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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.
The 30 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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USA30
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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 & Marketplaces3
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Energy2
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Transportation2
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Other B2B Software2
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Cybersecurity1
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AI1
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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’ biggest current 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 →
Techstars's 30 Power Law outcomes.
How does Techstars stack up?
Techstars in orange, your selection in blue and other colours. Pick from the global roster of 609 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 selected outcome stageSector focus
Companies per investor across the 10 highest-volume sectorsBeyond Unicorns — how the portfolio compounds
% of each investor's unicorn portfolio that later crossed $10B, $25B and $50B. Pick a sort tier and entry stage.Where Techstars' portfolio founders come from — and where they studied.
70 founders across the 30 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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