Carson Kahn

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)

Backed by Accel Partners (Slack/Dropbox/Atlassian) and Caffeinated Capital (Notion/Airtable/IFTTT), Spindle AI’s “intelligent copilot for scenario planning” puts a virtual data scientist & operations analyst at the fingertips of every FP&A stakeholder, instantly. 🤖 Generate scenarios, simulate “what‑ifs”, summarize trade‑offs… and still have time for lunch. 🍕 Spindle AI is lovingly built by machine learning & BI entrepreneurs/engineers from Tableau, Google, Stanford, Facebook, Brainspace, and others who share in our mission to augment human cognition with software. Shape the future with us: https://spindle.ai

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)

JPMorgan In–Residence platform Volley ML (www.volley.technology) saves Fortune 500 firms millions in real labor costs annually with the first fully autonomous Natural Language Generation engine for highly regulated industries (HIG). The firm is backed by >$10 million from JPMorgan, Zuckerberg Ventures, Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), senior execs from Apple & Goldman Sachs; and a Silicon Valley team of machine learning and enterprise AI innovators from Google, the NSA and CIA, Carnegie Mellon, and Goldman Sachs. Volley ML also a founding member of the UC Santa Cruz Center for Excellence in Data Science Research, and a private sector advisor to the U.S. Advisory Committee on Artificial Intelligence.