Mark Kendall
Incubators play an important role in the startup ecosystem. We have curated a list of the top California Incubators. We have tried to select a variety of different types of investors across a variety of niches.
This list is designed to show off the investors with exceptional track records, industry experience and a unique understanding of the ecosystem.
Top California Incubators
Data sourced from Crunchbase and SemRush.
SAP.iO
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Accelerator, Corporate Venture Capital, Incubator
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Seed, Venture
SAP.iO helps innovators start-up and scale with SAP.
EvoNexus
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Incubator
Investment Stage: Non Equity Assistance
EvoNexus empowers motivated entrepreneurs to turn their transformative ideas into fundable and commercially viable companies.
AngelPad
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Accelerator, Incubator, Micro VC
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Seed
AngelPad is a seed-stage accelerator program that finds product market fit, defining a target market to get first validation for a company.
Obvious Ventures
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Incubator, Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed, Venture
Obvious Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in the early and growth stages.
Idealab
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Incubator
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Idealab is a technology incubator that provides resources to allow start-ups to rapidly introduce innovative products and services.
Nex Cubed
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Accelerator, Entrepreneurship Program, Incubator
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Nex Cubed is an investor and innovation partner that invests in, accelerates, and scales frontier tech companies.
Forward Ventures
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Incubator
Investment Stage: Debt, Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture
Forward Ventures ic a venture capital company that focuses in companies in the area of biological sciences.
The Batchery
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Incubator
Investment Stage:
The Batchery is a Bay Area-based global incubator for seed stage startups poised for rapid growth.
Lighthouse Capital Partners
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Incubator
Investment Stage: Debt, Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Private Equity
Lighthouse Capital Partners provides capital to early- and growth-stage technology, life science and clean tech companies.
Arena Ventures
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Incubator
Investment Stage: Seed
Arena Ventures is a founder-focused venture firm making seed and growth investments in Los Angeles and San Francisco.
InnoSpring Seed Fund
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Incubator
Investment Stage: Seed
InnoSpring Seed Fund is technology seed fund backed by growth-stage venture funds including KPCB, IDG Capital, Legend Capital, NLVC etc.
Frost Data Capital
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Incubator
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Frost Data Capital is a California-based venture capital firm that invests in big data analytics startups.
Financial Venture Studio
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Incubator, Venture Capital
Investment Stage:
Financial Venture Studio is a venture capital firm investing in teams who are seeking to improve their financial lives.
Rainmakers
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Incubator, Micro VC
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Seed
World’s leading innovation and incubation companies.
Vodafone Ventures
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Incubator
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Vodafone Ventures firm specializes in investments in seed/start up, early stage, and mid stage in wireless and Internet sectors.
KohFounders
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Incubator
Investment Stage:
Founded in 2013, Koh Founders helps early-stage entrepreneurs in digital healthcare, local, mobile, IoT, and software and services.
UCI Applied Innovation
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Entrepreneurship Program, Incubator, Startup Competition
Investment Stage:
UCI Applied Innovation brings campus-based discoveries together.
COLABORATIVOx
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Accelerator, Incubator
Investment Stage: Convertible Note, Early Stage Venture, Seed
Impact Tech & Open Innovation
West Health Investment Fund
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Incubator
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Private Equity, Seed
West Health Investment Fund invests in early-stage healthcare technology companies and is a venture capital firm based in California.
AI Fund
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Incubator, Micro VC, Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Seed
AI Fund is a VC firm made up of AI pioneers, operators, entrepreneurs, and investors, supported by LPs such as NEA, Sequoia and Greylock.
eCompanies
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Incubator
Investment Stage:
Ecompanies, LLC is the incubation component of eCompanies, which also has a venture capital instrument.
Next 10 Ventures
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Corporate Venture Capital, Incubator
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Next 10 Ventures is a leading venture group focused solely on the global Creator economy.
Silicon Catalyst
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Incubator, Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Seed, Venture
World’s only startup incubator focused exclusively on semiconductor solutions
The Tornante Company
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Incubator
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
The Tornante Company is a principal investment firm specializing in incubation.
Draper Goren Holm
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Accelerator, Incubator, Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Draper Goren Holm is a fintech venture studio focused on incubating and accelerating early-stage blockchain startups.
ideaTree Inc.
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Accelerator, Incubator, Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Non Equity Assistance, Seed
An investor in startups with a focus on mentoring and providing tools to help incubate early stage entrepreneurs.
Westlake Village BioPartners
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Incubator
Investment Stage:
Westlake Village BioPartners is venture capital firm focused on incubating and building life sciences companies.
Starttech Ventures
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Accelerator, Angel Group, Incubator, Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Starttech Ventures is an investment firm that focuses on early-stage, B2B, and SaaS.
Aligned Partners
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Incubator
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture
Aligned Partners is a venture capital firm that offers venture capital expertise to its portfolio companies.
Haus Capital, LLC
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Accelerator, Incubator, Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Haus Cap is an angel fund that strives to magnify the success of the teams it invests in.
Metaform Ventures
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Corporate Venture Capital, Entrepreneurship Program, Incubator, Private Equity Firm, Venture Capital, Venture Debt
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Post-Ipo, Seed
Metaform Ventures is an investment fund .
YouWeb
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Incubator
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Seed
YouWeb develops products and business models for companies in the consumer internet and mobile computing sectors.
TechCode Accelerator US
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Accelerator, Incubator
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Non Equity Assistance, Seed
TechCode is building the world’s leading entrepreneurship ecosystem by providing Incubation, Acceleration, Funding, & Consulting.
HVF Labs
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Incubator
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture
HVF Labs is a company creation lab, founded by Max Levchin. We build companies with the teams that will operate them.
Nextlaw Labs
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Incubator
Investment Stage:
Nextlaw Labs is the innovative legal tech venture development platform.
Disruptive Labs
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Accelerator, Incubator
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Disruptive Labs is a Startup Studio that helps exceptional founders build, launch and scale technology companies.
Curious Minds
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Incubator
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Curious Minds is a hybrid incubator-accelerator and an angel fund that invests in seed and early stage ventures.
MBC BioLabs
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Incubator
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Seed
MBC BioLabs is the premier biotech incubator in the Bay Area.
Launch Accelerator
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Incubator
Investment Stage:
Supporting Entrepreneurs And Inspiring Innovation.
Krupy Capital
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Angel Group, Incubator
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Krupy Capital works with entrepreneurs and developers to build companies of the future.
The Fabric
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Accelerator, Incubator
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Seed
The Fabric helps new entrepreneurs incubate ideas, create technologies and develop business models as a co-founder and co-creator.
Foxhog Ventures Corp.
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Angel Group, Entrepreneurship Program, Incubator, Investment Bank, Private Equity Firm
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Grant, Non Equity Assistance, Venture
USA based Venture Capital Firm came up with Foxhog Small Finance Bank , helping startups to land idea into future with equity based funding.
Start Smart Labs
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Incubator
Investment Stage:
Start Smart Labs is a Big Data Incubator for startups that are developing data intensive applications on Hadoop and Spark.
HMC INQ
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Accelerator, Incubator
Investment Stage: Convertible Note, Seed
HMC INQ is a 10-week intensive startup program for Harvey Mudd alums.
Founders.ai
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Family Investment Office, Incubator, Secondary Purchaser, Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Secondary Market, Seed
Founders.ai invests in pre-seed and seed startups who transform Enterprise with AI and data.
The Production Board (TPB)
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Incubator
Investment Stage:
The Production Board is a San Francisco-based investment foundry focused on improving technologies in agriculture, food and life sciences.
Be Great Partners
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Incubator
Investment Stage: Seed
Be Great Partners is a technology incubator that builds successful products by investing in entrepreneurs.
Estalea
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Incubator
Investment Stage:
Estalea conceptualizes, validates, builds and operates successful technology enterprises.
ShangPharma Innovation
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Incubator
Investment Stage: Seed
ShangPharma Innovation is a global innovation incubator and investment organization focused on biomedical R&D technologies and therapeutics.
Two Coins Group
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Accelerator, Incubator
Investment Stage: Convertible Note, Early Stage Venture, Seed
Two Coins Group is a startup accelerator focused in the media and entertainment industries.
Annex Ventures Management LLC
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Incubator
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture
Annex Ventures supports early stage funding for entrepreneurs in the hi-tech, bio-tech and medical device markets.
Net Value Holdings
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Incubator
Investment Stage:
Net Value Holdings Inc. is a virtual incubator for early stage e-commerce businesses.
Impossible Finance
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Incubator
Investment Stage:
Impossible Finance uses decentralised financial protocols to give everyone the same access to financial products.
Ethereum Classic Labs
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Accelerator, Incubator
Investment Stage:
Ethereum Classic Labs is dedicated to accelerating the development of Ethereum Classic and supporting blockchain startups.
Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Incubator
Investment Stage: Seed
LACI is a private non-profit organization that helps in accelerating the commercialization of clean technologies.
G-Startup Worldwide
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Incubator
Investment Stage:
Enabling Innovative Startups to Change the World.
Just Business
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Incubator
Investment Stage:
It is a business of social change, invest in and incubate profitable and forward-thinking ventures dedicated to positive impact in world.
East West Ventures
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Incubator, Venture Capital
Investment Stage:
East West Ventures invents, incubates, and innovates to deliver opportunities for investment across diverse sectors.
OnRamp Fund
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Incubator
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture
A $10 million incubator that invests in early stage startups
Bluehill
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Accelerator, Incubator
Investment Stage:
A blockchain incubator and accelerator firm.
Archetype Digital
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Accelerator, Incubator
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Incubator for early stage frontier technology ventures
MkII Ventures
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Incubator
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Seed
MkII Ventures is a venture capital firm.
Natural Capital
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Incubator
Investment Stage:
Solving the world’s hardest problems by bringing capital, technology and people together.
WeiVC Incubator
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Incubator
Investment Stage:
WeiVC Incubator is an investment advisory firm that caters to clients in the United States.
Deviants Capital
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Incubator
Investment Stage: Seed
CONTENT | COMMERCE | COMMUNITY
Ximyx
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Incubator
Investment Stage: Non Equity Assistance, Seed
Travel and Hospitality Incubator that invest, create and managing travel, hospitality and media technology startup companies.
ExploraMed
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Incubator
Investment Stage:
ExploraMed is a venture-backed medical technology incubation company.
Wavemaker Labs
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Incubator
Investment Stage:
Wavemaker Labs is a corporate venture studio and product development incubator.
MouseBelt
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Accelerator, Incubator, Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Initial Coin Offering, Seed
The only full-service blockchain accelerator in the world
L.A. Libations
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Accelerator, Incubator
Investment Stage: Seed
L.A. Libations is a next-generation beverage accelerator/incubator firm based in El Segundo, California.
Tandon Group
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Incubator
Investment Stage:
Tandon Group is a technology catalyst operating successful businesses and incubating the next generation of innovators.
Branch Startup Studio
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Accelerator, Incubator, Micro VC, Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Private Equity, Seed
We materialize opportunity into revenue generating businesses with fearless ceos
Science Blockchain
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Incubator
Investment Stage: Seed
An incubator focused on sponsoring and growing leading companies in the blockchain space.
Cisco Entrepreneurs in Residence
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Incubator
Investment Stage:
Cisco EIR supports early-stage entrepreneurs working on the next big ideas in the IoT/IoE, Big Data/analytics, Smart Cities.
FinHub Global
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Incubator
Investment Stage: Seed
FinHub Global is a FinTech company builder, developing business opportunities around the world.
Pineal Ventures
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Incubator
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Pineal Ventures invests in early stage companies that disrupt global culture and raise the frequency of the planet.
Lagovent Ventures Group, LLC
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Incubator
Investment Stage: Seed
New Venture Incubation and Financing
SHOzemi Innovation Ventures
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Incubator
Investment Stage:
SHOzemi Innovation Ventures provides funds for Japan’s tutoring school network.
Frost Venture Partners
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Incubator
Investment Stage:
Frost Venture is a new kind of technology incubator built to take advantage of the once in a generation opportunity.
Inman Incubator
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Incubator
Investment Stage:
The future of the real estate industry starts here.
Jett Ventures
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Incubator, Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Convertible Note, Early Stage Venture, Seed, Venture
Jett Ventures is a Venture Capital Firm that targets investment in early-stage companies.
Los Angeles Syndicate of Technology
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Incubator
Investment Stage: Seed
Publicly-traded Technology Incubator
O Labs Ventures, LLC
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Incubator
Investment Stage: Seed
O Labs creates, incubates, and develops technology companies.
Kapyon Ventures
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Incubator
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture
Kapyon Ventures is an incubation firm focused on the development of technology spinouts from global research institutes.
Ellis Energy Investments
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Angel Group, Incubator
Investment Stage: Seed
Ellis Energy Investments is a Seed Investment Company that helps early stage companies launch, monetize and grow.
Imprint Lab
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Incubator
Investment Stage:
Imprint Lab is a seed stage incubator that finds, funds, and stewards creative start-ups.
Mixin Capital
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Angel Group, Incubator
Investment Stage:
Mixin Capital provides seed funding to early stage technology co.
NCLUSIVE
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Incubator
Investment Stage: Seed
NCLUSIVE is a Los Angeles-based creative agency and venture studio that helps build brands and transform companies.
V1 Ventures
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Incubator
Investment Stage:
V1 Ventures is an incubator that partners with founders to validate ideas and develop business strategies.
3I/O Ventures
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Incubator
Investment Stage: Seed
3I/O Ventures is a technology startup studio.
Tie Silicon Valley
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Accelerator, Incubator, Venture Capital
Investment Stage:
Tie Silicon Valley is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to fostering entrepreneurship.
Innovent
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Incubator
Investment Stage:
Innovent is principal investment firm specializing in incubation.
Lumi Labs
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Incubator
Investment Stage:
Lumi Labs is a tech incubator that focuses on consumer media and artificial intelligence space.
Talino Venture Labs
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Accelerator, Corporate Venture Capital, Entrepreneurship Program, Incubator, Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Crowdfunding, Early Stage Venture, Seed, Venture
Talino Venture Labs is a global venture studio for inclusive fintech
Blueseed
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Accelerator, Co-Working Space, Incubator
Investment Stage:
Blueseed was an a attempt at a visa-free startup community on a cruise ship stationed near Silicon Valley. Now on hold pending funding.
Runway
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Accelerator, Co-Working Space, Incubator
Investment Stage: Seed
Runway is a technology innovation hub bringing together entrepreneurs, startups, VCs, mentors and industry experts.
FORMA Brands
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Accelerator, Incubator
Investment Stage:
FORMA is an incubator, accelerator, and curator of next-generation beauty brands.
Mach49
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Incubator, Venture Capital
Investment Stage:
Mach49 helps global businesses build a pipeline and portfolio of high potential ventures using their own customers, talent and innovation
Impact Hub Santa Barbara
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Incubator
Investment Stage:
Impact Hub Santa Barbara is an accelerator/incubator in Santa Barbara.
ChicostArt
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Incubator
Investment Stage:
ChicostArt is a startup incubator and a support community bringing startups from survive to thrive.
Foresite Labs
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Incubator
Investment Stage:
Foresite Labs is a biotechnology company that supports healthcare entrepreneurs that focuses on discovery and development of new medicine.
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