1) HAX
SOSV's hard tech pre-seed program is called HAX. Startups apply to HAX with their first prototype, information about their customers, and their vision.
Details of the startup:
- Country: United States
- City: San Francisco
- Started in: 2011
- Founders: Cyril Ebersweiler, Sean O'Sullivan
- Number of investments: 465
- Number of exits: 10
- Accelerator Duration (in weeks): 26
You can find their website here.
2) IndieBio
IndieBio is a SOSV program that helps the best scientists become entrepreneurs who want to build companies that change the world.
Details of the startup:
- Country: United States
- City: San Francisco
- Started in: 2014
- Founders: Arvind Gupta, Bill Liao, Sean O'Sullivan
- Number of investments: 307
- Number of exits: 2
- Accelerator Duration (in weeks): 16
You can find their website here.
3) Village Global
Village Global is an early-stage venture capital firm that is backed by some of the most successful business owners in the world.
Details of the startup:
- Country: United States
- City: San Francisco
- Started in: 2017
- Founders: Anne Dwane, Ben Casnocha, Erik Torenberg, Ross Fubini
- Number of investments: 197
- Number of exits: 2
- Accelerator Duration (in weeks): 10
You can find their website here.
4) Amplify.LA
Amplify is a venture capital firm in Venice, California that invests early in the most promising startups in Los Angeles.
Details of the startup:
- Country: United States
- City: Venice
- Started in: 2010
- Founders: Oded Noy, Paul Bricault, Richard Wolpert
- Number of investments: 146
- Funding amount: $100,000
- Number of exits: 19
- Equity Taken: 10%
You can find their website here.
5) Amino Capital
Amino Capital is focused on startups that are driven by data and next-generation protocols that are powered by blockchain.
Details of the startup:
- Country: United States
- City: Palo Alto
- Started in: 2012
- Founders: David Wei, Jun Wu, Larry Li
- Number of investments: 113
- Number of exits: 18
You can find their website here.
6) ACE Startups
ACE Startups is an early-stage Venture Capital firm that helps exceptional entrepreneurs build businesses that change Brazil.
Details of the startup:
- Country: Brazil
- City: São Paulo
- Started in: 2012
- Founders: Mike Ajnsztajn, Pedro Waengertner
- Number of investments: 109
- Number of exits: 19
You can find their website here.
7) Texas Venture Labs
Texas at Austin (TVL) is an award-winning university-wide program that helps with technology commercialisation, entrepreneurship, and innovation while giving students a unique and directly useful learning experience.
Details of the startup:
- Country: United States
- City: Austin
- Started in: 2010
- Founders: Randall Crowder, Rob Adams
- Number of investments: 83
- Number of exits: 13
You can find their website here.
8) Digital Attraxion
Digital Attraxion is a digital startups accelerator that helps projects find their value proposition and raise their first round of funding by giving them coaching, networking, and money.
Details of the startup:
- Country: Belgium
- City: Charleroi
- Started in: 2016
- Number of investments: 52
- Accelerator Duration (in weeks): 26
You can find their website here.
9) Via ID
From the start, Via ID gives money to startups in the new mobility field to help them grow.
Details of the startup:
- Country: France
- City: Marquette Lez Lille
- Started in: 2010
- Number of investments: 49
- Number of exits: 4
You can find their website here.
10) Hubraum
Hubraum creates business opportunities for everyone by bringing together startups, developers and ecosystem partners.
Details of the startup:
- Country: Germany
- City: Berlin
- Started in: 2012
- Number of investments: 45
- Number of exits: 6
You can find their website here.
11) GSF
GSF is an early-stage venture capital firm that focuses on tech and gives founders their first check from incubation to seed.
Details of the startup:
- Country: India
- City: Gurgaon
- Started in: 2011
- Founders: Rajesh Sawhney
- Number of investments: 36
- Number of exits: 6
You can find their website here.
12) RSE Ventures
RSE is a private investment firm made up of builders, innovators, partners, and founders who focus on companies in sports and entertainment, media and marketing, consumer, and technology.
Details of the startup:
- Country: United States
- City: New York
- Started in: 2012
- Founders: Matt Higgins, Stephen M. Ross
- Number of investments: 30
- Number of exits: 10
You can find their website here.
13) Lair East Labs
Lair East Labs is a New York-based startup accelerator that helps founders grow internationally.
Details of the startup:
- Country: United States
- City: New York
- Started in: 2017
- Founders: Lee Lin, Michelle Wang, Seamon Chan, Yipeng Li
- Number of investments: 28
- Number of exits: 1
- Accelerator Duration (in weeks): 10
You can find their website here.
14) Founders
Founders helps start-ups get off the ground and grow into full-fledged businesses when they get enough interest.
Details of the startup:
- Country: Denmark
- City: Copenhagen
- Started in: 2012
- Founders: Joshua Karjala-Svendsen, Peter Heering, Sebastian Stockmarr, Simon Sylvest, Stefano Zorzi, Ulrik Trolle
- Number of investments: 27
You can find their website here.
15) Anthill Ventures
Anthilll Ventures is a place where early-stage startups that want to grow quickly in Indian markets can get funding and help with scaling.
Details of the startup:
- Country: Singapore
- City: Singapore
- Started in: 2014
- Founders: Doug Shinsato, Prasad Vanga, Rimpal Chawla, Sailesh Sigatapu
- Number of investments: 26
- Number of exits: 1
- Accelerator Duration (in weeks): 2
You can find their website here.
16) Future Labs
The Data Future Lab is part of the NYU Tandon Future Labs, which is a network of innovation programs that help the early-stage startups of tomorrow with resources and mentorship.
Details of the startup:
- Country: United States
- City: New York
- Started in: 2009
- Founders: Steven Kuyan
- Number of investments: 12
You can find their website here.
17) Womena
Womena is a media company that creates the most inspiring and interesting content for women in the region. They do this to promote equality and diversity by telling the stories of women who have made big changes.
Details of the startup:
- Country: United Arab Emirates
- City: Dubai
- Started in: 2014
- Founders: Chantalle Dumonceaux, Elissa Freiha
- Number of investments: 12
- Number of exits: 1
You can find their website here.
18) Huddle
Huddle is an accelerator and fund for Indian businesses in their early stages.
Details of the startup:
- Country: India
- City: Haryana
- Started in: 2017
- Founders: Ishaan Khosla, Rakesh Bhatia
- Number of investments: 11
You can find their website here.
19) Vietnam Innovative Startup Accelerator
VIISA is an accelerator program and a seed stage fund that will put $6 million into building startups in Vietnam that are ready to do business around the world.
Details of the startup:
- Country: Vietnam
- City: Ho Chi Minh City
- Started in: 2017
- Founders: Duc Tran, Hieu Vo
- Number of investments: 11
- Number of exits: 1
You can find their website here.
20) Mahindra Partners
Mahindra Partners is a part of the 20 billion dollar Mahindra Group that invests in and helps start-ups grow.
Details of the startup:
- Country: India
- City: Mumbai
- Started in: 2010
- Founders: J C Mahindra, K C Mahindra, M. G. Muhammad
- Number of investments: 09
- Number of exits: 1
You can find their website here.
21) Nex Cubed Fintech
Nex Cubed is a global accelerator that invests in founders from all walks of life who are working to solve important problems.
Details of the startup:
- Country: United States
- City: San Francisco
- Started in: 2019
- Number of investments: 07
You can find their website here.
22) Ocean Solutions Accelerator
Sustainable Ocean Alliance (SOA) is a global group of young people who work together to build solutions that improve the health of our ocean.
Details of the startup:
- Country: United States
- City: San Francisco
- Founders: Craig Dudenhoeffer, Daniela Fernandez
- Number of investments: 02
- Accelerator Duration (in weeks): 8
You can find their website here.
23) SAP.iO Foundry Berlin
SAP.iO helps innovators get started with SAP and grow with it.
Details of the startup:
- Country: Germany
- City: Berlin
- Number of investments: 02
- Number of exits: 1
- Accelerator Duration (in weeks): 14
You can find their website here.
24) OneTraction
OneTraction is an open innovation accelerator that helps entrepreneurs, small businesses, and startups.
Details of the startup:
- Country: United States
- City: San Francisco
- Started in: 2013
- Founders: Andrew Preston, David Zeng, Henri S.
- Number of investments: 01
- Accelerator Duration (in weeks): 48
You can find their website here.
25) Startup Leadership Program
Startup Leadership Program is a global, non-profit educational program and professional network for the next generation of founders and entrepreneurs.
Details of the startup:
- Country: United States
- City: Boston
- Started in: 2006
- Founders: Anupendra Sharma, Puran Dang
- Number of investments: 01
You can find their website here.
26) Preccelerator Program
The Preccelerator Program is an accelerator for early-stage startups based out of the Santa Monica office of Stubbs Alderton & Markiles.
Details of the startup:
- Country: United States
- City: Santa Monica
- Started in: 2012
- Number of investments: 01
- Accelerator Duration (in weeks): 24
You can find their website here.
27) Braitman & Company
Braitman & Company is committed to investing, advising, and speeding up the growth of companies in their early stages.
Details of the startup:
- Country: United States
- City: San Francisco
- Started in: 2003
- Number of investments: 01
You can find their website here.
28) Imprint Lab
Imprint Culture Lab was established to explore and organise creative culture around the world and to help businesses and creative groups work together.
Details of the startup:
- Country: United States
- City: Long Beach
- Founders: Julia Huang
- Number of investments: 01
You can find their website here.
29) Synesis Group
Synesis is a privately held research and development company based in Minsk, Belarus.
Details of the startup:
- Country: Belarus
- City: Minsk
- Started in: 2007
- Founders: Alexander Shatrov, Denis Mishin, Nikolai Ptitsyn
- Number of investments: 01
You can find their website here.
30) Momentum Works
Momentum Works leverages thier knowledge, community, and experience to inform, connect, and enable the tech/new economy ecosystem.
Details of the startup:
- Country: Singapore
- City: Singapore
- Started in: 2016
- Founders: Jianggan Li
You can find their website here.
31) Alpha Deal Group
Alpha Deal Group is a technology company that uses buy-side advisory, information technology, and the distribution of multimedia content.
Details of the startup:
- Country: United Kingdom
- City: London
- Started in: 2012
- Accelerator Duration (in weeks): 1
You can find their website here.
32) ETC
The Technology Innovation Center provides access to seed capital, mentors, potential partners and a collaborative community.
Details of the startup:
- Country: United States
- City: Baltimore
- Started in: 1990
You can find their website here.
33) CREATORS IDEAtion Lab
CREATORS is an Innovation Lab that makes and runs Smart Innovation Programs to help businesses grow, reduce risk, and cut costs.
Details of the startup:
- Country: Israel
- City: Tel Aviv
- Started in: 2015
You can find their website here.
34) 511 Capital
511 Capital is a mix of an incubator for new businesses and a private equity firm.
Details of the startup:
- Country: United States
- City: Evanston
- Founders: Russell Potterfield
You can find their website here.
35) Microdel
Microdel Ltd. was started in Israel by inventor, entrepreneur, and director Yossi De-Levie and his team of senior executives as a private place for new ideas to grow into products.
Details of the startup:
- Country: Israel
- City: Tel Aviv
You can find their website here.