echCrunch Disrupt 2026 is the definitive conference for startups at every stage of growth. From early-stage founders with breakthrough ideas to scaling companies and investors searching for the next big opportunity, Disrupt delivers resources, insights, and connections to move ventures forward. The event features Startup Battlefield, keynotes, panels, works…
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The smartest founders today aren’t just building for IPOs, they’re building with acquisition in mind from day one. As exits shift and capital tightens, understanding M&A early has …
Payments, investing, and financial infrastructure are being rebuilt in real time. In this fireside, Abhishek Fatehpuria, Head of Product at Robinhood, explores how new technologies…
Founders are increasingly expected to compete for capital before they even have a product. At the pre seed stage, investors are betting on story, conviction, and founder market fit…
Global payments and financial infrastructure were not built for the speed of modern internet businesses. In this fireside, Jack Zhang, cofounder and CEO of Airwallex, shares how co…
AI is scaling faster than the grid that powers it. As datacenters push toward gigawatt level demand, hyperscalers are racing to secure energy and rethink compute infrastructure. Th…
The product instincts that win at MVP can break at billion user scale. In this fireside, Robby Stein, VP of Product at Google, shares how product decision making changes when every…
AI is reshaping how software gets built, scaled, and deployed, creating new opportunities across infrastructure and developer tools. In this fireside, Jeff Lawson of Inertia shares…
Early stage companies are no longer just building with AI, they’re staffing alongside it. As AI agents take on engineering, support, and operations, the definition of an early team…
There’s no shortage of clean energy projects, only a shortage of ways to connect them. As grid bottlenecks delay deployments across the country, this session explores why projects …
An audience of 48 companies, parsed from the program.
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96% of the speakers carry senior titles — C-suite, Founder, VP, or Director-level.
Of 28 on the bill · classified by free-text title
These companies sponsored two or more peer events recently, but aren't on this program. For an organizer, that's a list of warm prospects.