• Capacity Development Provider

Techstars

Techstars Accelerator, Techstars Startup Weekend, Techstars Startup Week

Techstars is an American seed accelerator founded in 2006 in Boulder, Colorado. As of 2019, the company had accepted over 1,600 companies into its programs with a combined market capitalization of $18.2bn USD. Fewer than 1% of applicants are accepted.

  • Stages of Support

    • Idea
    • Start-up
    • Early
    • Growth
    • Mature

  • Investment Instruments

    • Equity
    • Quasi-Equity
    • Grant

  • Sectors of Focus

    • Sector agnostic

  • Services

    • Host events for entrepreneurs or entrepreneur support intermediaries
    • Run an entrepreneurship-focused news/media outlet
    • Run an accelerator program
    • Provide financial support to entrepreneur-support intermediaries

  • Nonfinancial Services

    • Capacity development services
    • Market linkages
    • Investment linkages

  • Capacity development services

    • Access to networks and partners
    • Business strategy and planning
    • Legal/acounting/other office services
    • Performance or impact measurement and management support
    • Value/supply chain development
    • Support on governance structure
    • Talent development/HR (including leadership)
    • Operations and technology development or adoption

  • Market linkages services

    • Access to new markets/customers

  • Investment linkages services

    • Access to information/research
    • Pitch readiness
    • Technical support on term sheets or investment structuring
    • Access to investors
    • Legal due diligence

  • Program online

    • Hybrid

  • Focus Tech

    • Some of my programming is exclusive to tech-enabled businesses

  • Focus Population

    • Rural entrepreneurs
    • Youth entrepreneurs
    • Base of the pyramid population
    • Women entrepreneurs
    • Minority or previously excluded racial ethnic or other population
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