Intel makes Xeon CPUs and Nervana accelerators and NVIDIA makes Tesla accelerators.
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Plug and Play has launched multiple accelerators with a different business model than most accelerators.
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Modern adaptations include electromagnetic rail and coil guns, electrothermal-chemical guns, light gas guns, ram accelerators, and blast wave accelerators.
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Plasma wakefield accelerators are tabletop machines that are capable of accelerating electrons to very high energies over a few centimeters, compared to two miles for full-sized particle accelerators today.
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Other traditional options for non-dilutive financing include grants, loans, SBIR, STTR, vouchers and tax credits, include: You're eligible for the many accelerators, as well as specifically the impact accelerators.
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These days, Dreamit also structures deals differently than most other accelerators do, meaning it doesn't offer $10,000 to $100,000 for 6-8% stakes in a business upon admission to its accelerators.
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Dozens of global accelerators and companies looking to support and invest in Latin American companies are joining the local accelerators that paved the way, such as Start-Up Chile and NXTP Labs.
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Physicists rely on particle accelerators to understand matter's constituent parts.
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Plus, WeWork does not want to be competitive with accelerators.
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London is full of accelerators and incubators, which sounds great.
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Accelerators are used for testing parts and materials for spacecraft.
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Seed accelerators occupy an essential position within the startup landscape.
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From both past accumulated abuses and from recent new accelerators.
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This will not be the Air Force's first foray into accelerators.
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It's one of several personal finance apps accelerators are rolling out.
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Now, accelerators are hoping to take things to the next level.
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Arguably, convertible notes and accelerators turned startups into a mainstream phenomenon.
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Radiation therapists operate machines called linear accelerators, which deliver radiation therapy.
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Cuban: How many accelerators are there now in every single city?
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Coworking spaces, hackathons, and startup accelerators abound in the capital, Ulaanbaatar.
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They were created without diamond anvil cells, lasers, or particle accelerators.
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These included meetups, competitions, hackathons, co-working spaces, accelerators and bootcamps.
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The conference is partnering with accelerators and incubators in different countries.
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How income share agreements will spark the rise of career accelerators
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The outlying, specialized chips are known in the industry as accelerators.
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Accelerators like ZGC "help U.S. entrepreneurs understand China better," Luo said.
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"They're one of the most specialized accelerators in the world," said Damalie.
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Indeed, Knocki has caught the eye of two accelerators in the industry.
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As is traditional with accelerators, it's unveiled its latest cohort of startups.
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But I hope there will be other app accelerators around the world.
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Cuban: You don't hear stories about accelerators closing every other minute, right?
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Airbnb, Dropbox, Stripe, Transferwise, Revolut and Zalando all emerged from accelerators/incubators.
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Board games are the most effective non-pharmaceutical conversational accelerators ever invented.
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Accelerators affiliated with business schools typically require participants to be enrolled students.
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The region has more than 25 incubators and accelerators for start-ups.
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The linear accelerators, the first steps of the accelerator process, will be replaced.
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Nowadays, dozens of Latin American startups, principally from Colombia, are joining U.S. accelerators.
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Corporations also sponsor events in addition to the work they do with accelerators.
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Corporates may also "invest" by setting up incubators and accelerators inside the company.
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MetaProp is one of the leading early-stage VCs and accelerators in proptech.
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Recruitment Some high-tech incubators and accelerators simply don't actively recruit any entrepreneurs.
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Physicists at the Max-lab will operate three accelerators for synchrotron radiation research.
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The remaining capital is set to be raised through angel investors and accelerators.
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AWS plans to charge customers based on the number of accelerators they create.
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But we're seeing more and more corporate accelerators opening, which has been interesting.
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In essence, accelerators aid start-ups with funding, mentorship and, often, office space.
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Powerful magnets are everywhere, from medical equipment to particle accelerators in physics labs.
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Media companies, sports teams, and even the U.S Government have opened their own accelerators.
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Unlike most accelerators, StartX takes zero equity, meaning founders retain ownership of their companies.
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In venture capital, everyone is co-investing… accelerators, angels, VCs, corporate VCs, PE funds.
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Your delegation can consist of international startup groups, government innovation centers, incubators and accelerators.
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As with incubators, there are many successful accelerators that are not affiliated with corporations.
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The city is now drawing in tech start-ups, too, and has local accelerators.
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This should result in a tenfold improvement in beam quality for plasma wakefield accelerators.
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Accelerators accept a cohort of startups for a set amount of time and funding.
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This "humanitarian" case for accelerators hasn't really been applicable to recent high-energy physics.
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The U.S. has the most with 31 accelerators, representing plenty of competition for dealflow.
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While every start-up has its eyes on funding, some accelerators have specialized goals.
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Christian Jorg, 56, who runs two start-up accelerators, gets there at 7 a.m.
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We're searching for delegations of international startup groups, government innovation centers, incubators and accelerators.
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Nest invests in fintechs and operates accelerators in partnership with institutions such as DBS Bank.
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The city achieves this through a combination of accelerators, rapid prototyping and world-class manufacturing.
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So when prestigious accelerators invest around common themes, it's worth taking note of what's resonating.
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Here are the startup trends that are capturing the imaginations, and wallets, of top accelerators.
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The process the accelerators use to take entrepreneurs through their programs is making a difference.
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Early particle accelerators let us discover new isotopes and new elements of the periodic table.
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Impact-accelerators such as Artemisia and the nonprofit Endeavor play important roles in the ecosystem.
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However, it is possible that they might appear during collisions in high-energy particle accelerators.
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They received early financial backing from a number of notable accelerators, including the SXSW accelerator.
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Corporate accelerators have a habit of over-egging this aspect of the programs they run.
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Accelerators pick the best of the best and fail to supply them with seed capital.
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Similar to my previous analysis, I did not include EIRs, venture partners, accelerators or incubators.
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Helping to run the initiative is Boomtown Accelerators, a startup bootcamp based in Boulder, Colorado.
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Accelerators include graphics processors, application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) and field-programmable gate arrays (F.P.G.A.s).
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Now scientists spend years using massive particle accelerators to smash barely-there specks of matter together.
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It seemed that Latin America was not yet on anyone's radar at the big global accelerators.
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There are several government-backed accelerators which simply house startups in facilities and arrange pitch nights.
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Keeping new types of workload, such as AI, on accelerators would mean extra cost and complexity.
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Local nonprofit Innovation Works has an investment vehicle as well as two accelerators under its umbrella.
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Later, the emergence of accelerators and investors worldwide allowed a wider range of potential home bases.
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There are seven accelerators located around the world, from Bangalore to Beijing, from Berlin to Seattle.
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Accelerators can charge 7 percent of equity and advisors can charge a percentage point or two.
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We're also seeing more accelerators and incubators provide space, cash and mentoring to turbo-charge entrepreneurships.
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Women hold just under 12% of the partner roles at both accelerators and corporate venture firms.
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Other venture firms and accelerators have joined the platform, but AccelFoods was an early participant there.
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But cycle forwards 20 years and you have incubators, accelerators, seed funds, angel networks, micro funds.
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In the 2010s, regional ecosystems were boosted by the appearance of new VC firms and accelerators.
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Creating local tech conferences, policies and other incentives to attract accelerators and venture funds is critical.
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These accelerators, which groom early-stage tech companies, see Asia as a hotbed for technological innovation.
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Giant particle accelerators, like those at Fermilab in Illinois or CERN, constantly make and study antimatter.
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Neutrinos are made in nuclear processes (think nuclear reactors and atomic explosions) and in particle accelerators.
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Bunker Labs introduced Rumi Spice to FamilyFarmed, which runs accelerators and incubators for food start-ups.
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It is currently home to some 50 coworking offices and over two dozen incubators and accelerators.
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The top quark is unstable and can only be created and studied inside powerful particle accelerators.
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SC: The number of what we'd call private or independent accelerators already seems to be slowing.
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These tiny accelerators could be made to fit into the handle of a lightsaber, Muller said.
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Toyota plodded along even amid mass recalls after discovering that jammed accelerators had caused driver deaths.
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In order to grow, Rise applied to several business accelerators that could provide money and mentorship.
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Tech accelerators can help by providing money, talented peers and mentoring when the market will not.
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Other accelerators along the way to the final LHC ring will receive upgrades, as will electrical components.
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You might also consider asking relatives for help, or pursuing angel investors or business accelerators, he added.
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The new server uses two of IBM's POWER8 CPUs and four of Nvidia's Tesla P100 GPU accelerators.
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The tech platforms acting as particle accelerators for the hourly news cycles know their role as well.
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But accelerators do have a history of helping birth some impressive companies, so it's worth paying attention.
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High-tech incubators and accelerators can't be both intentionally exclusive and hope to attract more diverse entrepreneurs.
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"(With) the existing accelerators, the production rate of element 118 is one atom per month," says Popeko.
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I see that focus in the startups in my accelerators and students in my classes at USC.
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There are seven accelerators located around the world, from Bangalore to Beijing, from Berlin to Tel-Aviv.
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The 40 corporate venture arms and 87 accelerators active in 2017 showed significant gains for women partners.
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Popular accelerators like Y Combinator and IndieBio are filled with bio companies driven by this founder phenotype.
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Each country brings a delegation that can include international startup groups, government innovation centers, incubators and accelerators.
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Women hold just under 12 percent of the partner roles at both accelerators and corporate venture firms.
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There are seven accelerators located around the world, from Seattle to Beijing, from London to Tel-Aviv.
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Country or regional pavilions can include delegations of international startup groups, government innovation centers, incubators and accelerators.
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The technical assistance will distribute in the form of grants to accelerators, hubs, incubators and coding programs.
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La French Tech and the French government have created various lists of VC funds, accelerators, grants, etc.
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But a team of Swedish scientists have a better way to reveal the poo's secrets: particle accelerators.
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Accelerators like Fintech71 see the value of seed in specific markets but they're finding deal-flow difficult.
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There are seven accelerators located around the world, from Seattle to Beijing, from Berlin to Tel-Aviv.
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There are seven Microsoft Ventures Accelerators worldwide including Bangalore, Beijing, Berlin, London, Paris, Seattle and Tel Aviv.
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More venture-capital funds are setting up, as well as additional accelerators and "business clubs" for startups.
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Out of the 160 accelerators based in the United States, about 35 programs are connected to universities.
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If you know nothing else about particle accelerators, you probably know that they're big — sometimes miles long.
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China's tech world has copied the valley's innovator-meet-investor network of incubators, accelerators and venture capitalists.
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"Young kids get in these [accelerators] because they are looking for help, which is cool," he says.
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In addition to being created in cosmic ray collisions, muons can also be made in particle accelerators.
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There have been no high-profile examples of such theft from companies helped by the Chinese accelerators.
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Another team at CERN recently created an electron accelerator a fraction of the size of other electron accelerators.
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"In some ways, they have capabilities beyond what you can get at accelerators because of the energies."[Nature]
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Rees proposes is effectively impossible and already excluded by the previous generation of accelerators and the LHC itself.
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Most of SOSV's accelerators focus on what O'Sullivan calls "real world products," made of atoms not just bits.
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Barclays, which has sponsored accelerators in New York City, London, and Tel Aviv, focuses on fintech, for instance.
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A foundation for African tech is the continent's 442 active hubs, accelerators, and incubators (as tallied by GSMA).
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Each nation brings a delegation whose members can include international startup groups, government innovation centers, incubators and accelerators.
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So far, Amazon says it's worked with 100 leading venture capital firms, startup accelerators, and crowd-funding platforms.
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The Geeks South Africa segment includes meetings with VC funds and Accelerators, such as 10XE and Edge Growth.
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For the first time in history, our government is hosting hackathons, utilizing accelerators, and leveraging open-source technology.
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Scandi claims that Swings have motion accelerators built in, so audio will start when you put them in.
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These accelerators can be used regardless of location in the environment – on-premises and/or in the cloud.
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I also urge my colleagues to find ways to help business accelerators and remove barriers to their success.
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For entrepreneurs, in addition to the French Tech Ticket, there will be partnerships with accelerators and startup competitions.
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Bernard Moon is co-founder and partner at SparkLabs Group, a network of accelerators and venture capital funds.
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FinTech accelerators are increasing in London, with Barclays Bank and Level 39 playing in the area, among others.
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The same type of experiment had been done with less powerful accelerators, and nothing terribly interesting had happened.
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I wrote about the company's partnership with some of tech's top accelerators and venture capital firms last month.
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The accelerators work with companies in fields including artificial intelligence, autonomous driving technology, big data and health sciences.
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He filed two unsuccessful federal lawsuits against the ATF, leaving him with a workshop full of unused Akins Accelerators.
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Accelerators are now one of the top ways for Latin American startups to secure funding and reach international markets.
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More importantly, they created the impetus for a steady wave of startup accelerators to enter the Latin American ecosystem.
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The Plug and Play network of accelerators and corporate partnerships is launching nine new cohorts in various industry verticals.
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We showed our technology to the world and had meaningful conversations with investors, accelerators, incubators, solo founders and developers.
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SOSV, a 20-year-old fund with $500 million in assets under management, has been running accelerators for years.
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Sir Christopher, who was CERN's director-general between 1994 and 1998, knows a thing or two about particle accelerators.
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"Potentially these accelerators can reach energies much higher than the LHC, maybe a million times more," said van Weeren.
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Consider Y Combinator, by all accounts the gold standard of startup accelerators, famously harder to get into than Harvard.
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Among its successful alumni, six startups have been accepted into Y Combinator, one of the most prestigious startup accelerators.
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There are chemical retardants that slow concrete's hydration, accelerators that speed it up, and plasticizers that increase its workability.
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That adds to the dozens of partners that it already had in accelerators and venture firms around the world.
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The Inductrack idea uses a magnet configuration called a Halbach array, the same propulsion concept used in particle accelerators.
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She co-founded it after gaining experience in San Francisco working closely with startups and accelerators in emerging markets.
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There are already many, many different accelerators in France, but the Techstars brand is stronger than many of those.
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Choon Yan previously led the PayPal Startup Relation team in APAC and is a mentor in various Asian accelerators.
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But it's a great place for startups, too: the Charlotte Angel Fund is one of many Charlotte-based accelerators.
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Other CPG giants, including Unilever and Procter & Gamble, also have accelerators, as does Mars Petcare, Mars' pet-care division.
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Almost every big city now boasts one or more startup accelerators, modeled after Paul Graham's now-legendary Y Combinator.
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Accelerators like TechStars learned that becoming the biggest fish in a small pond is the way to true change.
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Bigstream (Mountain View, California, U.S.): "hyper-acceleration technology" for performance gains on Apache Spark using hardware and software accelerators.
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In addition to the Big Four, there are thousands of accelerators worldwide, most of which offer much smaller investments.
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With the proliferation of new funds and accelerators, raising early money for hardware companies may be easier than ever.
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The landing of Startupbootcamp's accelerator is also encouraging, and will certainly pave the way for more accelerators to come.
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The two began by setting up angel networks in the country and then helped create the nation's first accelerators.
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Harrigan also noted that unlike most accelerators, Grand Central doesn't take equity in its startups, at least not initially.
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Accelerators act like greenhouses for young startups, helping them grow faster and stronger in just a matter of months.
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Other CPG companies including Mars, Kellogg, and P&G also have accelerators to boost sales and grow customer interactions.
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But as their particle accelerators had gone to higher and higher energies, they had discovered more and more generations.
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For starters, it's announcing Accelerators, which are pre-defined integrations that let companies connect more easily to other systems.
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Accelerators will be available in January and Flow Designer updates will be available Q2 2020, according to the company.
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More than 150 accelerators currently operate in the UK, a figure that has increased tenfold over the past decade.
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More recently, she's been speaking to tech accelerators, most notably Techstars Berlin, about staying mentally healthy in tech startups.
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Yet the accelerators reflect close ties between entrepreneurs, tech investors and top engineering talent in the U.S. and China.
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Other semiconductor makers are working on different types of specialized accelerators for applications such as computer vision and more.
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We want to break the traditional paradigm that you take these accelerators and incubators and then you're good to go.
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Now, a new tool is helping social entrepreneurs find the right business accelerators to get their ideas off the ground.
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Five years ago, no startups from Latin America were participating in prestigious U.S. accelerators like 173 Startups or Y Combinator.
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Companies will have the option of building AI accelerators directly into chips, helping systems manage data and memory more efficiently.
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If the accelerators of the world are anything to go by, you shouldn't go build a company on your lonesome.
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DLab supplies up to $200,000 in pre-seed funding as well as perks from the SOSV global network of accelerators.
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Words can get you into accelerators, they can garner investor interest and they can ease the pain of tight circumstances.
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Otherwise, Plug and Play's accelerators are what you'd expect, 3-month bootcamps for promising tech startups in different industry segments.
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Lisbon has jumped on the trend by launching a number of incubators and business accelerators, operations that foster new companies.
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Massive accelerators like the one at CERN create particles that can exist for as little as billionths of a second.
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To curate this online collection, Amazon works with VC firms, accelerators and incubators to source the products for the site.
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Many accelerators take some equity — an ownership interest in the company — in exchange for their funding, although MAP does not.
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The city offers an ecosystem like no other to support hardware startups through accelerators, rapid prototyping and world-class manufacturing.
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Just last week we were in Buenos Aires and Santiago to speak with startups, VCs and accelerators about Startup Battlefield.
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Finally, there are more incubators and accelerators hatching every month, including Ryerson's DMZ, MaRS, Highline, The Next 36 and Communitech.
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But, he warns, most other accelerators and VC groups don't have the same sort of scale to pull that off.
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If you've ever wondered if particle accelerators have a purpose outside pure research, the Surfi-Sculpt should answer that question.
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It was after the accelerators had launched that Numan and Karabey decided it was time to raise the first fund.
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The rankings of Seed-DB, which keeps track of such programs, also offers a guide to entrepreneurs looking for accelerators.
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Eight particle accelerators have been designed for the Janesville plant, which the Nuclear Regulatory Agency approved for construction in 993.
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Then physicists learned how to create these particles themselves, in giant particle accelerators like the Large Hadron Collider at CERN.
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The station, established by the Soviet Union in 1943, gradually lost influence as particle accelerators and other technologies came online.
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Start-up accelerators have become popular in recent years, providing a combination of training, consulting and funding to fledgling businesses.
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Superconductive metals are used to make the magnets for devices such as hospital MRI machines and particle accelerators such as CERN.
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Other incubators and accelerators struggle with limited pipeline networks and a lack of knowledge about how best to find diverse entrepreneurs.
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The recommendations and strategies set forth in this report offer a playbook for creating more inclusive high-tech incubators and accelerators.
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The ecosystem is there for CPUs, but if you want to leverage GPUs and other accelerators you need an open approach.
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Antimatter needed for experiments is usually made in accelerators, in the form of particles travelling at nearly the speed of light.
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Since the advent of accelerators, venture capitalists have competed to lock in deals with the best startups in a given batch.
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Hyperloop One was presented to Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid, Vice President and Ruler of Dubai, at the Dubai Future Accelerators conference.
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There's no shortage of startup incubators and accelerators, but there's always room for improvement and iterations on an old operating model.
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Local governments are increasingly supporting training schemes, accelerators and other bits of soft infrastructure that greatly boost startups' chances of success.
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Overall, there's been an uptick in committed VC for Africa's startups and accelerators, including $2.1 billion across at least four funds.
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It's also expanding its partnership program to include accelerators like Y Combinator, as well as crowdfunding platform companies Kickstarter and Indiegogo.
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He says that this will cover broad areas of Intel technology, including CPU, accelerators, data center, persistent memory and software infrastructure.
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"The plan is to have these early stage accelerators where we take younger startups in order to build a stronger dealflow."
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Accelerators represent a true private sector solution to the problems faced by small businesses instead of more new, lumbering government bureaucracies.
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Mainly, there just aren't enough been-there-done-that people around to run all the incubators and accelerators that London offers.
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Of particular note, start-up accelerators see potential in Singapore and Hong Kong, primarily because of strong reserves of tech experts.
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Many established accelerators and start-up incubators tend to be in regions and cities dominated by existing tech or business firms.
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Established venture capital firms like Andreessen Horowitz, and incubators and accelerators like Y Combinator and 23 Startups are also taking note.
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Everyone from Quicken Loans to Comcast are pouring money into accelerators in places like Detroit and Philadelphia to keep things churning.
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The program will also extend to startups and accelerators, Liquid Telecom's Group Head of Innovation Partnerships Oswald Jumira confirmed to TechCrunch.
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Dubai Future Accelerators recently agreed to work in conjunction with H1 to build the first Hyperloop for cargo in the region.
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Leon Lederman, whose ingenious experiments with particle accelerators deepened science's understanding of the subatomic world, died early Wednesday in Rexburg, Idaho.
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Every major Midwestern city now has clusters of start-up accelerators and incubators, typically housed in renovated red-brick industrial buildings.
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Boomtown Accelerators will join Comcast in managing the SportsTech program, with both sharing a minimum of 6% equity in selected startups.
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Economic development organizations, accelerators and incubators in each city can work to help nurture tech entrepreneurship around Amazon through similar partnerships.
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Northern California is littered with incubators and accelerators, organizations like Y Combinator and Techstars that help small companies develop and grow.
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Evan Sengbusch, Phoenix's president, says the company is supplying eight accelerators for a new isotope factory to be run by SHINE.
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Be sure to check out the Country Pavilions featuring emerging startups from international startup groups, government innovation centers, incubators and accelerators.
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At the same time, corporate accelerators can be unsure of the value they are trying to generate from a start-up.
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The label is working with accelerators at that application process, then lending expertise and mentorship to founders with music-focused startups.
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Particle accelerators were thought up quite a long time ago — going on a century now — and are in some ways remarkably simple.
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At the time, 500 Startups in Silicon Valley was one of the only global accelerators that was paying attention to Latin America.
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Yet the quickening rise of accelerators appears to be bad news for the company, says Alan Priestley of Gartner, an IT consultancy.
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Unlike other accelerators, Plug and Play Ventures doesn't automatically invest seed funding, or demand equity stakes, in every single company it admits.
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Glow works with a wide array of machine learning frameworks and hardware accelerators to speed up how they perform deep learning processes.
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This is possible only at CERN, which has dedicated one of its smaller accelerators to creating a stream of low-energy antiprotons.
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Startup accelerators have become an integral part of helping early-stage companies build, fund and bring to market new products and ideas.
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Apple has done similar workshops, talks and accelerators in the past, but this is the first that's focused on women-founded companies.
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It's a cofounder and an investor in two Bay Area accelerators that keep it abreast of new trends: The Fabric and Hive.
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We're looking for delegations of international startup groups, government innovation centers, incubators and accelerators to claim a country pavilion in Startup Alley.
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By comparison, many accelerators which support startups at the same early stages invest $25,2104 to $250,000 and take 6% to 10% stakes.
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The same analysis of 54 active corporate venture arms and 101 accelerators that have been active since 2014 produced more elevated results.
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Now, thanks to this support, most of them have opened labs and accelerators — it's a big change for their usually secretive culture.
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It's a business like Niowave in Lansing, which draws on the skills of both physicists and skilled tradesmen to manufacture particle accelerators.
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Several of those start-ups have dedicated themselves to creating programs, incubators or accelerators to train blacks and Hispanics for tech jobs.
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A lot of small independent accelerators that have popped up, and we expect that many will disappear in a couple of years.
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The 1950s and 60s were a Golden Age of particle physics, as accelerators produced a plethora of new particles with unpredictable properties.
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Companies that join accelerators are very early-stage ventures, and can benefit most from hands-on attention from mentors and other entrepreneurs.
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SparkLabs Group announced today that it has launched SparkLabs Connex, the latest program in its network of startup accelerators and venture funds.
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Dr. Goldwasser, who was long associated with the University of Illinois, helped pioneer the use of powerful particle accelerators in American physics.
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Probing for higher-mass particles requires both larger accelerators and magnets with stronger fields—magnets like the one Fermilab has just debuted.
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Work collaboration startup Notion cozies up to Silicon Valley's top accelerators So, no interest in building a chat or video chat product?
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To make it easier for these businesses to use OpenStack, the project now includes a lifecycle management service for these kinds of accelerators.
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Image: ATLAS Collaboration/CERNParticle accelerators have a lot of important jobs, like looking for new stuff by slamming beams of old stuff together.
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On partnerships: In Dubai, we announced the Port Jebel Ali feasibility study with DP World and we were selected for Dubai Future Accelerators.
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Most of the government-funded accelerators, such as Startup Mexico, Parallel 18, Ruta N and Startup Peru, still support startups from every sector.
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But there are three possible paths to finding out: We can hope to make them in accelerators like the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).
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Incubators and their cousins, accelerators, provide hands-on training and mentoring, and often a physical space, to help early-stage business ideas develop.
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Part of the organization's collapse is due to internal issues within Techstars, a global network of accelerators and itself a startup, Serbinski says.
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The continent now has 47.53 active tech hubs, accelerators and innovation spaces across IT hotspots in Ghana, Kenya, South Africa, Nigeria and Rwanda.
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Accelerators and similar programs continue to grow, improve and proliferate, as do co-working spaces that are tailored to the needs of founders.
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Merav is deeply involved in Israel's buoyant startup investment scene, is a board member and a mentor in several startup programs and accelerators.
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The city benefits from a wealth of capital resources for small businesses including accelerators, angel investors, corporate venture capital funds, and hedge funds.
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Entrepreneur turned investor Sean O' Sullivan thought it would be better to develop a venture firm that owned and ran its own accelerators.
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Limited partners in SOSV's new fund are a of institutional backers, family offices and tech executives, even some alumni of SOSV's own accelerators.
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Countless startups wielding unicorn-status valuations can credit their rapid progress and success to programs like Techstars, Y Combinator and other seed accelerators.
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Africa now has more than 316 tech hubs, accelerators and innovation spaces across IT hotspots in Ghana, Kenya, South Africa, Nigeria and Rwanda.
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Sandy Pentland's MIT Media Lab, they now scout deals on campuses across the country, and through incubators, accelerators, and their expanding professional networks.
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Women now hold 743 percent of the partner roles at both accelerators and corporate venture firms, a 25 percent improvement in 18 months.
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Partnering with accelerators that already have a strong reputation, like Alchemist Accelerator, should help Rocketspace tap into a supply of already-vetted tenants.
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SOSV is best-known for the numerous accelerators it has created and oversees, including hardware-focused HAX, and IndieBio for life sciences startups.
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While SOSV spins out accelerators to focus on different industries, issues or technologies about every two years, HAX is its longest-running accelerator.
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Graphcore, a startup, develops accelerators and software framework together, which arguably combine to make the fastest and most flexible platform for AI applications.
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ARM, Qualcomm, Mediatek and others all make their own AI accelerators, while GPUs made by Nvidia famously dominate the market for training algorithms.
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Shenzhen has a global reputation for the support it offers hardware startups through a combination of accelerators, rapid prototyping and world-class manufacturing.
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Scientists discovered nuclear "superbubbles" thousands of light years wide that act like particle accelerators 100 times more powerful than the Large Hadron Collider.
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In popular coverage, especially in the 20th century, they were often called "atom smashers," though most accelerators today smash subatomic particles, not atoms.
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But as we've developed a more complete understanding of physics, the practical applications of new high-energy accelerators have grown sparser and sparser.
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" She adds that Venturespring takes equity in the startups but "we do not dictate how much equity we want like some accelerators do.
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Recognizing the promise of a strong tech ecosystem, cities have endeavored to bring the tech community together at accelerators, incubators and coworking spaces.
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However, there was no way for founders to share this information with other founders (this was life before the Internet, incubators and accelerators).
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Dubai is already home to a bitcoin exchange, BitOasis, and other start-ups and accelerators devoted to blockchain are springing up, as well.
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These may be at university-based or private incubators and accelerators, in co-working environments or through other angel investors and venture capitalists.
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The MetaProp program is one of the only accelerators in the proptech space — though Colliers and Techstars also operate an accelerator in Toronto.
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Whatever the reason, AWS announced a new tool tonight called Global Accelerators designed to help customers route traffic more easily across multiple regions.
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Leading experts in the UK tech scene told Business Insider that London was "overcrowded" with too many accelerators producing too few successful companies.
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Apple has been heavily investing in growing its international developer community by launching developer academies and accelerators in key regions, among other initiatives.
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As we see the rise of new types of workloads, we're likely to see even more chip accelerators optimized to do certain tasks.
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There's a future to particle accelerators, and plenty of other experiments are underway or planned in order to probe the mysteries of the Universe.
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We have microsecond technologies—fast datacenter networks, flash memory, GPU accelerators—but if we can only program them as millisecond technologies, what's the use?
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People who work at accelerators, incubators, fellowship programs, and competitions can add themselves to the search results by creating a profile in ImpactSpace's database.
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Local accelerators are refining their strategies and focusing primarily on niche industries, such as agtech and fintech, to tap into Latin America's competitive advantages.
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And they think that they could scale up the device to make a powerful accelerator a fraction the size of present-day electron accelerators.
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The center was only possible because of a law passed a year earlier, allowing CORFO to invest directly in third-party incubators and accelerators.
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The city, China's hardware heartland, provides an unparalleled ecosystem that nurtures hardware startups through a combination of accelerators, rapid prototyping and world-class manufacturing.
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However, the trend across accelerators and early stage funds in recent years has been to home in on a particular industry or technology type.
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The Boston Consulting Group and MassChallenge, a US-based global network of accelerators, partnered to study why "women-owned startups are a better bet".
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Shenzhen, the heartland of hardware, earned its stellar reputation for supporting hardware startups through a combination of accelerators, rapid prototyping and world-class manufacturing.
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Also, if you're thirsty for more of the latest picks from one of Silicon Valley's premiere accelerators check out our list from Day 2110.
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As is typical with most accelerators, a demo day will be held in October for investors to view company presentations and interact with founders.
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For those of you unawares, the Entrepreneur Roundtable Accelerator, like other accelerators, is a program that provides participating start-ups exposure to potential investors.
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For one thing, it promises $800 million over four years to encourage technology incubators and accelerators—but it's unclear what exactly it will do.
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These include a Volta Tensor Core GPU, an eight-core ARM64 CPU, two NVDLA deep learning accelerators, and processors for static images and video.
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The more I met with investors and accelerators, the more I realized that the crowd I am pitching to is usually comprised of men.
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Outlier Ventures co-develops blockchain startups with entrepreneurs, corporate venturing partners, consortia, and accelerators because the company "believes blockchains are about networks, not platforms".
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Exhibiting in the Alley is a magnificent way to place your startup in front of media outlets, investors, accelerators, incubators, solo founders and developers.
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Similar to how humming into a cup at just the right pitch makes your voice sound louder, linear accelerators amplify electric fields using resonance.
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Many of us have heard about the successful high-tech accelerators out of Silicon Valley, but there is so much more to the story.
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As major chip manufacturers roll out mobile-ready machine learning accelerators, every device will soon have the power to run the latest AI models.
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With particle accelerators like the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, scientists have discovered the vanishingly tiny particles, like the Higgs boson, that underpin reality.
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They created a fleet of cars without brake pedals, accelerators or steering wheels, and designed to travel no faster than 25 miles an hour.
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If discovered today, cosmic strings would provide critical insights into how particles behave at energies beyond what scientists can directly measure in particle accelerators.
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The startups were booming, helped by the establishment of seed funds such as Rock Health and accelerators like StartUp Health, and dozens of others.
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It gave us the chance to show our technology to the world and have meaningful conversations with investors, accelerators, incubators, solo founders and developers.
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They later learned they were hitting us with an energy that surpasses the power of human-built particle accelerators, like the Large Hadron Collider.
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Some specific accelerators: There are many VCs who have a stated focus on social impact; for full lists see Impact Capital Managers and InvestorFlow.
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Scientists see giant particle accelerators, in which protons collide at astonishingly high speeds, as an essential technology for unlocking the secrets of the cosmos.
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Blood can be irradiated through the use of non-radioactive alternatives, such as x-ray technologies, linear accelerators (LINACs), and dedicated photochemical ("UV") sterilizers.
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In the past, when parts of the accelerators have been upgraded or added to, engineers would often additionally replace the cables that connected them.
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Tech accelerators have been a hot topic over the past few years, especially within industries that have traditionally eschewed the world of startups and technology.
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Honestly I have no idea, so here's a screenshot of the paper: Particle accelerators like the LHC have led to the discovery of new particles.
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Basically, like corporate accelerators and venture arms, investing in SoftBank is another service that's being potentially offered to lock in startups to corporate cloud ecosystems.
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In the US alone, there are roughly 700 accelerators, a cluster that grew at a rate of 50 percent each year between 2008 and 2014.
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Like traditional technology accelerators, Gateway aims to pair founders and mentors, offer business coaching, and help startups go from an idea into a real business.
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Meanwhile, we've got our own accelerators planned for the U.S., such as the electron-ion collider, but nothing at quite the scale of the CEPC.
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Building innovative talent requires decades of education and training, and a robust knowledge-producing infrastructure including universities, research centers, accelerators, incubators, think tanks, and more.
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As Harthorne explains, MassChallenge is different from other accelerators as it does not take an equity stake in the companies that graduate from the program.
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Particle accelerators need that size to get tiny bits of atoms up to speeds that approach the speed of light before they are slammed together.
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Big tech companies have been creating accelerators left and right to evangelize their brands and get developers engaged with APIs and other open-source efforts.
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I am excited to join the Intel team to build the future of CPUs, GPUs, accelerators and other products for the data-centric computing era.
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It's a relatively strong exit for DragonBox, which had raised less than $500,000 since 2012 primarily from going through incubators and accelerators, according to PitchBook.
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These accelerators would come with mentorship by government officials and give startups short-term licenses to test models that would otherwise be against the rules.
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That's why Omidyar Network is investing in regtech startups and accelerators, as well as convening leading financial authorities to showcase the benefits of this approach.
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More YC grads: Latin America sent at least 10 startups to the Y Combinator, and many more to other international accelerators, in the past year.
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A growing number of technology accelerators are being created in Honolulu and are giving women a chance to find the talent and financing they need.
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Based on our data set, 24–22017% of DRF and RDV companies that attend one of these accelerators end up raising Series A venture financing.
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Meanwhile, established companies are opening up incubators and accelerators to provide start-ups with access to a wide business network, mentoring and co-working spaces.
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There are hundreds of accelerators, labs and venture studios attached to major corporations, but Frontiers wants to set itself apart through an open-source ethos.
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While there's no shortage of incubators and accelerators to help fledglings get off the ground, there's not much mentoring being offered to established small businesses.
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"The biggest obstacle is the entire maturity of the ecosystem… our next venture are building the fund and developing more early stage accelerators," said Chopard.
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More than 300 tech hubs build, support and connect startups, mentors and innovators, and VC investment in African startups and accelerators doubled between 2015-2017.
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Those regions all have the tools in place — accelerators, local VCs, stable politics, regulations and macroeconomics — that mean VC funding can have a real impact.
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Most fitness measurement devices use precise accelerators to measure movement, but they have to guess at speed by indexing that pace with a GPS position.
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Dubai Future Accelerators (DFA) has been created by the UAE, alongside seven government entities which have committed to pilot cutting edge technologies in the country.
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The company works with venture capitalists like Andreessen Horowitz and EA, other accelerators, and foreign governments, like those of Israel and Singapore, to find applicants.
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Incubators & Accelerators: If you are a first-time entrepreneur, it can oftentimes be helpful to join an incubator or accelerator to get your business going.
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Particle accelerators have so far failed to find any evidence of supersymmetric particles—the lightest of which have been predicted to show up by now.
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All of the data being produced in high-energy accelerators is beautifully explained by a single theory with a highly unromantic name: the Standard Model.
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"The trend was for more numbers of neutrinos as accelerators went to higher energies," Dr. Schramm recalled in an interview before his death in 1997.
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Silicon Valley VC firms and accelerators have jumped in on the migration too, like Y Combinator and 500 Startups, as TechCrunch&aposs Kate Clark writes.
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"The terms ... are in line with other similar incubators and accelerators that are created with founders in mind," Bell said in an interview with Recode.
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It's that, for a big chunk of it, it's that flywheel turning and building and compounding, momenting, extending, all the artificial intelligence, machine learning, technology accelerators.
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These devices could one day power tabletop particle accelerators for medical use, act as microscopes to image atoms, and push the frontiers of physics even further.
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In early days, this tube was a straight line, and the particles in these linear accelerators would impact against something like a thin foil of metal.
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But even before they became one of the region's top private accelerators, NXTP Labs was one of the most active early-stage investors in Latin America.
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In the past few years, accelerators of all kinds have cropped up in Latin America to provide mentorship, support and investment for startups as they grow.
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Through its Venture Program, CrunchBase partners with 333,300 venture capital firms, incubators, and accelerators around the world who volunteer up-to-date information about its investments.
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We are now accepting applications from International startup groups, government innovation centers, incubators and accelerators that want to display as a country pavilion in Startup Alley.
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Aurora will be particularly optimized to analyze the streaming data produced by the DOE's array of instruments, including telescopes, particle accelerators, and various detectors, Stevens explained.
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Unlike 500's other accelerators, Distro Dojo is focused on companies that already kind of have their shit together, but are looking to expand even faster.
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Asked about the many accelerators, incubators, and other outfits trying to make these same connections in Silicon Valley, Hansch readily concedes that there's plenty of competition.
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The firm spins out accelerators to focus on different problems or technologies about every two years and is also the force behind synthetic biology accelerator IndieBio.
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Essentially, F6S are choosing founders from major venture groups, accelerators and incubators like TechStars, Rothenberg Ventures, Dreamit, 10,000 Startups and Y Combinator to name a few.
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Chris DeVore, an angel investor who runs the Seattle branch of Techstars, a chain of accelerators, says more needs to be done to grow local startups.
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Many other such accelerators exist around the world to try to support fintech innovation and investment for those start-up companies willing to cede a stake.
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Amazon also has a program called AWS Activate, which partners with over 255,000 incubators, accelerators, venture firms and other groups to expand use of the technology.
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CNET reported that by 1999, there were more than 33 companies producing graphics accelerators, a market complexity that meant any strategic errors would not be tolerated.
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The company also partners with big companies, such as Disney, Barclays and more to run accelerators for them — those programs also create a healthy revenue stream.
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Since then, Amazon claims it has worked with over 100 leading venture capital firms, startup accelerators, and crowd-funding platforms, and launched more than 1,000 startups.
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Rather than investing in fitness gadgets and other tools for wellness, Sand Hill Road's VC firms and tech accelerators are now stepping into the life sciences.
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With local French players (accelerators) building relationships with their U.S. counterparts, we'll see more and more French SaaS going to the U.S. at an early stage.
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Ryerson University's Digital Media Zone incubator is also a resource for early-stage companies worldwide, as are a range of University of Toronto incubators and accelerators.
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The firm is currently working through its 19th batch of companies, and a partnership like this could also help it further differentiate itself from other accelerators.
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The ministry gave details of 32 materials, technologies and forms of equipment with potential use related to weapons of mass destruction, including particle accelerators and centrifuges.
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There are mentors, accelerators, angels, investors and clients out there ready, willing and able to help innovative start-ups but it's not a purely altruistic offering.
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"We know that improvements in detector technology and quality of accelerators will permit even more sensitive experiments in the coming decades," he said at the time.
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The segment of the show known as Eureka Park is where the startups and accelerators congregate, often times showing off products that are still years away.
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According to research by Future Asia Ventures, there are 131 active corporate accelerators worldwide today, with 13 new programs launching in the first half of 2016.
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The differentiation between the programs is more along the lines of where the company is looking to invest, compared to the structures that other accelerators have.
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The lawmakers also asked whether Cfius should look into Chinese angel and venture capital funds established in the United States and Chinese investment in tech accelerators.
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Every effort must be made to keep hospitals functioning, to keep them from becoming accelerators of community transmission, and to keep clinical staff protected and working.
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For example, tech firms could release data on participants' college matriculation rates, selected majors, admission to accelerators or other tech-focused training programs and employment rates.
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As a career coach and mentor at a handful of universities and business accelerators, I spend a great deal of time helping people navigate their careers.
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These innovation spaces, accelerators and incubators — which tally 618 per GSMA stats — have become focal points for startup formation, training and IT activity on the continent.
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Though the accelerators' round of due diligence may keep him from investing in something fraudulent, it doesn't minimize the possibility that he might lose his investment.
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The goal is to encourage more entrepreneurs and accelerators to focus their energy on music, which can be a daunting and byzantine industry to deal with.
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Since 2005, the year Y Combinator began, accelerators have sprung up everywhere to help transform startups from a skein of code into a bona-fide company.
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Vertically Integrated: Complex or high-rise with space for accelerators, labs, co-working and corporate offices, designed to let startups move through "stages" in one place.
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Some of the more interesting developments in server design are coming from the addition of new chips that serve as accelerators for specific kinds of workloads.
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Which is why the LHC, eventually, may be relegated to being merely one in a stage of accelerators leading to an even larger one — 100 kilometers around.
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I asked Benedikt if the group had considered some of the new research into more compact accelerators that could produce high-energy particles over a smaller footprint.
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NASA has looked into a number of different accelerators over the decades, but none of them were considered viable to pursue as a full space launch system.
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AWAKE still relies on protons created in CERN's large rings, but "wakefield" accelerators like these could become a game-changing technology for the future of particle physics.
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"We could potentially get an electron beam to the tera-electron volt scale over a relatively short distance—which is almost unfeasible with [other] accelerators," said Wing.
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Before us, there was no support for women who were starting a tech startup and what was unique was that we didn't take equity, unlike most accelerators.
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The plan is, like other accelerators and incubators, to "help entrepreneurs at the idea or prototyping phase build their products," as co-founder Craig Dudenhoeffer put it.
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CrunchBase then surveyed newer venture capital firms and accelerators that have only been active since 2014 and found that 12 percent of the partner roles were women.
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In recent years China's government and several firms have backed more than a dozen accelerators that cultivate startups and have opened "corporate innovation" centres in Silicon Valley.
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Generally, tech startups have an overwhelming number of resources when it comes to accelerators or investors willing to help them — as long as they are for-profit.
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Taking aim at the funding environment, Argentinian officials were inspired by Israel's success and are rolling out 1:1 matched funding incentives for accelerators and venture funds.
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Beijing's unslakeable thirst for the latest technology has spurred a proliferation of "accelerators" in Silicon Valley that aim to identify promising startups and bring them to China.
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Partnering with external accelerators or incubators is another option, and there are many doing interesting work in this space, like Singularity University, Runway, 500 Startups and Betaworks.
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Since its launch, 21 of Penn State's campuses have created "innovation hubs" that provide co-working space, accelerators and other resources to students, faculty and community members.
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Women hold 15 percent of the partner roles at both accelerators and corporate venture firms, a 25 percent increase over the 12 percent in our 2016 report.
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Canopy Boulder, unlike other accelerators, is focused exclusively on the new market of cannabis startups; it's only mentoring and guiding companies who embrace the potential of ganja.
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"Microsoft Ventures will focus on start-up investments while Microsoft Accelerator will focus on start-up enablement, primarily through our seven accelerators around the world," he writes.
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McClure and Atli shy away from comparisons to other accelerators and incubators, though it's hard not to draw analogies between a program like 500 Labs and Betaworks.
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This is precisely why our Committee is holding a hearing this week to see what Washington can learn from business accelerators and the entrepreneurs who use them.
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On accelerators and capacity building, 500 Startups brought its frontier and emerging markets travel series ― Geeks on a Plane ― to Africa for the first time in March.
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The rise of accelerators and continuing investment in entrepreneurship in Tunisia is likely to have significant positive economic repercussions in a country desperate for growth and stability.
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The growth of innovation spaces, accelerators and incubators in Africa — which tally 618 per GSMA stats — is often lauded as an achievement for the continent's tech ecosystem.
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But today, infrared sources like lasers, heaters, and particle accelerators might be missing the necessary brightness, wavelengths, or resolution, or might be too expensive, for these purposes.
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A few things have been tried but few of the accelerators are able to keep successful entrepreneurs rooted to the city, an important aspect of ecosystem building.
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The top two accelerators in the country are Y Combinator, which has provided $2100 billion in financing, and Techstars, which has given nearly $2120 billion in funding.
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There are plenty of accelerators aiming to sway young startups to join their ranks rather than apply to Y Combinator, but Pioneer's sell is a bit different.
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The company is partnering with startup bootcamp Boomtown Accelerators, as well as brands NBC Sports, Sky Sports, and Golf Channel, NASCAR, US Ski & Snowboard, and USA Swimming.
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Under an arc of glass and curved concrete, it aims to amass the largest group of entrepreneurs, venture capital firms, incubators and accelerators anywhere in the world.
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Scientists know that neutrinos are produced by natural sources such as stars or galactic cores, as well as human-made technologies like particle accelerators and nuclear reactors.
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He works with accelerators — programs that weed through proposals and provide young companies with funding and mentorship opportunities — to select start-ups he'd like to invest in.
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This was when 3D accelerators were really kicking off, so the number of particles you could throw up and the water reflections—you hadn't seen this stuff yet.
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I've seen the ecosystem grow from a small, suspicious group of former cubicle warriors into a vibrant and exciting scene with multiple accelerators and funds vying for startups.
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"Our platform pulls data from hundreds of sources including blogs, job boards, accelerators, and databases like CrunchBase," Fly Ventures co-founder and General Partner Gabriel Matuschka tells me.
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This has taken 500's investments into distant corners of the world, with dedicated funds and accelerators scoping out what has amounted to a prolific number of investments.
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These success stories prove that high-tech incubators and accelerators can be more inclusive and serve as a promising tool toward creating a more inclusive high-tech sector.
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This is a different approach from pitch contests and accelerators run by other leagues, which tend to only solicit companies working in the sports entertainment and media space.
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Startups will gladly store, manage and deliver your items The top startup accelerators have a history of seeing the future in ideas that sounded silly at the time.
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Fielding is already a Techstars veteran, having run a number of its industry-focused corporate accelerators, such as Techstars IoT, the Barclays Accelerator and the Cedars-Sinai Accelerator.
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Techstars runs a number of corporate-backed accelerators with companies like Barclays, Rakuten, MetLife, and Comcast NBCU, with each accelerator focusing on areas relevant to their sponsoring companies.
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Sequoia Capital is among these, having recently led a $50 million investment in Graphcore, a Bristol, England-based semiconductor company that develops accelerators for AI and machine learning.
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Other accelerators, AngelPad for example, put a stop to the tradition last year after realizing demo day was more of a stress to startup founders than a resource.
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A plan called Louisville Forward aims to accelerate the economy through start-up resources, including five business accelerators, five co-working hubs and more than 20 networking partners.
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There are now four active funds, whether venture capital or private equity, scouting Palestinian tech investments, three or four "accelerators" and a total of 17 VC-backed startups.
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With the national mood plunging toward despair in the first semester of 2015, Brazilian accelerators, VC funds and angel networks nevertheless backed at least 195 startups between them.
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Accelerators, incubators and co-working spaces, meanwhile, have been formed with the aim of inspiring the country's youth and turning Kuwait into a nation of tech-savvy innovators.
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Check to see if they blog, tweet, judge at Startup Weekends, mentor at accelerators, speak at conferences or do things that the vast majority of other investors do.
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Accelerators have been all the rage for the last 10 years in tech, but tech investors tend not to launch them in addition to their normal investment strategies.
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With names like Pathrise, Thinkful and the Lambda School, these "career accelerators" provide tech companies with certified coders and provide participants with a credential in months, not years.
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Battery Life and Charging: The new S-Pen looks the same on the outside, but the addition of accelerators inside allowed for the creation of Samsung's Air Actions.
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For a decade, I've reviewed startup pitches via email and Twitter, at demo days for accelerators like Y Combinator and on stage as a judge of startup competitions.
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For 10 years, I've reviewed startup pitches via email and Twitter, at demo days for accelerators like Y Combinator and on stage as a judge of startup competitions.
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In fact, there are quite a few ways to raise capital through nontraditional means, such as a friends and family round, accelerators, business loans, or crowd funding platforms.
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Mega VC funds are competing over pre-seed deals for the buzziest startups and Y Combinator's batch sizes are ballooning, leaving little room for accelerators with similar pitches.
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The proton synchrotron, the oldest of the three accelerators targeted in this project, was first put in operation in 1959, long before the Large Hadron Collider was built.
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Meet ups, accelerators, hackathons and competitions, such as the Mayor of London's Civic Innovation Challenge, have helped tech for good businesses thrive in the city, according to Nesta.
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"Cycle forward 20 years and you have incubators, accelerators, seed funds, angel networks, micro-funds," Fonstad said on the latest episode of Recode Decode, hosted by Kara Swisher.
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They both got doubled by U.S. companies because it was harder back then to move to the U.S. So very early on I started applying to the U.S. accelerators.
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A recent report by the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City digs into the barriers preventing women and minority entrepreneurs from fully participating in high-tech incubators and accelerators.
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Each FSD contains two chips, and each chip has two accelerators that are specially designed to run neural networks, the AI components Tesla's cars use to read the road.
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In the world of spray and pray accelerators, that's a pretty unique structure for founders — and one far more friendly than what they'd see in other programs, I think.
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Inside the Xavier is a Volta Tensor Core GPU, an eight-core ARM64 CPU, dual NVDLA deep learning accelerators, an image processor, a vision processor and a video processor.
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As cryptocurrency fever grips the tech world, and blockchain technologies gradually become more viable, there is a new wave of accelerators and incubators appearing to service this growing ecosystem.
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Unlike traditional start-up accelerators — which typically help early-stage businesses — Antler looks for individuals with entrepreneurial potential, then helps them find co-founders and develop their business ideas.
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The company will also be working with what he described as "a global network" of accelerators, incubators and others to identify startups to become a part of the program.
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Accelerators invest in each startup they accept into their program, but 500 hasn't paid all the money that it owes to companies in the group that finished in October.
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Over the last decade, entrepreneurs from across our nation have joined together to start business accelerators as a means of taking their ideas and companies to the next level.
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A coalition of more than 30 investment firms and accelerators has pledged to diversify access to capital, and to track and share data about the diversity of its portfolios.
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The mighty accelerators of CERN, a joint European physics laboratory, straddle the frontier there, their beams of protons whirling between the two countries at almost the speed of light.
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It will complete a project that began with a row of multipurpose towers, called Grand Front, that's already home to a handful of start-up incubators and business accelerators.
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The country has a number of startup accelerators to help budding entrepreneurs get off the ground and scale, but what's really needed runs deeper than physical infrastructure, English said.
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Seoul, home to half of South Korea's 50 million-person population, also houses up to 3,500 start-ups and around 100 accelerators, most notably in its famed Gangnam district.
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Tech companies began to trickle in, buttressed by the Fortune 500 old guard, and they in turn gave birth to startup accelerators, seed-investment firms, and venture capital funds.
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Superconductors are used in the magnets of most modern magnetic resonance imaging machines and for accelerating protons at the particle accelerators that study the smallest bits of the universe.
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Superconductors are used in the magnets of most modern magnetic resonance imaging machines and for accelerating protons at the particle accelerators that study the smallest bits of the universe.
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And the White House wants to put a special spotlight on investment — from venture capital and startup accelerators to the ways founders get into business in the first place.
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"We have multiple ongoing projects to integrate Spark better with native accelerators, including Apache Arrow support and GPU scheduling with Project Hydrogen," said Spark founder Matei Zaharia in today's announcement.
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Experiments on nuclear reactors and particle accelerators have confirmed the strange neutrino identity-switching oscillation behavior, which won scientists Takaaki Kajita and Arthur McDonald the 2015 Nobel Prize in physics.
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"These ideas have been proposed over the last 40 years, but they've been staying on the back burner, because the main focus of fundamental physics has been accelerators," he said.
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Last May, Barnard College's Athena Center for Leadership Studies launched the Athena Pledge campaign to encourage accelerators and incubators to support at least 33 percent women-led businesses by 2017.
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Hosted by Barclays and Techstars, one of the world's largest start-up accelerators, the event aimed to identify the next big companies, all with a financial technology or "fintech" focus.
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He and his team have modified some particle accelerators in a way that offers designers of electronic equipment the ability to test their products—and, crucially, to test them quickly.
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Private high-tech accelerators, whose reputations are built on ventures graduating with large infusions of venture capital, might find women and minority entrepreneurs less attractive because they attract less capital.
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Culture The macho, exclusive, hyper-competitive culture of some high-tech accelerators is the image marketed and shared by media, creating perhaps the biggest deterrent to women and minority entrepreneurs.
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Their oldest one, HAX, is the premier hardware accelerator in San Francisco and Shenzhen, and they've recently launched a food accelerator in New York and a pair of biology accelerators.
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With that in mind, we mined Crunchbase data on new seed investments by top-ranked accelerators, looking for similarities in their vision of where consumer and enterprise tech is headed.
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Bleximo, a startup that aims to build "quantum accelerators" — basically quantum-based, application-specific integrated circuits — today announced it has raised a $1.5 million seed round led by Eniac Ventures.
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Here, we're focusing only on institutional investors of a few types, specifically venture capitalists (so-called "micro VCs" and "regular VCs" alike), accelerators, incubators, seed funds and angel investor networks.
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The $29 million supercomputer is an IBM AC2216 system utilizing 29,227 compute servers containing two 2648-core IBM Power13 processors and six Nvidia Tesla V21 graphics processing unit accelerators each.
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"A physicist in the 1980s named Klaus Halbach came up with the configuration to use in particle accelerators, but Halbach arrays are everywhere now, mostly stuck on refrigerators," he said.
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While there was a sense that "not following" presented signaling risk, accelerators have found creative ways to sidestep the issue — for example, joining rounds only if there is another lead.
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In addition, the prime minister visited 1871, a hub for more than 400 digital start-ups that houses accelerators, incubators, tech talent schools and the Illinois Science and Technology Coalition.
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Muller backs his claim by pointing out that small accelerators that take electrons to almost the speed of light (99.999% of the speed of light, to be exact) already exist.
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From the first trials of development to accelerators and funding rounds, we have fought to bring MekaMon to life and into the hands of the next generation of tech pioneers.
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First, some stats: Techstars accelerators are now in 49 cities around the world, including across the U.S., as well as in Europe, Australia, Singapore and South Korea, among other countries.
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This deal would represent the first IPO from the Y Combinator portfolio, and a maturing of accelerators, the early-stage investment vehicles that first became popular in the mid-2000s.
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More than 150 accelerators currently operate in the UK — up tenfold since 2009 — offering a combination of contacts, mentorship and financial backing to entrepreneurs building up their businesses from scratch.
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"It's totally unexpected and exciting that thunderstorms can turn into something like giant particle accelerators," said Joseph Dwyer, a professor of gamma ray astronomy at the University of New Hampshire.
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The surge in the number of China-focused accelerators - which support, mentor and invest in early-stage startups - is part of a larger wave of Chinese investment in Silicon Valley.
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Officials at several China-backed accelerators told Reuters their goal was to help startups gain access to the China market and nurture relationships between entrepreneurs and investors in both countries.
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Two high-powered electron accelerators in the U.S. can accelerate electrons to 6 billion and 50 billion electron volts (6 to 50 GeV), but are around a mile long or more.
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In most countries there are now clusters of startups, brought together by co-working spaces like Astrolabs in Dubai or Cogite in Tunisia, which have connections to accelerators, incubators and investors.
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These accelerators could mean that machine learning-powered software features (like Huawei's latest OS, which studies the apps users use most and allocates processing power accordingly) could be implemented more efficiently.
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Program design The program design of traditional high-tech accelerators, which often require intensive, in-person residency, may fit the lifestyle of the stereotypical young, white, male entrepreneur, but not others.
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Today, Amazon says it has now worked with over 100 VCs, accelerators and crowdfunders and has helped more than 1,000 launch products across the U.S., the U.K., China, Germany, and France.
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Synchrotrons are particle accelerators that produce a brilliant x-ray light, and have been used in recent years to analyze several old paintings, often revealing images or under paintings just underneath.
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It is this "pre-team, pre-idea" approach that sets EF apart from other accelerators, while, as we've noted previously, the emphasis on technical talent is producing some very interesting results.
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Startups that want to take advantage of the French Tech Visa need to complete an online form first — the full list of VC funds and accelerators is embedded in the form.
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In fact, most incubators or accelerators take their cue from one of the original incubators, Y Combinator, which gives each of its startups less than three minutes to dazzle the crowd.
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And, like other Wayra-run accelerators, there's also the possibility, where a strategic fit applies, to tap into Telefónica's 300 million customer base, although your mileage in this regard will vary.
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Its privileged proximity to both New York and Silicon Valley will allow this emerging ecosystem to consolidate its position as an entrepreneurial hub with the arrival of accelerators and VC funds.
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In fact, one of the biggest questions it is trying to address is whether accelerators work as well for developing-world entrepreneurs as they do for those in the developed world.
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GENEVA (Reuters) - A new particle accelerator unveiled at CERN, the European physics research center, is expected to spawn portable accelerators that could help doctors treat cancer patients and experts analyze artwork.
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Take this as a field guide for aspiring food entrepreneurs, from rustling together start-up funding to navigating the sometimes inscrutable worlds of crowdfunding, small business loans, accelerators, and venture capital.
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Some accelerators are so big and so general-purpose that it was refreshing to have a manageable number of companies all clustered around interlinked issues and united by a common concern.
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The microscale machine, which is called a dielectric laser accelerator (DLA), could eventually lead to a cheaper and more compact version of accelerators that operate in the megaelectronvolt (MeV) energy range.
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Led by the French public investment bank, Bpifrance, with €42 billion under management, the state makes billions in loans and grants available to fund start-ups and accelerators at easy terms.
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At the same time, women held about 15 percent of partner roles at accelerators and corporate venture firms while they founded 16 micro-venture funds in recent years, the report added.
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And while the city has seen countless startups, VCs, accelerators and other entrepreneurial resources set up shop within its borders, getting the right tools in place is only part of the battle.
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Scientists dream that one day, these laser-plasma accelerators could shrink particle physics experiments to the point that they no longer require enormous infrastructure projects like the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland.
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A 2014 study of accelerators found that just the presence of an accelerator can have an impact on the number of seed and early-stage VC deals in a local startup ecosystem.
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Accelerators are examples of external innovation, in which startups are born "in the wild" and apply to participate in a limited-time program with a mix of academic curriculum and unstructured elements.
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The exclusivity of the high-tech sector in general is reflected in the lack of diverse entrepreneurs being supported by high-tech accelerators and, to a lesser degree, by high-tech incubators.
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With Dubai making efforts to be the first city fully on blockchain and programs like Dubai Future Accelerators and Accenture's FinTech Hive grabbing attention, the city's tech sector is reaching new heights.
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For successful startups, rapid growth often attracts the attention of incubators and accelerators, and popular programs such as Y Combinator and Techstars have been instrumental in launching some startups to great success.
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Her coverage areas will include: early stage startups, innovation hubs like accelerators, and emerging industries like crowdfunding, 3D printing, drones and the internet of things, future of food, education, fashion and transportation.
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They were limited in energy, and as a result, they went out of fashion as particle physicists decided that they needed larger and larger accelerators going up to higher and higher energies.
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They rely on the National Labs to build and operate the large-scale science facilities, such as particle accelerators and supercomputer centers, tasks that go beyond the capacity of a single university.
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With an end goal of pitching their ideas to a field of investors during a demo day, accelerators put company teams through a fixed-term, cohort-based program that focuses on mentorships.
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This small business week, I urge all Americans to learn more about the business accelerators in your area and find ways to get involved in this exciting new area of entrepreneurial development.
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In 1996, the facility upgraded its ion beam accelerators with a z-pinch, which enhanced their effect by creating a magnetic field that contracts the around the particle beam creating a plasma.
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Scientists have thought for some time that energetic particles could be created by these jets because they could act as "cosmic accelerators," affecting protons and neutrons and turning them into cosmic rays.
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Because alumni of the Disney Accelerator have scored big partnerships with the media and entertainment juggernaut in the past, it is seen as one of the more desirable corporate accelerators out there.
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There are literally hundreds of YC clones and yet 95% of the value in accelerators has accrued to YC. I think we're on track for something similar in the talent investing space.
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And of all the accelerators out there, none has connections as coveted as YC. As a result, its program is among the most competitive: Fewer than 3 percent of applicants get accepted.
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In the next few years, use of ISAs will likely go beyond formal education programs to create a new category of career accelerators that are more like scaled talent agencies for businesspeople.
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DCT also plans to spend 500 million dirhams over the next three years toward marketing the emirate and attract tourists, as part of the Abu Dhabi government's accelerators program called Ghadan 21.
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"But these accelerators are all about fundraising, and they have demo days and this whole track of raising money becomes a part of their business — and it just doesn't have to be."
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Participants will have access to other perks — including discounted cloud storage from providers like Amazon Web Services, totaling as much as $20 million in annual investment — more than its other two accelerators.
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Lightspeed aims to help these start-ups by creating a network of early-stage mentors, investors and accelerators -- the type that peers who make mobile apps or hardware would take for granted.
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NEW YORK/ SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Beijing's unslakeable thirst for the latest technology has spurred a proliferation of "accelerators" in Silicon Valley that aim to identify promising startups and bring them to China.
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Rather, she creates her images by building up a palimpsest of subatomic decay patterns: the straight, curvilinear, and spiraling paths of these tiniest of particles, which scientists study using accelerators and electronic detectors.
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Over the past half-century, scientists repeatedly tried and failed to capture the fallout of its flickering existence by crashing particles into each other at near light speed in a series of accelerators.
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The report from the International Committee for Future Accelerators (ICFA) found that downsizing could potentially cut costs by around 40 percent and reduce the amount of digging required to build such an experiment.
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SparkLabs Group, a network of funds and accelerators, is known for its focus on Asia (it launched its first startup program in Seoul before expanding to cities including Beijing, Taipei and Hong Kong).
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Most accelerators take a significant amount of equity, which, if a company is valued at something reasonable like $30 million dollars, that equity amasses to a significant amount of money for those companies.
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Recruitment and selection biases may prevent diverse entrepreneurs from gaining access to high-tech incubators and accelerators, while programs that aren't flexible and an exclusive, macho culture may make them not want to.
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When pressed, Clifford counts competitors as academia and "deep tech" companies, such as Google's DeepMind, who are also working very hard to attract the brightest technical minds, rather than traditional accelerators or incubators.
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Over the next year, the government also plans to co-create with the private sector 10 new accelerators, making it an exciting time for programs that help Argentine entrepreneurs drive their companies forward.
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"All of the world's major internet and cloud service providers now use Nvidia's Tesla-based GPU (graphics processing unit) accelerators," Chief Financial Officer Colette Kress said on a post-earnings call on Tuesday.
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But given the enormous technical demands of building particle accelerators, scientists are beginning to plan for the post-LHC world and the new report represents the latest step toward committing to a strategy.
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ISOLDE is a smaller experiment that harnesses a beam of protons from a small nearby proton accelerator, the first in a slew of accelerators that eventually injects particles into the Large Hadron Collider.
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The source also noted the founders joined the Dubai Future Accelerators incubation program after the Indiegogo campaign — which they say led to them almost signing a b2b contract with the Dubai Health Authority.
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While questions certainly remain, we know how the universe began and, in large particle accelerators, we can literally recreate the conditions common in the universe a fraction of a second after it began.
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A graduate of Yale and MIT, Gell-Mann made early contributions to the emerging practice of using "atom smashers"—devices now known as particle accelerators—to smash electrons and protons at high speeds.
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You'll find most VC funds and accelerators based in France (but not all of them), as well as a few foreign companies (Y Combinator, 500 Startups, Techstars, Entrepreneur First, Plug and Play, Startupbootcamp).
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Making the case for a startup visa In the five years since thousands of Egyptians filled Cairo's Tahrir Square, startups in Egypt have multiplied as have the number of funds and startup accelerators.
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Cybersecurity accelerators like MACH37 in Northern Virginia (the only one in the country) and incubators like 1776 also are working hard to fuel commercial startups that keep the region ahead of the curve.
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DETROIT, June 7 (Reuters) - General Motors Co Chief Executive Mary Barra on Tuesday said she believes self-driving vehicles should keep steering wheels and brakes and accelerators in them as the technology develops.
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While at the lab, he devised a way to make particle accelerators more powerful by using separate magnets to bend and curve the particle beam, rather than combining the functions in one magnet.
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According to their findings, there are currently 160 accelerators in operation, representing year-over-year growth of around 50 percent dating back to 2005, when pioneer Y Combinator first came on the scene.
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The app's launch comes at a time when Apple has been focused on growing its international community of developers through investments in local developer academies and accelerators — efforts that have been paying off.
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These won't be rivaling macro-size accelerators like SLAC's or the Large Hadron Collider, but they could be much more useful for research and clinical applications where planet-destroying power levels aren't required.
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"The idea is to shrink those types of particle accelerators down—the ones that operate on the MeV scale," said lead author Neil Sapra, a graduate student at Stanford University, in a call.
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To compete, big consumer packaged goods firms have launched their own venture arms and accelerators to help them identify new acquisition targets or give them a view into what people want to eat.
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The accelerators vary hugely in terms of the resources on offer, investing anything between £15,000 and £100,000 in schemes lasting from three to 12 months, usually in exchange for a percentage of equity.
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And to be sure, the Chinese programs are a small part of the picture; there are 159 accelerators and 70 incubators of all types in the San Francisco Bay area, according to Crunchbase.
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Local investors include CEED Tech, a consortium of five startup accelerators, operating in Central and Eastern Europe; and LAUNCHER, a startup studio focused on seed and early stage investments and startups in Central Europe.
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In fact, adults in their 20s, 30 and even 50s who have college degrees are enrolling in coding bootcamps or career accelerators because they didn't get job-ready skills when they were in school.
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According to Gust's Latin American accelerator report, more than half (58 percent) of startup accelerators in the region are focused on a specific vertical rather than trying to be a jack-of-all-trades.
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BELLA's laser pulse passes through a plasma stored in a tube etched into that tiny device, accelerating electrons in the plasma to nearly the energies of some of the world's highest-energy electron accelerators.
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The kingdom has made progress in reducing red tape and liberalizing various sectors, investors say, and it has also seen growth in start-up accelerators and tech incubators, which now number at around 40.
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First off, at least when it comes to deal volume, family offices' startup investment activity tracks with the broader venture investment market (which includes individual angels, venture capital groups, seed funds, accelerators and others).
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Six-year-old AngelPad is smaller than peer accelerators and seed funds like 500 Startups, TechStars or Y Combinator, making it something like the elite, small college versus their large state schools and universities.
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AMD co-founded the Heterogeneous Systems Architecture (HSA) Foundation to allow these different technologies — CPU, GPU and fixed-function accelerators, including FPGAs — to work together, share memory and be optimized from a systems standpoint.
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NFX Guild prides itself on being different that most accelerators in numerous ways, including that there's no publicly available application process; startups are instead referred to NFX "scouts," who happen to mostly be VCs.
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When Amazon Launchpad began back in July 2015, the company stated that it was collaborating with over 25 venture capital firms, crowdfunding platforms and startup accelerators to draw in new talent onto the platform.
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It may sound far-fetched in 2017 to trust your finances to an AI-powered digital assistant with a cutesy name, but accelerators are betting that in a few years, that's going to change.
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To this end, 17 Israeli accelerators were established in 2015, with Barclays, GE, Intel, Cisco and Samsung amongst the prominent foreign corporations that realized an Israeli accelerator is a necessity to stay globally competitive.
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Latin American startups have been able to reach U.S. VCs in one of three ways: through top-tier accelerators, by selling to consumers in the U.S. market or by taking on a copycat model.
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Google has a lead in this area; it has built some remarkably powerful custom chips, called Tensor Processing Units (TPUs), and uses other customised accelerators to increase the processing speed of its data centres.
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"Demo days are great ways for accelerators to expose a large number of companies to a lot of investors, but we don't think it is the most productive way," Korte told TechCrunch last year.
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The idea is to not only fill First Round's pipeline of viable investments but to protect projects from turning to startup accelerators that ask for a large stake in return for a small investment.
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Some findings from the report: Only 28 percent of partners at top 29 venture firms are women, and women hold just under 23 percent of partner roles at both accelerators and corporate venture firms.
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In addition to Seoul, SparkLab Group's network now includes accelerators in Beijing and Taiwan (another dedicated to financial tech will launch in Hong Kong next year) and SparkLabs Global Ventures, a seed-stage fund.
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Incubators and accelerators like Y-Combinator have institutionalized experiential training in best practices (product-market fit, pivots, agile development, etc.); provide experienced and hands-on mentorship; and offer a growing network of founding CEOs.
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Called the K-Startup Grand Challenge, the program is being organized by South Korea's Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning (MSIP), in partnership with Seoul-based accelerators SparkLabs, DEV Korea, ActnerLab, and Shift.
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SC: We talk with graduates who provide qualitative information about each program, either positive or negative, to understand the relationships that accelerators have with their alumni and to assign them a net promoter score.
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All of this is to say that the firm is looking to give a strong selling point to its partners that it provides a different kind of value beyond the other accelerators out there.
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From McDonald's McD Tech Labs to Mastercard's Start Path, corporate incubators and accelerators have become common in large cap America, where companies look to tap startup ingenuity and deal-flow to and hedge disruption.
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"Our intellectual property is the future of our economy and our security," Senator Mark Warner, the Democratic vice-chairman of the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee, said in a statement to Reuters about Chinese accelerators.
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Everything from smart digital assistants to autonomous cars to virtual reality is being enabled and enhanced with the addition of new types of computing models and accelerators to today's servers and cloud-based infrastructure.
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The Accelerator Selection Tool, created by nonprofit Conveners in collaboration with Sphaera, ImpactSpace, and other partners, weeds through the hundreds of social impact accelerators out there in order to find the right one for you.
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SparkLabs Group, the network of accelerators and venture funds that has now worked with more than 200 startups around the world, wants to foster the next generation of entrepreneurs with a new program for universities.
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The Plug and Play approach contrasts with other big valley accelerators like Y Combinator (whose demo day wrapped up on Tuesday), which have maintained a base in the Valley and pride themselves on their independence.
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Rather, researchers are arguing that a decade-old experiment may have furnished the first evidence of a new type of particle that has evaded detection by some of the most sophisticated particle accelerators for years.
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And it uses accelerators to help large employers, who pay Plug and Play for "corporate innovation as a service," to connect and work with some of the best and the brightest startups in their field.
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All three teams are now in a race to perfect their apparatus in time to make observations before CERN's accelerators come to the end of their current run and take a two-year maintenance break.
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Nieman Lab talked to Campbell Brown, who runs journalism initiatives at Facebook: BROWN: Coming out of the accelerators, we found out of all the various investments we were making that this was a bright spot.
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The $50 million fund allows betaworks to invest across all three of its main interests, including betaworks studio (the arm that launches home-made companies), betaworks camps (theme-based accelerators) and external investment (outside companies).
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Unlike other Silicon Valley accelerators, there won't be a demo day because it "seems a little like standardized testing," Backstage Capital Founder and Managing Partner Arlan Hamilton said at TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco last month.
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Like startup accelerators, schools like UCB can help students build the essential connections they need to succeed, and they can also be the site of traumatic experiences that ultimately drive women out of the industry.
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This includes Ramez Mohamed, the CEO of one of the most successful accelerators in the Middle East (Flat6Labs), and Ziad Mokhtar, who is a long-term Egyptian venture capitalist and founded Algebra Ventures with Ismail.
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Touchdown VC's Managing Director Rich Grant and President Scott Lenet will continue to work with 1894 and Kellogg's to connect the Battle Creek, Michigan company with the broader VC community and relevant food-focused accelerators.
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Image: Jiansheng Liu/Chinese Academy of SciencesA new generation of tabletop accelerators has the potential to accelerate electrons to near the speed of light, without the need for gigantic machines like the Large Hadron Collider.
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Felicia the Ferret, who is somewhat of a low key celebrity in the physics community, was used to help physicists clean 300-foot-pipes in particle accelerators at Fermilab, a particle physics laboratory in Illinois.
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"We believe by finding, filtering and aggregating exciting startups from top universities, research institutes, and incubators/accelerators, we can demonstrate the combined strength of SoCal in a compelling way to top investors and thought leaders."
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Her plan calls for "supporting incubators, accelerators, mentoring and training for 50,000 entrepreneurs in underserved areas," and increasing funding for several existing programs that offer tax credits and financing for community development and small businesses.
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He says there is this false notion that you need these specialized chips or hardware accelerators to have the necessary resources to run these jobs, but he says it doesn't have to be that way.
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Other notable players in the ecosystem include Universidad del Pacifico, where much of the tech talent arises, Peru's first accelerator Wayra, accelerator Endeavour Peru, as well as 10 other accelerators and incubators in the community.
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Once they've shared the data — which they do confidentially; we sign non-disclosure agreements — we can benchmark them against other accelerators whether or not they [are ranked at or near the top of the heap].
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The current "pitch mentality" of accelerators, incubators, venture capital and entrepreneurship education tends to filter student participation not necessarily by the quality of their ideas, but rather by their ability in this style of communication.
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To provide further context, Lerner says to think back to 203 when he left PayPal to join 500 Startups in London, a city that wasn't short of accelerators but was facing a "Series A Crunch".
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The New York lab is one of hundreds of incubators and accelerators that have sprung up throughout the country to help start-ups, such as Y Combinator in Mountain View, Calif; Techstars in Boulder, Colo.
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But as the measurements of primordial helium got better and better, their prediction on the number of neutrino families shrank to about three, the number known today — a result confirmed by experiments at particle accelerators.
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They have approached and partnered with dozens of accelerators around the globe including Y Combinator, 500 Startups and TechStars to bring their portfolio startups onto Notion's platform, offering admitted startups $183,000 in free services each.
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Observing these collisions can also help us answer a range of outstanding questions, such as how black holes work as cosmic particle accelerators, or whether Einstein's General Theory of Relativity is the correct description of nature.
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The Advanced Proton Driven Plasma Wakefield Acceleration Experiment (AWAKE) at CERN in Geneva is a prototype for a new kind of machine that could accelerate electrons over a fraction of the distance needed by other accelerators.
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The data set looks for companies that raised first-time funding in the past six months from accelerators in North America with a standout record for backing startups that go on to secure much higher valuations.
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Called Map Connect SP, its goal is to provide greater visibility about the current state of innovation agents in the region, including coworking spaces, incubators, universities, technology parks, VC funds, accelerators, associations and other noteworthy institutions.
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"Once closed, the acquisition of Bitfusion will bolster VMware's strategy of supporting AI- and ML-based workloads by virtualizing hardware accelerators," writes Krish Prasad, senior vice president and general manager of VMware's Cloud Platform Business Unit.
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In fact, the main sounds of particle accelerators come from all of the machinery: engines designed to keep components at cryogenic temperatures, fans whirring in supercomputing sensors, and water rushing through pipes to keep electronics cool.
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Muons are typically studied in high-energy accelerators such as European Organization for Nuclear Research, better known as CERN, to better understand these particles, but they've also been used in other situations as a research tool.
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Dr. Richter was the rare particle physicist who possessed a broad expertise both in the engineering of how accelerators slam together subatomic particles at near-light speeds and in understanding what comes out of those collisions.
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The general idea behind particle accelerators is that they're a long line of radiation emitters that smack the target particle with radiation at the exact right time to propel it forward a little faster than before.
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From corporate venture capital arms investing in start-ups to innovate faster and better, to corporations embedding tech accelerators within their walls to foster more entrepreneurial spirit throughout the company, these relationships are reinvigorating aging brands.
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Toyota, Google, Amazon, Alibaba, Siemens and GE. Many of these corporate investors have R&D centers and/or accelerators in Israel, but often will require their investments to relocate and be geographically closer to their production partners.
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With well over 250 accelerators in Europe, it isn't hard to imagine that with more and more resources available, startups are further along when looking for that initial investment than they were just a few years ago.
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With the growing number of accelerators joining existing shops such as NXTP Labs and Wayra, a lack of follow-on capital for Series A and B rounds could be a harmful bottleneck to the country's new agenda.
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While the number of start-ups in incubators, accelerators and various types of programmes has increased, the number of Series A rounds hasn't really changed meaning it's more difficult to source strong winners at Series A stage.
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Leading the pack is NXTP Labs, the early-stage investor that's developing a regional network of accelerators and seed investment funds through partnerships that extend from Mexico City to Montevideo and São Paulo up to San Francisco.
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It said at the time it was working with over 25 VC firms, accelerators and crowdfunding platforms to source the products for the new site, including big names like Andreessen Horowitz, Y Combinator, and Indiegogo, for example.
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Rather than the "adopt-a-company" models prevalent among most accelerators, it has been leaning hard into how it can create mutually beneficial relationships with companies that run the gamut from well-established to really just beginning.
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Photo: The MEAL CollaborationMEAL is a "revolutionary linear collider concept," a pair of linear accelerators "synchronized by a human trigger," explained Rebeca Gonzalez Suarez, MEAL's director general, spokesperson, and a particle physicist at Uppsala University in Sweden.
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Entrepreneurship score:83.79Startup density:8.1%Percentage of firms receiving venture capital investment:0.6%Percentage of self-employed workers:8.5%Reason for starting business isn't lack of work:79.3%Several Boston-area universities have their own startup accelerators.
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It points to the wave of dedicated seed-stage firms to emerge on the scene in recent years, right alongside a growing number of accelerators, the most famous of which remain Techstars, Y Combinator and 500 Startups.
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Universities are now teaching entrepreneurship, VC funds are coming from outside the city and soon we'll see accelerators arrive as Miami's number of startups soars — up 46 percent — accounting for 5003,600 companies (according to the Kauffman Foundation).
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The model of building vertical market-specific accelerators is now well known, but in the UK, Founders Factory, which has emerged from Lastminute founder Brent Hoberman's stable of projects, is poised to take it to another level.
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Now, one of the biggest and best-known accelerators in the world is mulling a way to use cryptocurrency networks and the blockchain to help get more people involved in backing their cohorts, according to its president.
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"By bringing the best design capabilities, reconfigurable circuit fabrics, and accelerators from the commercial domain, we should be able to create defense systems just by adding smaller specialized chiplets," summarized DARPA's Bill Chappell, in the announcement post.
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"We were impressed by Zeroth's rise to one of the most influential AI accelerators in Asia as well as a major investor in blockchain," Yat Siu, co-founder and chairman of Animoca Brands said in a statement.
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As career accelerators prove effective at enhancing participants' career prospects, peers of those participants will fear that they are less competitive in the job market without having the advantage of a career accelerator helping them as well.
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How income share agreements will spark the rise of career accelerators We then moved on to Josh Constine's story about "Ring for enterprise" startup Verkada, which raised a massive $80 million round at a $1.6 billion valuation.
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The tiny instrument is the latest breakthrough in an international effort to develop an "accelerator-on-a-chip," a class of miniaturized particle accelerators with a wide range of potential applications in materials science, chemistry, and medicine.
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Launched in 2000, the philanthropy has given more than $2300 million in grants to dozens of nonprofits, business accelerators, and entrepreneurial training programs that have helped launch and grow nearly 2000,2325 ventures in the Detroit metro area.
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Future iterations of AI and deep learning accelerators will likely be able to bring some of the offline "rule creating" mechanisms onboard so that objects equipped with these components will be able to get smarter over time.
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The U.S. has a hundred and sixty accelerators—three in Chattanooga alone—and there are thousands more around the world, including Brainnovations, outside Tel Aviv, and the Startup Sauna, in locations from Minsk to Dar es Salaam.
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While a few accelerators, such as Tech Stars and 23 Startups, have a handful of alumni worth hundreds of millions of dollars, Y Combinator has graduates worth at least a billion—and it has eleven of them.
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Try to attend local entrepreneurship events at local universities or coworking spaces, and attempt to get connected to people who run early stage startup programs (accelerators, seed funds or other organizations that see a lot of early entrepreneurs).
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CLIC, a CERN Linear Collider test facility (Image: CERN) An international committee devoted to the future of particle accelerators has recommended that scientists halve the energy of the next big collider, according to a statement issued last week.
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Janet Conrad, a physicist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who is not directly involved with any of these small-scale searches, thinks that they complement the work done at massive accelerators such as the Large Hadron Collider.
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Janis Bowdler is head of small business and community development initiatives, global ohilanthropy at JPMorgan Chase & Co. The success of high-tech accelerators has ignited the creation of similar models around the country hoping to replicate their accomplishments.
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Relan incubated Got It in one of his own accelerators, bootstrapping it with $120k to build the first app, before raising a $2.5M seed from Kinzon Capital in 203 to start work on the now launched KaaS platform.
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I was on the experiment that discovered the top quark, the heaviest known form of matter, and I actually designed and led the construction of one of the last of the giant particle accelerators in the United States.
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This "pre-team, pre-idea" approach is what sets EF apart from other accelerators, while the emphasis on technical talent — 95 percent of the cohort who presented today have a technical background — is producing some very interesting results.
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"Over $63 million has been invested in insurance technology (InsurTech) companies that have gone through Startupbootcamp's (SBC) financial technology (FinTech) accelerators," said program managing director, Sabine VanderLinden, at its second dedicated Demo Day held on Wednesday in London.
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And though France makes billions in cheap loans and grants available to finance start-ups and accelerators through its public investment bank Bpifrance, critics say that can make it hard to tell if French start-ups are competitive.
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To meet customers' needs Coral offers two main types of products: accelerators and dev boards meant for prototyping new ideas, and modules that are destined to power the AI brains of production devices like smart cameras and sensors.
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Everything from smart digital assistants to autonomous cars to virtual reality is being enabled and enhanced with the addition of new types of computing models and new types of computing accelerators to today's servers and cloud-based infrastructure.
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Looking forward, however, many of the exciting new cloud-based services need to dramatically scale their efforts around a more limited set of software, which makes the potential opportunity for new types of chip accelerators a compelling one.
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Users can search for accelerators by name or location, but the truly helpful feature is the ability to choose from a variety of filters in the top menu: Impact Region, Impact Focus, Program Offering, Corporate Form, Stage, and Travel.
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None of these theoretical supersymmetric particles, or sparticles, have been produced in a lab so far, which may be because the particles require too much energy to be made by contemporary particle accelerators such as the Large Hadron Collider.
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Incubators and accelerators offer critical support to entrepreneurs — from business education to access to capital and expanded networks — and can be an effective tool for increasing the number of women and minority-owned businesses in the high-tech sector.
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In the same way that AWS made starting a tech company vastly faster and easier, innovations like shared lab spaces and wetlab accelerators have dramatically reduced the cost and speed required to get a bio startup off the ground.
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It turns out, this experience is a great fit an early stage company, so earlier this year, VetTechTrek teamed up with one of the country's most successful startup accelerators, Y Combinator (YC), to increase veteran representation amongst YC companies.
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The firm has worked with the Israeli government to help run several leading cybersecurity accelerators, and recently partnered with New York City to help launch the city's $100 million Cyber NYC program focused on establishing a dominant cybersecurity ecosystem.
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Stewart also stressed that in many ways the new program will run just like other Wayra accelerators, with the difference here being that it targets a specific vertical and has a second backer/partner in the form of Asos.
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While they can be mistaken for a form of "business incubator," startup accelerators are generally early-stage and hands-on forms of venture capital firms offering funding, advice and connections over an intense period — typically 3 to 5 months.
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Just returned from São Paulo and Mexico City, where last week we had dozens of meetings with founders, accelerators and investors, in addition to well-attended meet-ups at Estação Hack in São Paulo and MassChallenge in Mexico City.
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By partnering with the Vinik project, and focusing on urban tech that can be deployed in the new community that's being developed, DreamIt's approach begins to look more like Techstars, which has accelerators focused on geographies, industries, and accelerating corporate innovation.
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Various messenger proteins are also involved in this process, some serving as accelerators, boosting the immune response even further, and some serving as brakes, preventing an exaggerated autoimmune response that could result in the destruction of healthy tissues and cells.
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"What I think is exciting about wakefield acceleration is the possibility of developing for a future where accelerators will be much shorter with much reduced costs," Matthew Wing, professor of physics at University College London in the United Kingdom, told Gizmodo.
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Call them incubators, accelerators, seed funds: By whatever name, Silicon Valley is teaming with this new kind of power broker—one that amasses people whose job it is to build and shape the fledgling businesses that may be our future unicorns.
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At a time where we are seeing a huge proliferation of accelerators and incubators hitting the market, this gives those working specifically in voice services a pipeline to one of the companies that might be most strategic for their growth.
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Greater support for accelerators, crowdfunding platforms The government plans to provide technical and financial assistance to 13 accelerator programs — 10 dedicated to technological and social ventures and three to science-based ventures — with the creation of a new seed fund program.
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Since 2012 we have seen a growth in active angels, accelerators and micro VC firms, as well as expanding interest from traditional venture firms for this stage of investing, as seed rounds have grown in importance to early stage companies.
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He also works with numerous startups and accelerators as an Investor, Advisor and Mentor and has contributed to product, brand and commercial strategy; introductions to co-founders, collaborators and commercial partners; and has raised awareness, capital (and a few eyebrows).
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Many new North Carolina-based start-ups work out of American Underground, a campus built in a former tobacco warehouse that now houses start-ups and accelerators, with 220 small businesses in Durham and another 20 on a nearby Raleigh campus.
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Disrupt SF is just a few months away (September 5-7 at Moscone Center West) and we're looking for delegations of international startup groups, government innovation centers, incubators and accelerators to organize a country, state or regional pavilion in Startup Alley.
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Sanders credits a strong support system of 1003 incubators and accelerators in the city, including those out of the University of California, San Diego, and SPAWAR, the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command, in part for the development of new businesses.
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The Bay Area's proximity to top tech talent, a plethora of incubators and accelerators, and a "who's who" of innovative companies make it a fertile hunting ground for venture capitalists looking to throw money into the next Facebook or Apple.
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One way to know: Because the current number of astronauts is small and past space missions have been relatively short, research using experimental models at particle accelerators, which can simulate space radiation, is likely our best method to make progress.
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The two are now among 26 companies that have either graduated or are working currently with FinLab, whose nine-month-long program features some of the typical one-on-one engagement with mentors that are a feature of most accelerators.
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Following in the footsteps of well-known accelerators such as California's Y-Combinator that foster young talent but with a twist, Remarkable Accelerator will host a 16-week program for startups focused on building technology that can assist people with disabilities.
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Behind new products like the home-healthcare companion Pria is a web of different innovation arms — from startup accelerators to breakthrough groups — that have been able to take unproven ideas to established product lines with millions of dollars in sales.
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Seed-stage accelerators are often a good entry point for investors looking to get into companies very early — even pre-product — and part of that literally comes down to the branding and optics in order to attract the best companies.
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The reason: The universe is precious, and in approximately a century's time, humans may be able to conduct physics experiments that could level the entire universe—such as building massive particle accelerators that make the God particle swallow the cosmos whole.
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For example, today you'll find technical information and more than 19134733 videos, but you won't find things like the Apple Developer Forums or a way to connect a local Apple Developer program — like Apple's App Accelerators, Design Labs or Developer Academies.
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"We used information from a variety of sources including space- and ground-based telescopes observing the first light of the Universe, exploding stars, the largest 3D map of galaxies in the Universe, particle accelerators, nuclear reactors, and more," Loureiro said.
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Eliminating multidrug resistant malaria from the Mekong before it spreads to Africa will require so-called elimination accelerators, including highly sensitive new tests to identify symptom-free carriers of malaria infection, and mass drug treatment of infected groups or populations.
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BRUSSELS, Jan 25 (Reuters) - EU antitrust regulators are set to hand down fines shortly to a cartel of Japanese car parts makers involved in fixing prices of car accelerators and starters, two people familiar with the matter said on Monday.
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A study from Crunchbase in October 2017 found that among the top 100 venture firms, only eight percent are investing partners (of any level; not just general), and that women hold 15 percent of the partner roles at accelerators and corporate venture firms.
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"I've spent a lot of time at startups and accelerators talking with founders and they have very little bandwidth to consider what we are doing," Bill Welser, director of the Engineering and Applied Sciences Research Department at RAND, said in an interview.
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Unlike SparkLabs' other accelerators, SparkLabs Frontier-ASU will have a three to four-month pre-accelerator component with training (provided in partnership with the Global Scaling Academy) to help students and other potential applicants develop startup ideas and connect with possible co-founders.
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So she found herself working at the national labs—first at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory working on environmental research, then at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory where she could pursue her real passion: "giant accelerators and beams and things smashing together," she said.
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Since the machines will be good only at very specific tasks for many years to come, the firms intend to use them mostly as "accelerators", which will take over when specifically needed, much like computers with superfast artificial-intelligence (AI) chips today.
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TAIPEI, Taiwan — With its offices sporting wood flooring, a roof painted bright orange and conference rooms named after target markets in Southeast Asia, AppWorks, one of Taiwan's few start-up accelerators, has the look and feel of the American counterparts it's modeled on.
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Scientists don't (and will probably never) have the tools to observe the specifics of what's going on two billion light years away, but van Weeren is still excited about how new technology will soon allow astronomers to better observe these particle accelerators.
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Though Techstars may be increasingly known for the industry-focused startup accelerators it creates with companies like Comcast and Target, it still runs broader "city programs" — including Techstars NYC, which this winter included startups working on everything from display technology to disappearing tattoos.
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It includes a collection of APIs to connect to 3D cameras and sensors; a library of AI accelerators to keep algorithms running smoothly and without lag; and a new simulation environment, Isaac Sim, for training and testing bots in a virtual space.
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The Z machine began as a series of particle beam accelerators in the 1970s, its creation by the government motivated by fears about an energy crisis as well as a need to study fusion reactions in thermonuclear weapons in a lab setting.
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As a result, more and more corporations are launching accelerators, incubators or venture arms, hiring "Chief Innovation Officers" and spinning up in internal labs — all in an effort to connect with startups and embed themselves more deeply in the global tech ecosystems.
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In a list of nine questions at the end of the letter, the signers also asked whether the committee sufficiently reviews Chinese angel or venture capital funds being established in the United States, as well as Chinese investment in technology accelerators and regulators.
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It is this "pre-team, pre-idea" approach that sets EF apart from other accelerators — and something that initially left the rather conservative European VC industry grossly underestimating its potential — while the emphasis on technical talent is producing some very interesting results.
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Dr. Richter later realized that the next generation of accelerators would not be built at SLAC and so began shifting its focus to high-energy X-ray lasers and astrophysics — endeavors that would not require large swaths of pricey California real estate.
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Gene Han, Target's vice president of new ventures and accelerators, knows the value of providing proof of concept before the concept takes concrete shape: He and his team hastily assembled a model of a CityTarget stores to overcome doubters in the C-suite.
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The company, which was founded in 13 by Martin Konrad (CEO) and Joey Fraiser (COO), today announced that it has raised a $1.5 million seed round from Impulse VC, FundersClub, Alchemist Accelerators and a number of angel investors, including Cisco's VP on Innovation Maciej Kranz.
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The "accelerator VC" SOSV, runs programs for very early stage biotech-, hardware-, food-, mobile and smart city-startups; Acceleprise and AngelPad back b2b startups only; Yield Lab, Thrive and Terra are agriculture tech accelerators; while Starburst and LightSpeed Innovations work with aerospace and aviation startups.
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Since their development in the 213s, circular particle accelerators have grown from the size of a room to the size of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), which occupies a 245km loop of tunnel beneath the Franco-Swiss border at CERN, Europe's particle-physics laboratory.
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But even as free access to this platform is extended to denizens of startup accelerators, co-working spaces, tech conferences, and wherever the Callisto team locates tech company founders, there are some issues that suggest the road ahead might not be a smooth one.
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RTA officials said they have allocated 1.5 million dirhams ($410,000) for further research and development of the vehicles, which Dubai hopes to use for local transportation under the city's 2030 Dubai Future Accelerators, which aims to make 25 percent of daily transportation self-driven.
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Charania estimates that of the 2.03 companies that Women 2.0's programs helped to start, at least 38 went on to raise over $91 million in seed and venture funding, 24 joined accelerators, and 11 have been acquired to-date by corporations including: Yahoo!
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In recent years, the region has tried to foster a buzzier tech scene, and now boasts successful home-grown companies like the educational technology provider EverFi as well as startup accelerators like the cybersecurity-focused Mach37, which is funded by the state of Virginia.
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Many accelerators and venture firms have started to take a keen interest in the space since then, but Indiebio is still the one many look to in the industry for weird and interesting ideas like 3D printed animal parts and bioreactors to make better beer.
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Like traditional accelerators such as Y Combinator, Fast Forward selects a batch of very early-stage startups working on large social challenges and helps them scale their products, culminating in a series of three demo days in SF, Silicon Valley and New York City.
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With access to the web, this talent is significantly self-taught — accessing the best programming classes from around the world, gathering together in hackathons to improve their skills and partnering with other investors and accelerators in the region, like Oasis500 and PALinnO in neighboring Jordan.
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For startups, the venture capitalists, accelerators and incubators that helped you launch and grow can be an incredible resource: Leverage their expertise and Rolodexes to recruit a posse of like-minded startups and entrepreneurs that can serve as a force multiplier for your political activism.
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SnackFutures has made two minority investments and tested two snacks in its first yearWorking with VCs, PE firms, other incubators and accelerators, like Israeli food tech incubator The Kitchen, SnackFutures has focused on healthy and specialty snacks in areas like prebiotic and paleo food.
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Which, incidentally, didn't stop Y Combinator and other top-shelf accelerators from accepting a number of one-founder startups throughout the years, including some big success stories like Pebble's Eric Migicovsky and Dropbox' Drew Houston (though YC's Paul Graham eventually had Houston find a co-founder).
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As the name implies, the focus here is on Google's own tools, services and initiatives (think everything from Firebase and Android Studio to Analytics and Google's various cloud security tools), but the site also highlights accelerators and events sponsored by Google but run by third parties.
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Susan Amat, Venture Hive Dr. Susan Amat is the CEO and founder of Venture Hive, an entrepreneur education company that provides accountability and transparency tools and content to support innovation management and entrepreneurship programs for clients, including Fortune 25 retail and technology businesses, accelerators and universities.
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New research presented shows that even the high-tech accelerators and incubators whose mission is to increase funding for underrepresented groups often have recruitment and selection biases that prevent diverse entrepreneurs from having access and exclusive programs that don't feel inviting to women and minority entrepreneurs.
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Well, one of the fanciest private schools in the nation and one of the premiere startup accelerators are jointly backing a company that purports to have a solution to the college payment dilemma — pitching an easier way to create savings accounts specifically designed to pay for college.
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That's the story at a lot of places, from accelerators like Y Combinator or 500 Startups, to former super angels like Jeff Clavier, whose newly rechristened Uncork Capital (formerly SoftTech VC) increased its fund size from $12 million 10 years ago to $100 million last year.
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As a broader result, some 23 accelerators are now active in the country, with a variety of models, from FuturePlay's tech-driven and KAIST (the Korean MIT) engineered tech startups, to D-Camp's accelerator funded by a consortium of banks, to Google's first Campus in Asia.
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The company is even tokenizing two of its accelerators — a six month IOT-focused initiative in Korean smart city Songdo and Cultiv8, an accelerator for agriculture and food tech in Australia — although Moon said that the project has been delayed but remains on track to happen soon.
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Sure, the world is stuffed full of COVID-19 news — and, to be clear, the topic did come up some — but Equity decided to circle back to its roots and talks startups and accelerators and how many pieces of luggage does an urban-living person really need?
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Sure, the world is stuffed full of COVID-19 news — and, to be clear, the topic did come up some — but Equity decided to circle back to its roots and talks startups and accelerators and how many pieces of luggage does an urban-living person really need?
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The reason for this, however, is a mystery that scientists continue to explore today by exploring the fundamental properties of particles inside some of the most powerful particle accelerators ever built, like the Large Hadron Collider at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), for example.
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We have dirt funds, pre-seed funds, seed funds, incubators, accelerators, early-stage funds, series B funds, product/market-fit-stage funds, expansion-stage funds, growth funds, late-stage funds, pre-IPO funds, crossover funds, and of course whatever you want to call the Softbank Vision Fund.
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It&aposs been almost five years since Amazon launched its voice assistant Alexa — shortly after "Serial" revolutionized the world of podcasting — but with the exception of corporate accelerators like the Alexa Fund and Google Assistant Investments, there&aposs still relatively little venture capital money in audio.
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Eventually the company went through a couple of accelerators, Angelpad and Techstars, and started to catch the eye of angel investors — Passion Capital, Ballpark Ventures, Firestartr, Andy McLoughlin, Tom Hulme, Ustwo founders Mills and Sinx, FIG and Richard Fearn — who collectively put $600,000 into the startup.
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Interestingly, Indiegogo's move follows Amazon's decision two years ago to create Amazon LaunchPad, a storefront that features freshly baked products that it said at the time were being funneled its way by more than 25 VC firms, accelerators and crowdfunding platforms, including Andreessen Horowitz, Y Combinator, and Indiegogo.
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Y Combinator is responsible for many successes in the startup world, certainly more than its fellow accelerators, which are all known to provide early-stage companies with a seed investment — in YC's case, $150,000 — mentorship and educational resources through a short-term program that culminates in a demo day.
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Around the same time that Kern and other population geneticists and evolutionary biologists were developing simulation-based AI techniques to address their questions, physicists were doing so to figure out how to sift through the tons of data produced at the Large Hadron Collider and other particle accelerators.
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Major Silicon Valley startup accelerators Y Combinator and Techstars, as well as startup advocacy group Engine, are circulating a letter asking FCC Chairman Ajit Pai to leave in place the net neutrality rules passed under former Chairman Tom Wheeler in 2015, formally known as the Open Internet Order.
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It was a time when scientists were asking giant questions about the cosmos — like why there are matter and galaxies — and seeking answers in the relationships between quantum particles, formed when the universe was a split-second old and ablaze with energies beyond the dreams of earthly particle accelerators.
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Christian fellowship programs and start-up accelerators seek to create a new generation of religious entrepreneurs — often with the help of Christian venture capital funds like Sovereign's Capital and Eventide, which invest only in businesses whose ends and means are consistent with Christian values (however the funds define them).
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Ray Chan, whose Hong Kong-based social media site now boasts more than 100 million fans across Facebook and Instagram, said the ability to go against the status quo is one of his greatest takeaways from his time spent building the business with start-up accelerators in Silicon Valley.
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Combining these accelerators with an expansive library of processor instructions (think of these as training manuals for CPUs that let them specialize in specific tasks like machine learning), ARM is claiming that Dynamiq will deliver a 50 times increase in "AI-related performance" over the next three to five years.
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As with most company builders and accelerators, Antler only takes 1-1.5% of the applicants Its portfolio includes Sampingan, an on-demand workforce in Indonesia; Xailient, a computer vision technology; Airalo, a global e-sims marketplace; and FusedBone, which enables medical centers to produce bespoke, non-metal implants on-site.
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Created in close association with Alexandre Barbosa at Faber Ventures, Second Home Lisbon looks set to join the burgeoning startup scene in the city, which already has accelerators like Beta-i and Startup Lisbon, but as yet hasn't had many co-working spaces/clubs where the tech ecosystem can hang out.
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The Santa Fe Institute press release explains: The field of particle physics in the late 1950s and early 1960s was often described as a "particle zoo," littered with more than 100 so-called elementary particles that had been either predicted by mathematical theory or observed in experiments with particle accelerators.
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