Digital Garage To Start Incubation In US / Nikkei

Digital Garage (DG) launches incubation center to gather Internet related startups to accelerate providing technology support. It plans to have co-working space accommodating 60 people. DG finds promising startups in Asia, US, and Europe to accelerate them through investment as well.

It bought eight-story building in San Francisco with 7,500 square meters. Its first and second floors will be renovated to the incubation center planning to launch in this Fall. ...

Nikkei 2/10/2012 [jp]

memo

• Digital Garage started Open Network Lab in 2010, which is the first Y Combinator-like acceleration program in Japan. Also it has invested in several startups in US through its VC arm, DG Incubation. There increases incubation centers or co-working spaces anywhere in the world, but San Francisco is definitely the center of the movement. It is interesting how DG differentiates from existing competitors to accommodate promising startups.