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Prepared for Thibauld | Delivered June 23, 2020
U.S. Accelerators
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Goals
To understand the accelerator landscape in the United States by compiling a list of accelerators including name, website, location, number of companies accelerated per year, and equity investment.
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Early Findings
The exact number of accelerators in the United States is not published, however, estimates state that there are over
200 accelerator programs
operating at any given time.
We have compiled a list of 92 accelerators in the attached
spreadsheet
.
Y-Combinator
is an accelerator located in Silicon Valley, California. The accelerator helps startups develop their ideas, provides seed funding, and helps connect startups with other invetors. Participating startups receive
$11,000 + $3,000
for each founder in seed funding from Y-Combinator in exchange for
7% equity
. Since it began in 2005, it has worked with over
1,800 companies
including Airbnb, Dropbox, Stripe, DoorDash.
Airbnb received a total of
$5.4 billion
in funding. Stripe received
$1.6 billion
in total funding. Dropbox recieved
$2 billion
in total funding. DoorDash recieved
$2.07 billion
in total funding. Unfortunately, a search to narrow down follow-on funding was not successful as much of the data is hidden behind paywalls.
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