The foundation was initially located in Community Partners, a foundation that hosts incubator foundations and nonprofits.
Local civic organizations, schools, colleges, professional associations, incubators, nonprofits, foundations, and municipal agencies are involved in supporting entrepreneurs and start ups.
Colorado has been an incubator of innovation.
MEST added a VC fund to its foundation backed incubator last year, as reported here at TechCrunch.
Nuzzel, the social news startup led by Friendster founder Jonathan Abrams, is announcing a bunch of new investors today, including Matter, the Knight Foundation-backed incubator for media startups.
In recent years, Cairo's flourishing entrepreneurial scene started to recognize the social component with more foundations, incubators, workshops and summits being dedicated to the social impact.
"When it was conceived, we hoped Westbeth would be a way station, an incubator," said Joan Kaplan Davidson, whose family foundation, the J. M. Kaplan Fund, helped create Westbeth and who served as its first president.
Cities are incubators of innovation.
Gründer-Garage, a German incubator sponsored by Google and Stiftung Entrepreneurship, a Berlin foundation, has its own funky lounge, complete with a beaten-up Opel and a bicycle slung on the wall.Perhaps the oddest crowd, however, are the "extreme overclockers".
Darren Walker, president of the Ford Foundation, which has awarded the incubator a $200,000 grant, said the idea appealed to the foundation in part because "we've never seen anything quite like it".
For some startups, however, participating in an incubator or accelerator can mean the difference between laying the foundation for a sustainable business and heading back to square one.
