Where is Techstars' headquarters located?

Techstars' headquarters is located in New York City ( United States ).

How big is Techstars' investment team?

Techstars has a team of 92, including 29 partners.

How many companies has Techstars invested in?

Techstars has invested in 4664 companies, including Wise & Twilio.

Which companies has Techstars invested in lately?

REplace & Hormona are the latest investments by Techstars.

How many exits has Techstars been involved in?

Techstars' portfolio has seen 14 IPOs and 446 acquisitions.

How many unicorns are there in Techstars' portfolio?

There are 16 unicorns in Techstars' portfolio.

Techstars - 2025 Investor Profile, Team & Investment Trends - Tracxn

Techstars, an accelerator and incubator program founded in 2006, is based in New York City, United States. With a presence in 91 countries, it has supported around 4,664 startups in sectors like Enterprise Applications, High Tech. As of Jun 2025, Techstars has 16 unicorns under its belt and has witnessed 460 portfolio exits. Most notable companies in its portfolio include Wise, Twilio and Ramp. The program is backed by a team of 92 people who primarily support Seed startups based in United States. Its latest investment was a $1.6M Seed round in REplace on May 29, 2025, which also saw participation from Gravity Climate and Zafrir Yoeli.

Key Metrics

Founded Year

2006

Location

New York City, United States

Portfolio Companies

Wise, Twilio & 4662 more

Sectors of Investment

Enterprise Applications, High Tech & 42 more

Stages of Investment

Seed, Series A & 10 more

Locations of Investment

United States, United Kingdom & 89 more

Unicorn in Portfolio

Chapter, Cosm & 14 more

Techstars has a portfolio of 4664 companies. Their latest investment was in REplace(Seed Round) on May 29, 2025. They have 16 unicorns in their portfolio. Unicorns include Chapter, Cosm, Veho. They have had 10 portfolio exits. Most notable exits include Damon, Remitly and Wise.

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Techstars has invested in 4665 companies over the last 19 years, with an average of 300 new investments annually in the last 10 years. In 2024, it made 331 investments, while as of May 2025, it has made 26 investments in this year. Its most recent first time investment was in NUFI and most recent follow-on round was in REplace.

Here are Techstars' Year-on-Year Investment Trends:

Year	No. of Investments
Year	1^st Round	Follow-on	Total
2025 (YTD)	9	17	26
2024	279	52	331
2023	733	30	763
2022	437	40	477
2021	192	48	240
2020	238	44	282
2019	294	33	327
2018	228	27	255
2017	282	19	301
2016	190	18	208

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Techstars has made 3307 investments in Seed stage with an average round size of $306K, 86 investments in Series A stage with an average round size of $7.38M and 17 investments in Unattributed stage with an average round size of $126K.

Here are Techstars' investments by stage:

Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments

Stage of entry	No. of Investments
Seed	3307
Series A	86
Unattributed	17
Series B	7
Grant (prize money)	6
Others	8

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Techstars has a diverse portfolio, with companies operating in the Enterprise Applications, High Tech, Consumer, FinTech and Vertical SaaS. Notably, it has invested in 3906 Tech companies, 2792 Enterprise (B2B) companies, 2161 Software companies and at least 1673 companies focusing on Consumer (B2C).

Here are Techstars' investments by sector:

Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments

Sector	No. of Investments
Enterprise Applications	1513
High Tech	792
Consumer	784
FinTech	557
Vertical SaaS	365
Others	3977

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Techstars has made most investments in United States (2230), followed by United Kingdom where it has made 257 investments.

Here are Techstars' investments by geography:

Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments

Country	No. of Investments
United States	2230
United Kingdom	257
Canada	175
Israel	72
Germany	71
Others	631

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Techstars has made 26 investments in 2025 so far. REplace and Hormona are the latest among them.

Here are the most recent investments by Techstars:

Date	Company	Location	Round Details	Round Amount	Co-Investors
May 29, 2025	REplace	Israel	Seed	$1.6M	Gravity Climate [+2]
May 27, 2025	Hormona	United Kingdom	Seed	$6.7M	Voima Ventures [+3]
May 15, 2025	Solestial	United States	Series A	$17M	AE Industrial Partners [+7]
May 06, 2025	Pulse Charter Connect	United States	Seed	$2M	Ivy Ventures [+3]
May 06, 2025	Tutornow	Italy	Seed	$1.13M	Invitalia [+2]

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Techstars has 16 unicorns in its portfolio - Chapter, Cosm, Veho and others. The most recent unicorn in their portfolio is Chapter. It became a unicorn in 2025, 11 years after Techstars first invested in it.

Here is a list of unicorns in Techstars' portfolio:

Tracxn Score	Company	Short Description	Founded year	Sector	Location	Company Stage	First Investment/ Acquisition Details
51	Chapter	Digital medicare plan and benefits management tool for employees and individuals	2013	HealthTech [+4]	New York City	Series D	apolwuc
59	Cosm	Provider of AR and VR immersive experiences solutions	2020	High Tech	Dallas	Series B	efeevhi
66	Veho	AI-enable last-mile delivery services for e-commerce companies	2016	Consumer [+2]	Boulder	Series B	cghqyel
67	JumpCloud	Cloud based directory management for user and IT resource authentication	2012	Enterprise Infrastructure [+1]	Boulder	Series F	jfuwhyl
72	TradingView	App-based multi-asset charting and technical analysis platform for traders	2011	FinTech	London	Series C	wq{tkbr

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14 of Techstars' portfolio companies have become public. Damon got listed on the National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations (NASDAQ), in Nov 2024 and Remitly got listed on the National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations (NASDAQ) at marketcap of $6.94B.

Here are Techstars' portfolio companies that went public:

Company	IPO Date	First Invested on	First Round of Investment	Round Size
Damon	Nov 18, 2024	2017	Seed	$20K
Remitly	Sep 23, 2021	-	-	-
Wise	Jul 07, 2021	Oct 29, 2020	Series F	$12M
Latch	Jun 07, 2021	-	-	-
GameOn	Jun 01, 2021	Jul 15, 2019	Seed	Undisclosed

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446 companies from Techstars' portfolio have been acquired. The most recent acquisition were Quantive in May 2025 by Workboard.

Here are Techstars' portfolio companies that got acquired most recently:

Company	Acquisition Date	First Invested on	First Round of Investment	Round Size
Quantive	May 29, 2025	2017	Unattributed	$20K
Symbl	May 29, 2025	Feb 11, 2019	Seed	$120K
PMI Ratw Pro	May 08, 2025	Jun 09, 2021	Seed	$20K
Atomos	Apr 24, 2025	Jan 06, 2023	Series A	$16.2M
Squarespace	Apr 10, 2025	-	-	-

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Techstars has a team of 92 members including 29 Partners, 2 Venture Partners and 5 Principals located in United States, Israel and 8 more locations. Techstars' team does not sit on the board of any company as of now.

Here is a list of top team members in Techstars:

Name	Designation	Location	Board Memberships	Contact details
Brad Feld	Partner	Boulder	-	2 Emails
David Cohen	Partner	Boulder	Aireen	2 Emails
Andres Barreto	Partner	New York City	-	3 Emails
Jordan Fliegel	Partner	New York City	-	1 Email
Oyin Solebo	Partner	Lagos	-	2 Emails
Keith Camhi	Partner	Washington, DC	-	1 Email
Neal SalesGriffin	Partner	San Francisco	-	3 Emails
Mark Solon	Partner	Boise	-	1 Email
Brett Brohl	Partner	Minneapolis	-	2 Emails
David Brown	Partner	Boulder	Stoford, Crescendo and 1 more	1 Email
Martin Olczyk	Partner	Turin	-	1 Email

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Over the past 19 years, 6672 investors have co-invested in Techstars's portfolio companies.

Invested before Techstars: Right Side Capital Management, MassChallenge and 1023 others have invested in rounds before Techstars. There are 102 companies where Right Side Capital Management has invested before Techstars and 22 companies where MassChallenge has invested before Techstars.
Top Co-investors of Techstars: 1347 investors entered a company along with Techstars. These include investors like Right Side Capital Management (54 companies).
Invested after Techstars: A total of 4300 investors have invested in Techstars's portfolio after their investments. Top Investors include European Union (27 companies) and Right Side Capital Management (26 companies).