Obligatory Bio

David Cohen is the Founder and CEO of Techstars, a multi-billion dollar asset manager and pre-seed investor that provides capital, programming and mentorship to early-stage founders via a global accelerator network. Since founding Techstars in 2006, the company has invested in more than 5,000 startups, including notable investments in 29 unicorns such as Alloy, Chainalysis, Classpass, DataRobot, Digital Ocean, Outreach, Pillpack, Remitly, SalesLoft, SendGrid, Uber, Twilio, and Zipline.

David is a life-long entrepreneur. Prior to Techstars, he was the Founder and CEO of earFeeder which was later sold to SonicSwap. Before that, he was a co-founder of Pinpoint Technologies which was acquired by Zoll Medical Corporation (NASDAQ: ZOLL).

David is active with several non-profit organizations, including his work as a founding Board Member of Endeavor Colorado and as a co-founder and Advisory Board Member of the Techstars Foundation. He is also an Advisory Board Member of the Silicon Flatirons Center for Law, Technology and Entrepreneurship at the University of Colorado. 

David is the co-author of two books: Do More Faster; Techstars Lessons to Accelerate Your Startup and Chasing Unicorns: The Techstars Playbook for Building Billion-Dollar Startups.

He lives in Boulder and is married with three children. Outside of work he enjoys reading non-fiction books and playing padel.