APPENDIX A

List of a! Seed Accelerator Programmes

YC O M B I N AT O R
Started summer 2005
http://www.ycombinator.com
Paul Graham, Robert Morris, Trevor Blackwell, Jessica Livingston
Funding (previously): $5k + $5k*(number of founders)
Funding (currently): $11k + $3k*(number of founders)
Equity: between 2-10%, average 6-7%
Location: Mountain View, CA (2006-present), Boston, MA (2005-2008)
Office space: No

TECHSTARS
Started summer 2007
http://www.techstars.org
David Cohen, Brad Feld, David Brown, Jared Polis
Funding: $6k*(number of founders), max $18k
Equity: 6%
Location: Boulder, CO (2007-present) and Boston, MA (2009-present)
Office space: Yes

SEEDCAMP
Started fall 2007
http://www.seedcamp.com
Saul Klein, Reshma Sohoni
Funding: €50,000
Equity: 5-10%
Location: London, UK
Office space: No
DREAMIT VENTURES
Started summer 2008
http://www.dreamitventures.com/
David Bookspan, Michael Levinson, Steven D. Welch, Steve Barsh, Katrina Hayday Wester
Funding: $5k-$25k per person, depending on role (Innovator, Strategist, Hacker). Each joins at
different time.
Equity: 4-8%
Location: Philadelphia, PA
Office space: Yes

LAUNCHBOX DIGITAL
Started summer 2008
http://www.launchboxdigital.com
Sean Greene, John McKinley, Mark McDowell, Julius Genachowski (Now FCC Chairman),
Matthew Jacobson
Funding: Up to $20k, option to invest pre-determined amount at end of program
Equity: 6%
Location: Washington, DC
Office space: No

SEEDROCKET
Started summer 2008
http://www.seedrocket.com
Vicente Arias, Jesús Monleón
Funding: €20k
Equity: Unknown
Location: Barcelona, Spain
Office space: Unknown

ALPHALAB
Started summer 2008
http://www.alphalab.org
Jim Jen
Funding: $25k
Equity: Unknown
Location: Pittsburgh, PA
Office space: Yes

I VENTURES10
Started summer 2008
http://www.iventures10.com/
Unknown founders
Funding: up to $25,000 (compensation limited to $5,000 per team member)
Equity: unknown
Location: Champaign, IL
Office space: Unknown

BOOTUPLABS
Started summer 2009
http://bootuplabs.com
Danny Robinson, Boris Mann
Funding: $50k plus $100k convertable line of credit
Equity: 5-10% post-Series A
Location: Vancouver, Canada
Office space: Yes

FB FUND
Started summer 2009
http://www.)fund.com/
Dave McClure, Andrew Braccia, Enrique Allen, Cat Lee, Julia Lam, Shaykat Chaudhuri
Funding: up to $100k
Equity: unknown
Location: Silicon Valley, CA
Office space: Yes

SHOTPUT VENTURES
Started summer 2009
http://www.shotputventures.com/
David Cummings, Sanjay Parekh, Allen Graber, Suleman Ali, Wayt King, Dave Wright, Mitch
Free, Jeff Hilimire, Dave Williams
Funding: $5k + $5k*(number of founders)
Equity: 5-10%
Location: Atlanta, GA
Office space: No

C A P I TA L F A C T O RY
Started summer 2009
http://www.capitalfactory.com
Joshua Baer, Sam Decker, Bryan Menell
Funding: as much as $20k
Equity: 5%
Location: Austin, TX
Office space: Yes

NEXTSTART
Started summer 2009
http://www.nextstart.org/
[Unknown]
Funding: $5k*(number of founders), maximum $10k
Equity: 5-10%
Location: Greenville, SC
Office space: Yes

I A C C E L E R AT O R
Started summer 2009
http://iaccelerator.org/
Freeman Murray, Kunal Upadhyay, Pranay Gupta, Aditi Gupta
Funding: up to 500,000 Rs (~$10,000)
Equity: 5-15%
Location: Ahmedabad, India
Office space: Yes
OpenFund
Starting fall/winter 2009
http://theopenfund.com/
Georgios Kasselakis, George Tziralis
Funding: €20-30k
Equity: 8%
Location: Athens, Greece
Office space: Yes

SPRINGBOARD
Starting fall/winter 2009
http://springboard.red-gate.com/
Neil Davidson, Simon Galbraith, Amir Chaudhry
Funding: accomodation and living expenses (no company funding)
Equity: None
Location: Cambridge, UK
Office space: Yes

Defunct

YEUROPE (DEFUNCT)
Started 2007
http://yeurope.net
Paul Böhm, Oliver Olbrich, Michael Rohregger, Stephan Zeinler, Lukas Zeinler
Funding: €5k + €5k*(number of founders)
Equity: "a little bit", assume 5-10%
Location: Vienna, Austria
Office space: Unknown