The Zapier Story: How We Bootstrapped an Automation Company to $35M ARR – Wade Foster

The Subtraction Economy: Why the Next Great Companies Remove Work with Warp + Sound Ventures

For the past decade, software added dashboards, tools, and layers of complexity. The next generation of AI companies wil

How VCs Actually Decide at Seed in 2026 with Andreessen Horowitz, GV, True Ventures + TechCrunch

Seed funding can feel opaque—especially for first-time founders. In this session, Puneet Agarwal (Managing Partner at Tr

Applied AI + Vertical AI VC Panel

Mercedes Bent (Premise), Vuk Lau (Silicon Gardens), Lotti Siniscalco (Emergence Capital) + Paul Fang (Bay Area Founders

AI, Autonomous + Advanced Systems VC Panel

Ryan Taylor (Fusion Fund), Harshita Mira Venkatesh (Avesta Fund), Joe Dormani (Thomson Reuters Ventures) + Stephen Katri

HealthTech, BioTech + Wellness VC Panel

Harrison Lieberfarb (Canvas Prime), Rainy Guo (Aeterna Capital), Ari Wright (Bison Ventures) + Alfredo Silva (Morrison F

SaaS + Productivity VC Panel

Keshia Theobald-van Gent (BDev Ventures), Kevin Jiang (Mangusta VC), Niamh O'Donnell (Unusual Ventures) + Wael Jabir (Hu

Career Peak: Why Your Best Years May Come Later

Career peak isn't a young founder's game. A Harvard professor explains why fluid intelligence fades, wisdom grows, and your best…

Startups and entrepreneurship: four English-language YouTube channels for companies with no fund behind them

Four of the 28 English-language startup channels in our register, picked so that the bootstrapper, the European press, the public…

How VCs actually decide at seed in 2026 — four signals that open the door

On the Startup Grind stage a16z, GV and True Ventures open what makes them say yes at seed in 2026…

The two-sentence pitch — how billion-dollar companies are actually explained and why you should practise yours

Mercury's founder Immad Akhund teaches the two-sentence pitch that took the company from zero to a $3.5B valuation. What does…