Meet the Q0 Startups in Techstars NYC’s Summer 2026 Class
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- June 19, 2026
Not even Techstars NYC can avoid the end of summer, where 10 startups are wrapping up their participation in the accelerator’s summer program. This also marks the end of Alex Iskold’s tenure as managing director of the program. He’s certainly going out with a varied groups of startups – these entrepreneurs are working on everything from tampons to spices to skin care, plus more traditional tech categories like finance and security. Here’s a quick rundown of each company. Aunt Flow helps businesses and schools stock free tampons. Founder and CEO Claire Coder argues that if businesses are providing toilet paper for free, they should do the same with menstrual products. Current customers include Viacom, Twitter, and Brown University. The startup emphasizes the stories behind the spices, and it says it currently offers organic black peppercorns from Zanzibar, wild mountain cumin from Afghanistan, smoked pimenton paprika from Spain, plus 40 other spices. Clever Girl Finance offers financial education content and tools for women of color.
The field of public relations is generally highly un-regulated, but many professionals voluntarily adhere to the code of conduct of one or more professional bodies to avoid exposure for ethical violations. The Chartered Institute of Public Relations and the Public Relations Society of America are twoorganizations that publish an ethical code. Still, Edelman’s 2003 semi-annual trust survey found that only 20 percent of survey respondents from the public believed paid communicators within a company were credible. Individuals in public relations are growing increasingly concerned with their company’s marketing practices, questioning whether they agree with the company’s social responsibility. They seek more influence over marketing and more of a counseling and policy-making role. On the other hand, individuals in marketing are increasingly interested in incorporating publicity as a tool within the realm marketing. According to Scott Cutlip, the social justification for public relations is the right for an organization to have a fair hearing of their point of view in the public forum, but to obtain such a hearing for their ideas requires a skilled advocate.
Lampworkers, in contrast, don’t blow air into the glass, so the beads and other products they create are solid. Instead, Horseshoe Falls they work the hot glass around a steel rod, letting it solidify around it. This latter name comes from the fact that the work was once done by the flame of oil lamps. But that’s not to say the art doesn’t stretch back even further than that. Read on to learn why the foundations of flameworking may go all the way back to the ancient Egyptians. Cone-shaped furnaces similar to the ceramic chimineas that dot modern-day backyards and porches have been noted in many ancient cultures. According to some lampworking historians, these furnaces could have been used to make glass beads, and in fact, many Egyptian decorative beads from more than 5,000 years ago survive today because they were considered very valuable and were often buried with their owners. Obviously, the fire used way back when was not the controllable source of heat of today’s torches, whose flame can be turned up or down, or positioned toward one area of the glass.
Local junkies were used to lure the rival to a secluded park on the pretext of a supply whereupon he was chased, caught and stabbed repeatedly. The still live body was then taken off to a secluded residential area where it was dumped and a local householder was alerted to its presence so that medical help could be summonsed. On arrival at hospital he was found to be dead. A joint enterprise murder. A well known local drug dealer was stabbed to death by one of his pushers. Represented defendant charged with murdering Drummer Lee Rigby. You can learn more about this in the news links below. Successfully defended man charged with the murder of the leader of the Hackney Turks. Successfully defended a Turkish man accused of the contract killing of his wife. Defended a man accused of murder after fatal stabbing. Acted for the Defendant who was alleged to be the head of a religious cult accused of raping and sexually assaulting a number of females introduced to him by his followers.
The Retroflex R: This is the alternative, where the very tip of your tongue curls upward and back. Understanding both gives you the power to experiment and find what actually clicks. It’s all about building that crucial awareness and control-the same foundational skills needed for overall clear enunciation. If you’re working on improving your clarity across the board, our guide on how to enunciate better offers some great exercises that pair perfectly with this R-sound practice. Why Are There Two Ways to Make the R Sound? So, why the two options? It really just comes down to the incredible adaptability of human anatomy. Research using MRI scans has shown that while speakers use very different internal tongue shapes, the sound that comes out is perceived as a perfectly normal American /r/. These studies confirm what we see in practice: the American R is produced using either a ‘bunched’ or ‘retroflex’ tongue position, and there’s a huge amount of variability even among native speakers.