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Business incubators and accelerators have emerged as a popular strategy to support the growth of entrepreneurial ventures, especially in the high-tech sector (Anderson, 2012; Lewis, Harper-Anderson, & Molnar, 2011). They are designed to address the networking, education and capital challenges all entrepreneurs face. These challenges are most acute for women and minority tech entrepreneurs (Fairlee & Robb, 2008; Robb, Coleman, & Stangler, 2014), suggesting that incubators and accelerators could have the greatest impact on their ventures.1 Yet, women and minorities are not participating in high-tech incubators and accelerators at the same rates as their white, male counterparts.