Disrupt
TechCrunch Disrupt — the original startup conference — is focused on founders, investors, and the future of tech. It’s a must-attend for anyone just joining a startup, seasoned investors or experienced founders, with opportunities to to learn from expert speakers, interview panels or network with industry leaders and potential future partners. Its flagship event, Startup Battlefield, has been helped many companies reach the next stage of their development.
Get Ready To Disrupt Europe With Airbnb Co-Founder And CTO Nate Blecharczyk
Airbnb, the San Francisco-based marketplace for people to list and rent private rooms and homes from each other, has seen astounding growth since opening for business in 2008, with the…
Choose Your Own Adventure At Disrupt SF Startup Alley
Startup Alley is part wild west, part farmer’s market. But it’s all about startups. You’ll love it. It’s a three-day exhibition. The first two days will see web companies take…
We Want You (And Your Hardware) For Hardware Alley At Disrupt SF
Every year I’m given the best job a guy could ever want: planning hardware alley, a one day extravaganza of some of the best hardware I’ve ever seen. This event,…
Surprise! European Startups, We’re Extending The Deadline For The Disrupt Battlefield To July 31
Happy mid-summer Monday! To counterbalance the sudden burst of warmth that’s (finally) hitting Europe and is probably making all of you a little less focused on work, we are throwing…
Enterprise Leaders Marc Benioff, Jeff Weiner And Doug Leone At Disrupt SF
San Francisco, here comes Disrupt. Starting on September 7, our annual conference kicks off at the San Francisco Design Concourse. As usual we’ve rounded up Silicon Valley’s luminary entrepreneurs and…
Today Is The Last Day To Apply To The Disrupt SF Battlefield
As Disrupt SF gets ever closer we’d love to have you present on our Battlefield stage. But if you haven’t applied, how can you appear? Your goal today is to…
European Startups! Six More Days To Apply For The Disrupt Europe Battlefield
We’re gearing up for Disrupt Europe this October in Berlin October 26-29 — the very first time that our flagship event is coming to this part of the world. And we want…
Surprise! You Still Get Six More Days To Apply To Disrupt SF Battlefield
Procrastination is a bitch. We get it. That’s why the new deadline to apply to TechCrunch Disrupt Battlefield San Francisco, our preeminent startup competition, is this coming Monday, June 24. In…
Disrupt Europe Startup Battlefield Deadline Is Approaching — $50,000 Is At Stake
Calling all startups from Europe, the Middle East and Africa. We want you. For the very first time, the full TechCrunch Disrupt conference (complete with the main TechCrunch Editors and…
Disrupt SF Is Around The Corner So Submit Your Startup Battlefield Applications By June 19th
TechCrunch Disrupt SF is back! We’re very excited to announce tickets are on sale and that companies in stealth mode can apply for Startup Battlefield for until Wednesday, the 19.…
TechCrunch Returns To China, For Keeps
TechCrunch has a big international readership, and we all know there are no geographical boundaries to the startup revolution. No country has ridden that wave better than China, where huge…
European Startups, Apply For Disrupt Europe Startup Battlefield Now!
Calling startups from London to Lyon, from Tel Aviv to Trondheim, from Amsterdam to Athens: We want you. For the very first time, TechCrunch Disrupt is coming to Europe and we’re looking for the…
Disrupt SF 2013 Startup Battlefield Applications Are Open And Conference Tickets Are On Sale Now
TechCrunch Disrupt SF is back! We’re very excited to announce tickets are on sale and stealth companies can now apply for Startup Battlefield. This September 7-11, we’re bringing Disrupt back…
Napster For Pirated 3D Printing Templates?
Buy it in a store, laser scan it at home, upload it to the web, print it anywhere. 3D printing is poised for the mainstream, but what happens when one…
This Week On The TechCrunch Gadgets Podcast: Disrupt, Acer, And Hydroponics
This week on the TechCrunch Gadgets Podcast we talk about Acer (WTF, Acer?), Disrupt, and Bitponics. This time we’re joined by Matt Burns, Darrell Etherington, Greg Kumparak, and Michael Seo…
Connected Kitchen Scale From Chef Sleeve Tracks Your Nutrition Bite-By-Bite
Chef Sleeve has been selling its iPad-protecting plastic sleeves since 2011 to keep kitchen gunk off the iPad you’re using while you cook. They also make a chopping board with…
Lumu Is A Digital Light Meter For Photographers That Plugs Into Your iPhone & Tells You What Camera Settings To Use
Meet Lumu: a digital light meter for photographers that plugs into the iPhone’s headphone jack as a smaller and smarter replacement for traditional analogue light meters. It’s used in conjunction…
Vox Media CEO Jim Bankoff On How The Company Will Use Its Technology To Attract Brand Advertisers
Vox Media has very quickly become a huge force in online media. The owner of websites like SB Nation and the Verge is seeking to create a whole new generation…
New York Startup Scene Shines At TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2013
The champagne bottles are empty. The startups are packing up. TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2013 is a wrap, and it was a hell of a show. Enigma won the Startup Battlefield,…
The FitBark Pet Activity Monitor Is A Reasonable Device For Pet Owners
I don’t want to awaken the ire of any committed pet owners but I would be lying if I said I didn’t cringe a little bit when I hear about…
Ladies and gentlemen, we have a winner. This year’s crop of Disrupt NY Battlefield startups has been one of our strongest yet, but out of the 30 that entered the…
Snapzoom Gives You A Smartphone Camera Mount That Turns Binoculars Into A Super Zoom Lens
A lot of people don’t carry cameras anymore, now that they have smartphones. But that means that you could miss opportunities to capture great moments, especially when you’re missing out…
Dogs, drones, and digital controllers, oh my! This year’s Disrupt conference in New York was full of amazing webs services and software, but Hardware Alley brought out the best in…
Tumblr’s David Karp On The Pros Of NYC As A Startup Town: At Least Not Everyone’s Wearing “A F*cking Dropbox Or Airbnb Shirt”
At TechCrunch Disrupt 2013 NY today, Tumblr founder David Karp and Sequoia partner Roelof Botha took the stage with TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington to discuss Tumblr’s history, the relationship between…
SV Angel’s Brian Pokorny Says Facebook Isn’t As Much Fun Anymore — It’s A Utility
Brian Pokorny, who recently rejoined SV Angel as a general partner, weighed in this afternoon on the future of a number of high-profile companies — Facebook, Twitter, and Yahoo. Pokorny…
Bitponics Offers A Cloud-Managed Hydroponic Grow Op Anyone Can Operate
Kickstarter-funded Bitponics was showing off its finished product at TechCrunch Disrupt NY’s Hardware Alley today in New York, which is shipping out to backers in the next few weeks according…
Education Startup Siminars Grabs Deepak Chopra For First Major Project
The team at Siminars has developed what they call an “online platform with all the tools you need to build, publish and distribute highly effective courses.” It means that rather…
Rap Genius Reveals Its Business Model Will Be ‘Enterprise Genius’ Collaborative Annotation Tool
How could a site for explaining rap lyrics make good on its $15 million in funding from Andreessen Horowitz? Because it’s also a collaborative text-annotation platform that enterprises are asking…
Limor Fried Explains Why Adafruit Industries Likes Manufacturing In North America
There’s a long-held notion that China should be the go-to place for those in need of inexpensive manufactured products, but some prominent makers don’t buy it. Our own John Biggs…
Joe Lonsdale Of Formation 8 Sees Goverment, Finance, Healthcare, Energy And Logistics As Ripe Areas For Disruption
One of the common themes that we’re hearing from investors during Disrupt NYC has been that the areas that are ready to be disrupted might not be anywhere close to…
