UK-based quasi-public organization National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (Nesta), Global Corporate Venturing and Kauffman Fellows identify main US and European accelerators and incubators.
Europe is two to three years behind the US in using accelerators to provide pre-seed investment to nearly 200 start-ups in exchange for equity each year.
From one US-based accelerator programme, Y Combinator in 2005 with eight companies in its first cohort, there are now dozens in the US that last year funded nearly 200 start-ups, according to the UK-based quasi-public organization National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (Nesta).
Nesta said the accelerator programme model comprised five…
