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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.
Goals and metrics only drive execution when teams build them together, agree on what each target means, and use the results to keep learning and adjusting as the business grows.
Why chasing investors before proving your business is one of the biggest mistakes early-stage founders make.
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.
Heading to Slush 2026? Techstars is hosting two private side events in Helsinki. Founders and investors can connect over coffee and pulla at Thaw on November 17, and founders can trade the conference floor for bowling, darts, and phone throwing at Hard Reset on November 18.
OKRs work best when they’re connected to the company’s longer-term direction and built together across teams, so everyone understands their contribution and the commitments that tie their work to others.
October brought new funding for 13 portfolio companies, an acquisition, and a run of big headlines across the Techstars network. Catch up on the month and see which accelerators are open for applications.
Fernando Jardim started as a Techstars Startup Weekend organizer in São Paulo. Ten years later, he shares how a volunteer-run community grew the city’s startup scene, how he brought the same playbook to Portugal, and what he’d tell any community leader starting out.
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.
Techstars is launching the Healthtech Pre-Accelerator, a six-week virtual program that supports a class of 40 early-stage healthtech founders alongside a consortium of healthcare industry leaders.
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.