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News & Updates

Dec
09
DreamIt Ventures Graduates Five Minority Led Companies
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by Kiera A. Manison

Today startup incubator DreamIt Ventures, is graduating 14 new startups from its fifth graduating class in Philadelphia and five of them are from minority owned.

This year’s class features minority led startups through the Comcast Ventures collaboration and its Minority Entrepreneur Accelerator Program.

The five startups include:

ElectNext : an online platform that allows voters to easily figure out which presidential candidate best represents their own ideology.

Kwelia : a service that allows property managers to optimize their pricing using local market data. , Kwelia uses its propriety data to build financial models to assist property managers in properly pricing their available units

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Dec
07
DreamIt Graduates 14 Startups in Philly, Including 5 Minority-Led Companies
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by Sarah Perez

On Wednesday, startup incubator DreamIt Ventures is graduating fourteen new companies from its Philly 2011 class. It’s the fourth program from DreamIt in Philadelphia, and the fifth graduating class for the accelerator overall. DreamIt expanded to New York this year, too). This year’s group is notable for featuring several minority-led startups thanks to a collaboration with Comcast Ventures, the venture capital affiliate of Comcast Corporation, as part of its Minority Entrepreneur Accelerator Program (MEAP).

MEAP is the first initiative from the $20 million fund created by Comcast as a part of the acquisition of NBC Universal. The fund will also be used to invest in other minority-led startups and initiatives outside of DreamIt in the future. With Comcast’s participation, DreamIt’s budget for this group was increased by $350,000.

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http://techcrunch.com/2011/12/06/dreamit-graduates-15-startups-in-philly-including-5-minority-led-companies/