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=List of Accelerators=

#BBC Worldwide Labs

#BMW Startup Garage

#Bank of Ireland Accelerator Programme

#Bantunium Labs Accelerator

#BetaSpring

#Betablox

#Bethnal Green Ventures

#BioAccel

#Bonnier Accelerator

#BoomStartup

#Boomtown Accelerator

#Boost VC

#BootupLabs

#CLT Joules Energy Accelerator 2014

#CWI Ventures

#CableLabs Technology Tours 2016

#Capital Factory

#DreamIT Health

#DreamStart - Free Mentoring Program

#Ducky Diggy Lloyd

#E-Capital Summit

#Innov&Connect

#Innov8 for Health

#InnovateOC

#Innovation Depot

#Muru-D

#My5ive Accelerator 2016

#NDRC (LaunchPad / VentureLab)

#NEXT Dashboard

#Nest New York

#New Ventures Group

#NewME Accelerator PopUps

#NewMe

#Shopper Futures Accelerator

#Shotput Ventures

#SigmaLabs Accelerator

#Silicon Valley Incubator & Accelerator

#Startl

#Startmate

#Startup Front

#Startup Next & GAN

#TEB Incubation & Acceleration Center

#THRIVE Accelerator III

#TIM#WCAP Accelerator

#TLabs

#Telluride Venture Accelerator

#TenX

#The Ark

#The Bakery

#VC FinTech Accelerator

#Velocity Indiana Accelerator

#Venture Hive

#Venture I

#eMerging Ventures

#ezone

#iStart Valley

#iVentures10

#ignite100

#innovyz start

This project will be used to determine which accelerators are the most effective at churning out successful startups, as well as what characteristics are exhibited by these accelerators. First, we need to gather as much data as we can about as many accelerators as we can in order to look at factors that differentiate successful vs. unsuccessful ventures. Next, we need to create a web crawling program which will gather information about accelerators across the world by accessing their websites and extracting information. I believe that our overall goal with this research project is to gain insight into the methods of successful accelerators, as well as to find out what exactly differentiates very successful accelerators from dead accelerators.

=Sources=

(Obtained from [[List of Accelerators]] and various Google searches)

*http://www.represent.la/

*http://www.launch.co/blog/complete-list-of-incubators-and-accelerators-like-y-combinat.html

(Obtained from Google search: "Accelerator Database")

*Type in a specific state + "accelerator" + "list" (e.g. Texas accelerator list) to search for more relevant lists

:*Once again, looked at roughly the first 20 results

=Source Evaluations=

Summary: These evaluations couple with each of the sources above. The evaluations provide instructions for obtaining the information listed, as well as a general review of how useful the data seems. The review serves to determine whether a crawler would be suitable for obtaining information from the source autonomously.

==Source: http://www.acceleratorinfo.com/see-all.html==

#Copied "Seed Accelerators" table to TextPad, data sorted itself into lines. Returned 235 results.

#Clicking on the accelerator name itself links to a page with all of its associated startups, up until 6/2016 cohort

*Overall very extensive data for accelerators that are included on the list, but after cross-referencing from other sources shows that seed-db is lacking many newer accelerators; list is not all-inclusive.

*Includes regional distributions for accelerator groups as well. For example, rather than just "Techstars", the group is broken into Austin, Berlin, Boston, Boulder, etc.

==Source: http://www.seed-db.com/accelerators==

*Examples of single accelerators found

:#TMCx: http://www.tmc.edu/innovation/innovation-programs/tmcx/

:#SURGE accelerator: https://kirkcoburn.com/

:#OwlSpark: http://owlspark.com/

:#NextHIT: http://www.houstonhealthventures.com/nexthit-accelerator-program-application/

===Los Angeles Accelerators===

:#Amplify: http://amplify.la/

*Many results returned nationally ranked lists of accelerators, such as the Forbes list of "Top Accelerators" or something along the lines of "Best Accelerators in the US". The connection is that perhaps one accelerator mentioned on the list may be located within the searched state.

*There are also a few results for actual particle accelerators that must be sorted out (i.e. superconducting super collider)

=Individual Accelerator Evaluations=

F6S has an API, but we have had no success getting a key to the API. The link to get a key to the API is on [https://www.f6s.com/developers/apis/deal-feed this page].

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