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 Commercial Real Estate

Rent Small Small

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Rent Small Small Ltd. is a prop-tech platform providing a unique rental solution to Nigerians in order to improve home-seekers rental experience and increase home-owners occupancy rate. Our business model is unique as it allows verified tenants to find property on-the-go, stay within budget, and pay rent flexibly. We provide first of its kind rent insurance for property owners against rent default, and unlike traditional agents, we don’t charge agency and legal fee. Our mandate is to provide suitable and affordable homes for home-seekers, influence the conception and birth of new homes to boost the livelihood and productivity of Nigerian youths, and help homeowners to make their property rentable and profitable.

Relive

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Relive is creating a trusted, global brand focused on simplifying the real estate journey, as a digital, transparent and efficient experience. We believe that the real estate industry has been left behind in terms of technology and proper systems to support people looking to buy, sell, or rent a house. We expect simple answers and resources at our fingertips and that is why we are building a digital platform that simplifies and aggregates the real estate journey in a transparent, efficient, but also sustainable & more human way.

Renbizz

Pre Seed Round in 2021
With their unique model that unifies rentals and sales, Renbizz accelerates retailers' growth in a sustainable manner.

ReRent

Pre Seed Round in 2021
ReRent is a developer of a property management platform that enables students to avoid debt and recoup thousands in rent wasted. Its platform creates the listing, prepares the space, welcomes the guests, and cleans up that helps students to monetize their apartment space while they're away.

NewHomesMate

Seed Round in 2021
Propertymate - is the network that helps real estate agents close more deals by giving them access to new construction and off-market information. We leverage data science to match buyer and seller agents based on the best potential close after analyzing millions of listings and individual buying patterns of hundreds of thousands of homebuyers.

JGB Smart Property

Pre Seed Round in 2021
不動產租賃自動化管理 SaaS 平台

RefineRE

Venture Round in 2020
RefineRE is a portfolio management and data analytics platform focused on corporate real estate. Founded in 2017 and based in Dallas, Texas, the company provides tools for tracking, analyzing, and managing real estate portfolio information. Its cloud-based platform integrates lease administration data with extensive market data, utilizing artificial intelligence to enhance decision-making. RefineRE offers real-time market comparisons, advanced portfolio reporting, and dashboard visualizations, along with deep analytics and street-level market intelligence. This comprehensive approach enables commercial real estate clients to optimize their portfolios and make informed decisions regarding their real estate investments.

PropFolio

Pre Seed Round in 2020
We are on a mission to bring transparency to Real Estate Management and Investment decisions through efficient use of data. PropFolio is a tool for commercial Real EstateLlandlords to make data-driven decisions across their assets and portfolios.

NewHomesMate

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Propertymate - is the network that helps real estate agents close more deals by giving them access to new construction and off-market information. We leverage data science to match buyer and seller agents based on the best potential close after analyzing millions of listings and individual buying patterns of hundreds of thousands of homebuyers.

PropertyQuants

Pre Seed Round in 2019
PropertyQuants helps its clients to harness data at scale, to find the best real estate investments globally. PropertyQuants is a team of PhD ex-quant traders bringing quantitative investment strategies to real estate. Its products allow buy-side real estate firms to identify the best locations to invest in today and know when to buy and sell in each market. The company helps to rapidly screen and prioritize deals. LPs in real estate funds can understand fund risk, returns, and management skills. These products are fully customizable to user-specific criteria and integrate user datasets.

AREXRE

Pre Seed Round in 2019
AREXRE develops real estate technology software designed to provide simplified results to complex real estate problems. Its software digitalize, manage, and close complex real estate transactions with the use of blockchain and artificial intelligence tools, enabling real estate dealers to get access to valid results.

BlueSuit

Pre Seed Round in 2019
BlueSuit Technologies, Inc. specializes in providing a relationship management platform specifically designed for brokers and owners in the commercial real estate sector. Founded in 2019 and based in Denver, Colorado, BlueSuit's innovative solution streamlines the collaboration process by enabling users to store and manage deal documents, convert data into a usable format, and share vital information among participants. This platform enhances decision-making and improves the overall efficiency of executing transactions in the privately held commercial real estate market.

RealAR

Seed Round in 2019
RealAR is an augment real estate app that allows seeing a property before it's built. Realar is an augmented real estate app that helps people buy and build better by solving the problem of being able to visualise property off the plan. By using AR for spatial visualization customers using our product today are able to get a life-size understanding of the single biggest investment they are likely to make. Volume home builders and real estate sales also see this problem so were are now scaling to enterprise sales and profitability. The bigger opportunity is meeting consumer demand at scale with the overall goal of a global marketplace.

Arextech

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Arextech designs and creates apps & software solutions for businesses to automate and improve processes that deal with complex problems.Arextech has created the next generation of real estate deal management and execution that works for the user. Our cloud-based software provides the tools real estate professionals need to carry out any deal on a single platform wherever they are. The integration of deal stages and automated collaboration amongst tools phases provides a shared and unified process with structured and meaningful information. Unlike other solutions, we do not use or sell you your data.

Fast Office

Seed Round in 2019
FastOffice is a leasing due-diligence solution that provides incredibly fast 3D test fits and comprehensive cost estimates to increase tenant confidence and accelerate deal velocity. The company was founded in 2017.

Talox

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Talox builds software that digitizes all workflows and data for office landlords and agents. Talox is transforming the commercial leasing and asset management industry in the Asia Pacific with a cloud-native, purpose-built software that digitizes all workflows and data for office landlords and agents. Designed specifically for the real estate industry, Talox is the preferred technology and data partner of family offices and institutional landlords in the region with millions of square meters on the platform. By using Talox, clients with single assets and portfolios increase workplace productivity, boost internal & industry collaboration, and increase property values through data insights.

Fabrica

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Fabrica Inc. is a technology company based in San Francisco, California, that specializes in streamlining real estate transactions through its online platform. Established in 2008, the company offers a comprehensive solution that automates various aspects of real estate transactions, including document signing, notarization, ownership transfer, payment processing, and tax filing reminders. The platform also facilitates property owners in buying and selling real estate properties efficiently. By leveraging advancements in technology, Fabrica aims to transform the real estate industry, making transactions simpler and more accessible while reducing reliance on traditional paperwork. The company’s innovative approach includes the integration of decentralized finance (DeFi) and the potential use of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) to enhance the management of real estate transactions.

SquarePlan

Pre Seed Round in 2019
By leveraging automation and data analytics, SquarePlan gives back control to commercial real estate managers. The company won the Columbia Venture Competition 2019 and is part of Techstars NYC 2019.

A Retail Space

Pre Seed Round in 2018
A Retail Space, Inc. owns and operates an online platform that allows users to find the location for their business through data. The company is based in New York, New York.

Upsuite

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Upsuite is an online B2B marketplace that makes it easy for teams to find the best coworking spaces. Unlike other alternatives, Upsuite provides complete verified inventory in local markets so that teams can find, compare, share, and tour spaces. Our vision is to empower teams to do their best work together. We have early traction with several operators and you need to be involved because you can help us impact this high growth CRE vertical.

Commissiontrac

Pre Seed Round in 2018
The first cloud based application of record for all things commissions and accounting. Streamline the back office process from transactional data collection to invoicing, balancing accounting ledgers, depositing cash-receipts and making agent commission payments.

RealBlocks

Convertible Note in 2017
RealBlocks is a technology platform that connects advisors and investors to the best alternative investment managers. Today many real estate and alternative investment managers are limited to raising capital locally. However with RealBlocks, these managers can now raise capital globally through institutional and intermediary channels. RealBlocks also offers a secondary trading mechanism for enhanced liquidity options.

StackSource

Seed Round in 2016
StackSource Inc. operates an online platform that connects borrowers and property owners with lenders for commercial real estate loans. Established in 2015 and based in New York, the platform streamlines the financing process by allowing property owners to find suitable lenders, while enabling mortgage brokers and debt teams to manage and track their deals efficiently. StackSource provides access to a diverse network of capital providers, including banks, insurance companies, and private lenders, facilitating better financing options for real estate investors. By combining technology with traditional commercial mortgage brokerage services, StackSource aims to enhance transparency and efficiency in the capital markets for commercial real estate investments.

Create Real Estate

Seed Round in 2016
Create is a next generation property database and 3D mapping platform. Create develops smart 3D maps that instantly deliver rich data about the urban environment & property market.

Trelora

Seed Round in 2015
Trelora, LLC is an online residential real estate service based in Denver, Colorado, with an additional office in Raleigh, North Carolina. Founded in 2011, Trelora offers a platform that facilitates the buying and selling of homes, connecting buyers and sellers directly. The company provides a full-service experience for sellers at a low flat fee and allows buyers to incur no out-of-pocket costs, often receiving an average refund of $7,500 at closing. By blending technology with real estate services, Trelora empowers homeowners and buyers while positioning agents as supportive service providers in the transaction process. The company aims to streamline real estate transactions and enhance efficiency in the market.

SQFT

Seed Round in 2015
America’s first DIY real-estate portal. Our cutting-edge technology & team of local independently operated licensed real estate agents empower you to sell your home using only your smartphone. The process is fast, secure and easy. They help you create a stand-out listing, then push it across the online real estate marketplace–MLS, Trulia, Zillow and approximately 450 other sites.

Placester

Funding Round in 2014
Placester is a comprehensive business platform tailored for real estate professionals, founded in 2011 by Matthew Barba and Frederick Townes. The platform provides an array of tools including lead capturing websites, lead management, email marketing, and marketing automation. It integrates seamlessly with multiple listing services (MLS) and features natural language search capabilities, high-resolution visuals, and responsive design to enhance user experience. Placester supports real estate professionals in growing their businesses through digital strategies and offers valuable educational resources and 24/7 customer support. Serving a significant portion of the U.S. real estate market, Placester collaborates with leading brands and is the exclusive website provider for the REALTOR Benefits® Program, associated with the National Association of REALTORS®. The company has raised $100 million in funding from prominent investors, positioning itself as a key player in real estate marketing technology.

House Map

Pre Seed Round in 2013
Property listing iOS app

RealtyMogul

Seed Round in 2012
RealtyMogul is an online marketplace for real estate investing that connects investors who want to invest in real estate with institutional-quality real estate investments. Through the RealtyMogul platform that gives investors have the opportunity to invest in real estate opportunities online through a private, secure website. Investors can browse investments, review due diligence materials, and sign legal documents securely online. Once invested, investors have access to an investor dashboard, giving them 24/7 access to watch how their money is working for them. The company was founded in 2012 by Jilliene Helman and Justin Hughes and is based in Los Angeles, California.

Placester

Venture Round in 2011
Placester is a comprehensive business platform tailored for real estate professionals, founded in 2011 by Matthew Barba and Frederick Townes. The platform provides an array of tools including lead capturing websites, lead management, email marketing, and marketing automation. It integrates seamlessly with multiple listing services (MLS) and features natural language search capabilities, high-resolution visuals, and responsive design to enhance user experience. Placester supports real estate professionals in growing their businesses through digital strategies and offers valuable educational resources and 24/7 customer support. Serving a significant portion of the U.S. real estate market, Placester collaborates with leading brands and is the exclusive website provider for the REALTOR Benefits® Program, associated with the National Association of REALTORS®. The company has raised $100 million in funding from prominent investors, positioning itself as a key player in real estate marketing technology.

RefineRE

Pre Seed Round in 2010
RefineRE is a portfolio management and data analytics platform focused on corporate real estate. Founded in 2017 and based in Dallas, Texas, the company provides tools for tracking, analyzing, and managing real estate portfolio information. Its cloud-based platform integrates lease administration data with extensive market data, utilizing artificial intelligence to enhance decision-making. RefineRE offers real-time market comparisons, advanced portfolio reporting, and dashboard visualizations, along with deep analytics and street-level market intelligence. This comprehensive approach enables commercial real estate clients to optimize their portfolios and make informed decisions regarding their real estate investments.

RentMonitor

Pre Seed Round in 2010
RentMonitor makes it easy to be a landlord. We are the one property management solution landlords need to fill vacancies, collect rent and maximize profits.