TechStars is the #1 startup accelerator in the world. Learn more about our NYC office below.
Meet the NYC Team
Nicole Glaros
Managing Director
Twitter:
@nglaros
Nicole Glaros has been a Managing Director for TechStars since 2009. During our Spring program in New York City starting in April 2013, she is based in there and is co-managing TechStars NYC with Eugene Chung.
Nicole got her entrepreneurial start in the 4th grade, orchestrating cousins into theatrical plays and charging neighbors admission. From there, she founded three startups including Property Management Shop, all of which are still operating. She has spent nearly a decade working to improve the entrepreneurial ecosystem in Colorado through leadership roles at various organizations and incubators such as CTEK, Investor Avenue, CleanLaunch, and the Advance Colorado Center. She considers herself privileged to have worked with nearly 100 brilliant and gutsy seed-stage web software entrepreneurs. Nicole graduated with her Master’s Degree from the University of Florida, likes to do at least one philanthropic thing annually, and shares the wonderment of parenthood with the love of her life, Mark. When not thinking about TechStars, you’ll find Nicole on the slopes or on her bike, hanging with her big fat greek family, traveling to some exotic destination, or generally making a fool of herself to entertain others. Read Nicole’s mind at her blog.
Eugene Chung
Managing Director
Twitter:
@eyc
Eugene Chung is a Managing Director for TechStars, based in New York City. Formerly, he was with New Enterprise Associates (NEA), where he focused on venture capital investments in technology companies. Prior to NEA, Eugene worked in film production at Pixar Animation Studios. Earlier in his career, Eugene was a private equity investor at Warburg Pincus and an investment banker at Morgan Stanley.
Eugene has written for The Wall Street Journal and Harvard Business Review, and he has been involved with a number of social enterprises and non-profits. He worked in the rural Philippines with Unitus, a global microfinance accelerator, and he is the director and executive producer of a documentary called Divided Families, an independent film chronicling the stories of families that were forcibly divided by the Korean War. He earned his BS degree from the University of California, Berkeley, and holds an MBA from Harvard Business School where he was a Baker Scholar.
From the Blog
Today, we’re thrilled to announce our Spring 2013 TechStars class for New York City. Our applicant pool of nearly 1,700 companies was an all-time high for NYC. We had applicants from 420 cities, 66 countries, and 6 continents (no applicants from Antarctica—this year). The acceptance rate for our program (0.6% this time) grows ever smaller by the year.
We had applicants from countries as diverse as Nepal and Tanzania. More than ever, our applicant pool reflects the global reach of TechStars and the infusion of technology in the cultural zeitgeist of societies around the world. The movie The Social Network has become the Wall Street of our generation. This is true not just for America but for the world at large. Some of the brightest minds of our era are choosing to become entrepreneurs.
Even more impressive than the geographic diversity of our applicant pool was the outstanding range of business ideas, and this is reflected in the diversity of our class. The unifying theme is the fantastic quality of our founders and the interesting (and large) market opportunities they are tackling. We are not afraid to take chances. For the first time ever, we have a company tackling the religion space, an underserved yet massive market with incredible opportunities for disruption. Two of the things that Americans care most about are what they drive and what they eat, and we have companies revolutionizing both. The areas our founders are tackling are as varied as optimizing ecommerce to the world of pets. Our companies dream big, tackling the exciting new trends in cutting edge 3D to new ways of experiencing live shows to the quantifying of innovation for every company in the world. And the markets are large, with our founders bringing solutions to the millions of new parents in the US every year to providing pioneering solutions for the $40 billion online advertising market as well as the $1.2 trillion local commerce market.
Without further ado, here is our class for 2013:
 |
AdYapper: Transparency and analytics to cut wasted ad spend.
|
 |
Dash Labs: Connected car platform.
|
 |
FaithStreet: Social outreach platform for faith communities.
|
 |
Jukely: 2-tap concert concierge.
|
 |
Klooff: Uniting pet lovers around the world.
|
 |
Placemeter: Smart in-store sensors capturing customer data.
|
 |
Plated: Redefining the way we eat.
|
 |
Sketchfab: Publish, share and embed interactive 3D models.
|
 |
TriggerMail: Intelligent ecommerce emails.
|
 |
Validation Board: Quantifying innovation and testing ideas for enterprises.
|
 |
weeSpring: Community for new parents built around the people they trust most.
|
Headquarters
Thanks to all of our local sponsors above as well as our national sponsors below.
