INCUBATION OR FABRICATION?

Evidence suggests that mankind is fast approaching the point of 'peak incubator' - soon the human population will be no longer able to sustain the number of business incubators, accelerators, hubs and launchpads which are spreading across the surface of the planet.
 
Can you tell which of the following incubators are real and which are fictional?


1. StartUpBootCamp – pan-European accelerator network
2. Rainmaking Loft – sponsored by Tesco
3. Egg Incubate – a new hothouse accelerator in Phoenix
4. OCTANe LaunchPad™ - a hands-on, pro bono accelerator
5. Hub Launchpad Incubator – for innovators and intrapreneurs
6. You Is Now – a Berlin based “Startup Inkubator”
7. HugeThing.org – for high potential Polish teams with global ambitions
8. DUMBO Incubator – based in NYC
9. RuraLab – a Norfolk-based incubator in a converted cowshed
10. Incubus – a start-up incubator on a bus in Shoreditch
11. La Large Collider – Swiss based accelerator
12. Blueseed – a start-up community on a ship in international waters
13. PopLabHub – San Franciso-based business catapult
14. DasGlassHAUS – German open business propagator  
15. Excelerate Labs – Chicago-based summer school accelerator
16. DinkyWink – a ‘collaboratory’ in Buenos Aires
17. FIG – for UK students, backed by RBS
18. Dog Patch Labs – the community of choice for extraordinary entrepreneurs
19. Harlem Biospace – offering affordable shared ‘wet-lab’ space in NYC
20. Mincubator – a Romanian business accelerator

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1. www.startupbootcamp.org
2. www.rainmakingloft.com
3. fictional
4. www.octaneoc.org/home/launchpad
5. www.wearefuturegov.com/tag/hub-launchpad
6. www.youisnow.com
7. www.hugething.org
8. www.nycedc.com/program/dumbo-incubator
9. fictional
10. www.angel.co/incubus-ventures-ltd
11. fictional
12. www.blueseed.co
13. fictional
14. fictional
15. www.exceleratelabs.com  
16. fictional
17. www.findinvestgrow.com
18. www.dogpatchlabs.com  
19. www.nycedc.com/program/harlem-biospace
20. www.mincubator.ro