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Matter shows off its first class of accelerated startups

LINK: techcrunch.com ➚ | Posted by: Joshua Benton | July 24, 2013

You may remember Matter, the new content-oriented accelerator with public media roots. We wrote about its first class back in March. Well, that first group of startups has been well and truly accelerated, and they showed off their products in New York yesterday. TechCrunch’s Eliza Brooke summarizes them all.

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