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Techstars

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Techstars

@Techstars

Helping founders scale their startups into world-changing businesses.

New York City

Joined April 2008

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Jun 18
Her family thought it was a scam. Her investors didn't. Melina Cruz Villafaña, co-founder of Chain (Techstars 2026), is building for small business owners and solopreneurs who run service businesses. 🔗 Learn more about Chain: tsta.rs/CbI250Z91pa
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Jun 18
We are excited to announce a strategic partnership with Xendoo, a venture-backed fintech platform modernizing financial operations for growing businesses. Through the partnership, Xendoo, alongside Xero, becomes the sole accounting and financial operations solution within the
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Jun 17
Deep Tech Momentum was a reminder of the extraordinary ambition driving European founders right now. Techstars is proud to support that ecosystem as a backer, mentor, and believer in what European deep tech can become. Our own Emilie Vallauri hosted the DTM100 pitch competition,
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Jun 17
We are deeply saddened by the tragic passing of Joshua Baer, a visionary leader, champion for entrepreneurs, and a valued member of our community. As the founder of Capital Factory and a long-time supporter and friend of Techstars, Josh dedicated his career to backing
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Jun 17
Neural Defend (Techstars 2025), won the Everything AI Startup Pitch Competition at NY Tech Week! Founded by Piyush Verma, Neural Defend is tackling one of the most urgent threats in financial services: deepfake fraud. Their platform detects AI-generated deepfakes across video,
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Jun 16
Twelve (Techstars 2018) has commercially launched AirPlant One, its new facility in Moses Lake, WA, where CO2 is being converted into jet fuel at commercial scale. ✈️ Founded by Nicholas Flanders, Twelve has spent the last decade developing technology to transform CO2 into
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Jun 16
Great startups don't come from one city. They come from everywhere.
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Jun 16
Always good to reconnect with those who helped you build. ️ Techstars Sydney recently brought together alumni founders from the 2024 and 2025 cohorts for an in-person catch-up with the team and investors. Good energy, familiar faces, and a reminder of why this community
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Jun 15
The Venture Deals Summer 2026 course is officially open. Free, self-paced, and designed to demystify VC deals and early-stage financing for founders at every stage. 30 lessons, 3.5 hours of content, and real talk from investors who've been in the room. ⏰ Course kicks off on
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Jun 15
Rylo (Techstars 2021), an AI-powered communication platform built for the Deaf and hard-of-hearing community, has raised $85M. Founded by Tomer Aharoni and Alon Ezer, the company began as a free, FCC-certified captioning app and has since grown into a broader platform spanning
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Jun 14
What makes a company defensible in the age of AI? Techstars Founder and CEO David Cohen joined Zendesk VP of AI Revenue Sarah Al-Hassaini at Zendesk Relate 2026 to answer exactly that. Software is no longer the moat. The companies that win will be the ones with proprietary
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Jun 13
Hot take: you don't need a co-founder anymore. AI lets solo founders 3x themselves covering product, tech, and sales well enough to get to first customers and prove the thing actually works. Hussein Yahfoufi, solo founder and CEO of Eventship and Techstars All-Star Mentor,
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Jun 13
BeatpulseLabs (Techstars 2024), a London-based AI data company turning expert human judgment into high-fidelity training datasets for the world's most advanced multimodal models, has raised $1.8M. 🤖 Founded by Jason Rieff and Nikolay Vitanov, the two came at the same problem
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