LaunchBox Digital#LaunchHouse270. LaunchHouse271. #LaunchPad PEI 272. #LaunchSpot 273. #Launch_Academy 274. #Launchpad Digital Health, LLC 275. #Launchpad LA 276. #Launchpad Long Island 277. #Le Camping 278. #Leading Entrepreneurial Accelerator Program 279. #Lean Launch Ventures 280. #LearnLaunchX 281. #Lemnos Labs 282. #Life Changing Labs 283. #LiftOff Health Incubator 284. #Lightbank Start 285. #LightningLab 286. #Lowe's Accelerator#MACH37287. #MACH37Spring 288. MACH37 Spring289. #MIT SA+P venture accelerator 290. #MITA Institute Accelerator 291. #MTGx MediaFactory 292. #Mac6 293. #Madworks Governance Accelerator#Maine Center for Entrepreneurial Development - Top Gun Program#Matter#Maven Ventures Fund & Incubator#Media Camp#Melbourne Accelerator Program#Memphis BioWorks#Merck Accelerator#MergeLane 2017 Accelerator#Mergelane#Metavallon#Microsoft Accelerator#MindTheBridge#Momentum#MuckerLab#Muru-D#My5ive Accelerator 2016#N-Motion (DUPLICATE)#NDRC (LaunchPad / VentureLab)#NEXT Dashboard#NMotion#NY Digital Health Accelerator#NY Fashion Tech Lab 2017#NYC ACRE#NYC SeedStart#Nashville Entrepreneur Center#Nebula Shift#Nephoscale IaaS#Nest New York #New Ventures Group#New York Digital Health Accelerator (DUPLICATE)#NewME Accelerator PopUps #NewMe#Next media accelerator#NextHIT#NextStart#Nike+ Accelerator#Northern Arizona Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology (NACET)#Northern England#Nxtp.labs#OCTANe#Oasis 500#OpenFund#Orange Fab#Orange Works#Orion Startups#Oxygen Accelerator#PIE#Patriot Boot Camp#Pearson Catalyst for Education#Pipeline H2O#Pitney Bowes Inc#Plarium Labs#Plug In South LA #Plug and Play#Plum Alley Investments 2016#Points of Light Accelerator#PowerHaus#Preccelerator® Program 2016#ProSiebenSat.1 Accelerator#Project Entrepreneur 2016/17#Project Healtchare#Project Lift#Project Music#Project Skyway#Propeller Venture Accelerator#Prosper Capital Accelerator#Proton Enterprises#Pushstart Accelerator#Qualcomm Robotics Accelerator#Queen Creek Business Incubator#R/GA Accelerator#RAIN Incubator/Accelerator#RJI Investment Group#Reach#RetailXelerator#Rock Health#Rocket Fuel Labs#Rockstart Accelerator#RunUp Labs#Runway IoT Accelerator 2015#SAP Startup Focus Program#SKTA Innopartners Innovation Accelerator#SPACELAB Tech Accelerator#SPARK#SPH Plug and Play#SURF Incubator#SaltMines Group Start-Up Studio#ScaleTown#Seamless IoT 2016#Searchcamp#Seed Hatchery#SeedSpot#SeedStartup#SeedSumo#Seedcamp#Seedrocket#Seeqnce#Sequoia Apps#Serval 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Summer Camp#TopSeedsLab#Travel Startups Incubator#Travelport Labs Accelerator#Travelport Labs Incubator#Triangle Startup Factory#Tumml#Tune Labs#Twin Cities Accelerator 2016#UW-Whitewater Launch Pad Accelerator#Unbank.ventures FinTech Incubator#University Technology Park#Unreasonable Institute#UpTech#Upstart Accelerator#Upstart Labs#Upstart Memphis#Uptima Business Bootcamp#Upwest Labs#VANTEC#VC FinTech Accelerator#Velocity Indiana Accelerator#Venture Catalyst Partners#Venture Hive#Venture I#VentureOut's Enterprise Tech Expedition#Venturegeeks#Vet-Tech Accelerator#VictorySpark#Village88 Techlab#Volkswagen ERL Technology Accelerator#WHLabs#Wasabi Ventures Academy#Wayra#Wellness Accelerator#Wells Fargo Startup Accelerator#Wireless IoT#Women Innovate Mobile#XLerateHealth#XTRATOS#Xlerate Health#Y Combinator#Y&R SparkPlug 2017#YEurope#YLE Media Startup Accelerator Program#Yahoo Ad Tech Program#Yangler (online accelerator)#Year of the Startup#Yetizen Accelerator#You Is Now#Z80 Labs#ZIP 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294. Maine Center for Entrepreneurial Development - Top Gun Program295. Matter296. Maven Ventures Fund & Incubator297. Media Camp298. Melbourne Accelerator Program299. Memphis BioWorks300. Merck Accelerator301. MergeLane 2017 Accelerator302. Mergelane303. Metavallon304. Microsoft Accelerator305. MindTheBridge306. Momentum307. MuckerLab308. Muru-D309. My5ive Accelerator 2016310. N-Motion311. NDRC (LaunchPad / VentureLab)312. NEXT Dashboard313. NMotion314. NY Digital Health Accelerator315. NY Fashion Tech Lab 2017316. NYC ACRE317. NYC SeedStart318. Nalukai319. Nashville Entrepreneur Center320. Nebula Shift321. Nephoscale IaaS322. Nest New York 323. New Ventures Group324. New York Digital Health Accelerator325. NewME Accelerator PopUps 326. NewMe327. Next media accelerator328. NextHIT329. NextStart330. Nike+ Accelerator331. Northern Arizona Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology (NACET)332. Northern England333. Nxtp.labs334. OCTANe Launch Pad335. OMNIVERSIS, LLC336. Oasis 500337. Open Education Challenge338. OpenFund339. Orange Fab340. Orange Works341. Orion Startups342. Oxygen Accelerator343. PIE344. Patriot Boot Camp345. Pearson Catalyst for Education346. Pipeline H2O347. Pitney Bowes Inc348. Plarium Labs349. Plug In South LA 350. Plug and Play351. Plum Alley Investments 2016352. Points of Light353. Portland Incubator Experiment (PIE)354. Portland Seed Fund355. PowerHaus356. Preccelerator® Program 2016357. ProSiebenSat.1 Accelerator358. Project Entrepreneur 2016/17359. Project Healtchare360. Project Lift361. Project Music362. Project Skyway363. Propeller Venture Accelerator364. Prosper Capital Accelerator365. Proton Enterprises366. Pushstart Accelerator367. Qualcomm Robotics Accelerator368. Queen Creek Business Incubator369. R/GA Accelerator370. R/GA Marketing Tech Venture Studio371. RAIN Incubator/Accelerator372. RJI Investment Group373. Rackspace Startup $24k Program374. Reach375. RetailXelerator376. Rock Health377. Rocket Fuel Labs Application378. Rockstart Accelerator379. RunUp Labs380. Runway381. Runway IoT Accelerator 2015382. SAP Startup Focus Program383. SKTA Innopartners Innovation Accelerator384. SPACELAB Tech Accelerator385. SPARK386. SPARK Holyoke387. SPH Plug and Play388. SURF Incubator389. SaltMines Group Start-Up Studio390. ScaleTown391. Seamless IoT 2016392. Searchcamp393. Seed Hatchery394. SeedSpot395. SeedStartup396. SeedSumo397. Seedcamp398. Seedrocket399. Seeqnce400. Sequoia Apps401. Serval Ventures402. Shenzhen Valley Ventures Incubator403. Shoals Entrepreneurial Center404. Shopper Futures Accelerator405. Shotput Ventures406. Sid Martin Biotechnology Incubator407. SigmaLabs Accelerator408. Silicon Valley Incubator & Accelerator409. SixThirty410. SixThirty CYBER Spring 2017411. SixThirty Spring 2017412. Sixers Innovation Lab413. Skywalker Accelerator414. SmartHealth Activator415. Smashd Labs416. SoCo Nexus Accelerator Spring 2017417. Social Enterprise Challenge418. Socratic Labs419. SparkLabs420. Sparkgap421. Sports Tank422. Springboard423. Sprint Accelerator424. Sprint Accelerator 2017425. Sprint Mobile Health Accelerator426. SproutBox427. SproutCamp428. Starburst Aerospace Accelerator429. Start Path Europe430. Start'inPost431. StartEngine432. StartFast Venture Accelerator433. Starta Accelerator Winter 2017434. Startl435. Startmate436. Startup Accelerator437. Startup Front438. Startup Next & GAN439. Startup Orange County Accelerator440. Startup Quest: Virtual Startup Incubator441. Startup Runway Atlanta Spring 2017442. Startup Wise Guys443. Startup Zone PEI444. Startup52X Accelerator445. StartupCity446. StartupHighway447. StartupHouse Foundry program448. StartupMinds Accelerator 449. StartupMonthly450. StartupNLA Catalyst Startup451. StartupReykjavik452. StartupYard453. Startupbootcamp454. Straight Shot455. Summer@Highland456. Surge457. SynBio axlr8r458. TEB Incubation & Acceleration Center459. THRIVE Accelerator III460. THRIVE Open Innovation461. TIM#WCAP Accelerator462. TLabs463. TMCx Accelerator Digital Health 2017464. Tallwave465. Tampa Bay Innovation Center466. Tampa Bay Wave467. Tandem468. Tandem Mobile Accelerator469. Target India Accelerator470. Tech Nexus471. Tech Wildcatters472. Tech Wildcatters Gauntlet 473. Tech2020474. TechLaunch475. TechRanch476. TechSquareLabs477. Techstars478. Techstars Music479. Techstars Music Accelerator 17480. Telenet Idealabs481. Telluride Venture Accelerator482. Telluride Venture Accelerator 2017483. TenX484. The ARK Challenge485. The Alchemist Accelerator486. The Ark487. The Bakery488. The Batchery489. The Brandery490. The Bridge491. The Center For Technology Enterprise & Development492. The Chaser493. The Company Lab (CO.LAB)494. The Draper FinTech Connection495. The Factory496. The Greatest Pitch497. The Harbor Accelerator498. The Incubator499. The Iron Yard500. The Mediapreneur Incubator501. The Morpheus502. The New York Venture Summit503. The Next Step: from idea to startup504. The Pool Co Working Space505. The Refiners Application506. The Refinery507. The Unilever Foundry, Pilot508. The Venture Center's Pre-Accelerator I509. The Vine OC510. The Vogt Awards511. The Yield Lab512. The eFactory Accelerator513. The eFactory Accelerator Spring 2017514. Think Big Partners 2013 Application 515. Think Big Partners Accelerator516. TiE Angels517. Tigerlabs Digital Health Accelerator518. Tigerlabs Health519. Tolstoy Summer Camp520. TopSeedsLab521. Travel Startups Incubator522. Travelport Labs Accelerator523. Travelport Labs Incubator524. Triangle Startup Factory525. Tumml526. Tune Labs527. Twin Cities Accelerator 2016528. UCIS B2B Matchmaking529. US Startups 2017530. UW-Whitewater Launch Pad Accelerator531. Umbono532. Unbank.ventures FinTech Incubator533. University Technology Park534. Unreasonable Institute535. UpTech536. Upstart Accelerator537. Upstart Accelerator 2017538. Upstart Labs539. Upstart Memphis540. Uptima Business Bootcamp541. Upwest Labs542. VANTEC543. VC FinTech Accelerator544. VSL FinTech Rolling Admission545. Velocity Indiana Accelerator546. Velocity Venture Catalyst547. Venture Hive548. Venture I549. VentureOut's Enterprise Tech Expedition550. VentureTech.net551. Venturegeeks552. Vet-Tech Accelerator553. VetTechTrek554. VictorySpark555. Village Capital556. Village Cultivators557. Village Member Discounts558. Village Verified559. Village88 Techlab560. Virtual Incubator & Crowdfunding Network561. Volkswagen ERL Technology Accelerator562. WHLabs563. Wasabi Ventures Academy564. Wayra565. Wellness Accelerator566. Wells Fargo Startup Accelerator567. Wireless IoT568. Women Innovate Mobile569. XLR8HI570. XLerateHealth571. XTRATOS572. Xcelerate573. Xlerate Health574. Y Combinator575. Y&R SparkPlug 2017576. YEurope577. YLE Media Startup Accelerator Program578. Yahoo Ad Tech Program579. Yangler (online accelerator)580. Year of the Startup581. Yetizen Accelerator582. You Is Now583. Z80 Labs584. ZIP Launchpad Admission585. ZeroTo510586. Zone Startups Calgary587. designX 2017588. eMerging Ventures589. ezone590. gener8tor591. i360accelerator592. iAccelerator593. iStart Jax594. iStart Valley595. iVentures10596. ignite100597. innovyz start598. tekMountain Accelerator ==Project Summary==
This project will be used to determine which accelerators are the most effective at churning out successful startups, as well as what characteristics are exhibited by these accelerators. First, we need to gather as much data as we can about as many accelerators as we can in order to look at factors that differentiate successful vs. unsuccessful ventures. Next, we need to create a web crawling program which will gather information about accelerators across the world by accessing their websites and extracting information. I believe that our overall goal with this research project is to gain insight into the methods of successful accelerators, as well as to find out what exactly differentiates very successful accelerators from dead accelerators.
=Sources=
Summary: These are sources obtained from [[List of Accelerators]] , Crunchbase, and other Google searches. We will evaluate these sources by looking at the number of accelerators they supply (as most of them are lists) and then also taking a look at the type of information they provide about each accelerator. Key data points are cohort-related data, startup-related data, and logistics of the accelerator. Better sources supply more information that the URL alone.
(Obtained from [[List of Accelerators]] and various Google searches)
*https://angel.co/accelerator-4(Does not work - seems to be replaced by https://angel.co/companies?company_types[]=Incubator )
(Obtained from Google search: "Accelerator Database")
*Type in a specific state + "accelerator" + "list" (e.g. Texas accelerator list) to search for more relevant lists
:*Once again, looked at roughly the first 20 results
*Crunchbase has its own webpage with instructions for how we retrieve the data
=Source Evaluations=
Summary: These evaluations couple with each of the sources above. The evaluations provide instructions for obtaining the information listed, as well as a general review of how useful the data seems. The review serves to determine whether a crawler would be suitable for obtaining information from the source autonomously.
==SOURCE: Crunchbase==
*All of the information for the Crunchbase documentation is located in the page [[Crunchbase 2013 Snapshot]] webpage, along with the documentation for how we determined the accelerator information.
#Copied "Seed Accelerators" table to TextPad, data sorted itself into lines. Returned 235 results.
#Clicking on the accelerator name itself links to a page with all of its associated startups, up until 6/2016 cohort
*Overall very extensive data for accelerators that are included on the list, but after cross-referencing from other sources shows that seed-db is lacking many newer accelerators; list is not all-inclusive.
*Includes regional distributions for accelerator groups as well. For example, rather than just "Techstars", the group is broken into Austin, Berlin, Boston, Boulder, etc.
*Many results returned nationally ranked lists of accelerators, such as the Forbes list of "Top Accelerators" or something along the lines of "Best Accelerators in the US". The connection is that perhaps one accelerator mentioned on the list may be located within the searched state.
*There are also a few results for actual particle accelerators that must be sorted out (i.e. superconducting super collider)
==Found through google searching accelerators found previously==
'''Found from googling YLE Media Startup Accelerator'''
*https://www.corporate-accelerators.net/database/index.html (DB of Corporate Accelerators 71-79 entries)
*http://startupaccelerator.vc/accelerator-corporate-innovation-sig/ (Database of Accelerators and Corporate Innovation 92 entries)
neither of these have had their entries added to list of accelerators
=Individual Accelerator Evaluations=
F6S has an API, but we have had no success getting a key to the API. The link to get a key to the API is on [https://www.f6s.com/developers/apis/deal-feed this page].
I (Peter) have emailed F6S to ask for a key directly at support@f6s.com. As of the end of the Fall 2016 Semester, they have not responded.
FUN FACT (MASS-RENAME FILES USING WINDOWS POWER SHELL):
The Parser for parsing the text files of accelerator data is located in:
E:\McNair\Projects\Accelerators\Code+Final_Data
The Parser for parsing the cohort files of accelerator data is also located in:
E:\McNair\Projects\Accelerators\Code+Final_Data
This folder contains the Python parsers. The Final_data folder contains the tab-delimited text files of parsed data. final_accelerator_data.txt contains the generalized data saved in .txt files and final_cohort_data.txt contains the cohort data saved in .cohort.txt files.
All the files entitled accelerator_data are subsets of the final_accelerator_data.txt file, but each file contains only the accelerators that matched to the flag specified in the file title.
find_headers .py finds a set of the headers for all the cohort files from the seed list project.
==Google SiteSearch==
E:\McNair\Projects\Accelerators\Google_SiteSearch
This folder contains code for a google search parser. The script sitesearch.py will search for a queried company and return a likely web address for that company.
This script takes a physical address and converts it into latitude and longitude coordinates. Should be used in conjunction with the Enclosing Circle program to find the concentration of accelerators.
E:\McNair\Software\CodeBase\EnclosingCircle.py
=Kauffman Foundation Incubator Proposal Information=
==Institutions==
Summary: F6S, Crunchbase, seed-db
Tools: Matcher - used to match lists of potential accelerators with our current list to identify duplicates/new matches (E:\McNair\Projects\Accelerators)
===F6S===
F6S WebCrawler and F6S Parser - E:\McNair\Projects\Accelerators\F6S Accelerator HTMLs
We have the Crunchbase 2013 Snapshot which provided lots of new data on accelerators and incubators but we would love to use the Crunchbase API to get a current database snapshot that we could use to cross reference companies and add newly formed accelerator and incubator companies.
===AngelList===
===seed-db===
Obtained through www.seed.db/accelerators
===Global Accelerator Network (GAN)===
GAN Parser- E:\McNair\Projects\Accelerators\Web Scraping for Accelerators\scrapeaccel.py
GAN Data- E:\McNair\Projects\Accelerators\Web Scraping for Accelerators\GAN Accelerator Data
*Contains: Company Name, # of Companies Range, % of Companies Funded, Funding Raised by Companies, Employee Range, Exit Funding, Exit Date, Total Company Funding Raised, # of Mentors Range, % Equity, Location, Minimum Seed Capital Investment
==Cohorts==
*Cohorts obtained manually
*All Cohort txt files are saved under "E:\McNair\Projects\Accelerators\Data
Summary: Whois Parser, Geocode, Tools to determine industry, etc
===Whois Parser===
*Retrieves and parses Whois information. Specifically, takes a file with a column of domain names and populates the corresponding columns with information from the WhoIs API.
*Often used to obtain locations.
===Geocode===
Input: Company Address
Output: Directional Coordinates
*Used to obtain the locations of different Accelerators and Cohort companies.
===SDC Platinum Pull===
Used to obtain funding information and match companies that have gotten funding with companies that are Accelerator cohorts.
===Desired Information/Variables===
*Key People (founders, lead entrepreneurs, strategists, etc.)
*Total number of launched companies
*A FAQ for application details, accelerator vision, and
*Funds raised per company (average)
*Features offered by accelerator (perks, space, tools, etc)
==Desired Tools/Information==
===Automating the Process of Obtaining Cohorts===
*Automating this process would save a lot of time and really progress the project.
===Obtaining More Details on Accelerators===
*Having the kind of thorough information on industry, companies, funding, location, exits, mentors, leadership, that we got for the GAN companies would be fantastic.