We are thrilled to officially announce the startups selected for our Spring 2026 accelerator programs, which kick off today across our global network.

Over the next three months, these founders will receive hands-on mentorship, a strategic capital investment, and gain lifelong access to our worldwide network of experts and alumni.

The Spring 2026 class focuses on industry-defining verticals, including artificial intelligence and machine learning, digital health and HRtech.

Get to Know the Spring 2026 Class

• 6 countries represented

• Across 47 vertical networks

• Including 19 health tech and 13 SaaS companies

Please join us in welcoming the following companies into the Techstars network:

Techstars Anywhere Accelerator

Cohesive Robotics - Cohesive Robotics is automating and modernizing critical manufacturing tasks like sanding and welding with smarter industrial robots.

Indora - Compliance infrastructure for regulated data workflows.

Nukleas - The operating system for government contractors.

PizzaTech - PizzaBox enables restaurant brands to convert diners into loyal regulars through prepaid subscription programs that drive predictable revenue and increase visits 3-4x.

Safety Bolt - Safety Bolt develops monitoring technologies that enable structural bolts to be remotely monitored for cost, time, and risk reduction.

Snowbotix - Dual-use autonomous mobility solution for year‑round snow removal, sweeping, and vegetation control.

Volumes - Volumes captures and constructs ground-truth reality (space, time, and physics) as physical AI training data for the next generation of robotics.

Techstars AI Health Baltimore

Amissa - Amissa Health generates real-world health and behavior data to develop digital biomarkers that predict Alzheimer's disease.

Biolinco - Biolinco develops an AI-enabled, high-throughput cell line screening platform for biopharmaceutical manufacturers to efficiently identify optimal cell lines using DNA barcoding technology, addressing the issue of low-yielding cell lines.

CerebroSonic - CerebroSonic delivers real-time 4D brain scans at the bedside to hospitals, ambulances, and care centers, addressing delays in stroke treatment and monitoring by providing continuous imaging of brain structures and blood flow to prevent brain damage.

Citrus Oncology - Citrus Oncology connects cancer patients, practices, employers, and trialists with experts managing treatment side effects.

Concordare Trials - Concordare Trials uses AI to convert complex clinical study protocols into a standardized digital format, enabling clinical trial sites to streamline their processes and reduce the operational burden imposed by sponsors.

illumifyDx - illumifyDx develops a blood test for oncologists and cancer centers that uses photonics and AI to detect early cancer recurrence in head and neck cancer survivors, addressing the need for accurate and affordable monitoring in a market with limited options.

Intelizen - Intelizen uses AI to help hospitals and clinics recover lost revenue by analyzing payer contracts, reconciling claims with negotiated rates, and generating appeals for underpayments.

Percy - Percy identifies environmental and behavioral factors affecting sleep for autistic individuals with chronic sleep problems, using a non-invasive sensor device to provide actionable data for personalized treatment plans.

Techstars Chicago

CloudReno - Acquires and modernizes renovation contractors using AI-driven workflows to improve margins, standardize operations, and build scalable regional renovation platforms.

ForgeBee - Develops automated systems to produce healthy honey bees at scale, enabling reliable pollination and protecting global food supply from colony collapse.

Kaizen Design - Enterprise platform that helps health systems manage and enforce building design standards, reducing construction waste and improving project delivery.

LineSight - AI agents that optimize production planning for metal service centers, reducing material loss and enabling more efficient, autonomous factory operations.

Offline - Ad network turning event attendance into a programmatic advertising channel, enabling brands to reach real people in the real world, at scale.

Plexus - AI observability platform for physical systems that analyzes telemetry to detect anomalies, diagnose failures, and help teams understand complex machines.

Seated with Love - White-label wedding planning platform for venues that streamlines planning for couples while creating new revenue through vendor marketplace integrations.

WattShift - APIs that deliver unified behind-the-meter electricity price signals, enabling energy devices OEMs to understand and reduce costs across complex utility tariffs.

Techstars London Accelerator

Auron Solutions - Auron is developing AI-driven RF warfare that identifies and disables hostile drone links in real time. The system provides scalable, low-cost defense against drone swarms without broad-spectrum jamming.

Kensai - Kensai is the infrastructure layer for consumer-health brands to launch products internationally in seconds, vetting formulations and claims against global regulations, and providing real-time monitoring for shifting legal standards.

Neurotype - Neurotype is building the AI-powered operating system for neurodiversity care. They automate and enhance the most time-intensive parts of ADHD and autism assessments, from document synthesis to structured diagnostic report writing, enabling clinics to deliver high-quality assessments faster, more consistently, and at scale.

SimicX - SimicX builds autonomous AI scientists capable of executing complex mathematical research at superhuman scale. Today, top hedge funds use their AI to completely automate their alpha discovery pipeline, turning millions of data points into production-ready trading code in hours instead of months. Tomorrow, this exact reasoning engine will become the foundational operating system for any industry that relies on heavy quantitative science to drive human progress.

Stemma AI - Stemma AI eliminates claims leakage in complex transport insurance - a $10B+ annual problem. Our proprietary technology reads and reasons across 10,000+ page claims files where standard LLMs fail, delivering verifiable answers.

Systellar Space - Systellar is enabling Vibe Engineering for complex physical systems. Just like vibe coding lets anyone create software with AI, their platform lets engineers design satellites, aircraft, and other complex machines without needing deep expertise in every discipline.

Northwestern Medicine & Techstars Healthcare Accelerator

Arul Health - Arul Health provides supportive oncology services to cancer patients, survivors, and their caregivers in navigating treatment and beyond.

ImmPro - Built on 20+ years and $40M of pioneering research, ImmPro is the industry leader in top-down proteomics solutions for biopharmaceutical development.

Slideflow Labs - Slideflow Labs brings the latest foundation models and cutting-edge methods, enabling customers to build & deploy digital biomarkers for molecular target identification, risk stratification, and treatment response prediction.

Soihtu DTx - Soihtu DTx is the first personalized, precision digital therapeutic (DTx) as a video game for depression.

Verbal - Verbal is an AI-powered compliance platform delivering 100% visibility into human + AI-driven patient interactions.

USC and Techstars Accelerator

Avarie Femcare - Avarie Femcare makes ultra-thin, high-performance period products engineered for heavy and postpartum flow.

Blue Navy Recovery - One in seven Americans has unclaimed property held by the state. Blue Navy Recovery makes the recovery process fast, easy, and transparent for both individuals and businesses.

Drafted - Building autonomous recruiting to solve the entry-level hiring crisis.

FlexTogether - FlexTogether enables physicians to easily provide billable, virtual pulmonary rehabilitation to their lung disease patients, radically increasing a patient's healthy-days-at-home.

Jam Life - Jam is an AI-powered Chief of Staff for families built to handle the logistics of modern family life.

nowfluence - nowfluence is an AI-powered influencer marketing platform connecting brands, agencies, and creators through data-driven tools that make partnerships scalable and measurable.

Sensate Robotics - Sensate Robotics merges force-sensing grippers with 3D vision to enable tactile robots to perform produce grading and packing with human-like touch, sight, and quality control.

VascAI - Automating clinical tasks using AI for community health workers.

Techstars Workforce Development Accelerator

AskSAMIE - AskSAMIE helps older adults and people with disabilities live safely at home by getting them access to occupational therapy. The platform supports the work of OTs and the needs of caregivers, enabling scalable care delivery and better at-home support.

Essential Innovations - Essential Innovations helps small and medium employers with high-turnover, frontline positions access the tens of billions of dollars in tax credits and other resources available to help them find, hire, train, and retain employees from traditionally undertapped talent pools.

Gild - Gild is an AI system solving labor allocations in the trades.

Hive Ownership - Hive helps small businesses build real ownership culture. By aligning incentives and building trust, we turn employees into teams of owners.

Obert - Obert is a workwear brand addressing women's safety in male-dominated fields.

Peak Mojo - Peak Mojo is an AI Assessment & Training OS for mission-critical roles, starting with healthcare.

Sumly - Sumly is an AI-powered tax and finance platform that helps solopreneurs and small business owners track income and expenses year-round, uncover every deduction, and file with a Tax Pro — so they keep more of what they earn.

Utiva - Utiva connects untapped elite talent from multiple markets to global companies through one AI-powered platform for hiring, compliance, and payroll.

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