Elemental Excelerator Competitors

Y Combinator is the leading startup accelerator for entrepreneurs. Since 2005, YC has invested in over 5,400 companies, including Airbnb, Dropbox, Stripe, Reddit, Instacart, DoorDash, and Coinbase. Today, YC has built the most powerful startup community in the world alongside the products and programs to support founders for the life of their company.

Building on a lifetime of public service, President Clinton established the Clinton Foundation on the simple belief that everyone deserves a chance to succeed, everyone has a responsibility to act, and we all do better when we work together. For more than two decades, those values have energized the Foundation’s efforts to address big challenges, create new opportunities, and make a difference in people’s lives across the United States and around the world. As an operating foundation, our programs and the partnerships we build work to expand economic opportunity, improve public health, confront the climate crisis, and inspire citizen engagement and service. The Foundation also operates the Clinton Presidential Center in Little Rock, which enhances these efforts by providing year-round educational and cultural programming and is home to the Clinton Presidential Library and Museum.

StartX is a collection of serial entrepreneurs, industry experts, tenured Stanford professors, and well-funded growth-stage startups. We believe that entrepreneurs can achieve more, as a group, than we can as individuals. As a community, our goal is to find creative ways to collaborate, so that each of our companies can have a long-term positive impact on the world. From this, we designed the StartX Community: a community for founders who don't need to give up equity. (NOTE: Students cannot apply directly to StartX. Students should instead apply for the separate Student-in-Residence accelerator.) We take Zero Equity StartX is a 501(c)3 non-profit and takes not equity in our companies. We are supported through grants, donations, and corporate sponsorships, including $8M in grant funding from Stanford University, Stanford Health Care, and Kauffman Foundation. We are Industry and Stage Agnostic StartX founders tackle big problems in every industry, from biotech, medical device, hardware, cleantech, and non-profit to consumer and enterprise IT. Companies have joined the StartX community at a variety of stages, from having recently developed an initial prototype to having raised over $100M+. The strength of our community speaks for itself: 2× higher chance of reaching $100M+ valuation than the best accelerators 1.7× higher seed valuation than the average Stanford startup +50% more successful at reaching Series A than industry average $8.4M average venture funding raised by StartX companies 85% StartX companies still growing + acquired over 8 years 5× proportion of venture funding raised by female-led StartX companies compared to industry average