Jenny Lawton

Flexia brings the Pilates studio experience into your living room with a beautiful, professional-grade Pilates machine called a Reformer and an online studio with classes for all levels.

Sphero is transforming PK–12 education with accessible tools that encourage exploration, imagination, and perseverance through STEAM and computer science. With the help of educators around the world, we are empowering learners of all backgrounds and abilities to discover their interests and passions while equipping them with the skills they need to be the world’s future Changemakers. The Sphero Learning Ecosystem brings STEAM, computer science, and robotics to life with tangible tools and expert-designed lessons for hands-on learning at every step of the educational journey.

Adero helps you keep it together by giving your things the ability to be there when you need them most. The Southern California tech company wants you to lead a less stressful life by taking away the need to worry about your things. Adero makes your things intelligent so you can stay organized.

Glowforge is a beautiful device that sits on your desk. It uses a laser to carve and engrave products from raw materials like wood, leather, acrylic – even cardboard. If you haven’t already, check out our video on glowforge.com. While you’re there, you’ll notice something amazing: Glowforge is the largest crowdfunding campaign in history. There is an incredible demand for what we’re creating. It’s not a geeky tool for the tech elite or a garage workshop; we’re crafting an iconic product that is going to change the way people think about creativity. Our customers include consumers, digital designers, crafters, engineers, teachers, artists, and more. After wrapping up the biggest 30 day crowdfunding campaign in history, we put together a team of incredible people who we are humbled and excited to call our co-workers. We hail from tech giants like Amazon, Google, and Apple, and top startups like Tableau, Tesla, and Evernote. One thing we have all have in common? We want to build a future where printing a wallet (or a lamp, or a birthday card, or a stunning sushi wrap) is just as easy as printing a resume.

At the Scratch Foundation, our mission is to ensure that Scratch is available for free, for everyone, so that kids around the world can express their ideas through coding. As champions of the Scratch project, we raise funds to support the project and share stories of innovation, collaboration, and learning within the global Scratch community. We focus on Scratch, the block-based programming language and online community developed by the Lifelong Kindergarten Group at the MIT Media Lab. Scratch makes it easy for young people to create their own interactive media projects -- like games, animations, and simulations -- and then share their creations with others in an active, online community. Scratch is available for free, for everyone. And thats why the Scratch Foundation is so important. Through gifts from individuals, corporations, and foundations, we raise funds to support the entire Scratch ecosystem, including development of new technologies, organization of events, and dissemination of learning resources. We were founded in 2013 as the Code-to-Learn Foundation by Mitchel Resnick, Professor of Learning Research at the MIT Media Lab, and David Siegel, Co-Founder and Co-Chairman of the investment management firm Two Sigma. Mitch and David first met as graduate students in computer science at MIT in the 1980s, and reconnected 25 years later when Davids son learned to program with Scratch, developed by Mitchs research group at the MIT Media Lab. In 2015, we changed our name to the Scratch Foundation to reflect our specific focus on Scratch and its dynamic ecosystem of interacting projects (Scratch, ScratchJr, ScratchEd) and events (Scratch Day, Scratch Conference, Scratch Educator Meetups).

Flexia brings the Pilates studio experience into your living room with a beautiful, professional-grade Pilates machine called a Reformer and an online studio with classes for all levels.

Sphero is transforming PK–12 education with accessible tools that encourage exploration, imagination, and perseverance through STEAM and computer science. With the help of educators around the world, we are empowering learners of all backgrounds and abilities to discover their interests and passions while equipping them with the skills they need to be the world’s future Changemakers. The Sphero Learning Ecosystem brings STEAM, computer science, and robotics to life with tangible tools and expert-designed lessons for hands-on learning at every step of the educational journey.

Interfacial is the leader in the development of disruptive advanced materials and manufacturing process platforms. Its motto of "Helping Innovators Incubate"​ speaks to its collaborative work with an elite set of innovation minded customers. Interfacial has successfully developed game-changing technology platforms in the transportation, building & construction, medical, consumer and other markets. Interfacial has three divisions to support its customer and partner base: (1) Development Services - For the development of advanced materials and manufacturing processes. (2) Specialty Materials - For the manufacturing of niche specialty compounds and masterbatches. (3) Engineered Substrates - For the manufacturing of novel, engineered substrates. Interfacial's headquarters and Development Services division is located in the Cervenka Center in beautiful Prescott, Wisconsin, overlooking the Mississippi River. All of its state-of-the-art manufacturing locations supporting the Specialty Materials and Engineered Substrates divisions are currently located in River Falls, Wisconsin. Between its three divisions, Interfacial has a fully staffed team of talented and experienced materials scientists, engineers, operators, technology transfer experts and business development specialists. Please visit the Interfacial website to better understand our vast array of “Idea to Production” Incubation services and capabilities, and to better understand how Interfacial can meet your advanced materials development and manufacturing needs.

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)