Excelerate Labs
Excelerate Labs is an intensive summer accelerator for startups driven by proven entrepreneurs and investors. Led by world-class entrepreneurs, the program is unique in attracting scores of mentors from around the country to work with the teams in direct one-on-one meetings.
The program selects 10 companies every spring to participate in the intensive 13-week summer program. Starting on June 1st, the ten companies build connections as well as their business during the program. The program culminates in an Investor Demo Day on August 31st, where the companies showcase their progress and plans to more than 200 angel and venture investors from around the country.
We provide initial investment and mentorship to all companies in the program, as well as additional funding to some of those companies on Investor Demo Day.
See a list of current participants and 2010 Excelerate alums on the Excelerate website: here.
Startup Foundry
Sandbox Industries began as a startup foundry: a place where new business ideas are identified, internally developed, and new products and services are launched into the market. A fund was raised to support internal business exploration and growth.
Starting new companies is one of our primary focuses today. Our foundry's startups begin as ideas, are researched and prototyped, then launched to become operational businesses, products and services.
Our process is simple: brainstorm as many ideas as possible, quickly and cheaply test the best ideas, continue to iterate and tweak the concepts we love and that spark customer interest, and launch new businesses into the market. We iterate constantly by reviewing customer feedback and analyzing metrics to transform and improve our businesses.
BCBS Ventures
A collaborative investment vehicle that seeks to invest in emerging technologies in the healthcare industry. We are always looking for partners, investors and entrepreneurs looking to transform this space with us.
BLUE CROSS BLUE SHIELD FUND IBlueCross BlueShield Venture Partners, L.P. is a $116 million corporate venture fund sponsored by the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association, an association of independent Blue Cross and Blue Shield companies. We invest in promising emerging companies of strategic relevance to Blue Cross and/or Blue Shield plans on whose behalf we work. Together, we work to grow each of our investments.
BLUE CROSS BLUE SHIELD FUND IIBCBS Fund II is the second corporate venture fund sponsored by the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association. We continue to invest in promising emerging companies of strategic relevance to Blue Cross and/or Blue Shield plans who are participating in the second fund.
Sandbox Venture Fund
Sandbox Industries is not your traditional venture capital firm. We have raised funds and made investments that make us appear as if we are, and our limited partners benefit similarly to those who invest in traditional firms, but we feel we provide more to the companies and people we invest in. This is because we create businesses internally, through our startup foundry, and this allows us to be better investors who not only provide money, but also mentorship, learnings and knowledge each step of the way.
SANDBOX VENTURE FUND
An $18.8 million fund was raised with limited partners to support the growth of internally-founded companies, and has since been used to make external early-stage investments as well.
Our investments are not industry specific; we invest in good ideas and good people. Healthbox
Healthbox is one of the first business accelerator programs in the healthcare industry to provide a platform that supports innovation among seed-stage companies. With support from a number of significant players in healthcare, we are bringing together leading investors and industry experts to form a dynamic hub of entrepreneurship with unrivaled exposure and access to the healthcare market.
HEALTHBOX 2011
Go here for more information on the program and how to apply. Cultivian Sandbox
The Cultivian Sandbox agriculture fund is a collaborative investment vehicle that seeks to invest in emerging technologies in the agriculture industry. We are looking for partners, investors and entrepreneurs looking to transform the space with us.
About
We create, invest in and explore new businesses. We search for ideas with the potential to change markets, leveraging our expertise, resources, and experience to grow successful companies through collaboration and knowledge sharing. Sandbox represents a new model of business development -- one that helps rather than harasses entrepreneurs -- and is redefining the way great ideas are generated and transformed into successful companies.