At Techstars NYC, we back founders who move fast and build with deep customer insight. We help them tap into New York’s unmatched ecosystem—home to enterprise buyers, world-class hospitals, financial institutions, media leaders, and climate innovators—so they can rapidly test, iterate, and reach product-market fit.

We invest in the future of how people live, work, and thrive—backing companies reshaping health, climate, AI/ML, fintech, supply chains, the future of work, enterprise SaaS, and beyond.

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TIMELINE

• Apr 8th, 2025 - Applications Open
• Jun 11th, 2025 - Final Deadline
• Sep 8th, 2025 - Accelerator Starts
• Dec 4th, 2025 - Demo Day

How We're Different from Other Accelerators

• Personalization - We steer clear of a generic plug and play formula. Founders only attend workshops that are beneficial to them and our mentor, investor, and speaker selection is done after the class is finalized to bring in the most relevant advisors for each company. Instead of a generic demo day, we organize an investor week where investors with pre-vetted interest are matched 1:1 to meet with our companies. We achieve this level of personalization with an unparalleled ratio of 4 team members to 10 startups during program.
• In Person - Our founders from all over the world join us in NYC for the full 13 weeks of program, where they work closely with our team, mentors and speakers out of our office space. You never know who will make a guest appearance in the office - might be your future lead investor.
• Let Founders Build Quickly - We avoid over programming to allow founders to focus on growth and let founders only attend workshops relevant to their success. We hire incredible business associates to help founders with any task to accelerate their growth including sales, financial modeling, investor lists, market research, and product design.
• The Network - There is a strong family within both our program’s alumni while the entire Techstars network of over 4800 companies (including 21 unicorns & 121 companies with market cap > $100M) is one click away with Techstars Universe, our in-house networking platform.
• Invest financially and operationally - Although we financially invest $220,000 and provide $2M+ cash equivalent in credits and perks, our true value is our operational investment. We support our alumni for any need beyond the program including Series A+ raises. This is why we take common stock (not preferred shares) since we want to be a cofounder at the seat of the table with our startups.

Testimonials

"As a first-time founder, becoming part of the Techstars gave Sporttrade legitimacy, and me the confidence to go on to raise several rounds of funding, build a team, and build our product." Alexander Kane, CEO, Sporttrade

"I applied to Techstars 5 times before I got accepted. As a girl from Toledo, Ohio, I knew nothing about venture capital nor had any network before the program. By the end of the 3 month accelerator, Aunt Flow raised our $1.5m seed round, led by Harlem Capital, who I met during mentor madness. Techstars changed the trajectory of my company and my life. I am forever grateful for this network, even 5 years later. " Claire Coder, CEO, Aunt Flow

"As first time founders, we wanted all of the support we could get. Put simply, Techstars has been instrumental to our success - The incredible mentors, massive network, and peer community of builders, and more - we are still regularly in touch with many people we met from Techstars seven years ago." Erica Jain, CEO, Healthie

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