Founders - are you curious about venture accelerators? Come meet Isaac Kato, Managing Director of Techstars Seattle. Isaac is a serial entrepreneur and former VC, and he leads the Techstars Seattle venture accelerator, whose alumni include unicorns like Remitly and Outreach, and whose alumni have raised over $1 billion in capital. He'll give a brief intro to Techstars and then take any questions you have about the benefits of venture accelerators, how to apply, and how you can maximize your chances of getting accepted. Following the AMA, he'll host office hours for interested founders.
We'll share the link for office hours during the event and in slack!
Techstars’ Seattle Accelerator
Managing Director
Isaac Kato is Managing Director of Techstars’ Seattle Accelerator. Techstars is a global startup ecosystem that helps entrepreneurs succeed. Isaac is a serial entrepreneur, technology leader, and investor.
Isaac Kato is Managing Director of Techstars’ Seattle Accelerator. Techstars is a global startup ecosystem that helps entrepreneurs succeed. Isaac is a serial entrepreneur, technology leader, and investor. Before Techstars, Mr. Kato served as President of Mighty AI, which was acquired by Uber. Mighty AI was a leading provider of training data to machine learning developers in the computer vision and autonomous vehicle market. He has co-founded two companies – the first, Sven Technologies, was a 3D graphics software startup he co-founded, ran, and sold to a public CAD software company. From 2007-2017, he was co-founder and CFO of Verne Global, an Icelandic data center developer and operator, where he raised $200M of equity and debt capital and led several functions. Today, Verne is one of the largest third party data centers in the Nordic area. He has also spent a decade as a VC and growth equity investor, most recently with General Catalyst Partners. Mr. Kato is also an active angel investor. He holds an MBA with Distinction from Harvard Business School, and an MS and BS from Stanford University. If you ask him about his family, international travel, Icelandic fly fishing, or skiing, it will likely be a long conversation.
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