Meet the 14 startups from 11 countries joining the first Techstars x EIT Urban Mobility Founder Catalyst, a 10-week hybrid accelerator for early-stage founders changing how people and goods move ...

Four-time founder Michael Taus built a live AI college advisor in nine weeks without funding or an engineering hire, and he explains why his co-founder's 25 years of counseling expertise is the one ...

Techstars is joining Carta Law as a launch partner for Carta Law Venture Financing, a new fixed-fee offering that gives founders a faster, more predictable way to close a priced seed round. Closing a ...

In this episode of the Give First podcast, David Cohen sits down with Jon Lensing, co-founder and CEO of OpenLoop, the unicorn building the infrastructure that lets any company offer virtual ...

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. Every year, Sifted ranks the 250 ...

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. I saw a chart on LinkedIn this week ...

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 ...

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 ...

In this episode of the Give First podcast, David Cohen sits down with Kurt Workman, co-founder and executive chairman of Owlet, the company behind the smart sock that tracks a baby's heart rate and ...

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. Notey (Techstars 2023) has closed a $3M ...

Top startup founders and investors recommend focusing on product defensibility, crystal-clear messaging, and solving genuine customer problems over chasing buzzwords or quick fixes. We recently packed ...