David Tisch has been lobbying for a summer TechStars session in New York since the day he signed on as director and realized the inaugural incubator had some of the strongest applicants he’s seen. Excited, he proposed a second session to TechStars founder David Cohen. “I was told no,” Mr. Tisch said. “David Cohen is Read More
Justin Wohlstadter navigated easily through the crush of long-legged beauties and laptop jockeys crowding the lobby of the Ace Hotel on a chilly Thursday night. His informal office when he’s not in the U.K. doing postgraduate work at Oxford, the wood-paneled bar is also his hunting ground for tech deals to fund as director of Read More
Today TechStars announced the TechStars Network, a sort of accelerator franchise that bestows the TechStars brand upon 17 independently owned accelerators across the world that will replicate the TechStars incubator model.
Boulder-based TechStars just started running its first New York program earlier this month. The TechStars program offers startups $18,000 in seed funding, Read More
Techstars NY, which is more selective than the Ivy League, has chosen its first class of eleven startups.
For those who are keeping track, that means one more company slipped in than was originally planned.
It’s an interesting range of companies. Two companies have yet to write a single line of code, four have Read More
Time’s up to apply for one of the ten spots in the inaugural class at TechStars NY, the Boulder-based startup incubator that set up shop in Union Square earlier this fall.
“Applications to @TechStars in #NYC are now closed. 579 applications mean 1.7% will be accepted,” TechStars tweeted this morning.
There is no official Read More
