In excess of the past year, the assist technique for New york Town entrepreneurs and tech startups has grown drastically like the addition of: TechStars NYC mentoring and seed funding plan, a new Manhattan branch of Accel Partners, in addition to the opening of a startup academy and co-work area for startups and serial entrepreneurs, General Assemb.ly.
Nowadays, DreamIt Ventures announced its growth towards the metropolis, just one hour or so away from its unique Philadelphia startup accelerator.
DreamIt Ventures offers up to $25,000 in seed funding to its portfolio corporations, together with coaching, unique speaking engagements,
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Bryan and Jeffrey Eisenberg: Founders, FutureNow, and New york Times bestselling authors
John Eley: CEO, Pivot; Previous CEO HotSpot FX (acquired by Knight Funds)
Jason Finger: former CEOFounder, SeamlessWeb (acquired by Aramark)
Jonah Goodhart: Co-Founder, Colonize.com; Board Member of Perfect Media (acquired by Yahoo)
Ken Seiff: former CEO and Founder, Bluefly (NASDAQ: BFLY)
Jonathan Shapiro, CEO, MediaWhiz; Former Chief Strategy Officer,
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Nat Turner: previous CEO, Founder, Invite Media (acquired by Google)
Kaleil Isaza Tuzman: CEO, Founder, KIT Digital (NASDAQ: KITD)
Michael Yavondite: CEO, Hashable; former CEO, Quigo (acquired by AOL) The method will run from mid-May to mid-August this 12 months. Candidates to DreamIt Ventures’ NYC program will be reviewed on a rolling basis with an early decision deadline of February 28, 2011 and a final deadline of March 16, 2011, according to the accelerator’s site. DreamIt has “Hacker” and “Strategist” tracks where individuals not nonetheless affiliated with a company can apply to potentially join a portfolio startup, on either the technical or business front.
DreamIt Ventures plans to admit ten to fifteen agencies into its NYC method, five of which will be digital education businesses. That’s the same setup as the Philly program. In both cities, DreamIt Ventures partners with Startl — an organization funded by the MacArthur, Hewlett and Gates Foundations — to help five,
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DreamIt Ventures alumni organisations have included SCVNGR (2008), SeatGeek (2009) and MindSnacks (2010).