Top 100 Startup Accelerators and Incubators (2025 Rankings)

Ranked list of 100 leading startup accelerators with investment terms, acceptance rates, alumni exits, and program details.
# Rank
Accelerator Name
Companies
Program Leader
Typical Investment Terms
Program Fee
Program Length
Cohorts/Batches Per Year
Company Types
Acceptance Rate (estimate)
HQ Location
In-person vs. Virtual
Top 3 Alumni
Alumni Exits
Rating
1 1 Y Combinator 7089 Garry Tan $125K for 7% + $375K (uncapped) Free 12 weeks 4x per year All <1% Mountain View, CA, USA In-person required Airbnb; Stripe; Dropbox 1500 25
2 2 A16Z Speedrun 224 Andrew Chen $750,000 for unknown equity stake Free 12 weeks 2x per year Gaming+ <1% Los Angeles, CA, USA In-person required for specific program events Opendoor; Brex; Caffeine Unknown 24
3 3 Sequoia Arc 2215 Alfred Lin Investment terms not public Free 12 weeks 1x per year All <1% San Francisco, CA, USA In-person required for specific program events Pydantic; Flagship; Mindy Unknown 22
4 4 Techstars 6168 David Cohen $20,000 for 6% (+ optional $100K on $3M) Free 13 weeks 1-4x per year All 1% Boulder, CO, USA In-person required SendGrid; ClassPass; DigitalOcean 350 20
5 5 500 Global 3163 Christine Tsai $150,000 for 6% $37,500 16 weeks 3x per year All <1% San Francisco, CA, USA In-person required Canva; Grab; Talkdesk 110 20
6 6 Dreamit Ventures 321 Darren Sandberg $500,000 for 8% $2,500 13 weeks 2x per year All 3% Philadelphia, PA, USA In-person required for specific program events LevelUp; HouseCall Pro; Elevate 70 20
7 7 Surge 208 Rajan Anandan Up to $3 million for up to 15% Free 16 weeks 2x per year All Unknown Bengaluru, India In-person required Unacademy; OYO; Tejas Networks 23 19
8 8 HAX 610 Duncan Turner $250,000 for 10% Free 20 weeks 2x per year Hardware <3% Shenzhen, China In-person required Lumos; Makeblock; Simbe Robotics 30 19
9 9 Seedcamp 606 Carlos Eduardo Espinal £120,000 for 7.5% Free 12 weeks 2x per year All <1% London, United Kingdom Virtual TransferWise; Revolut; UiPath 60 19
10 10 NFX 407 James Currier $120K for 8% No fee information available 12 weeks 3x per year All 2% San Francisco, CA, USA Virtual DoorDash; Mammoth Biosciences; Patreon 24 19
11 11 Cedars-Sinai Accelerator 88 Nirdesh K Gupta $100,000 for unknown terms Free 12 weeks Unknown BioTech Unknown Los Angeles, CA, USA Hybrid (specifics not public) LIVONGO; WELL Health; AppliedVR 25 19
12 12 Disney Accelerator 55 Bonnie Rosen Investment terms not public Free 30 weeks 1x per year Media <1% Los Angeles, CA, USA In-person required for specific program events Epic Games; Playbuzz; Wakie 19 19
13 13 Soma Fellows 40 Aneel Ranadive Up to $1,000,000 for unknown equity Free 12 weeks 2x per year All <1% San Francisco, CA, USA In-person required Unknown Unknown 18
14 14 AI2 Incubator 50 Jacob Colker Up to $500,000 for unknown equity Free 12 weeks 1x per year Artificial Intelligence <1% Seattle, WA, USA In-person required Unknown Unknown 18
15 15 IndieBio 529 Po Bronson $275K for 8% $50,000 16 weeks 2x per year BioTech 5% San Francisco, CA, USA In-person required 1 day/week NotCo; Memphis Meats; Geltor 20 18
16 16 Plug and Play 1948 Saeed Amidi Investment terms not public Free 12 weeks 4x per year All <1% Sunnyvale, CA, USA In-person required PayPal; Dropbox; N26 140 18
17 17 SkyDeck Berkeley 485 Caroline Winnett $200K for 7.5% $5,000 24 weeks 2x per year All <3% Berkeley, CA, USA In-person required Lime; Cerebras Systems; Flutterwave 30 18
18 18 Entrepreneur First 451 Alice Bentinck $125K for 8% Free 12 weeks 2x per year All 3% London, United Kingdom In-person required Tractable; Magic Pony Technology; Bloomsbury AI 100 18
19 19 MIT delta v 226 Lea Gabrielle Potts $20,000 grant Free 14 weeks 1x per year All Unknown Boston, MA, USA In-person required Ginkgo Bioworks; Formlabs; New Valence Robotics (NVBots) 24 18
20 20 HF0 25 Dave Fontenot $1,000,000 for 5% equity Free 12 weeks 1x per year All <1% San Francisco, CA, USA In-person required Unknown Unknown 17
21 21 SOSV 2816 William Bao Bean $250,000 for 8% $40,000+ (varies by program) 16 weeks 2x per year Deep Tech <2% Princeton, NJ, USA In-person required Revolut; NotCo; Formlabs 180 17
22 22 AngelPad 184 Thomas Korte Investment terms not public Free 10 weeks 2x per year All Unknown San Francisco, CA, USA In-person required Postmates; CoverHound; Grovo 60 17
23 23 Startmate 263 Michael Batko $120K for 8% Free 12 weeks 2x per year All 5% Sydney, Australia Hybrid (specifics not public) Zoox; Morse Micro; Bright 40 17
24 24 MassChallenge 3205 Cait Brumme Investment terms not public Free (non-profit) 16 weeks 1x per year All <10% Boston, MA, USA In-person required for specific program events Ginkgo Bioworks; Toast; Soofa 213 17
25 25 Antler 1560 Magnus Grimeland $250,000 for 9% + matches 1:1 additional capital raised up to $250,000 $70,000 10 weeks 2x per year All <3% Singapore In-person required Fiverr; Flutterwave; Prospa 23 17
26 26 LAUNCH 554 Jason Calacanis $100K for 6% Free 6 weeks 4x per year All <1% San Francisco, CA, USA Virtual Udemy; Marqeta; Thumbtack 10 17
27 27 Forum Ventures 474 Michael Cardamone $100K for 7.5% Free 12 weeks 2x per year B2B SaaS <3% New York City, NY, USA Virtual Auth0; Buffer; MileIQ 25 17
28 28 StartX (Stanford-StartX Fund) 338 Kyle Wong Does not invest Free (non-profit) 10 weeks 3x per year All 8% Palo Alto, CA, USA In-person required last 2 weeks of program Healthcare.ai; Kodiak Sciences; Lemonade 90 17
29 29 Mucker Capital 277 Erik Rannala $100K for 10% Free 12 weeks 1x per year All <5% Santa Monica, CA, USA Hybrid (specifics not public) Honey; ServiceTitan; Next Insurance 43 17
30 30 AlphaLab 156 Aaron Tainter Up to $100,000 for unknown terms 2% equity Undisclosed Unknown All Unknown Pittsburgh, PA, USA In-person required for specific program events Duolingo; JazzHR; NoWait 13 17
31 31 Google for Startups 1642 Ashley Francisco Not able to obtain information Free 10 weeks 2x per year All <2% San Francisco, CA, USA Virtual Carta; Stripe; Airbnb Unknown 16
32 32 South Park Commons 714 Ruchi Sanghvi $400,000 for 7% Free 24 weeks 2x per year All <2% San Francisco, CA, USA In-person required Applied Intuition; PostHog; Apoorva Mehta 4 16
33 33 East Ventures 643 Willson Cuaca Investment terms not public Free 14 weeks 2x per year All Unknown Jakarta, Indonesia Unknown Tokopedia; Traveloka; Ruangguru 48 16
34 34 Alchemist Accelerator 605 Ravi Belani $25K for 5% Free 12 weeks 2x per year Enterprise Tech <3% San Francisco, CA, USA Virtual Rigetti Computing; LaunchDarkly; RigUp 12 16
35 35 Startupbootcamp 605 Nektarios Liolios $40K for 8% Free 12 weeks 2x per year All <2% Amsterdam, Netherlands Hybrid (specifics not public) Revolut; WeFarm; Relay42 62 16
36 36 Pioneer Fund 568 Jason Gray Investment terms not public Free 8 weeks 2x per year All <3% San Francisco, CA, USA Virtual Loom; Mixpanel; Rippling 20 16
37 37 Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator (ERA) 395 Jonathan Axelrod $100K for 8% 4% equity 14 weeks 2x per year All 2% New York City, NY, USA Virtual Triplemint; Hungryroot; Floating Point 79 16
38 38 Outlier Ventures 327 Stephan Apel Up to $100K stipend Free 12 weeks 2x per year Web3 2% London, United Kingdom Virtual Boson Protocol; Fetch.ai; Blockchain.com 16 16
39 39 CyberAgent Capital 278 Nguyen Minh Tuan Investment terms not public Free Undisclosed Unknown CyberSecurity Unknown Tokyo, Japan In-person required 17LIVE; TikTok; Kuaishou 77 16
40 40 Springcamp 257 inQ CHOI $50K for 7% No fee information available Undisclosed 4x per year All Unknown Seoul, South Korea Virtual Coupang; Toss; Baemin 70 16
41 41 Elemental Impact 211 Dawn Lippert Up to $1,000,000 grant Free (non-profit) 24 weeks 1x per year Clean Tech Unknown Oakland, CA, USA Virtual Spanx; Goodr; PopSockets 21 16
42 42 EIT InnoEnergy 211 Ryan Dings Investment terms not public €18,000 24 weeks 1x per year Clean Tech Unknown Eindhoven, Netherlands Hybrid (specifics not public) Northvolt; Skeleton Technologies; Tado 21 16
43 43 NDRC 207 Malaika Judd €100k uncapped with 20% discount Free 24 weeks 2x per year All Unknown Dublin, Ireland Virtual Stripe; Revolut; Remitly 27 16
44 44 MetaProp 176 Aaron Block $150,000 for 6% Free 13 weeks 4x per year Real Estate Tech Unknown New York City, NY, USA In-person required Haven; VergeSense; Spruce 25 16
45 45 Founder Friendly Labs 176 Mendel Chuang Investment terms not public No fee information available 8 weeks Unknown Unknown Unknown San Francisco, CA, USA Virtual Coinbase; Soylent; Cruise 4 16
46 46 Future Fifty 174 Carolyn Dawson Investment terms not public No fee information available 52 weeks 1x per year All Unknown London, United Kingdom Virtual Skyscanner; Deliveroo; TransferWise 60 16
47 47 Betaworks 232 John Borthwick $250K uncapped with 25% discount No fee information available 12 weeks Unknown Media Unknown New York City, NY, USA Virtual Giphy; Bitly; Dots 12 15
48 48 Startup Wise Guys 598 Cristobal Alonso £100K for 9% £35,000 13 weeks 3x per year B2B SaaS 18% Tallinn, Estonia Hybrid (specifics not public) Bolt; Sun Finance Group; Modash 30 15
49 49 MedTech Innovator 391 Paul Grand Does not invest Free (non-profit) 16 weeks 1x per year MedTech 5% Los Angeles, CA, USA Virtual AliveCor; Eko; AdvaMed 62 15
50 50 Flat6Labs 370 Ramez El-Serafy $150K for 6% Free 16 weeks 2x per year All <10% Cairo, Egypt Hybrid (specifics not public) Instabug; FlexxPay; Chefaa 30 15
51 51 Village Capital 359 Allie Burns Investment terms not public Free 2 weeks 3x per year Impact 5-10% Washington, DC, USA Virtual Lendable; FarmDrive; InVenture 19 15
52 52 IQT 315 Steve Bowsher Does not invest (strategic investor / non-standard terms) Free (non-profit) 14 weeks 2x per year CyberSecurity 3% Arlington, VA, USA In-person required Palantir Technologies; Rebellion Defense; HawkEye 360 Unknown 15
53 53 gener8tor 273 Joe Kirgues $100K for 7% Free 12 weeks 2x per year All Unknown Madison, Wisconsin, USA Hybrid (specifics not public) Curate; EatStreet; dotloop 75 15
54 54 Rockstart 243 Rune Theill €165,000 for 8% €65,000 10 weeks 2x per year Energy, AgTech Unknown Amsterdam, Netherlands In-person required for specific program events Wercker; 3D Hubs; Kipenzi 11 15
55 55 Eurasante 237 Olivier Coupier $120K for 8% No fee information available 36 weeks 1x per year BioTech Unknown Lille, France In-person required 1 day/week Ynsect; Delibio; Eligo Bioscience 60 15
56 56 SAP.iO 234 Christian Klein Investment terms not public Free 12 weeks 2x per year All Unknown San Francisco, CA, USA Virtual NannyML; Airwallex; BigID 12 15
57 57 SparkLabs Accelerator 222 Bernard Moon $100K for 6% Free 12 weeks 2x per year IoT <3% Seoul, South Korea In-person required 1st week Memebox; Knowre; fintechOS 15 15
58 58 Orange DAO 220 Ben Huh $100K uncapped 2% equity stake 8 weeks 5x per year Web3 Unknown Undisclosed Virtual Sublime Finance; Orange DAO Members Pool; Bloom Filter 22 15
59 59 SVG Ventures 214 John Hartnett Investment terms not public Free 12 weeks 1x per year AgTech Unknown Santa Clara, CA, USA Virtual Farmers Business Network; ProducePay; Root AI 8 15
60 60 Accelerator Centre 210 Ruth Casselman Investment terms not public $3,000 52 weeks Unknown All Unknown Waterloo, Ontario, Canada In-person required 1 day/week ApplyBoard; Magnet Forensics; Miovision 26 15
61 61 Innovation Capital 201 Matt Sodl Investment terms not public No fee information available Undisclosed Unknown Unknown Unknown Palo Alto, CA, USA Virtual SoFi; Quincy Data; Zocdoc 22 15
62 62 NC IDEA 187 Thom Ruhe Various grant funding Free (non-profit) 8 weeks Unknown All Unknown Durham, North Carolina, USA Virtual TransLoc; Reel Surge; Durham Distillery 58 15
63 63 SixThirty 178 Atul Kamra Investment terms not public Free 12 weeks 2x per year FinTech Unknown St Louis, Missouri, USA Hybrid (specifics not public) Dwolla; New Constructs; DataTribe 7 15
64 64 India Accelerator 172 Ashish Bhatia $150,000 for 10% No fee information available 16 weeks 4x per year All Unknown Gurgaon, Haryana, India Hybrid (specifics not public) Airmeet; Hesa; Knorish 24 15
65 65 Quake Capital Partners 166 Glenn Argenbright $200,000 for 15% Free 12 weeks Unknown All Unknown New York City, NY, USA Hybrid (specifics not public) Home61; Breinify; Ready Responders 13 15
66 66 Stadia Ventures 63 Alex Chalmers Up to $100,000 for unknown terms $50 14 weeks 1x per year Sports Tech <3% St. Louis, MO, USA In-person required for specific program events FanFood; LeagueApps; SportsCastr 9 15
67 67 Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Southeastern Pennsylvania 230 Scott Nissenbaum Matches 1:1 additional capital raised up to $1,000,000 $250 application fee 52 weeks Unknown FinTech Unknown Philadelphia, PA, USA In-person required Life Sciences Partners; InstaMed; Spark Therapeutics 60 14
68 68 Founder Institute 2000 Adeo Ressi Does not invest $599 14 weeks 4x per year All 30% Palo Alto, CA, USA Virtual Udemy; Udacity; Realty Mogul 50 14
69 69 European Innovation Council 1125 Michiel Scheffer Grant up to £2.5M Free (non-profit) 52 weeks Unknown All <3% Brussels, Belgium Virtual with in-person demo day Revolut; UiPath; Glovo Unknown 14
70 70 Internet Initiatives Development Fund (IIDF) 448 Kirill Varlamov Investment terms not public Free 12 weeks 3x per year All 3% Moscow, Russia In-person required AmoCRM; Segmento; Ubic 15 14
71 71 AGORANOV 438 Jean Charles Pomerol Not able to obtain information 5% equity 52 weeks Unknown France Startups Unknown Paris, France In-person required Doctolib; ManoMano; Algolia 80 14
72 72 Tenity 319 Andreas Iten Investment terms not public £12,000 12 weeks 2x per year FinTech 3% Zurich, Switzerland In-person required for specific program events Canopy; Tradeplus24; Relio 11 14
73 73 NEXT Canada 312 Reza Satchu Does not invest Free 16 weeks 1x per year All 3% Toronto, Ontario, Canada Hybrid (specifics not public) Wealthsimple; Clearco; Ada 9 14
74 74 Sting 309 Krim Talia $20K for 4-6% Free 20 weeks 2x per year Clean Tech 5% Stockholm, Sweden In-person required Peloton; Twitter; Square 26 14
75 75 EXPERT DOJO 305 Brian Mac Mahon $50K for 3.5% $20,000 8 weeks 4x per year All Unknown Santa Monica, CA, USA Virtual Obligo; ArmorCode; Contrast Security 11 14
76 76 DMZ 278 Abdullah Snobar Investment terms not public 2.5% equity stake 12 weeks 4x per year All Unknown Toronto, Ontario, Canada In-person required Ritual; Snapcommerce; Nudge 90 14
77 77 Brinc 257 Manav Gupta Investment terms not public $35,000 12 weeks Unknown Hardware Unknown Hong Kong Hybrid (specifics not public) Animoca Brands; Yumi; Carbon Infinity 5 14
78 78 100Unicorns 235 Manoj Aheeray Investment terms not public Unknown equity stake 8 weeks 2x per year All Unknown Gurugram, Haryana, India Virtual Darwinbox; Rippling; Airmeet Unknown 14
79 79 Capital Factory 215 Joshua Baer $100K for 7% 1% equity stake 12 weeks Unknown All Unknown Austin, TX, USA Hybrid (specifics not public) Iconeme; Self Lender (now SeedFi); Outdoorsy 55 14
80 80 FuturePlay 210 Oh-Hyoung Kwon Investment terms not public $99/month 16 weeks Unknown All Unknown Seoul, South Korea Virtual Huuuge Games; Two Dots; Deliver Us The Moon 6 14
81 81 Bethnal Green Ventures 198 Paul Miller OBE Investment terms not public Free 12 weeks 2x per year Impact Unknown London, United Kingdom Hybrid (specifics not public) Fairphone; DrDoctor; Organise 13 14
82 82 JioGenNext 183 Amey Mashelkar Investment terms not public Free 12 weeks Unknown All Unknown Mumbai, India Hybrid (specifics not public) Jumbotail; Niki.ai; Fynd 5 14
83 83 WOW Aceleradora 182 Filipe Garcia Investment terms not public No fee information available 16 weeks Unknown Clean Tech Unknown Porto Alegre, Brazil Hybrid (specifics not public) Hotmart; Samba Tech; Beblue 17 14
84 84 Normandie Incubation 177 Sophie Le Bricquir Investment terms not public No fee information available 52 weeks Unknown All Unknown Caen, France Hybrid (specifics not public) Dental Monitoring; Intent; Incepto 42 14
85 85 Boomtown Accelerators 175 Toby Krout $20,000 for unknown percentage No fee information available 12 weeks 2x per year All Unknown Boulder, Colorado, USA In-person required Samsung SmartThings; Bitsbox; Cardboard Live 16 14
86 86 Samurai Incubate 173 Kentaro Sakakibara $20,000 for 5% No fee information available 12 weeks 4x per year All Unknown Tokyo, Japan In-person required Raksul; Wantedly; CADDi 17 14
87 87 XRC Ventures 166 Pano Anthos $200,000 for 7% $50,000 8 weeks Unknown Consumer Tech Unknown New York City, NY, USA In-person required Verishop; Terez; UpWest 14 14
88 88 Accel Atoms 30 Prayank Swaroop Up to $1,000,000 for unknown equity Free 12 weeks 1x per year Artificial Intelligence <1% India In-person required Unknown Unknown 13
89 89 Start-Up Chile 959 Fernando G Up to $30,000 in grant funding Free 24 weeks 2x per year All 5-10% Santiago, Chile Virtual Cornershop; Houm; SimpliRoute 195 13
90 90 Ontario Centres of Excellence 434 Claudia Krywiak Investment terms not public Free Unknown Unknown All Unknown Toronto, Ontario, Canada Hybrid (specifics not public) Clearpath; ecobee; Ritual Unknown 13
91 91 EIT Digital Accelerator 235 Federico Menna Does not invest Free 52 weeks 1x per year Deep Tech Unknown Brussels, Belgium Virtual Konux; SidekickHealth; Relimetrics 12 13
92 92 EvoNexus 228 Rory Moore Does not invest 1% equity stake 24 weeks 2x per year BioTech Unknown San Diego, CA, USA Hybrid (specifics not public) Fate Therapeutics; MDRevolution; EcoATM 27 13
93 93 MassChallenge Switzerland 215 Ian Roberts Does not invest Free (non-profit) 16 weeks 1x per year All Unknown Renens, Switzerland In-person required Flyability; Beekeeper; Arianee 5 13
94 94 Lotte Ventures 212 Leo Junyoung Ahn Investment terms not public Unknown equity stake Undisclosed Unknown All Unknown Seoul, South Korea Hybrid (specifics not public) FEMTech; Artisans; 42Maru Unknown 13
95 95 LaunchVic 183 Kate Cornick Does not invest Free Undisclosed Unknown All Unknown Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Virtual Mr Yum; Carbar; Airwallex Unknown 13
96 96 Cleantech Open 679 Ken Hayes Does not invest Free (non-profit) 32 weeks 1x per year Clean Tech 30% Los Angeles, CA, USA Virtual ConnectDER; FreeWire Technologies; Enbala 100 12
97 97 VentureOut 1095 Brian Frumberg Does not invest 6% equity 12 weeks 12x per year Non-US Startups <3% New York City, NY, USA In-person required Vroom; Simplifeye; Parcel 14 11
98 98 Newchip Accelerator 1291 Andrew Ryan Investment terms not public $9,000 12 weeks 4x per year All <2% Austin, TX, USA Virtual DigsFact; Perks; StoryFit 4 10
99 99 gBeta 537 Joe Kirgues Does not invest Free 7 weeks 2x per year All <3% Madison, Wisconsin, USA In-person required Exit; Fetch Rewards; Captivate 26 10
100 100 FasterCapital 826 Hesham Zreik Does not invest Free 16 weeks 2x per year All <2% Dubai, United Arab Emirates Virtual Soukare; EATbilbao; Gener.diabetes 19 9

Top 100 Startup Accelerators and Incubators (2025 Rankings) — Analysis

Y Combinator has accelerated 7,089 companies with 1,500 exits — 4x more exits than any other program

The top 5 accelerators account for 36.3% of all companies accelerated across the entire list

Key Findings

  • Y Combinator dominates with 7,089 companies and 1,500 alumni exits — more than the next 4 programs combined
  • 59 of 100 programs charge no fee; the rest take equity stakes (1-6%) or charge $2,500-$70,000
  • California hosts 30 of 55 US-based accelerators (55%), with 30 of 100 globally — Silicon Valley's gravity persists
  • 12 weeks is the standard program length (36 programs), but 7 run year-long programs including Antler and Creative Destruction Lab
  • Acceptance rates are brutal: 29 programs accept fewer than 3% of applicants, with YC, a16z Speedrun, and Sequoia Arc all under 1%

Visualizations

Program Length Distribution
US Accelerators by State
Accelerators by Country
Top 10 by Alumni Exits (IPOs + Acquisitions)

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