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Burlap & Barrel
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Concert Finance
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Pandium
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SeekWell
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SIEMonster
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THANK YOU SPEAKERS, ALUMNI AND MENTORS!
We are incredibly lucky here at Techstars NYC to have support from the amazing tech community in NYC, our mentors, our 100+ alumni companies, and amazing speakers.
We are truly lucky to have incredibly engaged alumni, who are coming back to help the founders from business introductions to investor pitch. Alumni is a constant presence in Techstars NYC program and really shape the program. Special thank you to Brian Jeong, Sarah Adler, Erica Jain, Ryan Shank, and Neha Singh for helping with the company pitches.
We felt really supported by 80 mentors who worked with the companies during the program — huge thank you, as always for your support.
Here are specific shout outs from the companies:
Aunt Flow: Melissa Hudson-Wallace (Partner, fivefoottwo marketing)
Burlap & Barrel: Tobias Peggs (CEO, SquareRoots), Chris Phillips (VP/GM, Apartment Therapy Media)
Clever Girl Finance: Jonathan Cornelissen (CEO, DataCamp), Max Wendkos (Product Designer at Aaptiv)
Concert Finance: Carrie Reynolds (CSR Consulting), Jesse Hertzberg (Great Hill Partners)
Flythere: Kevin King (Activate Product Manager, Amazon Web Services), Alli Valli (VP of Product, KeyMe)
Le Culture Club: Chris Phillips (VP/GM, Apartment Therapy Media), Brian Jeong (CEO, Hawthorne and alumni), Todd Saunders (CEO, AdHawk and alumni)
Pandium: Kevin O’Brien (CEO, GreatHorn and alumni), Chris Fraser (CRO at Image Relay and alumni), Graham Neray (Chief of Staff, MongoDB)
Perch: Alex Winter (Director Computer Vision, Netgear and alumni)
Seekwell: Jonathan Cornelissen (CEO, DataCamp and alumni), Weston Stearns (VP of Growth, DataCamp), Jean Sini (Startup Investor and Advisor)
Siemonster: Kevin O’Brien (CEO, GreatHorn and alumni), Dan Herman (CEO, Welcome and alumni)
and a special shout out to the most helpful mentors: Jesse Hertzberg, Todd Saunders, Chris Frasier, Jonathan Cornelissen, Jean Sini and Kevin O’Brien!
THANK YOU ASSOCIATES AND TECHSTARS TEAM!
We feel very lucky to have had a stellar group of associates that absolutely crushed it during the program. Every single week we heard from the founders how helpful they found the associates. Joe Hannon, Adam Kaplan, Daniella Cohen, Nikhil Baradwaj, Sourav Panda (intern), Zach Lev (intern), and Alli Fried (Designer in Residence) – thank you so much for working really hard and making a difference.
Huge shout out to our amazing crew – KJ and Jill – big THANK YOU not just for this program but for the past 5 amazing years we worked together. Very proud of what we’ve accomplished together and will cherish these memories forever.