What it's like at the elite tech accelerator where Stanford grads are launching startups worth millions

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StartX has launched 228 companies, which have raised a combined $707 million in funding, in four years.

Cameron Teitelman, the 26-year-old CEO and founder of StartX, says he's a "nurture-over-nature guy." In that spirit, he launched in 2010 the first class of StartX, a nonprofit organization that seeks to identify promising entrepreneurs in the Stanford University network and help them create the next big things in tech.

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The program accepts students, alumni, faculty, and staff of Stanford University, although a few exceptions are made each year.

The perks of being in the program are too many to be counted. Each company receives about $100,000 in infrastructural resources and taps into a network of over 200 serial entrepreneurs, experts, and venture capitalists who volunteer as mentors.

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We recently visited StartX's office in Palo Alto, California, to see what other benefits come with being a StartX entrepreneur.