Techstars Boston ten years later
I kept this Demo Day handout when we graduated from Techstars Boston 2013, Techstars class #22.
Here's what happened since…
💊 TJ Parker and Elliot Cohen sold PillPack to Amazon for $1B.
📱 Nikita Bier founded TBH (acquired by Facebook) and then Gas (acquired by Discord).
🍄 Michael Pan created Pan's Mushroom Jerky — available in 3,500 stores and Whole Foods — and secured an investment from Mark Cuban on Shark Tank.
🔒 Jay Kaplan and Mark Kuhr, have raised $107M while scaling Synack, named by Forbes as one of America's top A.I. companies.
🚜 Brad McNamara and Jon Friedman have raised $55M, scaling Freight Farms to 550 farms in 41 countries.
📈 The other founders and team members in our class have gone on to found and scale companies that have raised billions (though the number is much higher... I got tired and stopped counting at $1.5B 🙂) while advising, investing, and mentoring more than 2,000 startups across all industries.
Techstars was life-changing, and its impact continues today in the founders we back and the teams we're a part of.