TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
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- Gudea raises $7M seed to use AI to spot social media crises early
Gudea, a startup founded in 2023 that calls itself a “storm tracker for the internet,” pitched its AI platform on the Startup Battlefield stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, saying it analyzes how narratives travel across more than 500 mainstream and fringe sites including X, Reddit and TikTok rather than just counting mentions. The company said it has raised $7 million in seed funding co-led by Mudita Venture Partners and Silicon Road Ventures, bringing total funding to roughly $15 million, and has nearly 40 clients including a Fortune 50 telecom, a Fortune 50 retailer, government agencies and what it describes as one of the world's largest AI labs. CEO Keith Presley said inauthentic activity now appears around about nine of every ten items the company examines, up from roughly one in four in 2021, and said Gudea plans city-block-level “geolocation for narratives” next year.
TechCrunch AI · 🔥 0 - TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 offers 50% off tickets for final two days
TechCrunch says Disrupt 2026 is down to its last two days, October 14–15 at Moscone West in San Francisco, and is offering 50% off all ticket types: Founder Pass at $550, Attendee Pass at $525, Investor Pass at $600, plus non-profit at $250, student at $200 and Expo+ at $175. The agenda includes two flagship AI Stages, with OpenAI Head of Enterprise Product Alexander Embiricos discussing the launch of its Dots agents, alongside speakers from Anthropic, Hugging Face, Clay and others. The event also features 320+ exhibitors, the Startup Battlefield 200 pitch competition, breakouts and roundtables.
TechCrunch AI · 🔥 0 - Floqer pitches AI sales agents at Disrupt, plans to open-source database
Floqer is an autonomous customer knowledge platform that gives business-to-business sales and marketing teams an AI-powered database designed to continuously collect, organize and update information about their customers. The startup pitched on the Startup Battlefield stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 and said it plans to open-source the technology behind its autonomous customer knowledge database, targeting early 2027 pending security reviews. Floqer says it has surpassed $1.2 million in annual recurring revenue, that overall revenue grew roughly tenfold over the past year, and that it has eight employees and more than 1,000 customers including Perplexity, Wise and AngelList; it also claims customers have cut prospecting time by as much as 70%.
TechCrunch AI · 🔥 0 - Cerebras CEO: home AI assistants 'not very far away'
Speaking at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, Cerebras co-founder and CEO Andrew Feldman said the arrival of AI appliances in people's homes is "not very far away," predicting personal assistants that run partly on-device and partly in the cloud, get to know their users, keep a security perimeter and can hold a credit card to buy things for them. He pointed to consumer agent progress such as Meta's Muse and Instinct, a startup he said is now valued at $10 billion. Separately, Cerebras chief strategy officer Andy Hock told SiliconANGLE's AI Data Pipeline Forum that agentic workflows make speed a prerequisite, describing a Wafer-Scale Engine more than 50 times bigger than prior chips and claiming 10-15x faster inference than other platforms — both company figures, not independently verified. The report also notes Cerebras raised $5.5 billion in its May 2026 IPO.
TechCrunch AI · 🔥 4 - TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 unveils full Disrupt Stage lineup
TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 runs October 13–15 at Moscone West in San Francisco, and organizers have published the full Disrupt Stage speaker lineup. Confirmed speakers include Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe, Cerebras CEO Andrew Feldman, Science Corporation founder Max Hodak, Flock Safety CEO Garrett Langley, all five Benchmark partners, and Ricursive Intelligence co-founders Anna Goldie and Azalia Mirhoseini. Day 2 (October 14) focuses on AI with speakers from Nvidia, Waabi, Flock Safety and Ricursive Intelligence; Amazon's Panos Panay will appear Thursday with new tech, alongside Bluesky CEO Toni Schneider, COO Rose Wang and Replit CEO Amjad Masad. Organizers say the event expects 10,000+ attendees, 200+ sessions, 250+ speakers and 300+ exhibiting startups, with the Startup Battlefield 200 winner receiving $100,000 in equity-free funding.
TechCrunch AI · 🔥 0 - TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 opens tomorrow in San Francisco
TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 begins October 13 at 8 a.m. PT at Moscone West in San Francisco and runs through October 15. The organizer says more than 10,000 founders, investors and tech operators will gather, with 300+ startups exhibiting in the Expo Hall, 200+ sessions across six stages, and 20 Startup Battlefield finalists competing live for the $100,000 prize and the Disrupt Cup. Pre-event ticket discounts of up to $100, a 50% second pass and group savings end when doors open, and laid-off attendees can get a $75 Expo+ pass.
TechCrunch AI · 🔥 0 - TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 ticket discounts end in 4 days
TechCrunch says Disrupt 2026 runs October 13–15 at Moscone West in San Francisco, expecting 10,000 founders, investors and tech leaders, with 200+ sessions, 250+ speakers across six stages and Startup Battlefield 200 pitches. The post says online discounts of up to $100 end when doors open October 13 at 8 a.m. PT, with a 50% discount on a second pass and a $75 Expo+ pass for people recently laid off.
TechCrunch AI · 🔥 0 - TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 opens in days at Moscone West
TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 runs October 13–15 at San Francisco's Moscone West, with organizers expecting more than 10,000 attendees from the global startup and tech ecosystem. The program spans 200+ sessions across six stages and 250+ speakers, plus the Startup Battlefield 200 pitch competition where 20 finalists compete for a $100,000 prize. Discounted passes are available until doors open, with savings of up to $100, 50% off a second pass, and a $75 Expo+ pass for laid-off workers.
TechCrunch AI · 🔥 0 - TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 publishes AI-focused breakout agenda
TechCrunch has published the breakout-session agenda for Disrupt 2026, scheduled for October 13–15 in San Francisco. The AI-focused sessions will cover AI agents, physical AI, inference economics, trustworthy AI, space applications, and growth strategies, alongside fundraising and company-building topics.
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