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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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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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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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Great startups don't come from one city. They come from everywhere.
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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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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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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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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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Jun 12
Volteum (Techstars 2022), a fleet management platform designed for electric and mixed fleets, has raised €2.5M. 🚚 Typically, fleet managers rely on disconnected software systems and legacy tools that weren't built for electrification, but Volteum addresses this challenge by
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The biggest buyers of clean energy in the world can't access it where it's needed most. That's why Nick Fedorkiw and Ricky Buch built Powertrust. Powertrust (Techstars 2022) is an energy procurement platform bridging the gap between global corporations and small-scale renewable
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Jun 11
Does your startup community need a revolution or an evolution? In this episode of Your Startup Community, Chris Heivly breaks down how to read the room and lead with the approach your community actually needs right now. 🎧 Listen here: tsta.rs/xctv50Z7NwF
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We are proud to welcome Xero as a Premier Partner. Xero is the global small business accounting platform trusted by 4.9 million customers worldwide, making it easy for entrepreneurs to manage their finances, run payroll, accept payments, and grow with confidence. As part of
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