Techstars Workforce Development Demo Day 2025

Get ready for the Techstars Workforce Development Accelerator Demo Day 2025!

Techstars Workforce Development Accelerator will be celebrating its 5th Annual Demo Day on June 5, 2025. The evening will celebrate 11 innovative companies focusing on addressing the challenges of the modern dynamic workforce through innovative technologies. Join us in celebrating the impact of the amazing work these companies are doing across the nation!

• Doors open at 5 pm MDT and opening remarks begin at 6 pm MDT.
• There is free parking available in the parking lots outside of The Cable Center.
• The event will not be livestreamed, but we will release a recording of the event.

We look forward to commemorating this massive milestone with all the amazing Techstars alumni, mentors, program partners, and community supporters that make this ecosystem one of the best in the world. This event will include company pitches, a community celebration with refreshments, and networking with incredible leaders in the startup community.

The 2025 Techstars Workforce Development Accelerator Class includes:

• Arbol (Buffalo, NY): A student financial success platform that empowers universities to help students manage their finances effectively, increasing retention and reducing operational strain.

• Cantaloupe AI (New Orleans, LA): An instant AI-powered pre-screening tool for the hospitality industry workforce that screens applicants via voice-based interviews, assessing personality, adaptability, and role compatibility.

• Earn & Learn (Walnut Creek, CA): Democratizes access to opportunity by connecting employers to learners through scalable, work-based learning solutions.

• Exitous (Redlands, CA): For workers expecting or experiencing the stressful impact of a layoff, Exitous empowers them with personalized, AI-powered, human-vetted exit strategies in a caring, wellbeing-focused environment.

• Hardly (Pittsburgh, PA): Streamlines the job search with AI-powered tools that ATS-optimize resumes, track applications, and improve collaboration between workforce development staff and job seekers.

• Immigify (Oklahoma City, OK): Streamlines the U.S. immigration process for businesses with international teams using AI workflow agents.

• Kaya (Birmingham, AL): An AI-powered people analytics platform that blends organizational psychology with predictive insights to help HR and L&D teams enhance workforce well-being, engagement, and productivity while driving measurable improvements in organizational health.

• Pique (Oakland, CA): An AI-powered note-taking platform that transforms lectures and meetings into personalized learning experiences, with a focus on supporting neurodivergent learners.

• Speak (Boulder, CO): Leverages advanced AI to enable businesses to rank, score, and predict candidate performance with unprecedented speed and accuracy, enhancing recruiting efficiency while reducing costs and biases.

• Studious (New York, NY): Building the future of upskilling with AI-driven, competency-based learning, making skills education smarter, faster, and more accessible for the modern workforce.

• Work Simplr (Denver, CO): Connects students with paid remote work opportunities, allowing them to gain valuable experience and develop skills like online research and AI, while also helping businesses access cost-effective services from a pool of future talent.

The Techstars Workforce Development Accelerator focuses on addressing the challenges of the modern dynamic labor market through innovative technologies. The 12 featured startups are working to solve the complex needs of the labor market and are helping to maximize human potential in some unique and powerful way.

​Follow Techstars Workforce Development Accelerator on LinkedIn to stay up-to-date on the companies’ progress and the Techstars Workforce Development program.​

​For any questions, please reach out to Sasha Green, Program Manager, at sasha.green@techstars.com.

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