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500 Mexico City
Mexico
500 Startups is a global venture capital seed fund with a network of startup programs headquartered in Silicon Valley. We believe successful internet startups are born from usable design customer focused metrics and online distribution. At 500 Startups we challenge ourselves to also embody those qualities in how we help startups through both our seed fund and our startup accelerator program.We typically invest between $25K $250K USD in our first check however we also make selective follow on investments at Series A/B of up to $1M USD. We also aim to be innovative in our investment model.
| Type: Accelerator/Incubator | Geography: Mexico | Impact: Access to Financial Services |
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88MPH
Kenya
88mph provides early stage web/mobile companies with up to $100K in funding through there 3 month startup accelerator program. A private seed fund with hundreds of experienced startup mentors from around the world Its vibrant work spaces in Nairobi and Cape Town and a crazy talented community of startup founders they help companies succeed by providing intense mentorship funding and access to networks.
| Type: Accelerator/Incubator | Geography: Kenya | Impact: Access to Financial Services |
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Angel List
United States of America
AngelList a four year old startup based in San Francisco is starting to open things up with a social network for the kind of people who create and invest in social networks. It s a Kickstarter like online forum where startup founders post their ideas and meet investors who fund risky early stage companies.
| Type: Investor Network | Geography: Global | Impact: Capacity Building |
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Anthem Venture Partners
United States of America
Anthem Venture Partners provides the necessary resources to enhance the development of emerging technology companies by providing financial investment operational and management advice and access to their network of professional relationships.
| Type: Investment Fund Manager | Geography: United States of America | Impact: Access to Financial Services |
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Betaspring
United States of America
Betaspring is a mentorship-driven startup accelerator program for technology and design entrepreneurs who are ready to launch a company and change the world. Investment :$0-$20,000. Competitive entrepreneurial teams from around the world come to Providence, RI, for our intensive thirteen-week program during which, we help them transform into functional, fundable companies by providing mentorship, kickoff funding, and immersion in an intense startup community of jet propelled entrepreneurs.
| Type: Accelerator/Incubator | Geography: North America | Impact: Access to Education |
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Better Ventures
United States of America
Better Ventures provides funding and support to companies creating scalable solutions to some of the world s biggest challenges. They believe in the power of technology to address the most important issues of our time from education and work to health and the environment. Given the magnitude of the world s problems and the enormous market opportunities they represent it takes the best and brightest minds armed with the best resources to address them.
| Type: Investment Fund Manager | Geography: United States of America | Impact: Access to Financial Services |
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D3Jubilee
Republic of Korea
With an aim to build a fair and sustainable world for the next generation D3 invests in and supports startups improving lives of a neglected class of people.We discover technology based companies with innovative business ideas to address significant social issues and narrow socio economic gaps. We particularly pay attention to entrepreneurs who create excellent user experiences and build business models of high growth potential in the following impact areas
| Type: Individual Investor | Geography: United States of America | Impact: Access to Financial Services |
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Energy Excelerator
United States of America
Energy Excelerator is a startup program dedicated to helping solve the world's energy challenges starting in Hawaii. Energy Excelerator help innovative companies succeed in Hawaii and the Asia Pacific with funding strategic relationships and a vibrant ecosystem. Energy Excelerator is primarily funded by the U.S. Office of Naval Research who made a $30M commitment to our program in 2013 U.S. Department of Energy and the corporate partners. Energy Excelerator focus on commercializing innovative solutions to the energy water transportation cybersecurity and agriculture challenges.
| Type: Accelerator/Incubator | Geography: United States of America | Impact: Access to Energy |
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EvoNexus
United States of America
EvoNexus strives to be the world’s best technology incubator with locations in San Diego and Irvine. They have big goals and their results speak for themselves. They empower motivated entrepreneurs to turn their transformative ideas into fundable, commercially-viable companies. EvoNexus leverages community resources to provide what entrepreneurs need, without requiring them to surrender equity.
| Type: Accelerator/Incubator | Geography: United States of America | Impact: Capacity Building |
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Healthbox
United States of America
Healthbox stimulates innovation, enabling entrepreneurial success while creating a collaborative, global ecosystem to catalyze advances in healthcare. The Healthbox four-month accelerator program finds great companies and passionate healthcare entrepreneurs, helping them understand the healthcare industry and build a sustainable and profitable business. With operations in Boston, Chicago, Jacksonville, Nashville and London, Healthbox has supported 55 companies across the healthcare industry.
| Type: Accelerator/Incubator | Geography: United States of America | Impact: Health Improvement |
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Heart Capital
South Africa
Heart Capital is a boutique social investment company based in Cape Town South Africa. They work in partnership with heart South Africa s first social enterprise incubator. Their goal is to drive significant social change in a financially sustainable way. They achieve this by combining the humanitarian mindset of philanthropy the value creating capacity of entrepreneurship and the time proven model of venture capital.
| Type: Investment Fund Manager | Geography: South Africa | Impact: Access to Financial Services |
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Hub Station
Mexico
HUB STN is Tijuana's first binational coworking space focused on integrating entrepreneurs from the Calibaja region to share ideas network and collaborate. Built on Tijuana's old turistic terminal and Mexicoach bus station HUB STN is located on the heart of downtown Tijuana and is an active initiative of the Tijuana's downtown district reactivation promoting local talent in cuisine art entertainment and technology. Offering affordable office spaces and coworking memberships they thrive on promoting and integrating the local entrepreneur ecosystem by hosting events workshops and activities where entrepreneurs can share their startups network with the community and collaborate on new projects.
| Type: Corporate | Geography: Mexico | Impact: Capacity Building |
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Idea Lab
United States of America
Bill Gross started Idealab in 1996 to create and operate pioneering technology companies. The structure of Idealab has allowed us to test many ideas at once and turn the best of them into companies, attracting the human and financial capital necessary to bring them to market. Many of these companies were among the first to introduce new business ideas to the market. CitySearch, now a part of IAC, established the category of local online community directories. eToys demonstrated the tremendous potential for online consumer retail and became one of the most recognized brands during the early days of e-commerce. Overture Services, which began life as GoTo.com, was the first company to introduce the concept of paid search — the business model that powers the multi billion-dollar online search market.
| Type: Accelerator/Incubator | Geography: United States of America | Impact: Access to Energy |
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Indian Angel Network
India
Indian Angel Network is a network of Angel investors keen to invest in early stage businesses which have potential to create disproportionate value. The members of the Network are leaders in the Entrepreneurial Eco System as they have had strong operational experience as CEOs or a background of creating new and successful ventures. They share a passion to create scale and value for startup ventures.Started in April 2006 the Indian Angel Network in addition to money provides constant access to high quality mentoring vast networks and inputs on strategy as well as execution. The Network members because of their background are better able to assess the potential and risks at the early stage.
| Type: Investor Network | Geography: India | Impact: Access to Financial Services |
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Lune Rouge
Canada
The guiding principle of Lune Rouge founded by Guy Laliberte in 2015 is to promote innovation creativity and entrepreneurship. The company develops projects and invests in funds with a focus on technology the arts entertainment and real estate as well as on initiatives that generate positive social and environmental impacts.
| Type: Corporate | Geography: Canada | Impact: Income/Productivity Growth |
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MARS Discovery District
Canada
MaRS is where science technology and social entrepreneurs get the help they need. Where all kinds of people meet to spark new ideas. And where a global reputation for innovation is being earned one success story at a time.MaRS is more than a building it s building on MaRS co founder Dr. John Evans vision for the future. Great minds may not think alike but they like each other s company a brilliant idea in isolation is not enough to create a real breakthrough. MaRS is a leader in the trend toward urban innovation districts which allow entrepreneurs access to corporations investors mentors university institutions and labs to test their concepts. We are where inspiration meets realization.
| Type: Accelerator/Incubator | Geography: Canada | Impact: Community Development |
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Navam Capital
India
Navam Capital is a venture capital firm focused on making seed and early stage investments in Energy Technology and Health Care. Navam Capital invest in transformational innovation driven ventures assisting companies in translating technology from concept to product. By partnering with companies early and adding substantial value through the formative stages of a venture Navam supports entrepreneurs in laying the foundations for growth and accelerates market success for break through innovations. Navam Capital is the venture capital arm of GPSK Investment Group.Navam seeks to invest in technology companies pursuing breakthrough innovation in large markets.
| Type: Investment Fund Manager | Geography: India | Impact: Access to Energy |
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Omnivore Partners
India
Omnivore Partners is a venture fund investing in early stage agricultural technology (agtech) companies in India. Omnivore supports agtech businesses that are developing solutions to improve farm productivity support agricultural sustainability and modernize agribusiness supply chains.
| Type: Investment Fund Manager | Geography: India | Impact: Access to Financial Services |
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Primary Venture Partners
United States of America
Primary Venture Partners formerly known as High Peaks Venture Partners is an early stage venture capital fund based in NYC. The firm is run by Brad Svrluga and Ben Sun who have a combined 30 year track record as successful investors and operators. We make seed investments in industry transforming technology companies and reserve capital to follow our initial investments across multiple financings. We focus on NYC and the Northeast leveraging proximity to closely support our founders and connect portfolio companies to each other.
| Type: Investment Fund Manager | Geography: United States of America | Impact: Access to Financial Services |
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RockHealth
United States of America
Rock Health supports innovators working at the intersection of healthcare and technology. Founded in 2010 Rock Health supports health entrepreneurs through a startup accelerator open source research and public events.
| Type: Accelerator/Incubator | Geography: Northern America | Impact: Health Improvement |
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Seven Peaks Ventures
United States of America
Seven Peaks Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Bend Oregon and is focused on helping Oregon based startups build and scale their businesses.
| Type: Investment Fund Manager | Geography: United States of America | Impact: Access to Financial Services |
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Silicon Badia
Jordan
Silicon Badia is a venture capital company which invests in technology startups in Jordan the Middle East and the U.S. and works to connect entrepreneurs companies and investors from these regions. Backed by Accelerator Technology Holdings one of the Middle East's first institutional venture capital investors Silicon Badia was founded in 2011 and is currently deploying two primary funds Badia Impact Fund focused on Jordan and the Middle East and Badia Outreach Fund focused on the U.S.
| Type: Investment Fund Manager | Geography: Western Asia | Impact: Income/Productivity Growth |
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SISFUND
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Irela
SISFund invests in UK based companies in an early or pre revenue stage with a solid team and a product or service ready for the market. They invest from 20 to 80k per startup as part of an 80 to 250k round. SISFund don't consider crazy valuations they don't do follow up investments and they don't waste your time.
| Type: Institutional Investor | Geography: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Irela | Impact: Access to Financial Services |
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StartX
United States of America
StartX is a start-up accelerator designed to accelerate the development of Stanford's top student entrepreneurs through experiential education. They provide: Community, Mentorship, Real-time education, and Resources.
| Type: Accelerator/Incubator | Geography: Global | Impact: Access to Education |
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The Founder Institute
United States of America
The Founder Institute is an early stage startup accelerator and global launch network that helps entrepreneurs create meaningful and enduring technology companies. Through a part time four month program existing and prospective founders can launch their dream company with expert training feedback and support from experienced startup CEOs while not being required to quit their day job.
| Type: Accelerator/Incubator | Geography: United States of America | Impact: Access to Information |
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Unitus Seed Fund
IN
Unitus Seed Fund (USF) makes seed stage venture investments in innovative startups serving low income populations. USF's portfolio companies create opportunities for economic self reliance education and obtaining basic necessities for millions of people living at the base of the economic pyramid (BOP). USF accelerates the growth of these early stage businesses by providing funding support and strategic connections.
| Type: Investment Fund Manager | Geography: Central Asia | Impact: Access to Education |