LLC | |
Founded | Colorado, United States (2006, as Techstars, LLC.) |
Headquarters | Boulder, Colorado |
Key people
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David Cohen (Co-founder and CEO) |
Website | techstars |
David Cohen (Co-founder and CEO)
Brad Feld (Co-founder)
David Brown (Co-founder)
Techstars is a Worldwide Network that helps entrepreneurs succeed. Techstars was founded in Boulder, Colorado in 2006 by David Cohen, Brad Feld, David Brown, and Jared Polis. Through the Techstars Worldwide Entrepreneur Network, founders and their teams are able to connect to other entrepreneurs, experts, mentors, alumni, investors, community leaders, and corporate partners that will help their companies grow.
Techstars operates accelerators in Boulder, New York City, Boston, Seattle, Austin, Chicago, Kansas City, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Detroit, Minneapolis, London, Adelaide, Tel Aviv, Cape Town, Toronto, and Berlin . Techstars has both industry agnostic "city" programs, and "vertical" programs typically operated in partnership with large corporations. It has been praised as a startup accelerator by a number of groups. Fewer than 1% of the companies that apply to Techstars are accepted.