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Startup Competition Guide

A weekly guide to competitions, accelerators, angel groups, incubators, challenges, and any program seeking startups.

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Accelerators targeting digital health companies

by Steven Loeb, February 12, 2019

They include Cedars-Sinai Accelerator, DigitalHealth.London and Launchpad Digital Health

For startups, there are numerous paths for getting their name out there. One way, which Vator has been covering recently, are startup competitions, but another popular method to get a foot in the door, as well as some funding and traction, are accelerators. These are programs that provide companies advice, guidance and various forms of support for startups in their early ...

Accelerators from top corporate companies

by Steven Loeb, February 5, 2019

They include accelerators from AT&T, Coca-Cola, Google, IBM, Disney, Sprint and Wells Fargo

Startup competitions seeking faith-based companies

by Steven Loeb, January 31, 2019

They include The Biola Startup Competition and Tech for Good competition

If you're a startup seeking opportunities to get funded, educated or connected, startup competitions are a great resource. Vator has been holding its own competitions, using VatorX, to find and filter for the best startups. We've had some very successful and notable winners in the past that have gone on to raise big funding rounds including Thumbtack, DogVacay, Pokitdok, Grovo, Udemy ...

Startup competitions seeking digital health companies

by Steven Loeb, January 23, 2019

They include MedTech Innovator Competition and HealthTECH Startup Competition

Startup competitions from top healthcare companies

by Steven Loeb, January 18, 2019

They include competitions from Humana, UnitedHealth Group, Aetna, Pfizer and UCSF

Startup competitions seeking agtech companies

by Steven Loeb, January 15, 2019

They include AgSharks Competition, IoT.ATL AgTech Challenge and Future Agro Challenge

Accelerators targeting agtech companies

by Steven Loeb, January 8, 2019

They include AgLaunch, The Pearse Lyons Accelerator, Hatch, Sprout Accelerator and TERRA

Startup competitions seeking InsurTech companies

by Steven Loeb, January 3, 2019

They include Wolf Pack Startup Pitch Competition, FFiT InsurTech Competition and VentureClash

Accelerators targeting InsurTech companies

by Steven Loeb, December 28, 2018

They include Hartford InsurTech Hub, Protechting, Collab and The Global Insurance Accelerator

Accelerators targeting legal tech companies

by Steven Loeb, December 20, 2018

They include Tech Lawyer Accelerator, Duke Law Tech Lab and LexisNexis Legal Tech Accelerator

Accelerators targeting retail technology companies

by Steven Loeb, December 6, 2018

They include METRO Accelerator for Retail, Techstars Retail and RetailXelerator

Startup competitions seeking retail technology companies

by Steven Loeb, November 27, 2018

They include Retail Innovation Pitch Event and Retail Disrupt Startup Competition

Startup competitions seeking gaming companies

by Steven Loeb, November 9, 2018

They include IT’S A START Pitch Competition, SiGMA Pitch and Gaming StartUp Challenge

Accelerators targeting addiction solutions

by Steven Loeb, October 31, 2018

They include Opioid Safety Accelerator Program and Medicaid Innovation Accelerator Program

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