TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 Startup Battlefield 200: Celebrating outstanding achievements
This year, TechCrunch Disrupt showcased the incredible talent and groundbreaking ideas of our 2025 Startup Battlefield 200 cohort.…
How founders can prepare for their late-stage fundraises from the start
Raising a $250 million Series D round may seem like a distant and unnecessary distraction to startup founders…
How AI startups should be thinking about product-market fit
For all their pitches promising something new, AI startups share many of the same questions as startups in…
Alphabet is increasingly launching ‘moonshot’ projects as independent companies — here’s why
Alphabet’s X moonshot factory is shifting how it brings ambitious technology projects to market, increasingly spinning them out…
Cluely’s Roy Lee hints that viral hype is not enough
While Roy Lee, the founder of Cluely, argues that startups should be thinking harder about social media virality,…
Cluely’s Roy Lee on the rage-bait strategy for startup marketing
Cluely’s Roy Lee has a message for startup founders: You should be thinking harder about how to go…
And the winner of Startup Battlefield at Disrupt 2025 is: Glīd
For three days this week, 20 startups participated in the Startup Battlefield at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025. Each was…
Digg founder Kevin Rose on the need for trusted social communities in the AI era
“The dead internet theory is real,” Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian told Digg founder Kevin Rose, referring to the…
Here are the 5 Startup Battlefield finalists at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025
After two days full of live demos and pitches, it’s time to announce the five finalists at this…
Inside CampusAI’s mission to close the AI training gap for everyday workers — check it out at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025
As companies push to increase efficiency and stay competitive, they’re encouraging, or in some cases outright requiring, workers…
Cyphr will reveal how it makes lending easier for small businesses at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025
It happened one day. Jannae Gammage was working with the Small Business Administration as a technology consultant, helping companies get access…
Mirror’s founder is back with a new ‘connected screen’ startup: a gaming device called ‘Board’
Brynn Putnam, the founder behind the connected fitness startup Mirror, is back with a new startup: a tech-powered…