Startup Spotlight

From Hardware Failure to Seed Success: Lessons from Enurgen’s Founding Journey

A Founder Spotlight Session with Enurgen’s Kibby Pollak on resilience, fundraising through failure, and building “hair-on-fire” climate tech solutions that scale.

Preply Redefines Learning and Becomes a $1.2B Unicorn

Preply (Techstars 2015) has officially reached unicorn status with a $1.2B valuation following a successful $150M Series D funding round.

PraxisPro Raises $6M Oversubscribed Seed Round to Transform Life Sciences with AI for Commercial Intelligence

PraxisPro (Techstars 2024), a data intelligence company rebuilding the fractured state of Life Sciences, announced the close of its oversubscribed $6M seed round.

From Techstars to CES: How HapWare Turned Acceleration into Momentum

At this year’s CES, HapWare (Techstars 2025) experienced a week that demonstrated just how far it had come as a company — and how much they had learned through Techstars.

Building a World from Thin Air: How Twelve is Turning CO2 into Every Day Products

Twelve (Techstars 2018) is making "building from air" a reality.

Sofia De la Mora Tostado: From Award-Winning Mathematical Research to Building Enterprise Intelligence

Award-Winning AI Engineer Brings Graph Theory Expertise from Human Trafficking Research to Transform Business Prediction

Keep Company and NAMI Publish National Report on Caregiver Loneliness in the Workplace

Keep Company (Techstars 2023) and the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) released a national report in honor of National Caregivers Month.

Orion Raises $3.5M to Redefine Real-Time Risk Intelligence With Adaptive AI

Orion (Techstars 2023) raises $3.5M to scale its adaptive AI risk intelligence platform.

HACKERverse Founder & CEO Craig Ellrod Is Replacing PoCs With Autonomous, AI-Driven Validation

Craig Ellrod, Founder & CEO of HACKERverse (Techstars 2024), is using AI to make cybersecurity software prove itself — replacing demos with real, automated validation.

Meta-Flux Raises $2M to Scale “AI Biologist” for Preclinical Drug Development

Meta-Flux (Techstars 2024) is bringing biological reasoning to AI drug development to reduce early-stage failure rates.

TransCrypts Announces New $15M Funding Round

TransCrypts (Techstars 2022) announces a $15M Seed round led by Pantera Capital with participation from Techstars, Mark Cuban, and others.

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