More than a dozen firms and organizations have joined the Startup America Partnership, including Facebook. Hewlett-Packard (HP), IBM and Intel, as well as private equity firm Blackstone Group's charitable foundation and non-profit Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship.

The US government has backed the launch of the Startup America Partnership to help entrepreneurial companies start or grow.

More than a dozen firms and organizations have joined the partnership, including Facebook. Hewlett-Packard (HP), IBM and Intel, as well as private equity firm Blackstone Group’s charitable foundation and non-profit Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship.

Intel Capital, the corporate venturing unit of semiconductor company Intel, will commit $200m to US companies, after last year organized a group of 24 venture capital…