David Cohen
Angel Investor @ Techstars Ventures
Boulder, United States
David Cohen is a seed investor at Techstars Ventures in Boulder focused on Software and Mobile. David Cohen is the Founder and CEO of Techstars. He previously served as a Board Member at Wunder Capital. David Cohen attended the University of Central Florida, where he earned an Associate of Arts in Computer Science.
- Total investments:
- 101
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 8%
Last updated:
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Industries David Cohen invests in
Stages David Cohen invests in
Countries David Cohen invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
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Round size
- Seed
- $118k–$2M
- Pre-Seed
- $120k–$1.4M
- Series A
- $1.1M–$8.8M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 22 (22%)
- Mobile 12 (12%)
- Finance 11 (11%)
- SaaS 9 (9%)
- Advertising 9 (9%)
Stage
- Seed 56 (55%)
- Series A 21 (21%)
- Pre-Seed 6 (6%)
- Angel 3 (3%)
- Funding Round 3 (3%)
Country
- United States 72 (71%)
- India 2 (2%)
- United Kingdom 2 (2%)
- Canada 1 (1%)
- Hong Kong 1 (1%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Favs is a social networking platform for close friends. Favs was founded in 2023 and is based in Los Angeles, California. | $1.4M / Pre-Seed / Sep 14, 2023 | ||
| Anything World combines AI, speech computing, and 3D rendering with layers of behavioral intelligence. It allows users to save time by combining voice and text commands. | $7.5M / Seed / Nov 09, 2022 | ||
| Anything World combines AI, speech computing, and 3D rendering with layers of behavioral intelligence. It allows users to save time by combining voice and text commands. | $673.7K / Pre-Seed / Dec 12, 2019 | ||
| We are changing road travel in India ride by ride. As a fast-growing taxi rental marketplace, we have one goal - making each road trip a safe and happy one. Attempting to fill the gap of hailing outstation taxis, Instacar is simplifying the process of booking rented outstation cars by providing a democratic marketplace. To talk tech and more, hitus up at info@instacar.in. | Seed / Oct 21, 2019 | ||
| We are changing road travel in India ride by ride. As a fast-growing taxi rental marketplace, we have one goal - making each road trip a safe and happy one. Attempting to fill the gap of hailing outstation taxis, Instacar is simplifying the process of booking rented outstation cars by providing a democratic marketplace. To talk tech and more, hitus up at info@instacar.in. | Pre-Seed / Feb 04, 2019 | ||
| The company aims to use robots to solve several problems in the foodservice industry including compromised cleanliness and inefficiency. It targets cafeterias, restaurants, and hotels. Sally's proprietary technology dispenses measured quantities of more than 20 ingredients – refreshed daily – to create a ready-to-eat meal any time of day. Thetechnology, with several patents pending, is also applicable to other cuisines, such as Mexican and Indian, and respective robots will follow.Deepak Sekar founded Chowbotics in 2014 in Hayward, California. | $11M / Series A / Jun 13, 2018 | ||
| CRON Systems was founded in 2015 to cater to the complex security problems at the Indian borders. Our founding team spent the initial months at the field to understand the customer pain-points. We realised that the fragmented sensing solutions’ market was overpopulated with sensors that were nothing near field ready. To take these to the field, onewould have to invest in numerous integrations, time and engineering resources. We decided to build to fill the void that these myopic sensors left in the market. In our effort to provide intelligent sensing that integrates multiple sensors, was weather and terrain agnostic, we developed CRON’s very own Smart Sensor Fusion platform. This platform is designed to flawlessly fuse data from different types of sensors. Simply put, it combines the information from multiple sensors to help perceive the environment and if/when one sensor is compromised by the terrain or the weather conditions, another sensor jumps into action. With little to no false alarms, accurate object/human detection, tracking and classification our advanced suite of products and technology solutions are designed to augment situational awareness i.e. makes you fully aware of the environment around you.What started as a venture to secure our hostile borders has now become a quest to build a more robust sensor platform that will ensure the integration of multiple different sensors with ease, thereby transforming the way sensing works today. | $120K / Seed / Jul 17, 2017 | ||
| Dotterel is a company based in Auckland, New Zealand that develops noise reduction and audio recording technology for UAVs. They have been providing award-winning solutions for the screen industry, security/defence and noise mapping since 2015.Their company provides technology that passively makes UAVs quieter in noise sensitive applicationsIt also separately allows aerial audio recording directly from the UAV in real-time. This technology opens the use of UAVs in applications and industries where use was previously impossible due to their noise.Being a Techstars company, they develop solutions in partnership with various Universities. Their partners include The University of Auckland, University of NSW, University of Sydney and M.I.T. | $120K / Seed / Jul 17, 2017 | ||
| Embrace is the only user-focused observability platform that ties technical performance to end-user impact. Powered by OpenTelemetry, Embrace provides Real User Monitoring (RUM) across mobile and web, giving engineering teams the visibility and context they need to prioritize and resolve issues faster, optimize performance, and deliver exceptionaldigital experiences.Embrace is a member of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) and contributes to several OpenTelemetry Special Interest Groups (SIGs). Embrace counts AllTrails, Amazon, Cameo, GOAT, Hyatt, The New York Times, and many more as customers. Supported by NEA, AV8 (Allianz), Greycroft, and Eniac, Embrace is a YCombinator (YC Growth) company based in Los Angeles, Palo Alto, Buenos Aires, and London. | $4.5M / Seed / May 23, 2017 | ||
| The company aims to use robots to solve several problems in the foodservice industry including compromised cleanliness and inefficiency. It targets cafeterias, restaurants, and hotels. Sally's proprietary technology dispenses measured quantities of more than 20 ingredients – refreshed daily – to create a ready-to-eat meal any time of day. Thetechnology, with several patents pending, is also applicable to other cuisines, such as Mexican and Indian, and respective robots will follow.Deepak Sekar founded Chowbotics in 2014 in Hayward, California. | $5M / Series A / Feb 17, 2017 | ||
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Co-Investors
About Techstars Ventures
Techstars Ventures (formerly Bullet Time Ventures) is the venture capital arm of Techstars. Bullet Time Ventures is a $150 million fund based in Boulder, Colorado.
Techstars Ventures Contacts
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Declan Kelly
Director EMEA
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Mark Solon
Managing Partner
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FAQ
What does David Cohen invest in?
David Cohen invests primarily in Software, Mobile and Finance startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 101 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does David Cohen invest in?
David Cohen typically joins rounds of $118k–$2M at Seed, $120k–$1.4M at Pre-Seed and $1.1M–$8.8M at Series A. These are whole funding-round sizes, not David Cohen's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds David Cohen took part in.
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When did David Cohen last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for David Cohen closed in Sep 2023. Shizune tracks 101 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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