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Track Mental Health with a Wearable?! Sep 10, 2025 · 6 mentions

#121 Ride iQ: Peloton for Horses Mar 4, 2025 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 2:11 Kinzie Lux We're sisters, co-founders, recent tech stars, grads, and former upper level equestrians.
  • ▶ 33:33 Jessa Lux It's interesting that you should say that, though, because a lot of this brings me back to Techstars. 2 times in the scene

#117 Lotus: Hardware Hail Mary Mar 4, 2025 · 3 mentions

#114 Brevity: Your AI Pitch Coach Mar 4, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 0:57 Neal Sales-Griffin I'm Neil Salas Griffin, Managing Director here at Techstar Chicago, and I'm happy to welcome you all to my city.
  • ▶ 19:14 Neal Sales-Griffin So, for me, I'm still interested, uh, Calvin, in, in supporting you and finding a way to get you involved, maybe in the Techstars network in some way.

#113 HILOS: Is This The Perfect Business? Mar 4, 2025 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 1:13 Neal Sales-Griffin I'm Neil Salas Griffin, Managing Director here at Techstar Chicago, and I'm happy to welcome you all to my city.
  • ▶ 3:27 Elias Stahl So, we went through Techstars Accelerator, the AI and Manufacturing Accelerator, early last year.
  • ▶ 16:59 Neal Sales-Griffin Well, as a Techstars MD, I'm really excited to share in the upside here.

#112 Natrion: The Holy Grail of Battery Tech Mar 4, 2025 · 2 mentions

#111 Stigma: Whose Business Is It Anyway? Mar 4, 2025 · 9 mentions

  • ▶ 0:33 Josh Muccio However, when Ariana showed up in the pitch room, she was in the middle of tech stars, and the vision for her company had already changed.
  • ▶ 1:04 Neal Sales-Griffin I'm Neil Salas Griffin, Managing Director here at Techstar Chicago, and I'm happy to welcome you all to my city.
  • ▶ 13:15 Charles Hudson I think Techstars is like the perfect place for you to be right now. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 15:32 Josh Muccio Ariana is actually in Neil's Techstars program. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 21:09 Josh Muccio A month after pitching the investors on our show, Ariana completed Techstars Chicago. 2 times in the scene

#110 HandsDown: The Accelerator Pitch Mar 4, 2025 · 14 mentions

  • ▶ 0:51 Neal Sales-Griffin I'm Neil Salas Griffin, Managing Director here at Texar Chicago, and I'm happy to welcome you all to my city.
  • ▶ 13:38 Neal Sales-Griffin So over at Techstars, we help teams and founders like yourself get to the bottom of these types of things. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 19:53 Neal Sales-Griffin Oh, no. 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 22:51 Josh Muccio After her pitch, Jenna spoke with a couple close friends who'd gone through Techstars, and both of them were like, Jenna, you should definitely do it, but find a managing director that you trust. 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 25:42 Josh Muccio Techstars Boulder started in January, and here we are in April. 2 times in the scene

#109 Modern Picnic: Surviving the Adpocalypse Mar 4, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:26 Neal Sales-Griffin I'm Neil Salas Griffin, Managing Director here at Techstar Chicago, and I'm happy to welcome you all to my city.

#107 Terrascope: A Computer Vision Tale Mar 4, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 0:59 Neal Sales-Griffin I'm Neil Salas Griffin, Managing Director here at Techstar Chicago, and I'm happy to welcome you all to my city.

#106 Dotcal: The Calendar Wars Mar 4, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 0:57 Neal Sales-Griffin I'm Neil Salas Griffin, Managing Director here at Techstar Chicago, and I'm happy to welcome you all to my city.
  • ▶ 19:01 Neal Sales-Griffin There's two companies that I invested in through Techstars Chicago, one called Tangram, the other one called WeSparkle.

#105 Teffola: Granola Guy Approved Mar 4, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 0:56 Neal Sales-Griffin I'm Neil Salas Griffin, Managing Director here at Techstar Chicago, and I'm happy to welcome you all to my city.

#104 Dressd: Red Carpet or Red Ocean? Mar 4, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:14 Neal Sales-Griffin I'm Neil Salas Griffin, Managing Director here at Techstar Chicago, and I'm happy to welcome you all to my city.

#103 Get Lost in the AWSM Sauce Mar 4, 2025 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 0:56 Neal Sales-Griffin I'm Neil Salas Griffin, Managing Director here at Texar Chicago, and I'm happy to welcome you all to my city.
  • ▶ 3:34 unnamed speaker By November, we were accepted to Techstars, which got us into the Minnesota Twins Stadium.
  • ▶ 19:33 Neal Sales-Griffin So Techstars affiliate all day, like I got some connections for you guys and all that. 2 times in the scene

#102 Tether: Bodyguard of the Grid Mar 4, 2025 · 9 mentions

  • ▶ 0:58 Neal Sales-Griffin I'm Neil Salas Griffin, Managing Director here at Techstar Chicago, and I'm happy to welcome you all to my city.
  • ▶ 17:27 Neal Sales-Griffin You have to be a US-based company for my pre-seed fund called Rising Stars through Techstars.
  • ▶ 25:39 Josh Muccio Neil from Techstars Chicago and I hopped on another call with Lewis. 6 times in the scene
  • ▶ 32:54 Josh Muccio So, a month from now, you've got all the funds raised, you know, maybe you're in Techstars, maybe you're not.

#101 Josh Pitches The Pitch Mar 4, 2025 · 3 mentions

#60 Is This the Amazon Prime of Airline Tickets? Mar 3, 2025 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 10:34 Rama Poola We went through the Techstars mobility program in Detroit, so we raised from that.
  • ▶ 21:23 Rama Poola Um, you know, we went through Techstars in Detroit. 2 times in the scene

Will VCs Bet $4M on This Robot Healthcare Startup? Oct 30, 2024 · 1 mention

"70% of Mexican SMBs Fail Due to Cash Flow: Can FinTech in Latin America Save Them?" Jun 26, 2024 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 3:35 Luis Sánchez So while doing Techstars, we learned that our best customers are actually manufacturing companies, which is amazing, because this allows us to take advantage of this historical opportunity, which is the global supply decoupling and the…
  • ▶ 16:56 Luis Sánchez Two VCs from Mexico, Techstars.

1. "This Startup Pitch for Equestrian Tech Just Changed the Game for Horse Training Technology!" Oct 18, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 2:01 Kinzie Lux We're sisters, co-founders, recent tech stars, grads, and former upper-level equestrians.

"Will This Smart Home Automation Pitch Impress Venture Capitalists?" Sep 6, 2023 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 15:24 unnamed speaker We doubled our team size since we got into Techstars, so now we're seven full-time people, 12 total.
  • ▶ 18:59 unnamed speaker Um, if I can, um, respectfully counter, we, when we came into StackStars, we came in at six.
  • ▶ 20:30 Neal Bloom No, not 30 days after Techstars.
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