Friday, September 26, 2014

TechStars Gets In-House M&A Advisor

Boulder-based startup accelerator TechStars has bolstered its executives, adding an advisor specifically aimed at helping portfolio companies with partners, business strategy, and M&A. The startup accelerator has added Don Loeb, a TechStars veteran who was part of Feedburner, which came out of Techstars' inagural calass, and was acquired by Google in 2007. Loeb has been involved with such companies as Typekit (acquired by Adobe) and Storify (Acquired by LIveFyre), and also has advised such companies as Mass Relevance, Discourse, SmartShoot, Emtrain, Matter.VC, and UpWest Labs. Image from TechStars Boulder courtesy Bill Erickson, via Flickr.