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Scout Space (Techstars 2021) was selected for a $60M STRATFI award from SpaceWERX, the innovation arm of the U.S. Space Force, to scale production and expand its Owl suite of space domain awareness sensors.
DeltaGen (Techstars 2024) has been acquired by Worker, which just launched a company operating system built to help small businesses grow without piling more work on their owners.
Zipline (Techstars 2011) has raised $1.5B at a $21.5B valuation and signed a new multi-year deal with Walmart to add 300 drone delivery sites across the U.S.
Muhammad Hunain, Founder and CEO of Melagen Labs (Techstars 2024), is a finalist for Playmaker of the Year at the 2026 Global Space Awards for his work protecting space hardware from cosmic radiation.
Edge Sound Research (Techstars 2021) has raised $2M to build audio infrastructure that helps robots, vehicles, and other physical AI systems pick out the sounds that matter and understand what’s happening around them in real time.
Sabrina Lamb spent years teaching financial education before founding Wekeza (Techstars 2025), a multilingual investing app for first-generation investors around the world. She shares how Techstars helped her double down on community, why a founder’s next answer might come from someone else in their class, and what keeps her going when others doubt the vision.
Relic co-founders Sara Kordić, Imran Čengić, and Haris Kordić met at Techstars Startup Weekend Sarajevo. Two weekends, one shelved proptech idea, and a lot of honest mentor feedback later, they’re building an AI “second brain” as part of the Techstars Founder Catalyst Global Fall 2026 cohort.
Optivolt (Techstars 2018) has raised a $32M Series A to scale its Power Balancer, technology built into the solar panel that recovers energy lost to shade, dirt, and wear in real time. The funding will expand manufacturing and bring Optivolt to residential, commercial, and utility-scale projects, including ones that power AI data centers.
GUDEA (Techstars 2023) traced how nearly 25,000 posts spread across platforms to try to expose an anonymous woman’s identity, an analysis featured on the front page of The New York Times.
Shelflife (Techstars 2026) took home the Groceryshop 2026 Startup Pitch Competition win for Technologies Boosting Revenue and Conversion with its real-time expiration-date tracking for grocers.
Azoma (Techstars 2023) has raised an $11.2M Series A to help consumer brands get their products discovered and recommended by AI shopping agents like ChatGPT, Alexa for Shopping, and Walmart Sparky.
HapWare (Techstars 2025) earned a spot on TIME's Best Inventions of 2026 list in the Accessibility category for ALEYE, a haptic wristband that helps people who are blind, have low vision, or are neurodivergent read nonverbal cues.