IBM and Colombia University have both launched accelerator programmes to help grow start-ups and ideas into sustainable blockchain businesses. They will form a part of the Columbia-IBM Center for Blockchain and Data Transparency, which launched in July.
Each of the programmes will support ten start-ups and will offer them access to technical support, IBM’s design workshops and cloud technology, expanded business networks and Colombia’s research communities and student talent pool.
Although the programmes will share those aspects, they will have a different emphasis. The IBM Blockchain Accelerator will focus on later-stage companies, and their support will concentrate on helping founders form business networks and a client base. This will take place over eight weeks, and founders will be invited to some in-person modules in New York and San Francisco.
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