Published on: April 19, 2017 at 5:04 AM

By Michael Tomberlin

A business incubator’s ultimate goal is to help young startups grow so strong that they are able to graduate and leave the nest.

By that measure, Birmingham’s Innovation Depot had its best year ever in 2016 with a record 17 graduates.

Another good measure of how those companies are doing is their ability to hire workers. There again, Innovation Depot companies set a new high with 870 jobs.

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