techcrunch News of 08/26/19

Week In Review: Google Rips Out Its Sweet Tooth

Hey. This is Week-in-Review, where I give a heavy amount of analysis and/or rambling thoughts on one story while scouring the rest of the hundreds of stories that emerged on TechCrunch this week to surface my favorites for your reading pleasure. ...

Nonprofits And NGOs: Exhibit At TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2019

Nonprofit groups and NGOs are now  invited to apply for exhibit space in Startup Alley at TechCrunch Disrupt SF on Friday, October 4th. Founded in 2014, TechCrunch Include leverages our extensive network to support underserved and ...

Summer Flash Sale Ends Tonight: 2-For-1 Disrupt Berlin 2019 Passes

Summer’s fading fast, but our 2-for-1 summer flash sale   on Innovator, Founder or Investor   passes to  Disrupt Berlin 2019 is fading even faster. Today’s the final day you can get 2-for-1 tickets to join us in Berlin for two jam-packed ...

Compete In Startup Battlefield At Disrupt Berlin 2019

Lasst die Spiele beginnen, startup founders — let the games begin! In case you haven’t heard, the application window for the Startup Battlefield at Disrupt Berlin 2019 is wide open and waiting for you. Don’t miss the chance to launch your ...

YC Is Doubling Down On These Investment Theses In Its Most Recent Batch

Nearly 200 startups have just graduated from the prestigious San Francisco startup accelerator Y Combinator . The flock of companies are now free to proceed company-building with a fresh $150,000 check and three-months full of tips and tricks from ...

Bring Your Posse To Disrupt SF 2019 With Group Discounts

Disrupt San Francisco 2019 , our flagship event on October 2-4, features three full days of programming, more than 10,000 attendees, over 1,200 exhibiting startups and sponsors — and that’s just for starters. That’s a lot of ground to cover. ...

Fresh Out Of Y Combinator, Tandem Lands Millions From Andreessen Horowitz

Tandem , one of the most sought after companies to graduate from Y Combinator’s summer batch, will emerge from the accelerator program with a supersized seed round and an uncharacteristically high valuation. The months-old business, which is ...

Discover The Startups Exhibiting At Disrupt SF 2019

We’re just a few weeks away from kicking off our flagship event, Disrupt SF 2019 , that takes place on October 2-4. If you’re an investor looking to increase your portfolio, it’s the perfect time to start planning your Disrupt strategy. Never ...

Summer Flash Sale: Score 2-For-1 Passes To Disrupt Berlin 2019

The dog days of summer are upon us, and even busy startuppers across Europe are enjoying a well-deserved vacation. Down time’s important and so is saving money, so all this week we’re holding a 2-for-1 summer flash sale on passes to Disrupt ...

Prices For Passes To Disrupt SF 2019 Increase Next Week

Is it just us or is the summer disappearing faster than ever? Disrupt San Francisco 2019 is right around the corner (October 2-4) and the great early-bird migration is upon us. Your opportunity to save big bucks disappears on August 30. Depending on ...

Founder How-To Content On The Extra Crunch Stage At Disrupt Berlin 2019

Disrupt Berlin 2019 , our premier European tech conference, takes place on 11-12 December and draws 3,000 people from more than 50 countries. Every year we work hard to improve our content programming and present it in new and engaging ways to a very ...

Week In Review: Snapchat Beats A Dead Horse

Hey. This is Week-in-Review, where I give a heavy amount of analysis and/or rambling thoughts on one story while scouring the rest of the hundreds of stories that emerged on TechCrunch this week to surface my favorites for your reading pleasure. ...

Showcase Your Startup In Startup Alley At Disrupt SF 2019

What’s the lifeblood of any early-stage startup? Money and media coverage. Opportunities to acquire both abound at Disrupt San Francisco 2019 , our flagship tech conference that takes place on October 2-4. It’s all about networking and making the ...

How-To: Exhibit For Free In Startup Alley At Disrupt Berlin 2019

We love a good how-to, especially one that saves early-stage startup founders money and positions them for mad success. We’re talking about how to apply to be a TC Top Pick and exhibit at Disrupt Berlin 2019 — for free. Our TC Top Picks ...

China’S Transsion And Kenya’S Wapi Capital Partner On Africa Fund

Chinese mobile-phone and device maker  Transsion is teaming up with Kenya’s Wapi Capital to source and fund early-stage African fintech startups. Headquartered in Shenzhen, Transsion is a top-seller of smartphones in Africa that recently ...

Microsoft Azure CTO Mark Russinovich Will Join Us For TC Sessions: Enterprise On September 5

Being the CTO for one of the three major hyperclouds providers may seem like enough of a job for most people, but Mark Russinovich, the CTO of Microsoft Azure , has a few other talents in his back pocket. Russinovich, who will join us for a fireside ...

Meet The TC Top Picks For Disrupt SF 2019

Honestly, the creativity and quality of early-stage startups and their founders never ceases to amaze us. When we issued the call for applications to our TC Top Picks program for Disrupt San Francisco 2019 , the response was overwhelming — and ...

Apply To The TC Hackathon At Disrupt Berlin 2019

Hey hackathon fans, get ready to pack your bags and book your tickets to Berlin. That’s right, baby, the TC Hackathon returns to Disrupt Berlin 2019 on 11-12 December. We’re looking for creative code warriors of every stripe to compete in a ...

Making Sense Of The WeWork S-1 (Or Trying To)

Hello and welcome back to  Equity , TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. Today is our promised Equity Shot (a short-form, single-topic episode) on the WeWork S-1. You can read ...

Ex-NSA Chief Mike Rogers And team8 Founder Nadav Zafrir Will Be At Disrupt SF

What happens when two former spies meet the startup world? We’re about to find out. We’re pleased to announce former National Security Agency director Adm. Mike Rogers will be at Disrupt SF on October 2-4. The former U.S. intelligence ...