David Cohen

Everything David Cohen said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.

20VC Disclosure

Techstars deploys $50M-$75M annually into accelerator investments alone

“We're investing 50, seventy-five million dollars a year just in the accelerator level plus the fall on capital.”

David Cohen Feb 11, 2019 ▶ 22:51 20VC: Techstars Founder David Cohen on Why Seed Investing Is A Different Asset Class To Venture, What Makes The Best And The Worst Board Members & Why Every Company Has To Have A Pessimist In The Room

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Three of Techstars' first ten companies were acquired within a year

“Within a year of the first program in 2007, there were three acquisitions, and they were all relatively small. So out of the first 10 companies, you know, social thing was picked up around ten million dollars and a couple other companies had been bought in tha…”

David Cohen Jun 27, 2016 ▶ 3:58 20VC: Techstars Founder, David Cohen on Scaling Techstars Ventures and Investing In Uber, Twilio and Sendgrid

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Cohen: Five or six companies from Techstars' 2007 cohort reached exits

“In fact, there's still one company today, you know, from that original class in 2007, that's operating, you know, some have failed. I think there've been five or six exits out of that first 10 companies.”

David Cohen Jun 27, 2016 ▶ 4:29 20VC: Techstars Founder, David Cohen on Scaling Techstars Ventures and Investing In Uber, Twilio and Sendgrid

20VC Disclosure

David Cohen raised $2.5M for Bullet Time Ventures Fund 1 in weeks

“I raised two and a half million almost instantaneously a couple of weeks.”

David Cohen Jun 27, 2016 ▶ 5:23 20VC: Techstars Founder, David Cohen on Scaling Techstars Ventures and Investing In Uber, Twilio and Sendgrid

20VC Disclosure

Cohen targeted 50 fund investments with $50k initial check sizes

“I had a certain size fund, right? I, it was 50 K per check with a double down. So that's 50 investments, right? That's what I wanted in terms of diversification.”

David Cohen Jun 27, 2016 ▶ 9:10 20VC: Techstars Founder, David Cohen on Scaling Techstars Ventures and Investing In Uber, Twilio and Sendgrid

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Cohen: Techstars manages over $300 million with 150 employees

“Today, you know, so we went from that five million dollar fund today, we're over three hundred million dollars in, in managed capital, but, you know, we have a 150 people in the organization.”

David Cohen Jun 27, 2016 ▶ 9:56 20VC: Techstars Founder, David Cohen on Scaling Techstars Ventures and Investing In Uber, Twilio and Sendgrid

20VC Disclosure

Cohen communicates asynchronously with his 800 portfolio companies

“I talked to the 800 companies I'm involved with asynchronously instead of in real time, and it helps a lot.”

David Cohen Jun 27, 2016 ▶ 24:06 20VC: Techstars Founder, David Cohen on Scaling Techstars Ventures and Investing In Uber, Twilio and Sendgrid

The other half of the tape: David Cohen's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 10 times in 5 episodes across the shows. 2 statements on the record name them. every mention, with the transcript →

Who brings them up most Harry Stebbings 6John Fein 3David Tisch 1

Statements about David Cohen, by other people (2)

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Stebbings: David Cohen's portfolio companies have created over $80B in value

“To date, David has backed hundreds of startups, including the likes of, check this out, Uber, SendGrid, Twilio, ClassPass, PillPack, and many more. In total, these investments have gone on to create more than eighty billion dollars in value”

Harry Stebbings Feb 11, 2019 ▶ 0:30 20VC: Techstars Founder David Cohen on Why Seed Investing Is A Different Asset Class To Venture, What Makes The Best And The Worst Board Members & Why Every Company Has To Have A Pessimist In The Room

20VC Assertion Partly supported

Tak Lo: Techstars originated from David Cohen and Brad Feld's open office hours

“Techstars was created actually between David Cohen and Brad Feld's open office hours.”

Tak Lo May 18, 2015 ▶ 15:09 20 VC 037: How To Get a Job at a Startup, Startup Lessons and Brad Feld's 'Open Office Hours' with Tak Lo, Director @ Techstars

Every mention by year

One line per show, most statements first. The link opens David's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.

Show	Role there	Eps	Statements	Record
20VCLEDGER	Co-Founder & CEO, Techstars	2	31	80% 4/5	full record on 20VC →