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Techstars
Accelerator · Founded 2006 · Active in 2026
Techstars was founded in Boulder in 2006 by David Cohen, Brad Feld, David Brown, and Jared Polis. The firm pioneered the 'mentorship-driven accelerator' format — three-month programs, hand-selected mentors-as-investors, and a global network of city-specific accelerators.
Notable alumni include SendGrid, DigitalOcean, ClassPass, and Outreach. Techstars restructured under new ownership in 2025.
Techstars’ biggest exits.
Techstars portfolio companies worth $1B+ that have IPO’d or been acquired. Each shows its valuation at exit and, in grey, its current value if still public.
Techstars’ selected top holdings.
An estimate of Techstars’ largest live positions — disclosed shareholding × Dealroom’s latest valuation — across 3 companies where Techstars is a named shareholder, worth about $7M in estimated equity value.
Estimated value = Techstars’s disclosed ownership % × Dealroom’s latest company valuation; direct named stakes only, exited positions excluded. Figures are indicative, not reported marks. Techstars also appears inside investor groups in Chainalysis, Degreed, Preply, where a standalone stake isn’t disclosed. See the underlying cap tables on Dealroom →
The 29 Techstars Power Law outcomes ($100M+ revenue or $1B+ valuation).
Snapshot of where the outcomes are concentrated by country, sector, and stage entered.
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USA29
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Marketing7
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Fintech5
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Health Tech & Medtech3
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Edtech3
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eCommerce & Marketplaces2
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Other B2B Software2
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Energy2
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Transportation2
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AI1
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Cybersecurity1
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Biotech & Life Sciences1
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Series B+9
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Series A1
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Seed19
Techstars's 29 Power Law outcomes.
How does Techstars stack up?
Techstars in orange, your selection in blue and other colours. Pick from the global roster of 35 peer investors — scope by startup location or hit "Find similar shapes" to auto-pick the three closest. The funnel matrix mirrors the spider chart on the ranking page; the line chart shows each firm's share of unicorns minted in the selected startup location — peaks reveal vintage years.
Share of new unicorns per year
% of global unicorns minted that year, year by year · hover the chart to see which unicornsStage focus
Companies by entry stage and outcome tierSector focus
Companies per investor across the 10 highest-volume sectorsWhere Techstars's portfolio founders come from — and where they studied.
72 founders across the 29 Power Law outcomes — split by country of origin, university attended, and the company they worked at before founding. Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Alphabet | Google are the deepest single pipelines.
Key people at Techstars.
Market sentiment
What the market is saying about Techstars
An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Techstars on X over the past 7 days. We rank by likes & retweets, ignore corporate channels, and surface the themes that broke out from real people.
Reading the room on X — pulling top posts and synthesizing themes…
Source: X recent search ranked by engagement (likes + retweets) · Synthesis by Claude · Cached for 1 hour
In the news
Latest news about Techstars
Recent press, funding announcements, and portfolio moves mentioning Techstars — pulled live from Dealroom's news feed.
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