Tamara Chuang

Business/Technology Reporter

David Cohen calls last year’s tumultuous restructuring of Techstars the “awkward teenage years,” which included a decision to move the company’s headquarters to New York and end the local business accelerator in its hometown of Boulder.

Since returning as CEO three months after that locally unpopular announcement , Cohen, a cofounder, said Techstars has committed to Boulder in a big way: It is restarting the Boulder accelerator as part of a partnership announced this past fall with local founders and investors.

“The big news is the rekindling of the Boulder accelerator itself (and) allowing the startup community to invest with us like we did in the early days,” Cohen said Thursday, just before a new class of startups would present their 5-

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