# Techstars

> Techstars is a VC fund backing Software and Artificial Intelligence. See 5,557 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Boulder, United States
- Total investments: 5,557
- Last investment: Jul 2026
- Lead investor: 42%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/techstars
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/techstars
- Website: https://www.techstars.com
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/techstars

Techstars is a VC fund in Boulder focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. Techstars provides a global platform for early-stage investment and innovation through programs that support startup growth and corporate collaboration. Its services include accelerator programs, startup education initiatives, venture capital funding, and corporate innovation partnerships.The Techstars Mentorship-Driven Accelerator Program offerssupport for startups, while Techstars Startup Programs focus on entrepreneurial education and community building. The Techstars Venture Capital Fund invests in emerging companies, and its Corporate Innovation Partnerships help established brands develop new products and services through collaboration with startups.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for Techstars. Shizune tracks 200 team members at Techstars. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/techstars?utm_source=investor_profile

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 869 | 16% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 467 | 8% |
| Information Technology | 430 | 8% |
| SaaS | 334 | 6% |
| Health Care | 319 | 6% |

621 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Pre-Seed | 1884 | 34% |
| Seed | 1184 | 21% |
| Funding Round | 147 | 3% |
| Series A | 132 | 2% |
| Convertible Note | 121 | 2% |

11 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 1958 | 35% |
| United Kingdom | 240 | 4% |
| Canada | 160 | 3% |
| Israel | 69 | 1% |
| Germany | 63 | 1% |

75 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Andrew Cleland | Chief Investment Officer | 17 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andrew-cleland |
| Artur Hasselbach | Mentor | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/artur-hasselbach |
| Beata Puncevic | Chief Technology Officer | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/beata-puncevic-e5b1 |
| Ben Liao | Managing Director | 21 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ben-liao |
| Bob Moczydlowsky | Managing Director & Founder, Techstars Music | 93 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bob-moczydlowsky |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Auxilius | Auxilius is an AI-native Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) software platform designed to automate enterprise control activities for internal audit, internal control, and operational teams. | $1.5M | Pre-Seed | Jul 07, 2026 |  |
| InStockRx | Billions of dollars of prescription medications are wasted each year due to expiring inventory, overstock issues and the like. And, all too often patients can’t find the medications they need, even when the drug might be at another pharmacy close by.InStockRx solves this problem. We provide: a self-populating marketplace where pharmacies canbuy and sell with each other, a robust inventory analytics SaaS tool that pinpoints inventory issues and an in-stock drug search engine so pharmacies can easily find the drugs they need on the marketplace. Pharmacies buy and sell with each other today, but just don't have the right tools. With InStockRx, they do. | $5M | Series A | Jul 01, 2026 |  |
| Upside | Upside is the only nationally scalable housing stability platform purpose-built for healthcare. The company partners with health plans and employers to identify and stabilize members and employees experiencing housing instability, connecting them to safe, supportive housing while reducing avoidable emergency utilization and improving healthoutcomes. Upside pairs dedicated Care Guides with AI-supported housing orchestration to deliver measurable results at scale. The platform serves Medicaid, Medicare Advantage, D-SNP, commercial, and employer-sponsored populations across the full housing continuum, from crisis intervention to long-term tenancy support. Founded in 2020 and headquartered in Fort Lauderdale, FL, Upside is redefining how healthcare addresses housing as a foundation of care. | $20M | Series A | Jun 25, 2026 |  |
| Volteum | Is there enough charge in the car for the next trip? When will the vehicle go out of charge? What is the optimal route? These are questions that arise every day when driving an EV. And these just get a lot worse if we are not talking about individual vehicles but 100s of them like electric van delivery fleets, public transport with e-buses or e-carcompany fleets. For them, electric vehicles are much more expensive and difficult to operate than normal petrol or diesel ones, not to mention the constant fear of running out of charge with 100s of vehicles at the same time. Volteum solves these issues for them every day.At Volteum our goal is to enable every company to use EVs as easily, effectively and economically as internal combustion engine vehicles. For this we are developing a software with which fleet operators can optimize their vehicles every day. The product has three main pillars: Firstly, we model and predict the energy consumption and the battery state of charge along the routes with our EV simulation engine. Secondly, based on this we plan optimal trips for the vehicles taking into account the charging needs, time, distance and costs as well. Thirdly, we also manage the daily tasks of the fleet and optimize their operation based on live data.With Volteum electric fleets save money as we optimize their fleet composition, the daily tasks, routes and the charging needs cost-effectively. They can also make sure none of the vehicles will go out of charge thanks to our simulation engine. Last but not least we save loads of human resources, manual calculations and planning with our algorithms. With this we can ensure that all tasks and routes will be covered just as easily and comfortably as with their old vehicles. | $2.9M | Seed | Jun 08, 2026 |  |
| Coworked | Coworked is redefining the Fortune 500 enterprise project management office (PMO) with Harmony, the AI Project Manager coworker that takes on 70%+ of routine project tasks, so your team can focus on driving outcomes, not chasing updates.What Harmony does: Harmony acts as a true team member, managing documents, timelines, resources, stakeholders,risks, meetings, and communication across your existing enterprise systems like Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, and your procurement, project, contract and financial tools.How Harmony works: Powered by Coworked’s proprietary agentic AI framework, Harmony operates autonomously as a headless project orchestrator within your workflows, without requiring new tools, systems, or disruptive process change.Why it matters: With Harmony, Fortune 500 enterprises reduce dependency on costly consultants, avoid the need to add headcount, and keep institutional knowledge alive across every project. The result: more projects delivered, with higher quality and less overhead.Our mission is simple, to make enterprise change as seamless as day-to-day operations.A Techstars-backed company. | $1.8M | Seed | May 12, 2026 |  |
| Manifest | Shutterspeed is the first fully automated AI powered business management tool designed specifically for creative professionals. It accurately measures time spent on each stage of production without interrupting your flow. Shutterspeed not only enhances productivity but also provides real-time insights into profit margins and performance metrics,empowering you to run a financially successful creative business effortlessly. | $1.4M | Pre-Seed | Apr 29, 2026 |  |
| PureAudioSense Labs | PureAudioSense is a speech intelligence platform that transforms raw audio into structured, actionable insight in real time. It combines advanced speech recognition, speaker identification, sentiment detection, and voice analytics to help organizations understand not just what is said, but what it truly means.Built for enterprise scale,PureAudioSense processes multilingual conversations with low-latency performance and high accuracy across complex audio environments. From customer support calls to large-scale communication systems, it enables businesses to extract intent, emotion, and meaning from every spoken interaction with precision and reliability. | $127.5K | Series A | Apr 16, 2026 |  |
| PeakMetrics | PeakMetrics provides a narrative intelligence platform that helps enterprises and governments identify and combat emerging online narrative threats. Using state-of-the-art ML technology, PeakMetrics analyzes more than 1.5 million media sources and 10 different social media platforms to identify media manipulation and adversarial attacks inreal-time, before they cause damage. Organizations use PeakMetrics to discern source credibility, understand how audiences spread narratives, and quantify risk and response scenarios — without spending millions on crisis communication and manual sentiment analysis. Detect, decipher, defend at peakmetrics.com.The internet is manipulated. Narratives are engineered, accelerated by AI, and amplified by algorithms before most organizations even see them coming. PeakMetrics is an AI-powered narrative intelligence platform built to help enterprises, agencies, and public sector organizations see through it. We built AI agents that surface where threats are coming from, who is driving them, and where they are headed next, so teams can protect their brand, their reputation, and their bottom line before it reaches the headlines. | $6M | Series A | Apr 09, 2026 |  |
| Nabu | Nabu unifies the entire customs declaration process on a single AI-powered platform. It automates operations to save time and reduce errors. The platform helps businesses make critical decisions more efficiently. | $3.5M | Seed | Mar 27, 2026 |  |
| VICTUS Technologies | VICTUS Technologies (United States) develops advanced modular, GPS-free autonomy software that transforms existing drones and robots into intelligent, cooperative teammates. Their technology enables single-operator control of drone swarms for applications in battlefield operations, disaster response, and precision agriculture while being powered byclean energy. Their U.S.-built AI simulation platform reduces costs, enhances mission readiness, and ensures rapid, reliable autonomous responses when seconds matter. |  | Seed | Mar 25, 2026 |  |

10 of 5,557 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Techstars](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/techstars-metro-retail) — VC Fund, 419 deals together
- [Techstars](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/techstars-space-accelerator) — VC Fund, 360 deals together
- [Right Side Capital Management](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/right-side-capital-management) — VC Fund, 285 deals together
- [Techstars](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/barclays-accelerator) — VC Fund, 283 deals together
- [Techstars](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/techstars-anywhere-accelerator) — VC Fund, 188 deals together
- [Techstars](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/comcast-nbcuniversal-lift-labs-accelerator-powered-by-techstars) — VC Fund, 175 deals together

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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 5,557 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?

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### Who are the partners at Techstars?

The team at Techstars includes Andrew Cleland (Chief Investment Officer), Artur Hasselbach (Mentor) and Beata Puncevic (Chief Technology Officer), among 200 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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