David Cohen is a serial entrepreneur and venture investor who co-founded Techstars, the global startup accelerator, and returned as its CEO in May 2024. David Cohen's Twitter Score is 123 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of August 2026, ranking #5,248 (top 5%) among 483,944 tracked accounts.
David Cohen co-founded Techstars and has built a career spanning multiple ventures, having also founded Pinpoint Technologies, iContact.com, and earFeeder.com. He is a first-round investor in more than 20 unicorns, including Uber, Twilio, and DigitalOcean, and maintains an angel portfolio of more than 100 companies. Techstars itself carries crypto and blockchain exposure through portfolio investments such as TransCrypts.
David Cohen is also affiliated with the Give First podcast, which extends his focus on startup mentorship and early-stage investing into a long-form audio format. He has accumulated 172,400 followers as of August 2026 on Twitter and has published 12,831 posts. He has been mentioned by 253 accounts a total of 941 times.
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