By the end of the day this Thursday, we’ve promised to narrow our pool of 393 applications down to about 30 finalists for 10 spots this summer. About 80 applications were received on the very last day of the application period, just a week ago.
Obviously, we can’t do a ton of due diligence on […]

I was excited to see that just a few days after Filtrbox announced closing their funding round, Brightkite has followed suit. They’ve recently closed about $1M in funding from a group of private investors, and opened up a new office in Denver.
The guys from Brightkite came out with some pretty cool prototypes during the summer […]

Another of the TechStars companies from 2007, Filtrbox announced this week at Venture Capital in the Rockies that it has closed its seed financing round which was led by Flywheel Ventures and True Ventures. Several angel investors also participated. Ari Newman, Founder and CEO of Filtrbox said “We could not be happier with the investors […]

One of the most common questions we get at TechStars is simply “What’s it like?”
In order to try to answer that question a bit more completely, we shot a quick video last week where several of the founders from last summer. Gwen Bell, who was not a founder but who was around some last summer […]