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…
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…
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 re…
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…
So, you’re preparing to raise money to fuel your startup. How confident are you that your cap table and data room are squeaky clean? This question should be top of mind for most fo…
After two years of decline, growth-stage fundraising is heating up again—driven largely by the surge of GenAI adoption. For most founders, breaking through the noise and securing t…
Most startups chase product-market fit but ignore a scalable go-to-market strategy, leading to premature scaling and failure. Jon McNeill, former president of Tesla, COO of Lyft an…
What does it mean when 32 companies show up — and 1 bet on three roles at once?
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The Triple-Threat
92% of the speakers carry senior titles — C-suite, Founder, VP, or Director-level.
Of 36 on the bill · classified by free-text title