| Incubator Name | Website | Address | Company Info | Industry |
| AngelPad | www.angelpad.com | 135 Main St #850, San Francisco, CA 94105 | AngelPad is a seed-stage accelerator program that finds product market fit, defining a target market to get first validation for a company. | |
| BATTS Incubator Labs | https://www.batts-incubator.com | Chatsworth, CA 91311 | Our new 10,000+ sqft lab space and bio-incubator is located in San Fernando Valley, CA. We provide support and services for companies, start-ups, as well as our biopharma industry clients. What separates us from other incubators is that we have full ‘In-house’ GLP level pre-clinical study facility and services. | Biotechnology |
| Berkeley BioLabs | berkeleybiolabs.com | 614 Bancroft Way, Berkeley, CA 94710 | Berkeley Biolabs enables scientists and biotech entrepreneurs to research and develop their products by providing economical lab | Biotechnology |
| Berkeley SkyDeck | skydeck.berkeley.edu | 2150 Shattuck Ave, Berkeley, CA 94704 | SkyDeck Berkeley is a research university accelerator that serves as an apex startup launchpad for UC Berkeley-affiliated entrepreneurs. | |
| Bolt | bolt.io | 724 Brannan St, San Francisco, CA 94103 | Bolt is a pre-seed venture capital firm focusing on the intersection of hardware and software. Often writing founders their first check, Bolt focuses on pre-seed, pre-product companies. Portfolio companies build a foundation for success by leveraging Bolt’s engineering team, prototyping environment, and experience building multi-billion dollar companies. Bolt has offices in San Francisco and Boston. | |
| BOOTUP ventures | www.bootupventures.com | 68 Willow Rd, Menlo Park, CA 94025 | BootUP Ventures has accelerated 120+ startups who have raised more than USD 400 million in external investment and today have a combined valuation approaching USD 4 billion. By delivering these results, BootUP Ventures has been named one of the top three ecosystems in Silicon Valley. Underpinning BootUP’s success is a combination of high-touch mentoring of startups over time, global reach, a club-like atmosphere and a software platform that supports BootUP’s ability to execute fast by matching startups to mentors, investors, corporate partners and talent. | Artificial Intelligence, Security, Internet of Things, Big data, Consumer hardware |
| CITRIS Foundry | citrisfoundry.org | 141 Sutardja Dai Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720 | Headquartered at UC Berkeley, the CITRIS Foundry accelerator supports entrepreneurs who are working to commercialize cutting-edge technology within their scientific field. Our founders are scientists, engineers, builders, and hackers from top-tier research universities. | Cleantech, Medical device, Consumer product, Software |
| Digital Garage | www.garage.co.jp/en | 717 Market St, San Francisco, CA 94103 | Digital Garage US, Inc., located on Market Street, San Francisco, has built a system and support to so that Japanese venture businesses can more rapidly become global corporations. Today, it is continuing to upgrade its capabilities as an incubation center. We encourage all business startups who want to expand their business scale with Silicon Valley as a base of operations to contact us. | |
| Envestnet Yodlee Incubator | www.yodlee.com/company/startup-incubator | 160 W Santa Clara St Suite 850, San Jose, CA 95113 | The Envestnet | Yodlee Incubator helps developers, innovators and entrepreneurs launch disruptive data-driven companies and ignite their growth. Companies receive access to the suite of Envestnet | Yodlee APIs, dedicated technical support, mentorship & guidance, and membership in the broader Yodlee ecosystem. They look at companies pre-seed, post-seed, and even sometimes pre-product. | Fintech |
| ExploraMed | www.exploramed.com | 2570 W El Camino Real, Mountain View, CA 94040 | ExploraMed's primary mission is to significantly improve the quality of life for patients through fresh paradigms which create value for their customers and shareholders. ExploraMed is a venture-backed medical technology incubation company dedicated to the identification, creation and development of new medical device solutions. | Medical device, Healthcare, Biotechnology |
| Fogarty Institute for Innovation | fogartyinstitute.org | 2490 Hospital Dr, Mountain View, CA 94040 | The Institute provides unparalleled support to entrepreneurs developing promising new medical devices. In addition to our educational programs, companies also benefit from unlimited access to our team of full-time mentors. This in-depth support allows our mentors to become more than just occasional advisors to a company, but rather true partners in helping them succeed. | Medical, Healthcare, Biotechnology |
| Founders space | www.foundersspace.com | 450 Townsend St, San Francisco, CA 94107 | Founders Space is the world’s leading Global Incubator + Accelerator. With 50 partners in 22 countries, we help startups rock the world! | |
| Google Launch Pad | developers.google.com/startups/accelerator | 543 Howard St 1st Floor, San Francisco, CA 94105 | Based in San Francisco, at Google Developers Launchpad Space, Launchpad Studio works with startups to successfully complete an ML-focused project during the term of the program. Studio portfolio companies receive all-expenses-paid training at Google HQ in Silicon Valley, fully customized tracks per industry, personalized mentorship from Google, Silicon Valley, and industry experts, equity-free support, Google Cloud credits, access to hardware and datasets, ongoing support and community engagement after project completion. | |
| GSV Labs | www.GSVlabs.com | 2955 Campus Dr #110, San Mateo, CA 94403 | GSVlabs is a premium global innovation hub for startups, corporations, and individuals seeking innovation and accelerated growth. A highly curated, immersive experience brings together the brightest minds from all over the Global Silicon Valley. GSVlabs’ Silicon Valley Headquarters houses 200+ startups and corporate partners, providing them with coaching, connectivity, and access to capital. | |
| InnoSpring | www.innospring.com/en | 3401 El Camino Real, Palo Alto, CA 94306 | InnoSpring is the holding company for a multi-national ecosystem of technology industrial parks, incubators, and venture capital funds ($200M under management). We exist with a mission to become the global start for startups. | Intelligent manufacturing, Biomedicine |
| JOINN Innovation Park | www.joinnparks.com | 2600 Hilltop Dr, Richmond, CA 94806 | JOINN Innovation Park is the leading Biotech Acceleration campus in the San Francisco Bay Area, at the center one the largest life science clusters in the US. Our campus provides three major functions: biotech research and development, preclinical research and GMP manufacturing. In over 350,000 square feet of research space, JOINN Innovation Park is the total solution answer to the needs of local and international biotech companies for cutting edge research facilities. | Biotechnology |
| NASDAQ Entrepreneurial Center | thecenter.nasdaq.org | 505 Howard St, San Francisco, CA 94105 | Located in San Francisco, the Nasdaq Entrepreneurial Center is a destination for the next generation of risk-takers and idea makers who take the plunge into entrepreneurship. | |
| Nex-cubed | nex3.com | 325 Pacific Ave Suite B, San Francisco, CA 94111 | Nex Cubed is a leader in innovation-driven value creation. Our global ecosystem empowers entrepreneurs to bring new technologies to market, helps rising companies scale, and provides paths to liquidity – the ‘power of three’. We provide access to hundreds of founders, mentors, investors, and corporate partners, helping entrepreneurs drive innovation, value, and growth. To date, the Nex Cubed portfolio has a total valuation of $200m and over 50% of the startups are led by female and minority founders. | |
| Nordic Innovation House | www.nordicinnovationhouse.com | 470 Ramona St, Palo Alto, CA 94301 | Nordic Innovation House is a unique collaboration with the Nordic countries. We are a bridge connecting the cold corners of the globe with the main hotspots around the world. With backing from Nordic Innovation and the Nordic Council of Ministers, we bring Nordic entrepreneurship, values, and our way of doing business to the global innovation ecosystem. We bring together the most innovative entrepreneurs, all working to connect the dots – and getting connected. We offer an extended hand to help making yesterday’s problems tomorrow’s billion-dollar solution. | |
| Onepiece | www.1piecework.com | 414 Brannan St, San Francisco, CA 94107 | OnePiece is a shared co-working space that connects global business professionals and leading entrepreneurs. The company specializes in finding and connecting entrepreneurs who have a hunger for greatness and a desire for global expansion. OnePiece Work redefines work space, serves from global incorporations to freelancers and start-ups. With the rapid growth of the shared economy, the future work place is no longer office buildings, homes, or cubicles, but rather a community where people with different backgrounds to inspire each other, innovate and share ideas and resources. OnePiece Work combines businesses across industries, creates comfort space for everyone enjoy in work and social together. | |
| PARISOMA | www.parisoma.com | 169 11th St, San Francisco, CA 94103 | PARISOMA is a San Francisco open incubator and coworking space that provides work space, education, and events for the entrepreneurial community. | |
| Pivotal Labs | www.pivotallabs.com | 875 Howard St, San Francisco, CA 94103 | Pivotal Labs has been at the forefront of agile development for more than two decades building highly reliable, scalable software for innovative industry leaders and emerging companies across a number of industries. They’ve partnered with technical teams ranging in experience from the newly minted to the seasoned; together they’ve launched hundreds of web and mobile products and built complex enterprise infrastructures that run some of the world’s most effective business platforms. | Automotive, Financial Services, Healthcare, Insurance, Retail, Telecommunications |
| Plug & Play | www.plugandplaytechcenter.com | 440 N Wolfe Rd, Sunnyvale, CA 94085 | Plug and Play is a seed and early-stage investor focused on great teams leading emerging growth companies. Plug and Play runs 12 industry-specific accelerator programs twice a year, that acts as a platform for major corporations and high quality startups to connect and collaborate. | |
| QB3 | qb3.org | 1700 4th St #214, San Francisco, CA 94158 | The California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences (QB3) is a consortium of more than 200 laboratories from three University of California campuses, at Berkeley (UCB), Santa Cruz (UCSC), and San Francisco (UCSF). Established in 2000, QB3 was created to fuel the California bio-economy. Armed with world-class researchers, state-of-the-art facilities and a collection of entrepreneurial | Bioscience |
| Rainmakers | rainmakersglobal.com | 149 Natoma St, San Francisco, CA 94105 | The Rainmakers is one of the world’s leading innovation and incubation companies. They have created ground breaking technologies as well as working with some of the biggest organizations in world such as the US government, Microsoft, British Telecom, Ministry of Defense and many more. They help companies create innovation internally and externally, allowing them to keep on the cutting edge of technology.Additionally with extensive knowledge of both the US and UK markets and with on the ground resources in both countries, they help companies make the transition into either market quickly and efficiently. | |
| Renaissance Entrepreneurship Center | www.rencenter.org | 275 5th St, San Francisco, CA 94103 | Renaissance Entrepreneurship Center is a nonprofit small business development organization dedicated to helping women and men who traditionally lack access to resources and information to achieve financial self-sufficiency through entrepreneurship. Renaissance provides training, support services, resources, and networks for business owners at every stage of business development, from idea feasibility through start-up, growth, and expansion. | |
| Rocketspace | rocketspace.com | 123 Mission St suite 1600, San Francisco, CA 94105 | RocketSpace was launched in January 2011 by Duncan Logan, a technology exec who was frustrated with the bleak options for his new startup in San Francisco: either spend an outrageous amount of money on a private office in an isolated building or join a co-working facility where his team would be surrounded by non-technology freelancers. | |
| Runway Innovation Hub | runway.is | 1355 Market St #488, San Francisco, CA 94103 | Runway is a coworking space and innovation hub bringing together entrepreneurs, startups, VCs, mentors, Fortune 500 companies, and industry experts. We also host accelerator programs for high-growth startups, provide corporate innovation services to global companies, and host amazing events. | |
| ShangPharma Innovation Incubator | www.spiivc.com | 280 Utah Ave, South San Francisco, CA 94080 | The ShangPharma Innovation Incubator is located in the core of South San Francisco’s vibrant life science market, providing emerging companies with state-of-the-art laboratory space, equipment, and access to the expertise and services of our resident preferred vendor, ChemPartner, a leading contract research organization. | Healthcare, Life science |
| StartX | startx.com | 2627 Hanover St, Palo Alto, CA 94304 | StartX is a 501(c)(3) Stanford-affiliated nonprofit in Silicon Valley that runs one of the world’s top startup accelerator programs. Its mission is to advance the development of the best entrepreneurs through experiential education and peer learning. Since launching in 2010, it has supported more than 450 companies and 1000 entrepreneurs, from early to pre-IPO stage, working across a wide spectrum of industries. | Medical, Biotechnology |
| TechCode Accelerator US | us.techcode.com | 1172 Castro St, Mountain View, CA 94040 | TechCode is building the world’s leading entrepreneurship ecosystem by providing Incubation, Acceleration, Venture Funding, and Strategic Consulting to companies. | |
| TechLab Innovation Center | techlabcenter.com | 2702, 2040 Martin Ave, Santa Clara, CA 95050 | TechLAB Innovation Center mission is to help early and mid-stage technology entrepreneurs with a developed, data-driven product/service, scale up business operations to the cloud, onto an ultra-fast and reliable state of the art technology platform. | IT,Telecommunications,mobile apps, healthcare IT |
| The Vault | www.thevault.co | 415 Jackson St, San Francisco, CA 94111 | Located in San Francisco/Silicon Valley, The Vault offers innovation events, presentations, workshops, and consulting focused on innovation impact — i.e., establishing new and different products and services out in the real world that have a significant impact. | |
| Triple Ring Technologies, Inc. | tripleringtech.com | 39655 Eureka Dr, Newark, CA 94560 | Companies incubated at TRT develop a variety of emerging technologies ranging from diagnostics, digital health and wearables to regenerative medicine and drug delivery, to industrial and security applications. | |
| UpWest Labs | www.upwestlabs.com | 550 California Ave Suite 1, Palo Alto, CA 94306 | UpWest Labs invests in Israel’s most promising entrepreneurs. Based in Silicon Valley, we have backed over 70 companies through our hands-on approach and on-going efforts to supercharge the growth of our startups. UpWest Labs provides the essential ingredients for success: Seed funding, proximity and access to markets and capital, a supportive community of talented peers, and a workspace conducive to rapid development and deployment. | |
| World Innovation Lab | wilab.com | 102 University Ave #1a, Palo Alto, CA 94301 | World Innovation Lab connects entrepreneurs with corporate resources to build global businesses. They are a multi-stage venture capital firm that invests in consumer and enterprise technology companies. With a deep network of global corporate partners, World Innovation Lab is committed to providing startups with unparalleled investment and partnership opportunities. Their foundational partner platform includes the Japanese government investment arm and over 20 Japan leading corporations such as Sony, Nissan, Mizuho Bank, Daiwa Securities, NTT, KDDI and All Nippon Airways | Software, Consumer Products, Telecommunications, Big data |
| ZGC Innovation Center | https://zgcsiliconvalley.spaces.nexudus.com | 4500 Great America Pkwy, Santa Clara, CA 95054 | Located at 4500 Great American Parkway, our 74,276 square foot center is in the heart of Silicon Valley, and provides an environment that fosters creativity, and innovation. Beyond our modern workspace, the real beauty lies in our ability to create a community of innovation that truly enjoy helping each other. The ZGC Innovation Center has created a new type of ecosystem that combines extensive global innovation resources with a community that works together in the common pursuit of a better world through new technology. |
Incubator selection criteria:
- Size of work space
- Number of tenants
- Number of investment made
- If it offers accelerate program
- Number of events
