Techstars has hired Amos Schwartzfarb as its new managing director of Techstars Austin. Schwartzfarb takes over from Jason Seats, who is still with Techstars and will remain in Austin. Seats is one of the managing partners of Techstars $150 million venture capital fund. He is dedicating all of his time to that role. Schwartzfarb is […]
Amos Schwartzfarb is the New Managing Director of Techstars Austin
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Bob Metcalfe Tells Startups to Build Their Networks to Succeed
September 15, 2014 by Leave a Comment
Bob Metcalfe, professor of Innovation at the University of Texas, spent some time talking with Jason Seats, managing director of Techstars, during a virtual fireside chat at Foundercon in Austin recently. Metcalfe has held many careers including educator, publisher and columnist, venture capitalist, inventor of Ethernet and founder of 3Com. He has spent the past […]
The Largest FounderCon Ever is Being Held in Austin This Week
September 4, 2014 by 2 Comments
A sea of green shirts will be seen around Austin this week. First off, Techstars Austin held its Demo Day featuring 11 companies pitching their ventures at the Austin Music Hall on Wednesday. Now, Techstars FounderCon is underway, which is the annual gathering of Techstars alumni companies from around the world. This is the largest […]
Techstars Startup Cloud 66 Plans to Move to Austin Permanently
September 2, 2014 by Leave a Comment
Techstars Austin’s Jason Seats on Startup Grind San Antonio
November 29, 2013 by 1 Comment
Seven Teams Presented at 3 Day Startup Austin
October 21, 2013 by 1 Comment
By SUSAN LAHEY Reporter with Silicon Hills News Three Day Startup began in 2008 as a project of some University of Texas graduate students who thought entrepreneurship, like many other areas of study, really ought to have a lab where students could make experiments and—if necessary—blow things up as part of the learning process. Since […]
TechStars Expands to Austin
May 15, 2013 by Leave a Comment
TechStars, a Boulder, Co.-based technology accelerator, is expanding to Austin with a new program that will start in August. “Forbes and Bloomberg have been calling Austin the No. 1 Boomtown and the best place for your startup for years now, and Google recently chose it as the second city to receive the fastest Internet on […]
Ziptask Makes Managing Outsourced Projects Easier
April 17, 2013 by 1 Comment
Ziptask seeks to make managing outsourced projects simpler. The Anaheim, Calif.-based company launched its fully managed outsourcing platform on Wednesday. The company provides a layer on top of services like Freelancer.com, Elance, 99Designs and others that makes managing outsourced projects easier. Ziptask is a member of the TechStars Cloud Class of 2013. Its team will […]
TechStars’ Cloudability Closes on $8.7 million in Venture Capital
July 12, 2012 by Leave a Comment
In the first TechStars class held at the Geekdom earlier this year, Cloudability already had a head start on some of the other companies. The Portland-based startup had already participated in the Portland Incubator Experiment. When the team landed in San Antonio, they had already raised $1.1 million, according to VentureBeat. Now Mat Ellis, Cloudability’s […]
Successful Entrepreneur Jason Seats Now Helps Startups
June 25, 2012 by Leave a Comment
To find out about high-tech startups in San Antonio, talk to Jason Seats. He’s not only the managing director of the TechStars Cloud program at Geekdom, a collaboration and coworking space downtown, but he’s been there done that and has plenty of T-shirts to prove it. In 2006, Seats, cofounded Slicehost with his college friend […]
