Techstars says it has invested in more than 5,000 companies since 2006. Its current portfolio includes 29 companies that have reached billion-dollar valuations, more than $55 billion in capital raised, and thousands of founders spanning industries and regions around the world.
Recent portfolio activity also provides measurable evidence of continued growth. Twenty-two Techstars-backed companies appeared on the 2026 Inc. 5000 list of America's fastest-growing private companies, including Trust & Will, Artera, Overstory, Branch, QuSecure, and Revelio Labs.
Fast-growing private companies can show momentum through revenue, ARR, customer adoption, usage growth, financing, and expansion into new markets. The ten Techstars-backed companies below demonstrate recent growth across one or more of those measures.
Key Takeaways
- Genius AI and Preply reached billion-dollar valuations following major 2026 funding rounds
- Artera, Overstory, Trust & Will, and Pack have disclosed substantial revenue, ARR, or multi-year growth milestones
- LinqAlpha, TransCrypts, and TestSprite show rapid adoption among newer Techstars companies
- Ampaire illustrates how Techstars-backed growth extends beyond software into aviation and physical infrastructure
- Funding, revenue growth, hiring, customer expansion, and product adoption can provide useful context for tracking companies as they scale
1) Genius AI
Industry: Vertical SaaS / AI for Service Businesses
Techstars Cohort: 2015
CEO and Co-Founder: Danielle Cohen-Shohet
Latest Funding: $44 million Series D, July 2026
Valuation: $1.15 billion
Genius AI is the company formerly known as GlossGenius. Its flagship platform provides scheduling, payments, marketing, and business-management software for beauty, wellness, and other in-person service businesses.
Recent Growth
Genius AI raised a $44 million Series D in July 2026 at a $1.15 billion valuation. The company has now raised more than $125 million in total capital.
The company says its technology serves more than 125,000 businesses across roughly half of U.S. ZIP codes. Techstars also reported that the business was approaching a $200 million revenue run rate in 2026.
Industry Importance
Genius AI reflects the expansion of vertical software from scheduling and payments into broader AI-assisted business operations. Its move beyond beauty and wellness also demonstrates how software originally built for a narrow industry can expand into adjacent service markets.
2) Preply
Industry: Education Technology
Techstars Cohort: 2015
CEO and Co-Founder: Kirill Bigai
Latest Funding: $150 million Series D, January 2026
Valuation: $1.2 billion
Preply operates an online language-learning marketplace connecting learners with tutors for one-on-one instruction.
Recent Growth
Preply raised a $150 million Series D in January 2026 at a $1.2 billion valuation, bringing the company into Techstars' unicorn portfolio.
The platform connects more than 100,000 tutors with learners across 180 countries and supports instruction in more than 90 languages.
Industry Importance
Preply combines a global tutor marketplace with AI-assisted learning tools rather than relying entirely on automated instruction. Its scale highlights continued demand for technology that combines human expertise with AI-supported personalization.
3) Artera
Industry: Healthcare Technology / Patient Communications
Techstars Cohort: 2016
CEO and Co-Founder: Guillaume de Zwirek
Latest Financing: $65 million growth investment, December 2025
Growth Milestone: $100 million CARR
Artera provides patient-communication technology for healthcare organizations, combining digital communications with AI-assisted and agentic workflows.
Recent Growth
Artera secured a $65 million growth investment in December 2025 while reaching $100 million in Contracted Annual Recurring Revenue.
The company reports more than 1,000 healthcare-organization customers and supports more than two billion patient-to-provider communications annually. Artera also appeared among the Techstars companies recognized on the 2026 Inc. 5000.
Industry Importance
Healthcare organizations manage large volumes of scheduling, access, billing, reminders, and other patient interactions. Artera's expansion shows how AI-assisted communication is becoming part of the operational infrastructure connecting patients with healthcare providers.
4) Overstory
Industry: Climate Technology / Utility Intelligence
Techstars Cohort: 2019
CEO: Fiona Spruill
Latest Funding: $43 million Series B, November 2025
2026 Inc. 5000 Growth: 2,090% over three years
Overstory provides AI-powered vegetation intelligence for electric utilities. Its platform uses remote-sensing data and AI to identify vegetation risks associated with outages, wildfires, and grid reliability.
Recent Growth
Overstory closed a $43 million Series B in November 2025 to expand its wildfire-prevention and grid-resilience technology.
The company ranked No. 151 on the 2026 Inc. 5000 with 2,090% three-year growth. Its Inc. 5000 profile reported that Overstory generated eight-figure revenue in 2025 and worked with roughly 50 utilities.
Industry Importance
Utilities face increasing pressure to improve grid reliability while managing vegetation, wildfire exposure, and extreme-weather risk. Overstory demonstrates how satellite data and AI can become operational tools for infrastructure planning rather than remaining primarily analytical technologies.
5) Trust & Will
Industry: Estate Planning / Legal Technology
Techstars Cohort: 2018
CEO and Co-Founder: Cody Barbo
Latest Major Funding: $25 million+ Series C, March 2025
Total Funding: $83 million+
Trust & Will provides digital estate-planning services that help individuals and families create wills, trusts, and related estate documents.
Recent Growth
Trust & Will raised more than $25 million in Series C funding in March 2025. Additional investment later expanded the Series C, and the company reported closing more than $33 million during 2025.
By July 2026, Techstars reported that Trust & Will had served approximately 1.3 million families, generated more than $135 million in cumulative revenue, and raised $83 million. The company also appeared on the Inc. 5000 for the fourth consecutive year in 2026.
Industry Importance
Trust & Will applies software to an area of legal and financial planning traditionally handled through offline professional services. Its growth also reflects increasing integration between estate planning and financial-advisor, banking, and institutional workflows.
6) Pack
Industry: Workforce Development / HR Technology
Techstars Cohort: 2023
CEO and Founder: Pietro Maria Picogna
Latest Funding: €5.8 million Series A, 2025
Current ARR: €3.6 million
Pack provides an AI-native skills-development platform designed to help companies assess capabilities, support employee development, and connect workforce skills with organizational priorities.
Recent Growth
Pack closed a €5.8 million Series A in late 2025. By February 2026, Techstars reported that the company had reached €3.6 million in ARR.
Earlier growth included reaching €40,000 in monthly recurring revenue within 12 months and €65,000 within 15 months, followed by expansion across three countries.
Industry Importance
Pack participates in the shift from conventional employee-training programs toward systems that connect workforce skills, mentoring, development, and organizational planning with more structured data.
7) LinqAlpha
Industry: Financial Technology / AI Investment Research
Techstars Cohort: 2023
Co-CEOs and Co-Founders: Jacob Choi and Hojun Choi
Latest Funding: $22 million Series A, July 2026
LinqAlpha builds AI agents for institutional investment research. Its platform is designed to help investment teams connect internal research with market and alternative data.
Recent Growth
LinqAlpha raised a $22 million Series A in July 2026.
The company reports adoption by more than 70 financial institutions across the U.S., Europe, and Asia. Techstars says its buy-side customers collectively manage more than $5 trillion in assets.
Industry Importance
Investment teams work across large volumes of research, market information, company data, and alternative datasets. LinqAlpha represents an emerging class of domain-specific AI platforms designed to interpret those inputs within each firm's own investment framework.
8) Ampaire
Industry: Aviation / Clean Transportation
Techstars Cohort: 2018
CEO and Co-Founder: Kevin Noertker
Latest Funding: $19 million Series B, August 2026
Total Funding: $68 million
Ampaire develops hybrid-electric propulsion technology designed to reduce the fuel consumption and emissions of existing aircraft.
Recent Growth
Ampaire closed a $19 million Series B in August 2026, bringing total funding to $68 million. The round included strategic participation from Alaska Airlines and International Airlines Group.
The company has also been moving its technology into real-world aviation programs, including hybrid-electric regional-flight operations highlighted in a Techstars portfolio update.
Industry Importance
Ampaire takes a retrofit-oriented approach to aviation electrification, focusing on propulsion technology that can be integrated with existing aircraft rather than requiring an entirely new aircraft platform.
9) TransCrypts
Industry: Digital Identity / Credential Verification
Techstars Cohort: 2022
CEO and Co-Founder: Zain Zaidi
Latest Funding: $15 million Seed round
Growth Evidence: 15-fold growth over 24 months
TransCrypts develops technology for verifying employment, education, health, and other credentials while giving individuals more direct control over their records.
Recent Growth
TransCrypts raised a $15 million Seed round led by Pantera Capital, with participation from Techstars and other investors.
The company reported 15-fold growth over 24 months, more than 450 enterprise customers, and four million users. It has also reported approximately $5 million in annual revenue.
Industry Importance
Credential verification is becoming more relevant as organizations encounter synthetic identities, deepfakes, falsified records, and increasingly digital employment and education processes. TransCrypts is expanding beyond employment verification into broader identity and credential use cases.
10) TestSprite
Industry: Developer Tools / AI Testing
Techstars Cohort: 2024
CEO: Yunhao Jiao
Latest Funding: $6.7 million Seed round, October 2025
Total Funding at Round: Approximately $8.1 million
TestSprite develops autonomous software-testing tools designed for teams using AI coding assistants and agents.
Recent Growth
TestSprite raised a $6.7 million Seed round in October 2025. At the time, the company reported sixfold growth over three months and more than 35,000 users.
By June 2026, TestSprite reported more than 100,000 registered developers, showing continued adoption after the financing.
Industry Importance
AI-assisted development is increasing the volume and speed at which software can be generated. TestSprite addresses the corresponding verification problem by automating frontend, backend, workflow, and AI-related testing within developer environments.
What the Growth Across Techstars Companies Shows
The ten companies span very different markets, but several patterns connect their recent growth.
AI Is Expanding Across Established Industries
Genius AI, Artera, LinqAlpha, Overstory, Pack, TransCrypts, and TestSprite incorporate AI into products built around specific operational problems. The underlying markets—healthcare, finance, workforce development, utilities, identity, and software engineering—remain distinct.
Growth Is Happening Beyond Pure Software
Ampaire combines software and engineering with aviation hardware, while Overstory connects software with physical utility infrastructure. These companies show that accelerator-backed growth extends into industries where commercialization involves hardware, regulation, and real-world operations.
Recurring Revenue Remains an Important Signal
Artera's $100 million CARR, Pack's €3.6 million ARR, and Trust & Will's cumulative revenue provide operating evidence beyond financing events.
Funding Can Accompany Different Growth Stages
A $6.7 million Seed round for TestSprite and a $150 million Series D for Preply represent very different company stages. The surrounding customer, revenue, hiring, and product data help provide context for what each financing event means.
Using Landbase to Research Fast-Growing Techstars Companies
A Techstars portfolio list can serve as a useful starting point, but GTM teams may want to distinguish companies by funding stage, industry, team growth, technology, and other operating characteristics.
Map the Portfolio
Landbase's Search Companies capability can filter businesses by characteristics including funding, industry, company size, revenue, geography, and technology.
For an existing accelerator-company list, Analyze Patterns can surface common industries, technologies, keywords, and company-size patterns.
Layer Growth Signals
A financing event can be considered alongside hiring, leadership, revenue, and technology changes. Landbase's signal stacking workflow can combine several types of company activity into a more detailed account view.
Relevant signals can include:
- Funding activity
- Headcount growth
- New executives
- Hiring for specific roles
- Technology changes
Keep the Research Current
Accelerator portfolios evolve continuously as companies raise new rounds, hire, expand, or change direction. Always-on lists can surface new matches as defined company signals change, reducing the need to rebuild the same portfolio research manually.
Move Repeatable Research Into the CLI
The Landbase CLI runs inside AI-assisted environments such as Claude Code and Codex and supports repeatable search, enrichment, dataset, and connected-tool workflows.
The web application and CLI operate as two connected interfaces to the same underlying system and data, allowing teams to explore results interactively and move recurring work into programmatic workflows.
Frequently Asked Questions
How large is the Techstars portfolio?
Techstars says it has invested in more than 5,000 companies since 2006. Its current portfolio statistics include 29 companies that have reached billion-dollar valuations and more than $55 billion in total capital raised.
What makes a Techstars-backed company fast-growing?
Growth can appear through revenue or ARR expansion, customer adoption, product usage, fundraising, headcount increases, or expansion into new markets. Several of the companies above also appeared on the 2026 Inc. 5000, providing an additional measure of multi-year revenue growth.
Are all fast-growing Techstars companies AI companies?
No. AI is increasingly common across the Techstars portfolio, but growth also spans aviation, education marketplaces, estate planning, utilities, healthcare, and other categories. Even companies using AI typically apply it within a broader industry-specific product or operational model.
What signals can help identify a Techstars company that is scaling?
New financing, revenue or ARR growth, hiring, leadership appointments, customer expansion, geographic growth, and technology changes can all provide useful context. Looking at several of these developments together can provide a more complete picture of how a company is evolving.
How can Landbase help GTM teams research Techstars-backed companies?
Landbase can help teams organize accelerator-backed companies by industry, funding, growth characteristics, technology, and other signals. Teams can analyze patterns across a portfolio, keep lists current as company conditions change, and move repeatable research into Landbase CLI workflows for Claude Code, Codex, and other technical environments.
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