Editor’s note: This is a repost of a TechCrunch article written by Jon Shieber.
Business accelerators like Y Combinator and TechStars have come to occupy a critical geography in the tech landscape, and today two professors are announcing the results of their survey to determine which ones have come out on top at South By Southwest.
“The goal of the seed accelerator rankings project is to start a larger conversation about the accelerator phenomenon, its effects and its prospects for the future,” according to a presentation by Professor Yael Hochberg, a faculty member at the MIT Sloan School of Management.
Hochberg and her colleague, Professor Susan Cohen of the University of Richmond and the Batten Institute at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business, used original research and data from CrunchBase to determine the best 15 accelerators in the U.S. Those accelerators were then grouped into Gold, Silver and Bronze categories to reflect how they performed in a series of categories. Here are the best:
1. Y Combinator (Gold)
2. TechStars (Gold)
3. AngelPad (Gold)
4. Launchpad LA (Silver)
5. MuckerLab (Silver)
6. AlphaLab (Silver)
7. Capital Innovators (Silver)
8. Tech Wildcatters (Silver)
9. Surge Accelerator (Silver)
10. The Brandery (Silver)
11. Betaspring (Bronze)
12. BoomStartup (Bronze)
13. Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator (Bronze)
14. JumpStart Foundry (Bronze)
15. DreamIt Ventures (Bronze)
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