# Techstars Seattle Accelerator

> Techstars Seattle Accelerator is a VC fund backing Software and SaaS. See 120 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Seattle, United States
- Total investments: 120
- Last investment: Oct 2022
- Lead investor: 44%
- Fund size: $453k
- Last fund: Mar 2010
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- Website: https://www.techstars.com/programs/seattle-program/

Techstars Seattle Accelerator is a VC fund in Seattle focused on Software and SaaS. Techstars Seattle Accelerator invest in founders to help them do more faster.Seattle is home to tech industry leaders Amazon and Microsoft, enterprise SaaS innovators Concur and Tableau, and top retail brands including Starbucks, Costco, Nordstrom and REI. The University of Washington is also a global magnet for talent, and Silicon Valleyinvestors and tech leaders like Google, Facebook, Alibaba and Baidu rely on Seattle’s deep well of technical talent.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 49 | 41% |
| SaaS | 16 | 13% |
| Information Technology | 16 | 13% |
| E-Commerce | 15 | 13% |
| Marketplace | 12 | 10% |

167 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Pre-Seed | 59 | 49% |
| Seed | 47 | 39% |
| Funding Round | 10 | 8% |
| Angel | 1 | 1% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 84 | 70% |
| Canada | 12 | 10% |
| Brazil | 1 | 1% |
| Estonia | 1 | 1% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 1% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Chris DeVore | Managing Director | 62 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chris-devore-dfa5 |
| Chris DeVore | Managing Director | 47 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chris-devore |
| Jade Kearney | Founder | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jade-kearney-3366 |
| Jaren Schwartz | Program Manager | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jaren-schwartz |
| Qxhna Titcomb | Associate | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/qxhna-titcomb |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| brand.ai | Brand.ai is automatically maintainable UI components style guide. Brand provides tools and integrations to upgrade its users’ systems from reference sites to living products that integrates with their team’s existing workflows. The company offers its users with design asset management, sketch UI library sync, cross-platform style data export,documentation integration, and MS office integration services. It establishes a centralized repository system for its users’ design assets and it allows its users to get designs directly in the tools they already use. It also allows its users to share UI components and styles with its users’ teams. It pushes design library updates to their teams that all individuals can use the updated version in sketch.Brand is a U.S.-based company that was founded in 2014. | $118K | Pre-Seed | Sep 20, 2023 |  |
| Gather Flora | For flower businesses and industry insiders within the $80bn flower industry who struggle with consistently sourcing high quality, fresh flowers, we built an online marketplace that enables digital, streamlined, shopping of the most incredible flowers grown throughout your region. | $120K | Pre-Seed | Oct 31, 2022 |  |
| Indoor Collective | Indoor Collective builds real-time, interactive team fitness products so you can work out with your friends, family, and teammates. Get a full-body workout, spend time with people you care about, and feel energised and motivated. It is a software development company that specializes in the production of rowing apps for interactive workouts. | $120K | Pre-Seed | Oct 31, 2022 |  |
| Dealpad | Dealpad is a Virtual Sales Room Platform that transforms more leads into clients and closes transactions on time. | $120K | Pre-Seed | Oct 31, 2022 |  |
| Koala | Koala provides parents instant and personalised recommendations about their pet's health and well-being. |  | Pre-Seed | Oct 31, 2022 |  |
| Airtorch | Airtorch is a low-code platform that helps in creating AI-based applications. | $120K | Pre-Seed | Oct 31, 2022 |  |
| Twelve Labs | TwelveLabs develops artificial intelligence models and infrastructure for understanding, searching, and analyzing video content. Its platform enables applications to interpret visual, audio, and spoken information within videos, allowing users to perform semantic search, generate summaries, identify events and objects, and extract insights fromvideo data. The company provides APIs and multimodal AI models that support use cases across media, entertainment, security, enterprise knowledge management, and other video-intensive applications. It also conducts research in video understanding and machine learning to improve how AI processes and reasons over video content. | $5M | Seed | Mar 16, 2022 |  |
| Rexby | LifeSwap is a personal blog of Steffen Kreft who is a Designer, animator, marionette maker and arts festival organiser. |  |  | Nov 08, 2021 |  |
| Edizeven | Jobs website built from the ground-up for the special needs of the restaurant and hospitality industry. |  |  | Nov 08, 2021 |  |
| She Matters | She Matters is a social networking platform dedicated to black women's mental health. |  |  | Nov 08, 2021 |  |

10 of 120 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Techstars](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/techstars) — VC Fund, 119 deals together
- [Right Side Capital Management](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/right-side-capital-management) — VC Fund, 18 deals together
- [Founders' Co-op](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/founders-co-op) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Techstars](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/techstars-anywhere-accelerator) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Techstars](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/techstars-sustainability-accelerator) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Acequia Capital (AceCap)](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/acequia-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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- [Everywhere Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/everywhere-ventures) — VC Fund

## FAQ

### What does Techstars Seattle Accelerator invest in?

Techstars Seattle Accelerator invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Information Technology startups, most often at Pre-Seed and Seed stage. Most of the 120 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

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### Who are the partners at Techstars Seattle Accelerator?

The team at Techstars Seattle Accelerator includes Chris DeVore (Managing Director), Chris DeVore (Managing Director) and Jade Kearney (Founder), among 6 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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