TechStars Launches Accelerato.rs, A Common App For Startups And A Results Tracker For Accelerators

For a young startup, sometimes you want any funding you can get. For an incubator program, sometimes any startup is what you're looking for. Finding each other won't necessarily make either one successful, but more pairings might help overall. Or so believes TechStars, which is launching what it intends to be the Common Application of the startup world. Called Accelerato.rs, the application is a standard online form that asks founders basic investor-type questions, and lets them write one version then send it to any of the dozen or so participating programs. Funded?by the entrepreneurship-focused Kauffman Foundation?and under development since earlier this year, Accelerato.rs also lets startups track their acceptance status for each of the programs that they apply to. "One of the big things that a lot of the accelerators are looking for are more applications," TechStars cofounder David Cohen tells me. " Y Combinator, Seedcamp, TechStars and some of the other big accelerators are getting thousands of applications but only accepting a few percentage points."

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