Much of the focus on the tech ecosystem in Greater Philadelphia is in Center City, but we’ve seen major dollars spent and deals made by suburban tech companies in recent years.

And Jon Mercer, cofounder of Startup Bucks — an entrepreneurship and startup organization in Bucks County, just north of the city — and his team are doubling down on that fact. Last summer, they launched the nonprofit and linked up with the 1 Million Cups organization to run 1 Million Cups Bucks County every Wednesday at 9 a.m.

Now the team is taking another step by launching an accelerator for early-stage startups that gives selected companies up to $25,000 in investments, resources, programming and connections. The concept for the accelerator started before the pandemic with the idea of getting a direct portion of Bucks County’s economic development funds into the hands of early-stage tech startups.

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