Is there a YC equivalent in Canada, China, India, Israel or UK?

7 points·fnazeeri··5 comments

I'm curious b/c I want to find a way to reach out to entrepreneurs in these countries to drive participation in a survey of startup executive compensation (http://www.compstudy.com/) which has been going for 9 years in the US but is launching for the first time in 5 new countries.

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Not that I'm aware of, but YEurope (unaffiliated with YC, despite the Y) in Austria may appeal to people in the UK.

In Canada, there's been a few murmurs about starting something (most notably here: http://www.startupnorth.ca/2009/04/13/incubators-accelerator...), but nothing solidly in the works as far as I know.

Y Combinator is the Canadian, Indian, Israel, and UK Y Combinator. I don't think they've had any Chinese founders, but they've certainly had a number of companies from all of the others in your list.

What makes you think Y Combinator is a local business rather than an international one? (Also, this has been discussed many times.)

India has iAccelerator program from IIMA. IISc recently launched an incubator as well, not on the lines of YC though.

Seedcamp sounds sort of similar. They're based in UK, but are funding startups from all over Europe.

http://www.seedcamp.com/

For canada, look into BootUp labs, their based out of Vancouver. Their doing lots of stuff in the Vancouver Start-up community, part of which includes operating an incubator fund.

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