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.

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Ethan Austin

MD of the Techstars Western Union Accelerator

Mark Tortorella

Advisor

Nathanial Zola

MD

Past deals in Real Estate

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.

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.

Unreal Estate

Pre Seed Round in 2017

At Abode, they all come to work every day because they want to solve the biggest problem in residential real estate. When you buy a home, it is usually the largest transaction of your life to date and the process is stressful and complicated. Home buyers are required to hire a team of professionals to help them get financing, find the best house, get it insured, manage all of the associated paperwork... The list goes on and on. The way this is currently done is manual and antiquated. Their team learned from personal experience that this process was simply too painful in its current form. They saw enough up close and personal to know that much of the stress and confusion could be solved by creating easy-to-use software to guide everyone in the process and enable buyers and the professionals to collaborate in real-time. Throughout the history of real estate, people have used more and more data to make better decisions. Yet in the past, most of that data has been hard to access or even understand as it was held in the hands of the few. Their mission is to make this data more transparent and easy to understand for everybody (not just real estate agents).

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.

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.