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Founders & startup ecosystem · Core

Incubator

Also called: startup incubator

ELI5

A programme that helps very early businesses develop.

Used in conversation

“The incubator provides laboratories but no investment.”

Definition

An organisation or programme supporting early ventures, often with workspace, advice and longer development periods.

Here “Incubator” means: An organisation or programme supporting early ventures, often with workspace, advice and longer development periods.

Pitch context

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Supporting source families. This entry is an editorial synthesis rather than a quotation from one canonical glossary.