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Fusing public media values with Silicon Valley entrepreneurship, KQED, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and Public Radio Exchange (PRX) launched Matter, a start-up accelerator supporting media entrepreneurs building a more informed, connected, and empowered society.
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Matter Two Demo Day in NYC
Feb. 28, 2014
Matter, the San Francisco-based incubator dedicated to changing media for good, hosted a Demo Day in New York City last for its second class of startups. Media attending and covering the Demo Day at WNYC’s Greene Space included Re/Code, Politico, Mediabistro, Xconomy, and Folio.
Matter’s First Startup Class Comes to NYC
Jul. 29, 2013
Matter’s first class of six media startups traveled from San Francisco to New York City this week to demonstrate their products and services to a packed room of media executives and investors at WNYC’s Greene Space.
Coverage of the event included TechCrunch, Inc., Columbia Journalism Review, and Upstart Business Journal.
Six startups that could change the future of media
Mar. 19, 2013
Matter, the new startup accelerator for media ventures backed by Knight Foundation, KQED, and PRX, announced the six startups to participate in its first class.
Matter chose six projects that have potential to create a more informed, connected, and empowered society while pursuing a scalable business model. The selected media ventures range from a crowd-powered investigative network to an online video analytics platform to a service that adds a spoken layer to best of the written web.
AllThingsD, Fast Company, The Next Web, Techcrunch, GigaOM, Nieman Journalism Lab, Current, and Upstart are among the leading outlets that profiled Matter’s first class.
Stay tuned for Matter’s first demo day in June 2013.
Matter Ventures in New York Times, All Things D
Dec. 17, 2012
Fusing public media values with Silicon Valley entrepreneurship, KQED, the Knight Foundation and Public Radio Exchange (PRX) last week launched Matter Ventures, a start-up accelerator supporting media entrepreneurs building a more informed, connected, and empowered society.
The launch kicked off with an exclusive story in The New York Times. Wider coverage included All Things D, Fast Company, GigaOm, VentureBeat, The Next Web, PandoDaily, San Francisco Chronicle, and Xconomy.