Africa has a burgeoning technology community – and now has as a formalized collaboration among the continent’s tech incubators called Afrilabs. The goal of this network organization is to associate and connect the African technology community to further promote the growth and development. Afrilabs will offer support to emerging technology labs as well as guide…
Read More“Over the next 3 years, the TechStars Network will ensure that 5,000 successful and experienced entrepreneurs and investors will mentor and support 6,000 promising young entrepreneurs, increasing their success rate tenfold and creating 25,000 new jobs by 2015 and a sustained engine for growing these figures over time.” – David Cohen Founder and CEO,…
Read MoreWe’re full of anticipation today, excited to host our first Tech Cocktail NYC tonight, sponsored by Sprint. We partnered up with our friends at TechStars to make this an extra special NYC kick-off (for both of us!) so there will be many tech stars joining us. Special thanks to Digital Somethings and Girls in Tech…
Read MoreFantasy Sports is a huge industry with millions of participants and a market impact in the billions. If you’ve ever participated and had your team win, you probably remember how great it felt. Now wouldn’t it be interesting if you could just invest in your favorite players without having to run a whole team to…
Read MoreNew York is a hotbed for startup activity and it’s just a 4 hour drive from our TC Headquarters, so we are headed to big apple on November 19th to host our first NYC Tech Cocktail mixer event and showcase some of the hottest new, early stage startups in the area. If you’re an early…
Read MoreSince 2007, the team of Brad Feld and David Cohen has been running the TechStars incubator program and seed funding startups. The program, which started in Boulder but has quickly expanded to Boston, Seattle and New York, provides startup founders with support, advice and mentoring during the program. Some past successes have included SocialThing, Filtrbox,…
Read MoreThis past week the TechStars startup incubator based in Boulder, Colorado launched another class of startups. Interestingly, of the twenty-four startups that have been a part of the TechStars program over the years, six have been acquired. We’ve hosted a few TECH cocktail Boulder startup mixers (as explained here and here) in the past which…
Read MoreAre you interested in Science and want to get involved in some cool stuff? Or are you a researcher and need to connect with people to help make your research better? Well either way SocialSci is for you. SocialSci is a Boston based startup thats aims to help Scientific research experiments reach that next level….
Read MoreAre you a foodie? If you love food you might want to watch this video as it explores the new gourmet food marketplace called Foodzie. Foodzie looks to make it easy for gourmet food producers to sell their products online similar to how Etsy creates a marketplace for handmade goods. Foodies should love it as…
Read MoreTECH cocktail Boulder 2 took place last night as the perfect ending to the 2008 TechStars Investor and Demo day. We thank Lijit, TechStars and Me.dium for sponsoring the event as we couldn’t do it without your support! The following 2008 TechStars startups demoed: App-X – Aimed squarely as VC’s and investors, App-X offers software…
Read MoreThink you want to start a new company and need a little funding and guidance? You might want to check into an incubator program. Today I was in Boulder, Colorado as TechStars 2008 Investor and Demo day as it launched its second years worth of startups. TechStars was founded last year by David Cohen, Brad…
Read MoreJust in time for TECH cocktail Boulder 2 next week which is shaping up to be another super event, TECH cocktail Boudler 1 demo’er SocialThing has been acquired by AOL. Congrats to SocialThing and the TechStars incubator program (of which it was a portfolio company). We look forward to celebrating with you all in Boulder…
Read MoreSocialThing, a Boulder, Colorado TechStars startup that aggregates all your online social updates into one slick lifestream, launched into private beta this past March in Austin, Texas at the South By Southwest Interactive event. We got a chance to get a preview of the product the week before as SocialThing showed off its stuff at…
Read MoreFiltrbox, a Boulder-based startup which was founded about a year ago as part of the first TechStars program, will soon be launching a self-service business-grade keyword driven alerts product. Filtrbox offers keyword driven media search which includes the blogosphere & mainstream news. “Filtrbox is a business-grade version of Google Alerts.” – SOMEWHAT FRANK The filtrbox…
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