Investment firm · 25 mentions
Techstars
Notable mentions
“We were in a Techstars program in 2013, and coming out of Techstars, about a $400,000-dollar Seed Round, which took us through a year.”
From Craig Unger“What is the difference between the typical accelerator that people can think of like YCombinator or Techstars, and an incubator.”
From Ryan Disraeli“Then we went down a longer journey going through TechStars and whatnot.”
From Ben and Mosey Uretsky“Ben, why did you guys decide to pack up the luggage and go to TechStars?”
From Ben and Mosey Uretsky“The reason we applied to TechStars in the first place, and our first attempt was in New York is we had the ambition of building a company for massive scale.”
From Ben and Mosey Uretsky“So, it looked like TechStars was a great environment in which we could build those connections and really learn about venture funding, venture back startups, and have not only a great set of mentors, but also a great set of peer companies that are going through the same building process as us.”
From Ben and Mosey Uretsky“And he recommended that we apply to Boulder, Colorado which is where TechStars started, and ultimately, we got into that program.”
From Ben and Mosey Uretsky“When we applied to TechStars, that was really written into our applications when they said, "What's your differentiator?"”
From Ben and Mosey Uretsky“At first, Nicole Glaros, who was the Managing Director of TechStars, Boulder, at first, she looked at us like we were crazy.”
From Ben and Mosey Uretsky“That's where that big question always came up for us after we left TechStars is: we have some customers that love us, but we're not really growing as quickly as we would like.”
From Ben and Mosey Uretsky“I knew, of course, that they were an investor in TechStars, so he gave us an introduction to David Tisch.”
From Ben and Mosey Uretsky“It was really interesting because Ben was trying to raise an Angel Round during the TechStars program, but he decided that it really wasn't worth the investment of time and the amount of capital we would raise would not really significantly change the business.”
From Ben and Mosey Uretsky“Then we leveraged TechStars as well as IA Ventures to get introductions to all of them.”
From Ben and Mosey Uretsky“Then we went down a longer journey going through TechStars and whatnot.”
From Ben and Mosey Uretsky“The reason we applied to TechStars in the first place, and our first attempt was in New York is we had the ambition of building a company for massive scale.”
From Ben and Mosey Uretsky“So, it looked like TechStars was a great environment in which we could build those connections and really learn about venture funding, venture back startups, and have not only a great set of mentors, but also a great set of peer companies that are going through the same building process as us.”
From Ben and Mosey Uretsky“And he recommended that we apply to Boulder, Colorado which is where TechStars started, and ultimately, we got into that program.”
From Ben and Mosey Uretsky“When we applied to TechStars, that was really written into our applications when they said, "What's your differentiator?"”
From Ben and Mosey Uretsky“At first, Nicole Glaros, who was the Managing Director of TechStars, Boulder, at first, she looked at us like we were crazy.”
From Ben and Mosey Uretsky“I knew, of course, that they were an investor in TechStars, so he gave us an introduction to David Tisch.”
From Ben and Mosey Uretsky“It was really interesting because Ben was trying to raise an Angel Round during the TechStars program, but he decided that it really wasn't worth the investment of time and the amount of capital we would raise would not really significantly change the business.”
From Ben and Mosey Uretsky“Then we leveraged TechStars as well as IA Ventures to get introductions to all of them.”
From Ben and Mosey Uretsky“They were you know a Techstars back company or a daily deal site or a flash sales site that was really popular.”
From Vivek Sharma“They were you know a Techstars back company or a daily deal site or a flash sales site that was really popular.”
From Vivek Sharma“And then we also went through Techstars. They put in an additional 120K.”
From Arjun Pillai
