Congratulations to these Techstars portfolio companies named to CNBC's World's Top Fintech Companies 2025 list! 🏆 🛡️ Alloy (Techstars 2015) provides an identity and fraud prevention platform that helps FIs optimize growth while minimizing risk. Charles Hearn | Tommy Nicholas | Laura Spiekerman ⛓️ Chainalysis (Techstars 2015) offers cryptocurrency investigation and compliance solutions to global law enforcement agencies, regulators, and businesses as they work together to fight illicit cryptocurrency activity. Jonathan Levin 💅 GlossGenius (Techstars 2015) provides software & embedded fintech for small business owners Danielle Cohen-Shohet 💵 Remitly (Techstars 2011) is an international payments company that leverages digital channels, including mobile phones, to send money internationally. Josh Hug | Matt Oppenheimer 💳 Self Financial, Inc. (Techstars 2015) is a credit-building platform that works to increase economic inclusion and financial resilience through easy-to-use products that make building credit accessible. James Garvey This list highlights 300 fintech companies that are pushing the industry forward, building tools that are reshaping how we save, spend, and move money. Learn more and view the list: https://lnkd.in/gwdjYkqU
Techstars
Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
New York City, New York 331,112 followers
Techstars helps founders scale their startups into world-changing businesses.
About us
Techstars helps founders scale their startups into world-changing businesses. Founded in 2006, Techstars is on a mission to invest in startups to enable more capital to flow to more entrepreneurs around the world in order to deliver exceptional returns to our investors. We do this by operating accelerator programs and venture capital funds, as well as by connecting startups, investors, corporations, and cities to help build thriving startup communities. Our results show why Techstars is Better for Founders than any other global accelerator: On average, 74.5% of Techstars companies will raise money within 3 years of their program; 18.5% of Techstars portfolio companies have exited 5 years after their program and 31.1% after eight years. (PitchBook June 2023)
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- Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
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Matthew Romaine
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Marc Nathan
Professional 'Super Connector' for Tech & CPG companies
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Craig Elias
Startup Mentor | Sales Expert | 'Gifted' Pitch Coach | Ecosystem Builder | Technology Development Advisor | Over 10,000 Unsolicited Endorsements for…
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Brad Feld
Brad Feld is an Influencer Partner at Foundry
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📸 Throwback to Foundercon over the years! Since launching in 2010, Foundercon has grown into Techstars’ leading event, bringing together 1,000+ founders, mentors, partners, and community leaders from across the globe. Whether you're pre-seed or post-IPO, Foundercon is about conversations that count. 📍 Boulder, Colorado 📆 September 15–17 Learn more and request to attend. ↓ http://tsta.rs/SBh050Wox8m
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📣 We're looking for exceptional founders with deep problem insight, strong execution, resilience, and team-building skills to apply to the Startup Community Partnership Techstars Founder Catalyst. 📆 September 24 - November 28, 2025 💻 Virtual This 10-week experience connects early-stage founders to world-class masterclasses, tailored role-based workshops, strategic partner sessions, and hands-on 1:1s with the Techstars team and industry-leading mentors. Ideal candidates are based in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzgovina, Omaha, Nebraska, USA or surrounding areas, are building scalable solutions, and are pre- or post-revenue. Learn more and apply by August 28th: https://lnkd.in/e7Z7AWuC Techstars Omaha, a Startup Community Partnership | Techstars Sarajevo, Startup Community Partnership
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Startup ecosystems don’t thrive on chance. They grow because of aligned, intentional partnerships. Strategic sponsorship isn’t just about logos or visibility. It’s about fueling the engine that helps founders thrive. Erik Mitisek, a veteran community builder who has raised over $10 million for community-based initiatives, breaks down how ecosystem leaders can create real impact by showing up early, often, and with purpose. https://lnkd.in/e2jXhsHJ
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Cariqa (Techstars 2024), the payments and pricing platform built specifically for electric vehicle charging, has raised €4M! ⚡ Founded by Issam Tidjani, Stefano Bonetta, and Tamara Ciullo, Cariqa is making EV charging transparent for drivers and profitable for operators. "Imagine walking into a supermarket and finding that the price of milk changes depending on whether you pay by cash, card, or which bank you use - no one would accept that. Yet in EV charging, this kind of pricing inconsistency is still the norm. At Cariqa, we’re rebuilding the transactional backbone of the industry to ensure consistency, transparency, and trust, making the market ready for true mass adoption." - Issam Tidjani, CEO and co-founder Huge congratulations to the team! https://lnkd.in/eVZ8Datd Techstars Columbus Powered by The Ohio State University | Tim Grace
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Great mentors don’t give answers—they create space for founders to find their own. Brad Feld shares what truly makes a mentor valuable: radical humility, the ability to listen without ego, and a willingness to show up consistently. http://tsta.rs/8FUB50WnYjo
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What do enterprise buyers actually want from AI startups? Hint: It's not another flashy demo or vague promise of “transformative intelligence.” At a Techstars' panel during New York Tech Week, Paddy Srinivasan, CEO of DigitalOcean, Nicholas Lordi, Partner of PwC’s Responsible Artificial Intelligence Practice, Rafael Barroso, Engineering Manager at Apple, and Waleed Atallah, Co-Founder & CEO of Mako, laid it out plainly: ✅ Show real business outcomes, not just AI features ✅ Map your value to existing workflows ✅ Skip the technical jargon and focus on ROI ✅ Don’t “educate the market.” Sell to someone who already gets the problem If you're a founder building for the enterprise, this recap is your cheat code. https://lnkd.in/gH9tfndf
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Meet Andrea Guendelman, CEO of Speak_ (Techstars 2025). Andrea Guendelman is a Chilean immigrant, entrepreneur and former lawyer. She is a leading force in creating platforms for minority professionals and the tech industry. Through her own experiences as a Harvard-trained corporate lawyer and an entrepreneur, she co-created Bevisiblelatinx, Wallbreakers and most recently, Speak_, an AI HR Tech platfrom to help recruiters find talent faster and free of bias. Speak_ is disrupting hiring by tackling the growing threat of fake candidates—something traditional tools ignore. "Getting Amazon to use our platform for all entry-level software engineering hires was a huge milestone. Not just because of the name — but because it proved that even the biggest companies need better ways to find real, qualified talent. It validated our mission and showed that we could solve a problem at scale." 🔗 Read more on the Techstars blog: http://tsta.rs/LgFe50WlLrw
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💼 Looking for your next career move? Techstars startups are hiring, with over 3,900 roles open now. Explore roles like… 🔹 Senior Machine Learning Platform/Ops Engineer - Preply (London, UK) - https://lnkd.in/g937HpfY 🔹 Corporate Finance Analyst - Phoenix Tailings (Boston, MA) - https://lnkd.in/gFnDPEk3 🔹 Director of Finance and Operations - Educative (Bellevue, WA) - https://lnkd.in/gFfzBGFa 🔹 FP&A Manager - Players Health (Edina, MN) - https://lnkd.in/gW8wmUPc 🔹 Senior Revenue Analyst - Branch (Remote) - https://lnkd.in/gv8eZuxt
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Would your future self thank you for the decisions you're making today? In this episode of the Give First Podcast Seth Godin and Brad Feld unpack the tension between short-term wins and long-term integrity, and why the hardest choices often define your legacy. 🎧 Listen to the episode ➝ https://lnkd.in/gkBDKDZY