Age: 22
What he’s done: Will is currently a venture capitalist at Raptor Ventures.He was formerly a product guy at file sharing startup Drop.io and at Twitter-like company, Hot Potato; both sold to Facebook. He also worked as an analyst at RRE Ventures.
Lauren Leto founded Texts from Last Night and runs Bnter.
Age: 24
What she’s done: Lauren founded Texts from Last Night and is now running Bnter, a way to “frame and share conversations.”
She’s also writing a book that’s due out in 2012, Judging a Book by its Lover.
Dan Leahy ditched Wall Street and raised $3 million for his startup, Savored.
Ben McKean and Dan Leahey, cofounders of Savored
Age: 25
What he’s done: Dan Leahy graduated from Georgetown with his cofounder Ben McKean. The pair ditched their Wall Street jobs and founded Savored last summer.
The restaurant deals site now partners with Open Table and Zagat. Buddy Media founder Mike Lazerow is an investor, and Savored raised a $3 million Series A.
Josh Weinstein cofounded YouAre.TV and snagged funding from all-star investors Peter Thiel, SoftBank Capital and FirstMark Capital.
Age: 24
What he’s done: Weinstein has pivoted his way to tech stardom. He cofounded GoodCrush and RandomDorm, which pivoted into CollegeOnly, a social network for students. CollegeOnly has since become YouAre.TV and is backed by FirstMark Capital, SoftBank, Peter Thiel, High Line Venture Partners, David Kidder and David Tisch.
Weinstein also got former Brett Favre flame Jenn Sterger to host one of the web shows on YouAre.TV.
Alexis Tryon left American Express and moved into DogPatch Labs to rent art.
Age: 25
What she’s done: Tryon was a manager at American Express until she and her boyfriend/cofounder Scott caught the entrepreneurship bug.
They founded Artsicle, an art rental company, and moved into DogPatch Labs. Expect to see these two on future power couple lists.
Jason Baptiste and Andres Baretto cofounded breakout Techstars company, OnSwipe.
Ages: 25 and 24, respectively
What they’ve done: Baptiste and Baretto made Inc’s 30 Under 30 list and their startup, OnSwipe, has Apple working up a sweat.
OnSwipe is an easy app-workaround for publishers who want their blogs to look good on mobile devices.
OnSwipe has raised $6 million from the most accredited investors and was the breakout winter Techstars NYC company.
Matt Brimer and Brad Hargreaves cofounded General Assembly
Ages: 25 and 25, respectively
What they’ve done: Brimer and Hargreaves have been starting companies together since they were undergrads at Yale. Their first company, GoCrossCampus, should have been a success. It had plenty of users and funding, but it failed.
Now Brimer and Hargreaves are at it again, but this time they’re building an entrepreneurship school in NYC. General Assembly, their company, is the home to a bunch of startups. It also offers community entrepreneurship courses.
Christina Cacioppo is an analyst at top NYC firm Union Square Ventures.
Age: 25
What she’s done: Being well acquainted with Fred Wilson at age 25 is impressive. Cacioppo is an analyst at his firm, Union Square Ventures.
She graduated from Stanford University and formerly worked at Google.
Joseph Cohen, Dan Getelman and Jim Grandpre dropped out of UPenn and landed a spot in the summer Techstars class.
Ages: 20, 21 and 20, respectively
What they’ve done: Cohen, Getelman and Grandpre cofounded Coursekit, a social education tool that wants to kill Blackboard.
All three founders raised $1 million for their startup, dropped out of UPenn, and were accepted ino the summer session of Techstars NYC.
Jonathan Hefter founded Neverware.
Age: 25
What he’s done: Hefter is disrupting the education space, but not the same way other entrepreneurs are. His company, Neverware, makes old computers run like new by accessing the latest software via the cloud.
It’s a good solution for schools that can’t afford to keep updating computer software.
Andrew Ferenci cofounded Spinback, which was acquired by Buddy Media earlier this year.
Age: 24
What he’s done: The 2x entrepreneur recently sold his social commerce and analytics startup, Spinback, to Buddy Media.
He sold his first company, The College Shack, to Carolina Beach Apparel in 2010.
Carter Cleveland is the founder of Art.sy.
Age: 24
What he’s done: Cleveland has never had a “real” job. As soon as he graduated from Princeton he got to work on Art.sy, an art discovery tool.
He raised $1.25 million from the likes of Eric Schmidt and Jack Dorsey. He also won TechCrunch Disrupt’s Rookie Award in 2010.
Alex Godin is the second youngest member of Techstars. His dad is Seth Godin and he cofounded Dispatch.io.
Age: 17
What he’s done: Godin seems to be as motivated as his father, marketing guru Seth Godin. He’s the second-youngest Techstars member ever and his startup, Dispatch, is on track to be the summer session’s breakout company.
He also taught himself to code in 7 days over winter vacation and won a hackathon.
Dan Herman founded ChatID, a summer Techstars company.
Dan Herman cofounded ChatID, formerly called Chatalyst.
Age: 20
What he’s done: Dan Herman was accepted into the summer NYC techstars program with his live chat platform for businesses, ChatID.
Adam Liebman is SinglePlatform’s VP of Sales.
Age: 25
What he’s done: Adam Liebman is SinglePlatform’s VP of Sales.
SinglePlatform is a tool for restaurants to manage websites easily across one network. He graduated from Mizzou and formerly worked at Yext.
David Karp’s Tumblr is expected to become an $800 million company any day now.
Tumblr Founder, David Karp
Age: 25
What he’s done: Karp founded Tumblr, a social blogging platform that’s reportedly raising a massive round.
If it closes, Karp’s company could have a whopping $800 million valuation.
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