TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026 is a full-day gathering in Boston, MA where startup founders connect with top venture capitalists and gain practical, how-to insights for building and scaling companies. The event features breakout Q&A stages, immersive founder sessions, and extensive networking opportunities. Attendees learn from leading startup leaders throug…
Programmed at TechCrunch, in alphabetical order.
The companies behind the program. Tiers as disclosed.
Selected from 34 sessions.
Founders face a cascade of legal decisions from day one, each with lasting impact on their company’s future. In this session, Spencer Ricks and Naomi Smith will lay out a clear leg…
Raising capital is one of the most critical, and often most chaotic, milestones for early-stage startups. But what if technology could make the process not just faster, but smarter…
Fundraising has never been easy, but the playbook keeps changing. Brian Devaney, Partner at Underscore, will break down what investors are looking for now, how founders can stand o…
This is an important topic, especially for pre-seed founders, because much of company evaluation is about the founder and the idea – there isn’t a lot of data to work with yet! O…
Raising venture capital as an early-stage startup can be both exhilarating and daunting. With fierce competition for limited funding opportunities and investor expectations constan…
Startups don’t fail because of bad ideas - they fail because founders get stuck. In this high-energy, interactive roundtable, Prepare 4 VC’s Jason Kraus and team dig into the real …
In this session Ellen Chisa, partner at boldstart ventures will walk through lessons on all the things to do (and not do) to learn as quickly as possible from the first days of you…
Hyro began in 2018 as a conversational AI voice tool and now serves more than 30 million healthcare patients across over 45 leading health systems. Many founders who start by build…
The title may stay the same, but the job changes with each stage of a company’s growth. HubSpot Co-founder and Sequoia Partner Brian Halligan will share the lessons he’s learned fr…
What does it mean when 49 companies show up, and 1 bet on three roles at once?
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