🚀 Techstars Companies Directory — Accelerator Alumni Database

Pull the entire Techstars portfolio — every program, every cohort, every alumni since 2007 — straight from the official Techstars portfolio backend. 5,591 portfolio companies across 128 programs in Boulder, New York, Seattle, Austin, Boston, London, Berlin, Toronto, Tel Aviv, Chicago, Atlanta, Miami, Detroit, LA, Paris, Torino, Tulsa and dozens of vertical accelerators (Space, Music, Sports, Sustainability, Workforce Development, Future of Food, Cybersecurity, Mobility, Fintech, Climate). No login, no flaky CSS selectors, no captchas. Each company arrives as one clean structured row ready for your CRM, lead-gen pipeline, BI warehouse or ML feature store.

If you sell to startups, recruit from startups, invest in startups, write about startups, or vendor-to startups — the Techstars alumni roster is one of the most expensive datasets in private markets ($60k+/year on Bloomberg, PitchBook or CB Insights). This Actor delivers it for $0.05 per company.

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💰 Pricing

Event	Price	When
Actor start	$0.01	Once per run, when Actor begins
Techstars company record	$0.05	Per company pushed to the dataset

Example runs

Run size	Cost
10-row smoke test	$0.51
1 cohort year (~700 companies)	~$35
Top 10 city programs (~1,700 companies)	~$85
Full alumni dump (5,591 companies)	~$280

Compare that to $24,000+ for one Crunchbase Pro seat, $25,000+ for CB Insights, $30k–$80k for PitchBook, or $24,000+ per Bloomberg Terminal seat. This Actor pays for itself the first time a single qualified lead converts.

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🎯 Who buys this

• VC associates sourcing pre-seed and seed deals from accelerator graduating classes
• Corporate development / M&A teams hunting acquisition targets in vertical sectors
• Sales & BD at startup-tooling vendors (Stripe, Brex, Mercury, Ramp, AWS, Vercel, Datadog, Snowflake competitors) building target lists of 2–7 year-old companies past PMF
• Recruiters sourcing operators with accelerator pedigree (Techstars alumni = strong founder signal)
• Founders running competitive analysis or partnership outreach to portfolio peers
• Journalists & analysts writing accelerator-cohort retrospectives, exit-rate studies, unicorn-emergence reports
• Academics & researchers studying startup outcomes, founder demographics, geographic distribution

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📊 What every row contains

{
  "id": "f1f12625-730b-331e-8b8e-6552a3992d65",
  "name": "Zenimal",
  "slug": "zenimal",
  "program": "Techstars Anjal Z Founder Catalyst",
  "programs": ["..."],
  "cohort_year": 2023,
  "techstars_batch": "Techstars Anjal Z Founder Catalyst 2023",
  "industry": "Audiotech",
  "industries": ["Audiotech", "Edtech", "Healthtech"],
  "city": "Manhattan Beach",
  "country": "United States",
  "location": "Manhattan Beach, United States",
  "world_region": "Americas",
  "world_subregion": "North America",
  "website": "https://zenimals.com",
  "is_unicorn_1b_plus": false,
  "is_exit": false,
  "is_accelerator_company": false,
  "is_network_company": true,
  "is_current_batch": false,
  "funding_status": "Active",
  "techstars_url": "https://www.techstars.com/portfolio?search=zenimal",
  "updated_at_epoch": 1778772605,
  "data_source": "techstars.com/portfolio (Typesense backend)"
}

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🛠️ Input filters

All optional — leave empty to dump the full alumni roster.

Field	Type	Example	Effect
programs	list[str]	["Boulder","London","Berlin"]	Substring match against program names
cohortYears	list[str]	["2023","2024"]	First-session year filter
industries	list[str]	["Fintech","Climate","AI"]	Substring match against industry tags
fundingStatus	list[str]	["Unicorn"] or ["Exit"]	Active / Unicorn / Exit / CurrentBatch
regions	list[str]	["Americas","Europe"]	Americas / Europe / Asia / Middle East / Africa / Oceania
limit	int	100	Max companies to return (1–6000)

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🆚 vs. Bloomberg / Crunchbase Pro / PitchBook / CB Insights

Capability	This Actor	Bloomberg	Crunchbase Pro	PitchBook	CB Insights
Techstars-specific filtering	✅ native	⚠️ tags only	⚠️ tags only	⚠️ tags only	⚠️ tags only
Cohort-year granularity	✅ exact	❌	⚠️	⚠️	⚠️
Program-level slicing (128 programs)	✅ exact	❌	❌	❌	❌
Pay-per-record pricing	✅ $0.05	❌ $24k+/yr	❌ $24k+/yr	❌ $30–80k/yr	❌ $25k+/yr
Annual minimum	❌ none	$24k+	$7k+	$30k+	$25k+
Self-service (no sales call)	✅	❌	⚠️	❌	❌
Raw structured JSON export	✅	⚠️ Excel only	⚠️ limited	⚠️ paid add-on	⚠️ paid add-on
API access	✅ Apify API	$$$ extra	$$$ extra	$$$ extra	$$$ extra
Free tier for prospects	✅ trial credit	❌	❌	❌	❌

For one-shot Techstars sourcing this Actor is 100×–1000× cheaper than the incumbents and exposes the cohort-year + program metadata that the big platforms bury under generic "accelerator backed" tags.

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⚡ Performance

• No anti-bot friction. The Typesense backend serves the same JSON the public portfolio page renders — public read-only token, no rate limits beyond polite pagination.
• Full dump in <5 min. 5,591 companies pull in roughly 56 paginated requests at 100 rows/page.
• Idempotent. Re-runs are safe; the Actor de-duplicates by company_id within a run.
• Daily refresh ready. Schedule a daily run via Apify Schedules — Techstars updates the index continuously as new cohorts onboard.

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🧪 Quick-start examples

Just the 2024 cohort (~721 companies, ~$36):

{ "cohortYears": ["2024"], "limit": 1000 }

Every Techstars unicorn (~23 companies, ~$1.16):

{ "fundingStatus": ["Unicorn"], "limit": 100 }

London + Berlin + Paris fintech alumni (~150 companies, ~$7.50):

{ "programs": ["London","Berlin","Paris"], "industries": ["Fintech"], "limit": 500 }

Africa + Middle East founders, all years (~290 companies, ~$14.50):

{ "regions": ["Africa","Middle East"], "limit": 1000 }

Currently active in-batch cohort (~56 companies, ~$2.80):

{ "fundingStatus": ["CurrentBatch"], "limit": 100 }

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🧱 Schema notes

• funding_status is bucketed into Active / Unicorn / Exit / CurrentBatch from the underlying boolean flags (is_1b, is_exit, is_current_session). Unicorn and Exit take precedence — a unicorn that also exited (e.g. SendGrid IPO) is tagged Unicorn.
• program is the first/primary program for that company; full list is in programs[]. Some companies pass through multiple Techstars programs (e.g. an accelerator + a network catalyst).
• industry_vertical[] is Techstars' own taxonomy — overlapping tags are normal (Audiotech + Healthtech + Edtech all valid on the same row).
• is_accelerator_company vs is_network_company: accelerator companies are demo-day cohorts; network companies are founder-catalyst / pre-accelerator partnerships. About 91% of records are accelerator alumni.

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Buy them together and you have the same coverage as a six-figure-per-year Bloomberg / PitchBook / CB Insights stack — for pennies per record.

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