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The first seed accelerator was [[Y Combinator (company)|Y Combinator]], started in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 2005, and then later moved to Silicon Valley by [[Paul Graham (computer programmer)|Paul Graham]].<ref name="accelerating-studies" /> It was followed by [[TechStars]] (in 2006), [[Seedcamp]] (in 2007), [[AngelPad]] (in 2010), Startupbootcamp (in 2010), Tech Wildcatters (in 2011), several accelerators of [[SOSVentures|SOSV]], Boomtown Boulder (in 2014) and [[Antler (venture capital firm)|Antler]] (in 2017).<ref name="gilani4">{{Cite web |last=Gilani |first=Aziz |last2=Dettori, Gianluca |date=July 16, 2011 |title=Incubators in US and Europe - Speed and scale in capital formation |url=http://www.slideshare.net/dgiluz/accellerators-in-us-and-europe/4 |access-date=September 14, 2012 |publisher=Kauffman Fellow Program |page=4}}</ref>
In Europe, the first accelerator program was started by Accelerace in 2009 in Denmark (strongly subsidised by the Danish government) followed shortly after by Startup Wise Guys in 2012 in Estonia. More recently, accelerators based in Berlin, Germany, have started to emerge and tend to focus on niche industries, such as
With the growing popularity of seed accelerator programs in the US, Europe has seen an increase in accelerators to support a growing [[startup ecosystem]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Johnson, Bobbie |date=July 18, 2011 |title=Are Europe's startup accelerators speeding out of control? |url=http://gigaom.com/2011/07/18/are-europes-accelerators-speeding-out-of-control |publisher=[[GigaOM]]}}</ref>
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