| Seed funding and general Q&A with Alex Iskold, Managing Director Techstars, New York City. Alex is an entrepreneur, 2x founder, an engineer, and now an investor in 40 companies. Alex has written extensively about fundraising on his blog alexiskold.net including popular posts on 9 seed funding gotchas and 8 things you need to know about raising money from VC. Techstars New York City (NYC) is one of the most sought after accelerator program in the world. Over 100 Techstars companies are based in NYC including DigitalOcean, ClassPass, Plated, Timehop and Jukely. Techstars NYC program is highly competitive with 0.8% acceptance rate. Techstars NYC grads in recent years raise median $1.3MM in seed financing post program. Click to read full recap of latest Demo Day & watch the company pitches. Techstars NYC is accepting applications for Summer 2016 session. |
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