Meet the Startup Battlefield 200 judges who’ll decide the winner at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
Meet the final five Startup Battlefield judges who'll decide who wins the pitch competition…
This AI robot startup thinks humanoids are overrated
There's a new entrant in the race to build a general-purpose robot, and it…
A startup building a map to help you make plans with friends has doubled its funding
Finding a really good restaurant or bar takes effort.Corner, a startup looking to make…
What investors say went wrong at Selena Gomez’s mental health startup Wondermind
Selena Gomez set out to create "the world's first mental fitness ecosystem." Instead, the…
A startup founded by ex-DeepMind engineers wants to turn its customers into robot teachers
A group of former Google DeepMind engineers has a potential solution to robotics' 100,000-year…
Why 2 bankers say JPMorgan’s $1.5 trillion effort to boost US dominance is unlike any work they’ve done before
Vasudha Saxena is the woman running the "engine room" of what she described as…
Okta buys AI security startup Permiso; source says for about $200M
Co-founded by former FireEye executives Paul Nguyen and Jason Martin, Permiso specializes in detecting…
The 2026 Startup Battlefield 200 is here — see who made the cut
We're thrilled to unveil the 2026 Startup Battlefield 200 — TechCrunch's annual, handpicked list…
This tiny cybersecurity startup managed to hack OpenAI using Claude, and won a $6,500 bounty
A small AI startup used Claude to hack into OpenAI's internal codebase shortly after…
This startup founder says he works 7 days a week, keeps a mattress in the office, and sleeps 3 hours a night
"Whatever you can get done in five days, I promise you you'll get more…
As an AI startup CEO, I pay each employee $18,000 a year to live close to work, and the investment is worth it
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Sebastian Jimenez, the CEO and…
This YC startup raised $5 million for a personal assistant to help you stay on top of your text messages
It's hard to be a good texter these days.Between the default texting services and…
This startup sold Wall Street on AI. Its existential challenge is doing it again.
Hebbia helped popularize AI for Wall Street.Now it's trying to stay ahead of the…
I turned my passion for the outdoors into a community for startup founders. It’s become a side hustle that makes me $10K in revenue.
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Alena Beliauskaya, a 37-year-old product…
This startup is betting GIFs and ‘micro memes’ will be supercharged in the AI era. Read its pitch deck.
Memes have become a fixture in how we communicate.We're reacting with GIFs in work…
Meet 22 VCs on the hunt for the next breakout startup in social media
Instagram, Snapchat, and TikTok have dominated the social media landscape for years.As AI infiltrates…
