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TechStars

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TechStars (www.techstars.org) is an elite mentorship-driven start-up accelerator and seed fund.

Founded in 2006 and recently recognized as the No. 1 accelerator program; the TechStars philosophy focuses on deep mentorship and surrounding a small number of companies with highly engaged members of the entrepreneurial ecosystem to coach and support them to success. The TechStars community currently includes more than 300 mentors, more than 1,000 investors, and 120 alumni TechStars companies. TechStars currently operates six programs each year: Boulder, Boston, Seattle, New York (winter and summer), and most recently, TechStars Cloud. TechStars is funded by more than 50 venture capital firms, and more than 25 angel investors. Companies that are accepted into the program get unequaled mentorship, $18K in funding, and amazing perks in exchange for 6% common/founders stock. Recently, TechStars announced an optional and additional $100K in funding to teams. Information on applying to TechStars can be found at www.techstars.com/apply.

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  TechStars added Bob Pasker as Mentor NYC.
  Posted 11/8/11 at 9:57am
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  TechStars added Katie Rae as Managing Director, Boston. (2/1/11)
  Posted 9/26/11 at 2:47pm
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  TechStars added Nicole Glaros as Managing Director, Boulder. (12/1/08)
  Posted 9/26/11 at 2:47pm
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  TechStars added Don Loeb as Mentor. (6/1/07)
  Posted 8/23/11 at 5:58pm
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  TechStars added Joshua Stylman as Investor.
  Posted 4/17/11 at 10:59am
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  TechStars added Andy Sack as Managing Director, Seattle.
  Posted 4/14/11 at 2:36pm
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  TechStars added Bill Boebel as Mentor. (4/4/11)
  Posted 4/4/11 at 8:23pm
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  TechStars added Wayne Chang as Mentor.
  Posted 2/28/11 at 6:03am
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  TechStars added Matt Galligan as Business Development Consultant. (7/1/11)
  Posted 2/15/11 at 4:53pm
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  TechStars added Micah Baldwin as Mentor. (7/1/07)
  Posted 12/3/10 at 10:33pm
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  TechStars added David Tisch as Managing Director, NYC. (8/1/10)
  Posted 9/5/10 at 10:44pm
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  TechStars added Jeff Bennett as Mentor. (5/1/09)
  Posted 1/6/10 at 6:11pm
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  TechStars added Simeon Simeonov as Mentor.
  Posted 11/9/09 at 8:15am
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  TechStars added Cory Levy as Summer Intern.
  Posted 5/10/09 at 8:34am
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  TechStars added Andrew Hyde as Community Director .
  Posted 4/29/09 at 10:32am
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  TechStars added Jeff Widman as Intern. (7/1/08)
  Posted 10/27/08 at 8:37pm

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Above: TechStars Screenshot -- #1
Uploaded: 12/27/10

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TechStars

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Website	techstars.org
Stage	Live
Launch Date	August 4, 2007
Tags	seed-funding

Above: TechStars Screenshot -- #1
Uploaded: 2/5/08

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