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Five Techstars portfolio companies landed on the Sifted 250, the annual ranking of Europe's fastest-growing startups by revenue. Two of them cracked the top 10.
Most people have a business idea but never take the first step, and with community support, free resources, and AI now within reach, there's no better time to stop waiting for someday and start.
Most pre-seed rounds take three to six months and as many as 200 investor conversations, so here's how to plan your raise around the norm and not the exception.
At Techstars, we find and fund the world's most ambitious founders. See what we were up to in September.
Entrepreneurial ecosystems grow like forests, so funders who want real results should back the whole community with patient capital and track new connections and activity, rather than expecting a quick three-to-one return.
With worker shortages projected to hit 11 million in Japan by 2040 and 1.9 million in U.S. manufacturing by 2033, Tokyo-based O-ID has secured funding to become one of the world's first robotics companies to build fully modular humanoid robots that slot into existing factory lines and can be repaired on the spot.
Notey (Techstars 2023) has closed a $3M seed round to grow its music practice platform into new instruments, new partnerships, and a new European home in Malta.
Top startup founders and investors recommend focusing on product defensibility, crystal-clear messaging, and solving genuine customer problems over chasing buzzwords or quick fixes.
A startup community isn't built. It's grown. It's closer to a coral reef than a bridge: reefs form from thousands of small, local relationships over years, none of them centrally planned. You can't decree a reef into existence by writing a bigger check for coral.
At the 2026 Colorado Startup Week, Techstars Founder & CEO David Cohen sat down with PBS12's Business of Colorado to talk about Boulder's comeback, the Give First philosophy, and what AI means for the next generation of founders.
Every founder bootstraps at the start. The only real question is how long.
Comparison is stealing your joy: the founder two years ahead of you is running a different race, at a different speed, toward a different finish line, so borrowing their scoreboard to grade your own game only makes you feel small.
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