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Emerge vs Techstars

Emerge lists 40 portfolio companies and has joined 0 funding rounds; Techstars lists 1,968 companies and has joined 53 rounds. Techstars comes in most often at Seed (74% of its entries). 3 companies are on both portfolios, among them FutureFit AI, Popp and Mentor Collective.

40Portfolio companies1,968
0Funding rounds joined53
0Rounds led7
0Rounds, last 12 months29
n/aTypical round it comes in at$1M to $5M
0%Sites no longer answering0%
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Emerge and Techstars, head to head
EmergeTechstars
Portfolio companies401,968
Funding rounds joined053
Rounds led07
Rounds, last 12 months029
Typical round it comes in atn/a$1M to $5M
Sites no longer answering0%0%

Where they come in

share of entries by stage
Pre-seed0%8%
Seed0%74%
Series A0%14%
Series B0%4%
Growth0%0%

EmergeTechstars

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Entry stages of Emerge and Techstars, share of entries
EmergeTechstars
Pre-seed0%8%
Seed0%74%
Series A0%14%
Series B0%4%
Growth0%0%

Themes

share of checked companies
Education41%8%
AI & Machine Learning20%20%
Human Resources13%0%
Healthcare & Biotech6%12%
Fintech4%11%
Enterprise Software9%8%

EmergeTechstars

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Themes of Emerge and Techstars, share of checked companies
EmergeTechstars
Education41%8%
AI & Machine Learning20%20%
Human Resources13%0%
Healthcare & Biotech6%12%
Fintech4%11%
Enterprise Software9%8%

Companies both back

3

Shared companies are those both firms' own portfolio pages list, each checked against the company's site. The same comparison through the API is POST /v1/overlap, for up to 20 firms. How the data is graded

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VCinfo API
$ curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" \
  https://api.vcinfo.io/v1/firms/emergecapital.vc/portfolio

# also
GET /v1/firms/techstars.com/portfolio
GET /v1/firms/emergecapital.vc/coinvestors
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