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Disney starts seed-stage accelerator program for consumer and entertainment startups

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Disney is going tech in a big way with today’s announcement of the Disney Accelerator incubator program, which will partner with Techstars to train and fund 10 early-stage consumer and entertainment startups every three months.

This will be a big boost for startup entrepreneurs, who need contacts with high-level people to make their businesses a success. But it also helps Disney keep its ear on the pulse of technological innovation. The startups will also have access to stories, characters, tech, and other resources from the vast Disney empire.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.