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Specifically on the exit stats GrabCAD (Boston TS company from 2012) was acquired for 100 million -

http://betaboston.com/news/2014/09/16/product-design-startup...

And the real answer to this is that getting large exits takes a long time. Unless I'm mistaken YC, which is older than Techstars and has 50% more portfolio companies, has 3 exits over 100 million, OMGPOP, Heroku and Twitch. Granted the last one was a big one.

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YC also has 4 companies with public valuations over 1 billion: Machine Zone, Stripe, Airbnb and Dropbox

Techstars should see some other big exits over time with SendGrid (couldn't find actual current valuation) and DigitalOcean ($153M Valuation in 3 years) to name a few

Also Localytics (TS Boston 2009) is well positioned for a big exit or IPO: http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/localytics

(Disclosure: Hackstar in 2009, Founder in 2010)

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