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Accelerator Hunt — The biggest startup accelerator database on the web
Accelerator Hunt is a website where you can search through 2000+ accelerators and incubators to find the right program for your startup. We've categorized them by program types, locations, industries and investment stages.
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Figuring out which startup accelerators and incubators would help advance your business and how to apply to them to get accepted is a nightmare. All the data are spread out, and searching for them manually on Crunchbase, PitchBook, VC websites and other resources can take forever.
Being part of the accelerator program ourselves previously, we know how important it could be in growing your business, accelerating your knowledge and getting access to the right network and resources.
Having some experience in building different database projects, we thought it would be great to create a useful resource for founders where they can quickly and easily find the right accelerator programs for their startups.
We've aggregated all this data from different resources and brought them into one place. Accelerator Hunt is a categorized database of 2000+ startup accelerators and incubators. Programs are filtered by locations, program types, industries and investment stages. Most of them have links to their websites or to the 'apply' pages, also we provide emails and social media tags such as Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook.
This database is absolutely free, and we hope you enjoy it 🙂
We'd love your feedback, thanks for your time 🙏
Rashid, Marat, and Bakai
Thank you, Kate. Let us know if you have any suggestions or feedback on it!
How often you update the data?
P.S The is must for every founder out there. I see your efforts there and it's great & I love this. Good luck bro
@varunrazora Thank you Varun for your kind words, most of these data don't really get old fast. So for the start, we might be doing some major updates every 2-3 months, and then we'll see from there.
Excellent idea. It should give startup founders access to more opportunities and connections. Also, filtering makes finding your way around a lot easier.
Congrats on this product launch and I really love that you have gathered all of this accelerator info into one place. And I like how the product fits into Angel Match 2.0 (better called VCMatch).
Your platform gives me a lot of ideas for a coin-powered community (CPC) that you could build on top of your database that would reward founders for contributing to the AM community-- I'll mention a few at the end. But first, I wanted to share my experience with accelerators and why I think this tool is so great.
Accelerators are an incredibly valuable resource for startup founders and those lucky enough to earn a place in the most prestigious ones have a much easier time accessing capital, finding PMF, and growing their networks. I've co-founded three startups that have applied to accelerators--Y Combinator Podcast and Pioneer -- and I thought I'd share my experience.
TL;DR-- if you can get into YC, do it, but don't worry if you don't get accepted; and there are other accelerators that can also be really helpful, in particular Pioneer 2.0
So first YC:
I have such a big man crush on Paul Graham (YC founder) mostly inspired by his essays.
For me, YC is the embodiment of the sort of tech startup motivation and ethos that I love-- passionate founders + big problems + structure/support from people who have done it all before. My first fintech startup (Bitreserve, rebranded as Uphold) was started at the same time as Coinbase Wallet and did basically the same thing (BTC in/out) but Armstrong and Ehrsam got into YC with the help of YC alum and now seed investor @garrytan (who has an awesome Youtube channel). That made all the difference-- with that validation and launch pad and rocket fuel from YC, CB went on to become a public company while Uphold ended up on the wrong side of the Pareto distribution of outcomes. (We also shot ourselves in both feet a couple of times, which didn't help).
Lesson: Get into YC if you can.
One thing CB and UH had in common in the early days was an open API that made it easy for startups to leverage the crypto and bank connections, compliance, and wallet network of the platforms to build for use-cases that were way too niche for the platforms to care about or address. Both CB and UH mostly have shut down their API strategy (I've been vocal as a shareholder of UH about trying to get UH to fire it back up), but while UH's was still open I spent a lot of time cultivating an app ecosystem, coaching entrepreneurs, and helping them build.
One of those apps was Airtm, which gives anyone a dollar account that is convertible to their local money via a P2P network of forex agents. I started it with two of my interns from Uphold inspired by localbitcoins success as a P2P anything-to-btc marketplace. We applied to YC four times, and the last time got called in for an interview, which turned into a double interview, only to be rejected once again. This did not turn out to be fatal (don't worry you can succeed without YC!), and Airtm is now a category killer for Latam dollar/crypto access with its forex agent NFX and compliant US bank connections providing a massive moat.
Lesson: Don't worry about getting rejected by YC-- you can still build something awesome that changes the world.
Another startup I co-founded that started as an Uphold app is Cadoo which I co-founded with a young hustler who started as an intern at Airtm @colm_hayden. We applied to YC and were rejected, but then Colm applied to Pioneer and ended up as a finalist-- you can see him pitching SAAS-master @davidsacks if you search on Youtube. Thanks to validation from Pioneer, Cadoo's seed round was led by @samaltman6's Apollo Ventures in 2021 and has been growing 50% MOM ever since-- "Pioneering" a marketplace of motivation for fitness.
Lesson: YC isn't the only worthwhile accelerator. Check out Pioneer and Cofounder Search by On Deck too (I've heard good things about the latter from founders who have gone through the program).
Now for my coin-powered community ideas for you guys:
1. launch a coin-powered community with a reward token (a coin) that incentivizes founders for contributing ratings, tips, funding info, -- this will make your platform stickier and lead to NFX. Allow founders to redeem coin for discounts to subscribe to your data.
2. adding on to the coin-powered community-- reward founders for submitting their pitchdecks and for offering reviews of submitted decks.
3. adding on to CPC-- gamify the accelerator application/fund-raising process by allowing users to bet for or against startups being accepted based on their pitches-- at scale would result in a sort of prediction market that VCs/Accelerators would likely start being interested in (and one you could monetize by selling to them perhaps).
Congrats on your launch and the very useful tools for founders that you have built.
Saludos!
Tim
Love this idea. I think this will bring real value to us startup founders.
How are you planning to monetize this?
@christian_eichmueller1 Thank you, Christian! We want to see how much value founders would get, and then we might grow the list and make it a subscription based product.
An amazing database! Would like to check how relevant it is as well. Anyways, a great and useful launch. Congrats 🎉
Thanks Amartya, I see you are from Delhi and if you are looking for accelerators in India, we do have some of them in our list. Also, feel free to let us know if you have any feedback.
@rashid_khasanov we also created a similar platform during our college time to connect college student entrepreneurs to relevant angels in India/Japan. Would love to explore if I can be of any help. Anyways - all the best :))
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