TC Founder Summit Sponsors
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Meet our 2026 Sponsors
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Fidelity Private Shares
Fidelity Private Shares is a trusted equity management platform built for private companies at every stage of growth. From early fundraising through IPO, it provides a structured system for managing cap tables, valuations, governance, and equity planning. By helping to keep ownership data accurate and connected across equity events, companies can move efficiently through fundraising, reduce diligence friction, and stay investor ready as complexity increases. Backed by Fidelity’s reputation for trust and rigor, Fidelity Private Shares combines institutional credibility with tools designed for the pace of modern startups.
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Descope
Descope is a drag & drop customer authentication and identity management platform. Our no / low code workflows help startups easily create and customize the entire user journey – including signup, login, MFA, access control, and user invites. We abstract away the complexity of authentication so that app builders can focus on their core product. Hundreds of companies and thousands of developers use Descope to improve user onboarding, enhance login security, and save engineering time.
Techstars
Techstars helps founders succeed. Through our global accelerators, we invest in early-stage startups led by founders building a better future for everyone. We leverage our vast network of alumni, mentors, partners, and investors to support entrepreneurs and build thriving startup communities. Since 2006, we have invested in 5,000+ industry-defining companies.
IEQ Capital
IEQ Capital is financial advisor to technology founders, executives, and investors. The firm is a multi-family office providing wealth management, tax coordination, estate planning support, and institutional-quality investment solutions. IEQ advises founders, venture capital professionals, and other ultra-high-net-worth families to navigate concentrated wealth, liquidity events, and private investments.
The Biological Computing Co. (TBC)
TBC connects living neurons with modern AI to make frontier models more stable, scalable, and efficient. Founded at the intersection of neuroscience breakthroughs, mounting AI infrastructure constraints, and the climate and energy crisis, TBC believes today’s brute-force scaling approach is unsustainable. Its neuroscience and engineering team encodes real-world data (like images and video) with living neurons, and then decodes neural activity into richer representations mapped onto state-of-the-art models through modular adapters. TBC's Algorithm Discovery Platform applies these biologically-derived principles to inform new AI architectures beyond transformers, creating a compute layer that makes models better, faster, and cost-effective.