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Starting today, you can take an additional $100 off your founder, investor, or attendee TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 pass, which is a nice bonus on top of our current discounted pricing.
You put together the concept — from a founder mixer, an after-hours panel, a themed party, a morning run, whatever fits your goal — and the TechCrunch team helps put it in front of the attendees already in town for Disrupt.
TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 is built around one question: How do you build an enduring company in the AI era? Our programming and speaker lineup reflect that.
Not everyone needs a keynote slot to make noise at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026. Sometimes the best way to meet investors, customers, and partners is by exhibiting directly on the Expo Hall floor at San Francisco’s Moscone West from October 13-15. That’s exactly what our Exhibit Program offers, and it’s still open to showcase your startup. Here’s what $12,500 buys you: Joining fellow exhibitors is the fastest, lowest-lift way for a […]
Starting today, you can take an additional $100 off your founder, investor, or attendee TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 pass, which is a nice bonus on top of our current discounted pricing.
Flock posted videos on its YouTube channel highlighting at least four police departments whose officers have faced allegations of misusing the company’s tech.
Hadrian is building automated factories to mass-produce parts for defense vehicles like submarines. It's backed by a long list of well-known investors.
Taking vibe-coding a step further, Naïve claims its infra can automate most of the work in setting up and running a business.
The Series B is the company's second fundraise since it last raised capital in 2020. In that time, it has increased its ARR by 10x to $60 million.
A 0.3-second disagreement between two sources of truth made my first paying customer fail four times. The browser preview stored the project duration rounded to a whole second: 3983s. The worker that processed the audio measured the real media: 3982.699–3982.788s. Cue generation ran against the rounded number. Delivery certification ran against the trusted measurement. Any candidate built on the rounded boundary exceeded the certified boundary by 212–301ms — so the final cue failed, deterministically, every single time. That customer ended up with four projects and three distinct audio files — four identical failures, each one blocked by the same gate. No subtitle asset, no explanation, no path forward. No alert fired. No complaint had come in. I found it because I was looking. Here is the part worth writing down: the quality gate did exactly what it was designed to do. It rejected every unsafe result before it could reach the customer. And the customer still lost. Four failures, and not one of them was a gate that misbehaved — they were four places where quality had been treated as a check instead of a product decision. A fail-closed gate is an engineering floor, not a product. Quality is not the final check that rejects bad output; it is the input boundary you commit to, the authority you give each fact, the failure states you design for, and the meaning you attach to your own scores. What follows is the postmortem as an engineering story: four deterministic failures, each one a missing product decision, and the contract I now think every pipeline like this should carry. One fact, two authorities The whole incident starts with a single number. The project duration existed twice: The browser preview rounded it to 3983s . The funded worker measured the actual media as 3982.699–3982.788s . Cue generation used the rounded value. Delivery certification used the trusted measurement. The result: the last cue always ended 212–301ms past the certified boundary, and the fin
Starting today, you can take an additional $100 off your founder, investor, or attendee TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 pass, which is a nice bonus on top of our current discounted pricing.
The DOJ alleged that OpenAI did not meaningful attempt to hire U.S. citizens before seeking permanent residence for Visa-holding employees.
Lightspeed partners Josh Machiz and Claire Zau stopped by the Equity studio to talk about the strategies behind their growing social media presence and their podcast, Lightwork.
The serial entrepreneur joins the e-commerce company as CPO to lead its AI agents.
The applications are in, and the TechCrunch Startup Battlefield team made their decisions!
TL;DR If you're a five-person startup shipping a Node.js API and you want a metrics dashboard by Friday, send your telemetry to a managed backend and keep only the instrumentation layer inside your own repo. The alternative — standing up a time-series database, an object store for long-term blocks, and a dashboard service — puts three more components on an on-call rotation that hasn't earned its first SLO yet. Settle the wire format now and treat the backend as a config line you can change later. I own the platform team's roadmap, which in practice means I'm the person who defends the monitoring bill in a budget review and also the person who gets paged when a disk fills at 03:00. Those two jobs pull in opposite directions, and most of the advice online is written by people who only hold one of them. Usually the pager wins the argument. Should a startup run its own metrics stack, or pay for a managed dashboard? Start with capacity, because that's the step everyone skips before signing anything. A moderately instrumented Node.js API — say 40 HTTP routes, two queue workers, default runtime and event-loop metrics, one latency histogram with ten buckets — sits somewhere around 3,000 to 8,000 active series per process. Multiply by replicas. Multiply again by every environment you keep alive, including the staging cluster nobody admits to. You are at 50k active series before a single engineer has written a custom counter, and a self-hosted scraper will chew through that on a 2 GB VM without noticing. It will still be fine at 500k. Past a few million active series you're into sharding, remote storage, and a retention argument with whoever pays for object storage — that's the point where the self-hosted route stops being free and turns into a project with a headcount attached. None of that work is hard. It's just never zero. Dimension Self-hosted stack Managed metrics backend Time to first dashboard 1–3 days under an hour Who owns retention you, plus the storage bill vendor
Robinhood's latest financial instrument intends to let any retail investor feel like they, too, can make money by backing Y Combinator startups.
Mitti Labs plans to expand beyond India and enter the Philippines and Indonesia while growing its carbon credits and agricultural data business.
We’ve partnered with hotels around Moscone West during Disrupt, taking place October 13 to 15, to secure the best prices available for attendees.
Wrinkles, available on both iOS and Android, essentially acts as an AI-powered audio tour guide that reveals hidden history and local stories.