Calling Pre-Series A founders: nominations for TechCrunch Startup Battlefield 200 are open. Compete in the world’s most iconic pitch competition at Disrupt 2026 from October 13 - 15.

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 cursor arrow. TechCrunch’s Becca Szkutak got a ...

This week in Build Mode, Startup Battlefield editor Isabelle Johannessen is joined by the winner of this year’s competition, Kevin Damoa, the CEO and founder of Glīd, a logistics infrastructure ...

Startup Battlefield 200 at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 is almost here, and the pressure has never been greater. With $100,000 on the line, the top 20 early-stage startups know they must deliver their very ...

The 2024 runner-up in the TechCrunch Disrupt Startup Battlefield, geCKo Materials, returned to the stage at this year’s show to debut new products as it pushes deeper into commercializing its tech.

Glīd CEO and founder Kevin Damoa shares his journey toward Startup Battlefield 2025 victory, and how he felt about working with the TechCrunch team, what lessons he learned, and much, much more.

Glīd CEO and founder Kevin Damoa shares what it takes to win Startup Battlefield 2025 and build a company solving real infrastructure problems. Fresh off his victory, De reveals how a veteran’s ...

Hosted by Startup Battlefield Editor Isabelle Johannessen, Build Mode is a survival guide for early-stage founders navigating the messy, high-stakes chaos of building a company from scratch. No ...

Build Mode is back. This season we’re breaking down what it really takes to build a world-class founding team starting with ...