New York’s Second Tech Accelerator Opens In Beta
Orientation! Today was the first day of the DreamIt Ventures accelerator’s brand new New York program, and entrepreneurs from 12 start-ups gathered around director Mark Wachen this afternoon in the accelerator’s three-quarters-of-the-way finished open office on the eleventh floor of a Chelsea elevator building on W. 27th and Broadway. The space is sunny and bright and equipped with wifi, coffee, water, a ping-pong table, clusters of desks, some computers and iPads and not much else. “That’s going to be another conference room there,” Mr. Wachen indicated a corner with some panes of glass leaning against the wall. “You can also use the stairwell conference room.” “Or the Starbucks conference room,” the office manager piped up. Read More
