{"id":48607,"date":"2013-06-07T02:06:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-07T10:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=48607"},"modified":"2014-03-26T02:03:18","modified_gmt":"2014-03-26T09:03:18","slug":"canadas-seven-true-startup-accelerators","status":"publish","type":"magazine","link":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/magazine\/canadas-seven-true-startup-accelerators","title":{"rendered":"A Closer Look at Canada&#8217;s Seven True Startup Accelerators"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past three years, dozens of accelerators and accelerator-like programs <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techvibes.com\/blog\/there-are-now-more-than-100-incubators-and-accelerators-in-canada-2012-06-22\" target=\"_blank\">have emerged in Canada<\/a>. However, there is debate about their value&mdash;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.techvibes.com\/blog\/most-accelerators-will-actually-hurt-your-startup-techstars-expert-says-2012-08-20\" target=\"_blank\">do accelerators hurt startups<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techvibes.com\/blog\/startup-accelerators-fail-2012-10-16\" target=\"_blank\">can the accelerators themselves succeed<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p><!-- pagebreak --><\/p>\n<p>New research <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marsdd.com\/2013\/06\/06\/a-visual-tour-of-canadas-startup-accelerator-landscape\/\" target=\"_blank\">by MaRS Data Catalyst<\/a> this week provided a &#8220;fact-based foundation for discussion.&#8221; The report cites Canada as having seven &#8220;true&#8221; accelerators: GrowLab in Vancouver; Hyperdrive in Waterloo; FounderFuel in Montreal; and Extreme Startups, INcubes, Jolt, and Utest in Toronto.<\/p>\n<p>Check out MaRS&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marsdd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/130606-Seeding-Success.png\" target=\"_blank\">visualization<\/a> of Canadian accelerator data below, including how many offer equity for funding, how big the ecosystem is in terms of mentors and founders, and the selection process.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 11px auto; display: block;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marsdd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/130606-Seeding-Success.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"2557\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past three years, dozens of accelerators and accelerator-like programs have emerged in Canada. However, there is debate about their value&mdash;do accelerators hurt startups, and can the accelerators themselves succeed? New research by MaRS Data Catalyst this week provided a &#8220;fact-based foundation for discussion.&#8221; The report cites Canada as having seven &#8220;true&#8221; accelerators: GrowLab [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1358,"featured_media":48609,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"magazine-region":[],"magazine-series":[],"magazine-topic":[],"class_list":["post-48607","magazine","type-magazine","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine\/48607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/magazine"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/1358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine\/48607\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48607"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-region","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-region?post=48607"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-series?post=48607"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-topic?post=48607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}