# Techstars

> Techstars is a VC fund backing Software and Artificial Intelligence. See 357 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Boulder, United States
- Total investments: 357
- Last investment: Mar 2025
- Lead investor: 51%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/techstars
- X (Twitter): https://www.twitter.com/techstars
- Website: https://www.techstars.com/accelerators/space
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/techstars

Techstars is a VC fund in Boulder focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. Techstars offers a pre-accelerator initiative designed to equip participants with training and tools for business development. Additional offerings include three-day sessions that allow aspiring entrepreneurs to experience the process of launching a startup. The company also organizes events featuring speakers, educational sessions, and pitchcompetitions to support entrepreneurship. Its operations involve connecting founders with a network of mentors and peers across various technology verticals.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for Techstars. Shizune tracks 21 team members at Techstars. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/techstars-space-accelerator?utm_source=investor_profile

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 97 | 27% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 85 | 24% |
| Information Technology | 52 | 15% |
| SaaS | 36 | 10% |
| Health Care | 33 | 9% |

310 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Pre-Seed | 212 | 59% |
| Seed | 74 | 21% |
| Series A | 22 | 6% |
| Funding Round | 20 | 6% |
| Convertible Note | 12 | 3% |

9 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 186 | 52% |
| United Kingdom | 15 | 4% |
| Italy | 12 | 3% |
| France | 10 | 3% |
| Australia | 9 | 3% |

38 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Andrew Cleland | Chief Investment Officer | 17 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andrew-cleland |
| Anna Garcia | Mentor | 19 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anna-garcia-dfab |
| Beata Puncevic | Chief Technology Officer | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/beata-puncevic-e5b1 |
| Brad Feld | Co-founder | 130 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brad-feld |
| Chisa Egbelu | Co-Founder and CEO | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chisa-egbel |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Nimblemind.ai | Nimblemind.ai enables healthcare providers to organize and enrich multimodal clinical data through labeling and curation. | $2.5M | Seed | Mar 14, 2025 |  |
| Neural Defend | Neural Defend provide real-time deepfake detection with patent-pending AI technology. | $600K | Pre-Seed | Mar 13, 2025 |  |
| Sonnet | Sonnet is an end-to-end meeting assistant, combining a human-quality notetaker with an auto-updating CRM.Our AI notetaker uses the most powerful AI models to transcribe, summarize, and generate notes for your meeting recordings. With Sonnet, collaboration and recollection is both faster and better.Sonnet CRM updates itself automatically usingconversation data, so you'll never have to wrangle with CRM fields again. Get up to speed on the context of an entire relationship, in seconds. |  | Seed | Mar 10, 2025 |  |
| Arbor Insight | Agricultural Robotics | $120K | Pre-Seed | Feb 28, 2025 |  |
| spacebrains | Spacebrains is a platform that connects businesses with engineers specializing in non-digital product development, particularly in manufacturing, automation, and energy. It aims to simplify the hiring process by providing companies with access to a community of engineers, helping them avoid long recruitment cycles. The platform also encouragescollaboration and knowledge sharing among engineers, supporting their professional growth. Spacebrains focuses on bridging the gap between industry needs and engineering talent in fields like electrotechnics and chemistry. | $120K | Pre-Seed | Feb 25, 2025 |  |
| muffintech | Muffintech leverages conversational AI to transform insurance, offering automated customer support, operational efficiencies, and sales enhancements. With a robust technical team and a focus on sector-specific integration, they're poised for rapid expansion and international scale. Their approach combines cutting-edge AI with deep industryinsights to deliver measurable value and innovative solutions. | $3.7M | Seed | Feb 17, 2025 |  |
| Mast Reforestation | Mast Reforestation built the only vertically integrated solution to reforest the growing pool of millions of acres that have been damaged by wildfire. The company removes the financial, procedural, and seed supply barriers that typically stand in the way of getting reforestation done, which led to a large and growing project pipeline. It recentlyacquired two legacy businesses to become the largest seed and seedling vendor in the West, which is the primary bottleneck to reforestation. Mast is now executing on the project backlog by leveraging project finance to generate high-quality carbon removal credits for corporate buyers. | $25M | Series B | Feb 11, 2025 |  |
| Hiveclass | Hiveclass Encourage kids to play, run, jump and connect with other athletes while learning new techniques, mastering tricks, and having fun. | $1.5M | Seed | Feb 07, 2025 |  |
| Urban Sky | Urban Sky is developing the first-ever reusable 'micro-sat' version of a near-space balloon, armed with sensors that collect high-value Earth observation data over entire cities, serving a multi-billion dollar imagery market and making daily and weekly aerial imagery collection a cost-effective reality. Leveraging advances in componentminiaturization, first-of-its-kind balloon reusability, and the high vantage point of the stratosphere, the Microballoon drastically reduces the cost of high-resolution remote sensing and weather-related data capture over broad areas, leading to more impactful data over more areas than ever before.With a new wealth of data from the stratosphere - this completely untapped layer of Earth’s atmosphere - we can fundamentally change the collective human understanding of the surface of our planet and urban centers. | $30M | Series B | Feb 06, 2025 |  |
| Comma Collective | Comma Collective is a wellness and fitness company that works to combat gender inequality and period poverty. Comma Collective was founded in 2022. | $2M | Seed | Feb 05, 2025 |  |

10 of 357 investments shown.

## Co-investors
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## FAQ

### What does Techstars invest in?

Techstars invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Information Technology startups, most often at Pre-Seed and Seed stage. Most of the 357 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact Techstars?

Public channels for Techstars include LinkedIn, X (Twitter) and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at Techstars?

The team at Techstars includes Andrew Cleland (Chief Investment Officer), Anna Garcia (Mentor) and Beata Puncevic (Chief Technology Officer), among 21 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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