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

Springboard Enterprises
Location: Washington, DC
Founded: 2000

Start@Spark
Location: Boston, MA, and New York, NY
Founded: 2009
“Spark Capital Launches Startup Seed Fund,” March 25, 2009

Summer@Highland
[Note: Program is on hiatus for 2010, but may be reinstated in 2011.]
Location: Menlo Park, CA, and Lexington, MA
Founded: 2007
Xconomy coverage:
“Highland Capital Puts Out the Call for Student Entrepreneurs and Interns,” April 3, 2008
“Highland Program Offers No-Strings Stipends to Student Entrepreneurs,” March 3, 2009
“Paragon Lake Out to Dazzle Jewelry Buyers with Virtual Customization,” May 19, 2009

TechStars
Location: Boston, MA, Boulder, CO (original location); and Seattle, WA (Boston opened in summer of 2009, Seattle in late summer 2010)
Founded: 2006
Xconomy coverage:
“TechStars ‘Entrepreneurship Boot Camp’ Comes to Boston: An Interview with Co-founder David Cohen,” February 17, 2009
“Oneforty Gets Funded,” June 29, 2009
“TechStars in Seattle Will Be ‘Centralizing Force’ for Entrepreneurs and Startups, Investors Say,” December 18, 2009

TechTown SmartStart
Location: Detroit, MI
Founded: 2009

Tech Wildcatters
Location: Dallas, TX
Founded: 2010

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TheFunded Founder Institute
Location: Boston, MA; Denver, CO; Los Angeles, CA; New York, NY; Paris, France; Singapore; San Diego, CA; Silicon Valley, CA (original location); Seattle, WA, and Washington, DC
Founded: 2009
“TheFunded to Bring Startup ‘Training Camp’ to San Diego—Eyeing Other Cities From Seattle to Boston to Paris,” August 28, 2009

Y Combinator
Location: Mountain View, CA
Founded: 2005
Xconomy coverage:
“Y Combinator Gears Up for Startup Summer,” March 10, 2008
“As Y Combinator Prepares to Open Summer Camp, Paul Graham Speaks,” May 3, 2008
“Paul Graham and Y Combinator to Leave Cambridge, Stay in Silicon Valley Year Round,” January 22, 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.