Accelerate your startup’s business growth with ideas and insights from the Techstars network.
Zipline (Techstars 2011) has raised $1.5B at a $21.5B valuation and signed a new multi-year deal with Walmart to add 300 drone delivery sites across the U.S.
Heading to Slush 2026? Techstars is hosting two private side events in Helsinki. Founders and investors can connect over coffee and pulla at Thaw on November 17, and founders can trade the conference floor for bowling, darts, and phone throwing at Hard Reset on November 18.
OKRs work best when they’re connected to the company’s longer-term direction and built together across teams, so everyone understands their contribution and the commitments that tie their work to others.
Before you start your accelerator application, check out these tips for how to prepare for the application and interview process.
Muhammad Hunain, Founder and CEO of Melagen Labs (Techstars 2024), is a finalist for Playmaker of the Year at the 2026 Global Space Awards for his work protecting space hardware from cosmic radiation.
Founders will grab the first hand offered, and in a young startup community, that one mentor might be the only voice they hear. Here’s why it matters who’s actually in the room, and how to build a mentor program that gives founders more than one hand to choose from.
October brought new funding for 13 portfolio companies, an acquisition, and a run of big headlines across the Techstars network. Catch up on the month and see which accelerators are open for applications.
Fernando Jardim started as a Techstars Startup Weekend organizer in São Paulo. Ten years later, he shares how a volunteer-run community grew the city’s startup scene, how he brought the same playbook to Portugal, and what he’d tell any community leader starting out.
Edge Sound Research (Techstars 2021) has raised $2M to build audio infrastructure that helps robots, vehicles, and other physical AI systems pick out the sounds that matter and understand what’s happening around them in real time.
Sabrina Lamb spent years teaching financial education before founding Wekeza (Techstars 2025), a multilingual investing app for first-generation investors around the world. She shares how Techstars helped her double down on community, why a founder’s next answer might come from someone else in their class, and what keeps her going when others doubt the vision.
Perfection shows up for founders, but it never sticks around for long. Every solved problem trades for a bigger one, and you’ll never have enough data to make the next call easy. The founders who thrive learn to get comfortable with the uncomfortable, decide with about seventy percent of the picture, and adjust as they go.
Relic co-founders Sara Kordić, Imran Čengić, and Haris Kordić met at Techstars Startup Weekend Sarajevo. Two weekends, one shelved proptech idea, and a lot of honest mentor feedback later, they’re building an AI “second brain” as part of the Techstars Founder Catalyst Global Fall 2026 cohort.
Page 1 of 48
