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Cohen delivered the keynote speech at RailsConf2012, a conference dedicated to Ruby on Rails, an open source web application framework for the Ruby programming language.

In 2012, Cohen delivered the keynote speech at RailsConf2012 and at the inaugural Silicon Prairie Awards. In 2011, he spoke at the Future of Entrepreneurship Education Summit. He has interviewed for the Silicon Flatirons Entrepreneurs Unplugged Series.

The Techstars experience has also been turned into a reality TV show on Bloomberg TV. Techstars invests $118,000 in each of its program startups. The startups also receive mentorship and pitch opportunities during the program. Techstars accepts approximately 1% of applicants. The company focuses on transparency and publishes detailed success and failure information of all companies that have gone through Techstars. Cohen controls four private seed-equity funds. He raised his first $5 million fund in 2009. In 2012, he raised $28 million for a second fund. Subsequently, he raised two additional funds each of approximately $150 million in size. Cohen currently manages about $500 million in investments across these funds and Techstars. He tends to fund early stage software and internet companies. To date, Cohen has invested in more than 1,500 startups as an angel investor and through Techstars.

Cohen served on the Board of Directors for SendGrid from 2009 until just prior to its IPO in late 2017. SendGrid is a cloud-based email infrastructure service provider. It is a Techstars accelerator program graduate.

In 2006, Cohen founded the music service earFeeder.com. He developed the company to solve a personal need unmet by the market. SonicSwap bought earFeeder.com in 2006.

Cohen is the founder and co-CEO of Techstars, a startup accelerator program. Cohen co-founded Techstars in 2006 with Brad Feld, Jared Polis, and David Brown. The first program ran in 2007. Cohen designed Techstars to improve the existing system of angel investing and to provide more support to startups. In a speech at the Future of Entrepreneurship Education Summit, Cohen said that he was particularly interested in improving the entrepreneurial ecosystem of Techstars' launch city, Boulder, Colorado. Now, Techstars has dozens of locations globally that accept new startups regularly.

Cohen founded Pinpoint Technologies in 1993. He served as its CTO and vice president of research and development. The company developed public safety and EMS dispatch vehicle software. Zoll Medical Corporation acquired Pinpoint Technologies in 1999. Cohen stayed on with the company until 2004.

Cohen began working as a software engineer in 1991 when he became the Director of Development for Automated Dispatch Services, Inc., where he worked until 1994.

David Cohen (born 1968) is a serial entrepreneur and the founder of Pinpoint Technologies, iContact.com, and Earfeeder. He is also an angel investor with a portfolio of more than 100 companies. Cohen is best known as the co-founder of Techstars, a mentorship-based startup accelerator.