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This year, TechCrunch Disrupt showcased the incredible talent and breakthrough ideas of the 2025 Startup Battlefield 200 cohort. From thousands of applications, we selected 200 of…

With so much money pouring into AI startups, it’s a good time to be an AI researcher with an idea to try. And if the idea…

While Roy Lee, the founder of Cluely, argues that startups should think more about social media virality, he also admits that brand awareness alone won’t lead…

Eugenia Kuyda saw the future of consumer AI before most. He founded Replika, the first major AI startup-partnership, in 2017 — years before ChatGPT started. Today,…

Solo VC investor Elad Gil said on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 that artificial intelligence was one of the least predictable technological explosions ever seen. Gil…

When PhiaFounders Phoebe Gates and Sophia Kianni decided to create an artificial intelligence startup, targeting an area they understood well: online shopping. The founders, who met…

Typically, when one company acquires another, it will absorb the new company’s branding or incorporate it into its own identity. Grammarly is doing something different: After…

Instead of signing expensive contracts with companies for their data, AI labs these days are trying a new way: tapping former senior employees from those companies…

For three days this week, 20 startups participated in the Startup Battlefield at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025. Each was chosen to represent the best of the Startup…

On Tuesday morning at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, our senior producer Maggie Nye rolled up her jacket sleeve to show me her new tattoo: a classic pixelated…