Startup School, Round Two: The 2010 Xconomy Guide to Venture Incubators

BoomStartup
Location: Orem, UT
Founded: 2010

Bootup Labs
Location: Vancouver, BC
Founded: 2008

Capital Factory
Location: Austin, TX
Founded: 2009

CleanLaunch Technology Incubator
Location: Denver, CO
Founded: 2009

CONNECT Springboard
Location: San Diego, CA
Founded: 1993

Dogpatch Labs
Location: Cambridge, MA, New York, NY, San Francisco, CA (Cambridge branch opened in fall 2009, New York in Janaury 2010)
Founded: 2008
Xconomy coverage:
“Dog Patch Lab: An Entrepreneur’s Kennel,” May 26, 2009
“Polaris to Open Dog Patch Labs Incubator in Cambridge,” September 10, 2009
“Notes from Dogpatch Labs’ Housewarming Party—and a List of Initial Inhabitants,” October 20, 2009

DreamIt Ventures
Location: Philadelphia, PA
Founded: 2008
Xconomy coverage:
“Princeton Undergrad Brings Scavenger-Hunt Startup to Boston,” October 1, 2008
“Y Combinator Recombined: Talking with Philadelphia Startup Incubator DreamIt Ventures,” October 6, 2008

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EvoNexus
Location: San Diego, CA
Founded: 2009
Xconomy coverage:
“San Diego’s Wireless Industry Establishes Startup Incubator,” June 17, 2009
“San Diego’s EvoNexus Incubator Selects First Gaggle of Fledgling Startups,” September 10, 2009
“New San Diego Incubator Adds Three More Startups on Opening Day,” November 3, 2009

First Growth Venture Network
Location: New York, NY
Founded: 2009
Xconomy coverage:
“Boston Venture Firms Dominate New Mentoring Program for New York Startups,” June 16, 2009

GoodCompany Ventures
Location: Philadelphia, PA
Founded: 2009

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Author: Erin Kutz

Erin Kutz has a background in covering business, politics and general news. She holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Boston University. Erin previously worked in the Boston bureau of Reuters, where she wrote articles on the investment management and mutual fund industries. While in college, she researched for USA Today reporter Jayne O’Donnell’s book, Gen Buy: How Tweens, Teens and Twenty-Somethings Are Revolutionizing Retail. She also spent a semester in Washington, DC, reporting Capitol Hill stories as a correspondent for two Connecticut newspapers and interning in the Money section of USA Today, where she assisted with coverage on the retail and small business beats. Erin got her first taste of reporting at Boston University’s independent student newspaper, as a city section reporter and fact checker and editor of the paper’s weekly business section.