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 Social Network

MindStand Technologies

Pre Seed Round in 2022

Fostering a healthy online community, one post at a time!

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.

Afloat

Non Equity Assistance in 2021

Mobile app connecting communities to each other and local businesses they love

COMMUNITYx

Pre Seed Round in 2021

The Social Network for Social Change

UNPACKING

Pre Seed Round in 2021

Learning management platform for social change.

Talk Howdy

Funding Round in 2021

Talk Howdy is an online community platform. Think: virtual forward MeetUp. Build an online community based on your interests, or explore existing communities. Connect with like-minded people through peer-led, small-group conversations.

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.

Introwise

Pre Seed Round in 2020

Introwise is a social platform for events and their communities

Mello

Pre Seed Round in 2020

SitEinander is a mobile application that helps parents to meet other families nearby, plan playdates and swap-free babysitting among trusted friends. The company was founded in 2019.

LENA Health

Seed Round in 2019

Lena develops a social event information application software designed for senior citizens. The company specializes in developing an app that introduces seniors to events they love in their own communities. It enables users to connect to social circles, and encourage them to participate in activities through gamified rewards.

Jolly

Pre Seed Round in 2019

Jolly is a global open professional network the Trust Economy, where freelance professionals and businesses network, build their reputations and work together freely. The network helps freelancers make more money in less time by going direct with their clients instead of working through middlemen like temp staffing firms. It also helps you drastically reduce the time you spend on staffing, while also reducing the stress and cost of hiring workers.

Tribl

Pre Seed Round in 2019

TRiBL is a Trust Network for African conversations, connections, & commerce.

4Degrees

Seed Round in 2018

4Degrees helps professionals build better relationships, and democratize access to social capital - driven by machine learning. The company envisions to equalize opportunity by enabling you to build stronger professional relationships. Its platform identifies the right connections for you to focus on, works with you to strengthen those relationships over time, and helps you activate your network when you need it.

4Degrees

Pre Seed Round in 2017

Community

Convertible Note in 2017

Shimmur is a new social engagement platform that makes two-way communication between influencers and their followers simple, effective, and scalable.

Community

Pre Seed Round in 2017

Shimmur is a new social engagement platform that makes two-way communication between influencers and their followers simple, effective, and scalable.

Yoller

Seed Round in 2016

Yoller is a social planning platform that gets friends together for any kind of social occasion, fast. They get everyone to agree on the details of a plan - who, what, where, when - quickly, so the plan can actually happen. They use clean design, group psychology and machine learning to help their users around the world make plans that actually happen.

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 is a San Francisco-based company that leverages artificial intelligence to create personality profiles from individuals' social and online behavior. By analyzing data from various public digital sources, such as tweets and blogs, the platform helps brands and employers gain insights into user characteristics and preferences. The company utilizes a method that tokenizes text and compares the tokens against a psycholinguistics dictionary to derive personality scores across different categories. Founded in 2015 by Temitope Alabi and Obed Eugene, SocialCapital aims to enhance the hiring process by providing employers with accurate profiles of potential candidates, thereby facilitating better matches for job opportunities.

Fabriq

Pre Seed Round in 2016

Fabriq is a company based in Denver, Colorado, founded in 2019, that focuses on enhancing social wellness through its online application, fab-rik. This tool is designed to help users prioritize and maintain connections with important individuals in their lives, free from the distractions of traditional social media. The application offers features such as customizable groups, notes, reminders, and goal-setting for daily activities, including steps, calorie intake, and screen time. By providing touch-base timers and tracking capabilities, Fabriq aims to assist users in strengthening their relationships and improving their overall social health.

Grapevine Logic

Pre Seed Round in 2016

Grapevine Logic, Inc. specializes in YouTube influencer marketing, connecting brands and agencies with content creators for effective sponsorship opportunities. The company offers a platform that enables marketers to book creators and analyze campaign performance, while also allowing brands to track sales, signups, and overall engagement. Grapevine Logic facilitates this collaboration through a dashboard where brands can submit creative briefs to its marketplace, receiving pitches from pre-qualified creators who promote their products or services for a fee. With a network of over 177,000 creators generating more than 6 billion monthly views, Grapevine Logic provides a comprehensive solution for brands seeking to leverage influencer marketing. Founded in 2011 and based in Boston, Massachusetts, Grapevine Logic operates as a subsidiary of Seven Stars Cloud Group, Inc.

Polywork

Pre Seed Round in 2014

A network that doesn’t restrict you to telling your story through a list of arbitrary job titles; that doesn’t let any random stranger you’ve never even met endorse you for skills you never knew you had. They want to build a network that empowers you and gives you control over your identity and your future opportunities.

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.

SocialSign.in

Seed Round in 2014

SocialSign.in, Inc. offers wireless internet access at various venues such as grocery stores and theaters, facilitating connections between businesses and their customers. Founded in 2011 and based in Greenwich, Connecticut, the company provides a platform that allows users to log in with their online accounts to access personalized offers and promotions. Through its services, customers can connect via different internet-enabled devices and engage with businesses, enhancing customer relationships. SocialSign.in helps venues grow their marketing reach by building customer mailing lists, improving social media engagement, and driving app downloads. Additionally, the company offers valuable metrics on customer behavior, such as visitation frequency, which are typically challenging and costly for physical venues to obtain. Their proprietary software also supports network authentication for partners and organizations, optimizing guest Wi-Fi networks for commercial use.

flck.me

Seed Round in 2013

flck.me develops smart phone based social networking application. The company is based in Seattle, Washington

SocialCrunch

Seed Round in 2013

SocialCrunch LLC, founded in 2012 and based in Chicago, Illinois, specializes in building a behavior graph of individuals online. The company focuses on gathering information that aids businesses in creating relevant marketing content by utilizing insights derived from audience data. SocialCrunch offers services in deep profiling, data capture, and trend research, enabling brands and agencies to unlock significant human insights. As of January 2015, SocialCrunch operates as a subsidiary of Tastebud Technologies, Inc.

FaithStreet

Seed Round in 2013

FaithStreet is a social network for faith communities to post prayer requests and church programs, offer support, and make online donations.

Linksy

Seed Round in 2012

Linksy helps busy marketers tap their employees, customers, and fans to spread their message on social sites.

Movogo

Pre Seed Round in 2011

Movogo is a social networking app that allows its users to have a private voice chat with friends.

Spontaneously

Seed Round in 2011

Spontaneously is a new way to make plans with friends. Whether you have free time to fill or plans to share, our service helps you see your favorite people more often.

IntroFly

Seed Round in 2011

We are the CRM for your career. We help people leverage their entire social graph to connect with the right people, in the right way. Our users get off the networking sites and into the coffee shops where real connections happen. They track their meetings in a simple, directed process that helps them land a job they love.

SocialEngine

Seed Round in 2011

SocialEngine is a platform that helps people and brands build vibrant online communities. Thousands of social websites are powered by the SocialEngine platform, and millions of end-users enjoy these sites every day. Customers include Shell, MasterCard, Apple, Kaplan University, SurfAir, Electronic Arts, Startup Revolution, and thousands of local organizations and affinity groups. SocialEngine PHP is a self-hosted platform that gives community builders full source code access and unlimited freedom to create their own custom social experiences. Hundreds of third-party developers have created and sell thousands of their own addons for the platform. SocialEngine PHP is sold on a per-license basis. SocialEngine Cloud is a SaaS platform that makes it incredibly easy to create a social website with no hosting, installation, or programming experience needed. Based in Los Angeles, SocialEngine is a TechStars Boulder 2011 company.

The Shared Web

Convertible Note in 2011

The Shared Web is an online content discovery platform that allows users to access and share personalized news feeds from across the internet. Founded by Nicolae Rusan, Nav Patel, and Kareem Amin, the platform is based in New York, USA. Its primary goal is to enhance the way individuals consume and disseminate information, providing tailored news experiences that cater to users' preferences.

The Shared Web

Seed Round in 2010

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

Sparkcloud

Pre Seed Round in 2010

Sparkcloud introduces you to awesome people who are around you, in real time. They provide tools that allow developers to more easily create their own "real world" social apps, ranging from urban gaming to location-based dating.

Plancast

Seed Round in 2010

The best way to discover events and activities with friends.

Worldly Developments

Seed Round in 2010

Worldly Developments is a software development team based in San Francisco that specializes in creating social web applications. The company gained recognition for developing Plancast, a service that facilitates social event discovery. With a focus on innovative design and user engagement, Worldly Developments aims to enhance social interactions through technology.

Mailana

Pre Seed Round in 2009

Mailana analyzes communication patterns from email, [Twitter](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/twitter), and social networks to determine your inner circle. It then allows you to share your inner circle with the inner circles of your close connections. The idea here is that existing social graphs are too inclusive to be used to efficiently discover connections and expertise. Mailana aims to simplify this by generating only your "inner circle" based on communication patterns, then exposing that only to your most frequent and trusted connections.

J Squared Media

Seed Round in 2007

J-Squared Media builds social games that are distributed across popular social networks like Facebook, Myspace, and Bebo. J-Squared Media is a [TechStars](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/TechStars) company.

Socialthing

Seed Round in 2007

Socialthing, founded in 2007 and based in Boulder, Colorado, offers a platform that allows users to synchronize personal information and manage multiple social networking feeds from a single web dashboard. The service simplifies the process of handling various social media accounts, enabling users to streamline their online interactions and maintain a cohesive digital presence.