What is The Seed Accelerator Programme Association?
Well, the initiative is still in its the early stages, and the website for now is just a unsophisticated blog, but the goal is to create a neutral forum for accelerators from all over the world to learn, share and communicate with each other, whilst araising awareness of their activity and achievements to entrepreneurs and investors.
What’s the story behind this initiative?
On January 2010, part of the crew of Tetuan Valley had a conversation with the guys at Startupbootcamp Denmark (way before we both agree to partner in order to make the first pan-european network of accelerators) in the hopes of organizing an exchange program with lots of Viking females that could help us lure the best hackers into the Spring 2010 edition of Startup School. It obviously didn’t work out, but we had the chance to share a lot of experiences and realized how important it was in many ways to start learning from each other the best way to fine tune the Ycombinator model to other latitudes. We are honoured Techstars has been the third program to join us.
Combined with our contacts with Seedcamp to help organize the Barcelona stage at IESE, and talks with other accelerator programs around the world, it seems the right time to open up the channels; if you are part of the organization of an accelerator program and would like to join our discussion group please do not hesitate to contact us.
Who are the current members of United Accelerators?
UnitedAccelerators.com
What is The Seed Accelerator Programme Association?
Well, the initiative is still in its the early stages, and the website for now is just a unsophisticated blog, but the goal is to create a neutral forum for accelerators from all over the world to learn, share and communicate with each other, whilst araising awareness of their activity and achievements to entrepreneurs and investors.
What’s the story behind this initiative?
On January 2010, part of the crew of Tetuan Valley had a conversation with the guys at Startupbootcamp Denmark (way before we both agree to partner in order to make the first pan-european network of accelerators) in the hopes of organizing an exchange program with lots of Viking females that could help us lure the best hackers into the Spring 2010 edition of Startup School. It obviously didn’t work out, but we had the chance to share a lot of experiences and realized how important it was in many ways to start learning from each other the best way to fine tune the Ycombinator model to other latitudes. We are honoured Techstars has been the third program to join us.
Combined with our contacts with Seedcamp to help organize the Barcelona stage at IESE, and talks with other accelerator programs around the world, it seems the right time to open up the channels; if you are part of the organization of an accelerator program and would like to join our discussion group please do not hesitate to contact us.
Who are the current members of United Accelerators?
Gamma Rebels (Warsaw, Poland)
Ignite100 (Newcastle, U.K.)
NDRC (Dublin, Ireland)
Openfund (Athens, Greece)
Oxygen Accelerator (Birmingham, U.K.)
Ryanair Academy (Dublin, Ireland)
Seed Accelerator (Sydney & Singapore, Australia and Asia)
Seedcamp (London, U.K.)
Seedrocket (Barcelona, Spain)
Springboard (Cambridge, U.K.)
Startup Sauna (Helsinki, Finland)
Startupbootcamp (Copenhagen, Denmark & Dublin, Ireland & Madrid, Spain)
StartupHighway (Vilnius, Lithuania)
Techstars (Boston & Boulder & Seattle & New York, U.S.A.)
Techwildcatters (Dallas, U.S.A.)
Tetuan Valley Startup School (Madrid, Spain)
Want more info?
You can read our manifesto (Yes, we also have a manifesto for this… we tend to think we are good at coming up with them), visit our website, join our LinkedIn group, follow us on Twitter or drop us a line thorugh the Tetuan Valley Contact Form.