Techstars

Techstars Central LLC, founded in 2006 and based in Boulder, Colorado, operates as a startup accelerator and venture capital firm focused on supporting early-stage technology-oriented companies. It specializes in a mentorship-driven accelerator program, selecting ten startups each summer to participate in a three-month incubation period, offering funding of $120,000 in exchange for equity. Techstars invests primarily in sectors such as fintech, artificial intelligence, blockchain, augmented reality, and IoT, while avoiding investments in medical devices, healthcare technology, and local service-oriented businesses. In addition to its primary accelerator, Techstars has various specialized programs, including those focused on music, retail, mobility, and social impact, with global reach extending to regions such as Africa, Asia, and Latin America. The firm prefers taking minority stakes, typically between six and ten percent, without seeking board representation or investor rights. Techstars has built a robust network of entrepreneurs, mentors, and corporate partners to foster innovation and growth within its portfolio, which includes over 1,000 companies with a significant collective market capitalization.

Ethan Austin

MD of the Techstars Western Union Accelerator

Max Kelly

Managing Director of Techstars London

Lesa Mitchell

Managing Director

Vijay Tirathrai

Managing Director

Mark Tortorella

Advisor

Nathanial Zola

MD

Past deals in Ireland

LiveDuel

Pre Seed Round in 2022
LiveDuel is a social gaming site, allowing community members to cross-tabulate predictions. LiveDuel.com (LD) is a cross-platform social game that follows real world events. LD has developed the LiveDuel platform which will, for the first time, allow companies to run and create live, engaging gaming content for their end users. LiveDue.com (LD) operates primarily from Cork City, Ireland with partnerships in San Francisco, California.

Kindora

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Kindora buys, sells, and rents premium pre-owned items – from cots and strollers to nursery furniture – after a deep clean.

LegitFit

Pre Seed Round in 2021
LEGIT FIT was founded through the collaboration of 2 fitness professionals and 2 industry enthusiasts. We as founders believed that the industry could become a lot more seamless from both a trainer’s perspective and a client’s. The LEGIT FIT platform officially launched in 2019, and we’ve since been helping industry professionals around Ireland to manage and grow their business. Concurrently, we’ve been making it easier for their clients to book into fitness and stay engaged through the platform. Our Mission at LEGIT FIT is simple: We want to help fitness entrepreneurs globally to streamline their day and enhance their service offering. We believe that this in turn will lead to More Growth as a business... and hence... More Revenue and More Success! Our Core Values are... 1/ Collaboration in Everything We Do #StrongerTogether 2/ Superior Service at Every Step #DeliverHappiness 3/ Driving For Change and Betterment #InspireGrowth

Performetry

Seed Round in 2021
Your company's Digital Headquarters™ | Employee engagement and gamification platform for in-house, distributed, and remote teams | Real-time sentiment analysis for leadership and HR.

Iamus Technologies

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Iamus Technologies Limited is an artificial intelligence and robotics company based in Ireland that focuses on developing advanced technology for the poultry industry. The company has created robotic systems specifically designed to assist poultry farmers in making informed and safer production decisions. Over the past two years, Iamus has collaborated with poultry processors worldwide to identify key performance indicators that its robots can continuously monitor within poultry sheds. This technology captures automatic and accurate data regarding the birds and their environment, allowing for real-time analysis and intervention. By utilizing machine learning, Iamus transforms visual, environmental, and biometric data into actionable insights, thereby addressing the increasing demands of modern, intensive broiler production and helping producers optimize their operations.

Locker

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Locker is a platform which is changing the way fans globally consume sports media through personalization. By implementing deep machine-learning and trusted content aggregation, Locker provides users with a single app to find and consume the topics they love, from the media brands they trust. Fans can choose from hundreds of available media brands and thousands of topics to follow, and Locker conveniently finds the stories best suited to them. Locker also serves fans suggested bets based on their consumption interests from their own preferred sportsbook, bridging the gap between betting companies and media consumption.

Performetry

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Your company's Digital Headquarters™ | Employee engagement and gamification platform for in-house, distributed, and remote teams | Real-time sentiment analysis for leadership and HR.

Performetry

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Your company's Digital Headquarters™ | Employee engagement and gamification platform for in-house, distributed, and remote teams | Real-time sentiment analysis for leadership and HR.

Pryml

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Pryml Technologies Limited operates a secure platform designed for organizations to synthesize and manage confidential data while maintaining privacy. Founded in 2020 and based in Lucan, Ireland, Pryml serves various industries, including financial services, insurance, telecommunications, healthcare, and pharmaceuticals. The platform enables users to develop innovative solutions and build machine learning models without compromising sensitive information. By leveraging artificial intelligence and data science, Pryml allows data owners from regulated sectors to extract valuable insights from their private data, ensuring compliance and security throughout the process.

Bonflite

Seed Round in 2020
2-min YouTube Video Intro: https://youtu.be/qfpCxyyXr9M

Recroot

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Recroot speeds up the retail and hospitality hiring process by screening 30-second videos. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Dublin, Ireland.

Offr

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Offr Limited operates a platform designed to streamline the buying and selling of residential and commercial properties. This technology allows agents to offer a seamless experience for their clients by enabling features such as private offers, auction bidding, viewing appointments, and document management, including uploading proof of funds and digital contract signing. Offr supports various transaction types, including binding sales, conditional sales, off-market sales, and sealed bids, all while ensuring that buyers are pre-qualified through proof of funds and identification. Agents can set specific conditions for each property, enhancing the likelihood of serious offers. Founded in 2017 and based in Dublin, Ireland, with an additional office in London, Offr aims to enhance transparency and efficiency in real estate transactions.

UrbanFox

Pre Seed Round in 2019
UrbanFox protects online retailers against new forms of stealth fraud by analysing and learning from existing legitimate and fraudulent customer behavioural patterns.

Blockaviation

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Blockaviation is creating a central, standardised Global Registry for aircraft records. We make these records searchable and retrievable across industry players and systems. Founded with a charter to leverage emerging technologies to develop innovative solutions for the global aviation industry, our current partners include the Irish Aviation Authority, Boeing, Oracle and Techstars.

Trezeo

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Trezeo Limited develops a subscriber based software platform that helps self-employed people to predict income streams. The company's software offers a service that turns unpredictable income into regular payments. Trezeo Limited was founded in 2016 and is based in Dublin, Ireland.

CALT Dynamics

Seed Round in 2019
CALT stands for Computer Aided Life Technology. We’re creating a new generation of 3D printers, that operate using a new process we have invented and patented called Physical Mask Curing. This process, PMC for short, is enabling us to build printers that are higher resolution, have a lower investment cost and are completely scalable. This means we can build printers that are mobile and field ready with no computer or internet required, right up to industrial devices with much larger build volumes than ever seen before.

Beeinstant

Pre Seed Round in 2018
BeeInstant is a universal cloud-based metric monitoring company with a focus on lightning-fast performance and unrivalled data accuracy. Their high performing analytics engine converts vast amounts of metric data into actionable insights that uncover the true story of user experience, application performance, and infrastructure health.

CALT Dynamics

Pre Seed Round in 2018
CALT stands for Computer Aided Life Technology. We’re creating a new generation of 3D printers, that operate using a new process we have invented and patented called Physical Mask Curing. This process, PMC for short, is enabling us to build printers that are higher resolution, have a lower investment cost and are completely scalable. This means we can build printers that are mobile and field ready with no computer or internet required, right up to industrial devices with much larger build volumes than ever seen before.

Oathello

Angel Round in 2018
Oathello Network Limited accelerates the signing, execution, and completion of documents online for the financial system. The company operates a database that combines technology with industry intelligence to provide solutions for instances where signing, execution, and completion of documents is legally required for the movement of assets, debt, capital, and transactional efficiency within the financial system. It serves financial institutions, merchant services providers, regulatory providers, notaries, and lawyers. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Rosscarbery, Ireland.

Oathello

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Oathello Network Limited accelerates the signing, execution, and completion of documents online for the financial system. The company operates a database that combines technology with industry intelligence to provide solutions for instances where signing, execution, and completion of documents is legally required for the movement of assets, debt, capital, and transactional efficiency within the financial system. It serves financial institutions, merchant services providers, regulatory providers, notaries, and lawyers. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Rosscarbery, Ireland.

Courtsdesk

Seed Round in 2017
Courtdesk provides online database of court cases and reporting in Ireland. Enda Leahy founded it in 2015, with its headquarters in Dublin in Ireland.

SwiftComply

Seed Round in 2016
SwiftComply helps over 450 water authorities protect human health and the environment by providing an online platform that streamlines their compliance programs

AID:Tech

Pre Seed Round in 2016
AID:Tech enables people to own, control, manage and monetise their Digital Identity metadata. In doing so, we link to Payments and provide unique insights and data enhancements AID:Tech was launched in 2016 and founded by Joseph Thompson and Niall Dennehy.

Talivest

Seed Round in 2016
Talivest is a Dublin-based company that provides a cloud-based platform designed to enhance alumni relations for organizations. Its community platform allows alumni to log in using social media, ensuring their information is automatically updated in the alumni database. The platform facilitates engaging content creation to foster lasting connections with alumni. Additionally, Talivest offers tools for managing alumni relations, including personalized features, statistics and reporting, donation campaigns, event management, and a customer relationship management system. The company also conducts exit surveys to help employers understand employee departures, thereby improving the offboarding experience. Founded in 2014 and initially known as KonnectAgain Ireland Limited, Talivest rebranded in February 2018 and focuses on leveraging machine learning and predictive analytics to optimize the employee lifecycle for high-tech, high-growth companies.

Talivest

Angel Round in 2016
Talivest is a Dublin-based company that provides a cloud-based platform designed to enhance alumni relations for organizations. Its community platform allows alumni to log in using social media, ensuring their information is automatically updated in the alumni database. The platform facilitates engaging content creation to foster lasting connections with alumni. Additionally, Talivest offers tools for managing alumni relations, including personalized features, statistics and reporting, donation campaigns, event management, and a customer relationship management system. The company also conducts exit surveys to help employers understand employee departures, thereby improving the offboarding experience. Founded in 2014 and initially known as KonnectAgain Ireland Limited, Talivest rebranded in February 2018 and focuses on leveraging machine learning and predictive analytics to optimize the employee lifecycle for high-tech, high-growth companies.

Jumble

Seed Round in 2015
Jumble helps businesses to quickly secure their 75 billion daily emails by providing integrated one click end-to-end encryption. For businesses that need to protect their email data, Jumble is an email encryption product that integrates with their existing email account. Unlike existing solutions, Jumble provides simple and fast end-to-end encryption to all email accounts resulting in complete security without the time. Jumble’s one-click email encryption product simplifies the process by managing the cryptographic keys. On desktop, it works as an extension to existing email accounts while on mobile it works as a mail client. Unregistered users can securely decrypt an email behind the security of their “three lines of defence”. Jumble saves businesses time and money while providing peace of mind that their data is secure in the event of data breach. Jumble’s users are typically regulated and/or required to comply with data protection laws. Some users are simply security conscious and are using Jumble to upgrade their defence infrastructure to protect their business against the risk of a cyber-attack.

Brewbot

Seed Round in 2014
Brewbot, Inc. is a company that specializes in designing and manufacturing stainless-steel-and-wood beer brewing machines and systems. Founded in 2013 and based in San Carlos, California, Brewbot also offers a mobile application that enables users to brew beer and track the brewing process. The company's products and services cater to a diverse clientele, including restaurants, bars, breweries, and companies in the United Kingdom and the United States. In addition to its brewing systems, Brewbot provides a recipe platform that allows users to download or create various beer recipes, enhancing the brewing experience for both amateur and professional brewers. With a multidisciplinary team based in Belfast, Northern Ireland, Brewbot combines expertise from various fields, reflecting its commitment to innovation in the brewing industry.

PayMins

Seed Round in 2013
PayMins provides an easy way to accept mobile phone payments. Backed by Telefonica.