Everywhere Else Beats The Valley In Forbes Top 10 Incubator List

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Nibletz is the voice of startups everywhere else. We’re proud to bring news, interviews, and resources to those startups that are “everywhere else”. Monday Forbes posted their list of the top ten start up incubators across the country. Y-Combinator, in the valley, topped the list with $7.8 billion in value.

If you take a closer look at the Forbes list, you’ll quickly notice, like we did, that the number of incubators “everywhere else” trumped the number of valley based incubators 6-4. In fact TechStars, with offices in Boulder, Boston, New York, Seattle, and San Antonio, came in second place.

TechStars has had 114 companies through the program with 98 still active. TechStars has a franchise model of sorts, and is headquartered in Boulder Colorado. TechStars founder David Cohen has hired directors for each of the other locations. TechStars selects 1% of about 4,000 applications into their program.

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The number three incubator on Forbes list is also from “everywhere else”. Philly’s DreamIt Ventures. DreamIt was founded in 2008 and it’s biggest alum is SCVNGR. 65 companies have gone through the program.  DreamIt is based in Philadelphia but has expanded to New York and Israel.

LaunchPad LA has been around since 2009 and has had 23 companies go through the program. 19 of those companies have received significant VC funding. Two of the LaunchPad LA companies have been acquired for more than $30 million. One of those, Sometrics, sold to American Express for 30 million.

Chicago’s Excelerate labs which is preparing for its 2012 session right now and includes companies like woman founded, Houston based WhimseyBox.

Rounding out the bottom, of a very impressive list, were two more incubators from “everywhere else”. TechNexus, also from Chicago’s “dead according to Pando Daily” tech scene, came in 9th place. Tech Wildcatters, out of Dallas came in 10th. TechWildcatters backed one of our favorite new Dallas startups Qwiqq.

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Source: Forbes

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