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Accelerating Appalachia

Accelerating Appalachia is the first of its kind nature based business accelerator connecting innovative businesses investors and mentors aligned with people place and prosperity. They attract and scale high impact seed stage businesses in the following sectors Farming Food Clean Energy Forest products (natural building) and non timber forest products (ginseng mushrooms fruit & nut trees) Fiber/ Textiles Craft Brewing/ Distilling Botanicals/Wellness Outdoor Industry and other innovative triple bottom line businesses with special consideration for innovators and entrepreneurs from marginalized populations.

Type: Accelerator/Incubator

Geography: Global

Impact: Access to Financial Services

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City Startup Labs

United States of America

City Startup Labs (CSL) is a Charlotte-based, business accelerator delivering training and coaching to black male milliennials (18-34 yrs.), while guiding them to plan and launch successful ventures, and be catalysts for change in their communities. It seeks to create is a new class of entrepreneurs – from the most determined, driven, best and brightest young men, that inner-city America has to offer.

Type: Accelerator/Incubator

Geography: United States of America

Impact: Capacity Building

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Clean Tech Open

United States of America

The Cleantech Open is a not for profit organization that runs the world s largest accelerator for cleantech startups. Our mission is to find fund and foster entrepreneurs with big ideas that address today s most urgent energy environmental and economic challenges.There mission is to find fund and foster entrepreneurs with big ideas that address today's most urgent energy environmental and economic challenges. We provide the infrastructure expertise and strategic relationships that turn clever ideas into successful global cleantech companies. Fueled by a global network of more than 2000 volunteers and sponsors the Cleantech Open unites the public and private sectors in a shared vision for making the cleantech sectors a thriving economic engine around the world.

Type: Accelerator/Incubator

Geography: United States of America

Impact: Access to Financial Services

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Conscious Venture Lab

United States of America

What would happen if businesses around the world started caring as much about people as they do about profit?This question is at the center of our task. Conscious Venture Lab is an early stage business accelerator with the goal of developing companies and leaders who embrace capitalism as a powerful catalyst for good in society.We believe there is a way to practice capitalism that allows it to be the greatest power for human improvement and also eliminates the rough edges and massive inequalities that are now being laid upon society.We work to help extraordinary entrepreneurs in their quest to build companies with societal purpose at their core to give them all the tools and support they need to create engaged happy employees loyal and joyful customers deeply authentic partnerships caring and safe communities and financial wealth for all their stakeholders.Our program is a 6 month immersion program aimed at accelerating conscious entrepreneurs to traction and revenu

Type: Accelerator/Incubator

Geography: United States of America

Impact: Access to Information

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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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Lool Ventures

Lool Ventures is an early stage, value-add venture capital firm based in Israel. They invest in (or even start) young companies that create powerful consumer experiences, unique technologies or effective business models ,to create high growth business opportunities in web applications and services.

Type: Investment Fund Manager

Geography: United States of America

Impact: Access to Financial Services

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Mentor Capital Network

United States of America

Mentor Capital Network (formerly the William James Foundation) strengthens the social enterprise community champions triple bottom line values and leverages the success of mentors to forge new successes.MCN manages socially responsible business plan competitions which Provide sustainable entrepreneurs with detailed and constructive feedback and a chance at more than $100000 worth of in kind prizes and cash. Offer our mentors an opportunity to use their lifetime of experience to supports projects they find personally meaningful in a way that taps their interest and respects their schedule. Allow our sponsors to become part of a conversation with the next generation of sustainable entrepreneurs and leading figures in the areas of socially responsible finance academia management and entrepreneurship.

Type: Accelerator/Incubator

Geography: Global

Impact: Access to Education

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Open Accelerator

Bangladesh

OPEN is a light touch low cost business accelerator for Small and Growing Businesses (SGBs) in Bangladesh. It is designed to find support and grow the best ethical rural entrepreneurs in Bangladesh. Participants are given a range of support including training business mentoring networking media exposure and introductions to investors.

Type: Accelerator/Incubator

Geography: Bangladesh

Impact: Access to Financial Services

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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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Tie Network

United States of America

The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE) was founded in 1992 in Silicon Valley by a group of successful entrepreneurs corporate executives and senior professionals with roots in the Indus region. There are currently 13000 members including over 2500 charter members in 56 chapters across 13 countries.

Type: Accelerator/Incubator

Geography: United States of America

Impact: Community Development