TechStars

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Part of the Start-Up Guide (Issue Brief) Series

Ecosystem Institution
TechStars
Techstars.png
Techstars Logo
Institution Information
Cohort Information
Director Information
City Houston
URL http://www.techstars.com/
Date Founded 2006
Cohort Size 874
Percent Funded 25.71%
Percent Acquired 5.15%
Percent IPO 1.03%"%" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 1.03.
Number of Directors 5
Experienced Directors 4
© McNair Center, 2016

About

Techstars is a Boulder, Colorado-based, for-profit accelerator institution founded in 2006. It advertises a wide array of services, including access to office space, funding, mentorship, experts, start-up services and office space. Techstars has five directors, four of whom have direct entrepreneurship experience as established entrepreneurs. Of the 874 startups which have enrolled in the Techstars program, 225 have received venture capital funding. 45 companies which hacve participated in the Techstars program have been acquired and nine have exited in an IPO.


Contact Information

Portfolio

Name VC? Acquired? IPO?

Portfolio taken from http://www.techstars.com/companies/

Venture Backed Firms


Directors

Name Bio Class
David Cohen Co-Founder and Co-CEO, Techstars D1
David Brown Co-Founder and Co-CEO, Techstars D1
Brad Feld Managing Director, Foundry Group, Co-Founder, Techstars D1
Arthur Lev Senior Advisor, Morgan Stanley None
Mark Solon Managing Partner, Techstars D1

Services Provided

Start-Up Services
Mentoring
Office Space
Funding
Experts