13th January 2009
by Venture Capital Journal published an article called “Year in Review: Internet” [sub] in their January 2009 issue. In it, SocialThing (a TechStars company from 2007) was listed as #2 in the “Top M&A Returns for VC-backed Internet Companies” in 2008. SocialThing was acquired a AOL in September of 2008 when the company was about a Read more…
16th December 2008
by Foodzie (a TechStars 2008 company) has announced that they have closed a $1M round of funding from Jeff Clavier at SoftTech VC, First Round Capital, and angel investors. Foodzie is an online marketplace where food lovers can discover and buy food directly from small, artisan producers and growers. Foodzie is also building a community around Read more…
9th December 2008
by ReadWriteWeb released their Top 10 Consumer Web Apps of 2008 today. Intense Debate, the comment replacement system from TechStars 2007 that was recently acquired by Automattic was named #3. Twitter was #1, followed by Firefox at #2. Wow, that’s some pretty amazing company! You can check out Intense Debate by commenting on this post or Read more…
17th November 2008
by Current TV featured TechStars tonight. They came out this past summer and filmed Foodzie and Ignighter and created this mini-documentary. Thanks to Current TV and Alpine Light Productions who produced the video.
23rd September 2008
by Here’s a video of Automattic CEO Toni Schneider discussing the announcement of their acquisition of TechStars company Intense Debate. He explains that Intense Debate will be tightly integrated into WordPress, but will maintain the current brand and will still function with other publishing platforms besides WordPress. Video Courtesy of Vator.tv. Here’s coverage on the deal Read more…
14th August 2008
by AOL announced today that it has acquired Socialthing, a TechStars company from 2007, confirming the original rumors. I’m psyched for Matt, Brian, and Ben – they worked their butts off during the program last summer, raised under $500k to get to this point, and really stayed focused. For those of you not familiar with Socialthing, Read more…
5th March 2008
by I was excited to see that just a few days after Filtrbox announced closing their funding round, Brightkite has followed suit. They’ve recently closed about $1M in funding from a group of private investors, and opened up a new office in Denver. The guys from Brightkite came out with some pretty cool prototypes during the Read more…
29th February 2008
by Another of the TechStars companies from 2007, Filtrbox announced this week at Venture Capital in the Rockies that it has closed its seed financing round which was led by Flywheel Ventures and True Ventures. Several angel investors also participated. Ari Newman, Founder and CEO of Filtrbox said “We could not be happier with the investors Read more…
14th February 2008
by One of the most common questions we get at TechStars is simply “What’s it like?” In order to try to answer that question a bit more completely, we shot a quick video last week where several of the founders from last summer. Gwen Bell, who was not a founder but who was around some last Read more…
20th January 2008
by TechStars is now accepting applications for Summer, 2008. The application deadline is March 31 – however – if you apply by March 3rd, you will receive an invitation to TechStars For A Day. This is a one day event in Boulder with many of our mentors and founders from the 2007 companies. It’s a one-day Read more…