[iamelgringo]

Seven of the eleven TechStars Winter Program startups have also gone on to raise funding, with a few more soon to close, Tisch and Cohen said.

This really surprises me. Hackers & Founders boot strapped an incubator, with BizSpark paying for our weekly dinners and space rental. Since then, all 6 of our graduating companies have gone on to raise money. http://hackersandfounders.tv. We were also happy to refer startups to other incubators.

But, 5 weeks since our last dinner, and the six companies have raised $1.4M in total. We referred two of them to 500 Startups, and their demo day is next week, so those numbers are only going to go up.