Techstars

Techstars is a global startup accelerator founded in 2006, headquartered in Boulder, Colorado. It provides a supportive environment for entrepreneurs through various programs, including mentorship-driven accelerators, startup programs, and corporate innovation partnerships. Techstars connects founders with a vast network of mentors, investors, and industry experts to foster company growth. The organization operates multiple accelerator programs worldwide, focusing on diverse sectors such as mobility, retail, and social impact. It also manages a venture capital fund that invests in innovative technology companies at early stages. With over 1,000 companies in its accelerator portfolio, Techstars has developed a reputation for nurturing successful startups across various markets, helping them scale and achieve significant valuations.

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http://techstars.com/ventures

https://crunchbase.com/organization/bullet-time-ventures

https://crunchbase.com/organization/techstars

https://crunchbase.com/organization/techstars-0722

https://crunchbase.com/organization/techstars-atlanta-in-partnership-with-cox-enterprises

https://crunchbase.com/organization/techstars-berlin-accelerator

https://crunchbase.com/organization/techstars-boston-accelerator

https://crunchbase.com/organization/techstars-cloud

https://crunchbase.com/organization/techstars-connection

https://crunchbase.com/organization/techstars-dubai-in-partnership-with-ginco

https://crunchbase.com/organization/techstars-impact-accelerator

https://crunchbase.com/organization/techstars-kansas-city-accelerator

https://crunchbase.com/organization/techstars-korea-accelerator

https://crunchbase.com/organization/techstars-london-accelerator

https://crunchbase.com/organization/techstars-metro-retail

https://crunchbase.com/organization/techstars-mobility-accelerator

https://crunchbase.com/organization/techstars-music

https://crunchbase.com/organization/techstars-new-york-city-accelerator

https://crunchbase.com/organization/techstars-paris

https://crunchbase.com/organization/techstars-retail-accelerator

https://crunchbase.com/organization/techstars-smart-mobility

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Ethan Austin

MD of the Techstars Western Union Accelerator

David Cohen

Co-Founder and Co-CEO

Dave Drach

VP of Corporate Strategy

Max Kelly

MD of Techstars London

Laura Kennedy

VP of Corporate Development

Matt Kozlov

MD of Techstars Healthcare

Lesa Mitchell

MD

Mike Rizzuto

Fund Associate

Amos Schwartzfarb

MD

Jason Seats

CIO

Vijay Tirathrai

MD

Mark Tortorella

Advisor

Nathanial Zola

MD

Past deals in Social

Toucan

Pre Seed Round in 2021

Toucan is a virtual platform specifically designed for social events. Guests move smoothly from conversation to conversation while keeping track of their friends and people they want to meet. This allows groups to connect in natural and authentic ways and makes virtual events approachable, engaging, and frictionless.

COMMUNITYx

Pre Seed Round in 2021

The Social Network for Social Change

Ema

Funding Round in 2021

Social Mama is a mobile solution for moms to network and meet up. Moms need moms friends for sanity and advice and it is awkward and difficult to find these connections. With a algorithm, geo location and profiles that tell a mother's life story, Social Mama is able to connect like-minded women together. Social Mama is a product that empowers females through connections, where motherhood is a commonality.

Social Lender

Seed Round in 2016

Social Lender is a lending solution based on social reputation on mobile, online and social media platforms.

SocialCapital

Seed Round in 2016

SocialCapital helps employers find suitable candidates for their companies by analyzing their online and social behavior. The company curates accurate personality profiles using social data. To infer personality characteristics from textual information, SocialCapital tokenizes the input text and matches the tokens with the LIWC psycholinguistics dictionary to compute scores in each dictionary category. It currently infers personality characteristics and interests from any combination of tweets, blogs, and any other publically available digital media. SocialCapital was founded in 2015 by Temitope Alabi and Obed Eugene.

Shareable Social

Seed Round in 2014

Shareable Social is a content marketing platform that helps businesses build their brand through social media. We create a consistent online presence for our clients by posting daily content on their Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn pages. It's basically like putting your social media content on auto-pilot. This active social media presence provides our clients with increased visibility, web traffic, client engagement and brand awareness.

Inside Social

Seed Round in 2013

Inside Social is an early-stage technology company, allowing users to measure and increase the impact that social sharing has on the metrics that drive its business. It has built a social marketing platform that helps large brands and e-commerce companies do better social marketing.Inside Social improves social media’s full potential by tracking the metrics that really matter all the way through to downstream conversions, resulting in meaningful and actionable insights. It was founded in 2012 by Brewster Stanislaw and Joey Kotkins. It is based in Seattle, Washington.

SocialCrunch

Seed Round in 2013

SocialCrunch LLC provides consumer Web application that is building a behavior graph of people on the Internet. The company collects information that helps businesses in creating market relevant content based on facts or sound bites collected from audience; and provides deep profiling, capturing data, and trend research services. SocialCrunch LLC was incorporated in 2012 and is based in Chicago, Illinois. As of January 19, 2015, SocialCrunch LLC operates as a subsidiary of Tastebud Technologies, Inc.

SocialSci

Angel Round in 2010

SocialSci operates an online platform that allows to conduct scientific process surveys and in lab studies by academic researchers. Its platform allows users to find studies in their local area that are looking for live participants, as well as to port their scientific research onto the online space. The company’s platform is used by colleges and universities in the United States. SocialSci was founded in 2009 and is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

SocialSci

Seed Round in 2010

Socialthing

Seed Round in 2007

Socialthing synchronizes personal information and enables users to manage multiple social networking feeds from a single web dashboard. The company was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Boulder, Colorado.