Where does Jason Seats work?

Jason Seats is General Partner at Techstars Accelerator 2024 and Executive at Techstars Ventures and Board director at DigitalOcean and Board director at MacroFab.

What does Jason Seats invest in?

Jason Seats invests in Cloud Computing.

What companies has Jason Seats invested in?

Investments tracked here include Statwing.

Where did Jason Seats go to school?

Jason Seats studied at Saint Louis University (BS, BS Electrical Engineering, BS Computer Science).

Jason Seats

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General Partner at Techstars Accelerator 2024 · General Partner at Techstars Ventures 2022 · Partner at Techstars · Partner at Techstars Ventures at True Wealth Ventures · Executive at Techstars Ventures · +2 more

Austin, Texas, United States

Kauffman Fellow · Class 21

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Jason Seats is a Partner at Techstars Ventures, the venture arm of the Techstars accelerator, and previously served as Managing Director of the Techstars programs in Austin and the Cloud program in San Antonio. He co-founded Slicehost, an early cloud hosting company acquired by Rackspace in 2008, and remained at Rackspace until 2010 as VP of Software Development for Rackspace Cloud. He holds BS degrees in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering from Saint Louis University's Parks College of Engineering, Aviation and Technology.

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Cloud Computing

Executive at Techstars Ventures

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Techstars Ventures's investors · 12

EIT Urban Mobility AcceleratorBarcelona · $11K – $2.7M checks FirestartrLondon FoundryBoulder · $250K – $15M checks · since 2017 GapMinderAmsterdam · $550K – $5.5M checks · since 2017 Gradient VenturesSan Francisco · $100K – $10M checks · since 2020 Hyde Park AngelsChicago Innovation DepotBirmingham M1720Monmouth Beach Metavallon VCAthens · $220K – $1.6M checks Renaissance Venture CapitalAnn Arbor U.S. Air Forcesince 2019 Union Grove Venture PartnersChapel Hill

Co-founders at Techstars Ventures

David CohenCo-founder

David BrownCo-founder

Brad FeldCo-founder

Jared PolisCo-founder

Board director at DigitalOcean

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DigitalOcean's investors · 17

Access Technology VenturesMill Valley Andreessen HorowitzMenlo Park · $500K – $50M checks · since 2020 Arkin CapitalHerzliya Arkin Digital Health Balaji Srinivasan$10K – $500K checks Centre for Research & Technology Hellas (CERTH)Thessaloniki · since 2020 Empede CapitalTortola Hanaco Venture CapitalHerzliya · $2M – $20M checks JuniperoMiami Mighty CapitalSan Francisco Point Reyes Management TechstarsBoulder · $220K checks · since 2015 Torch CapitalNew York · $750K – $1.5M checks Transmedia CapitalSan Francisco · $250K – $5M checks Tuesday CapitalSan Francisco Veligera CapitalNew York ZillionizePalo Alto · $200K checks

Co-founders at DigitalOcean

Moisey UretskyFounder

Ben UretskyFounder

Mitchell WainerExecutive Officer

Alec HartmanFounder

Jeff CarrFounder

Mitch WainerFounder

Board director at MacroFab

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MacroFab's investors · 9

ATX Venture PartnersAustin · $250K – $5M checks BMW i VenturesMountain View · $10M checks · since 2023 Cathexis VenturesHouston · $250K – $1M checks Dentsu VenturesTokyo Edison PartnersNashville · $5M – $25M checks Exposition VenturesChicago FoundryBoulder · $250K – $15M checks · since 2023 TechstarsBoulder · $220K checks · since 2015 Texas HALO FundHouston

Co-founders at MacroFab

Chris ChurchFounder

Parker DillmannFounder

Experience

PlayheadCo-founder & CTOcurrent2026 — presentAustin, Texas
TechstarsManaging Director Emerituscurrent2025 — present
TechstarsSenior Fund Advisor2024 — 2025
TechstarsChief Investment Officer2018 — 2023
TechstarsManaging Partner2016 — 2018
TechstarsPartner2015 — 2016
TechstarsManaging Director2011 — 2015Austin, Texas
Rackspace HostingVP of Engineering, Rackspace Cloud2008 — 2010
Slicehost (acquired by Rackspace)Co-Founder2006 — 2008St. Louis, MO
CPI Corp.Developer2006
St. Luke's HospitalIntegration Analyst2001 — 2006
Heuris LogicProgrammer1999 — 2000

Skills & more

Linux23Cloud ComputingSaaS55Start-ups77Ruby19Sinatra4Software Development33Product Management22Data Center2Ruby on Rails18Virtualization2Apache2

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PythonIntegrationManagementEntrepreneurshipPHPAmazon Web Services (AWS)Agile MethodologiesMobile Applications

Languages English · Spanish

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Colleagues at Techstars Accelerator 2024

Andrew Cleland

General Partner at Techstars Accelerator 2024

David Cohen

General Partner at Techstars Accelerator 2024

Nicole Glaros

General Partner at Techstars Accelerator 2024

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Mark SolonMentor

Investor at Techstars

Peter TenerielloMentee

Pomifer Capital · Kauffman Fellow (Class 24)

Ty FindleyMentee

Co-Founder + General Partner at Ironspring Venture

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Frequently asked questions

Who is Jason Seats?: Jason Seats is a Partner at Techstars Ventures, the venture arm of the Techstars accelerator, and previously served as Managing Director of the Techstars programs in Austin and the Cloud program in San Antonio. He co-founded Slicehost, an early cloud hosting company acquired by Rackspace in 2008, and remained at Rackspace until 2010 as VP of Software Development for Rackspace Cloud. He holds BS degrees in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering from Saint Louis University's Parks College of Engineering, Aviation and Technology.
Where does Jason Seats work?: Jason Seats is General Partner at Techstars Accelerator 2024 and Executive at Techstars Ventures and Board director at DigitalOcean and Board director at MacroFab.
What does Jason Seats invest in?: Jason Seats invests in Cloud Computing.
What companies has Jason Seats invested in?: Investments tracked here include Statwing.
Where did Jason Seats go to school?: Jason Seats studied at Saint Louis University (BS, BS Electrical Engineering, BS Computer Science).

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Also worked at Techstars904

Brad FeldCo-founder of Foundry and Techstars RustyAdvisor at Clear Ventures Houman HaghighiPartner, Business & Corporate Development at Menlo Ventures Isabelle StyslingerSenior Associate, Rise of the Rest at Revolution Wesley BarrowPartner at Correlation Ventures Jack Bixby LucasGeneral Partner at Lucas Venture Group

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Dave WrightCEO Partner at Ardent Venture Morris MillerInvestor at Tectonic Ventures Lanham NapierCo-Founder and Chairman at BuildGroup Jim CurryCo-Founder and CEO at BuildGroup Klee KleberCo-Founder at BuildGroup Pat MatthewsFounder and CEO at Active Capital

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