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TechCrunch's annual one-day summit for startup founders will take place on November 4, 2026, at Boston's SoWa Power Station venue. There are seven days left until the doors open, and until then tickets can still be purchased at a discount of up to $100 — prices will rise once the event begins.
Nilufar KarimovaThe EU initiative to create a single digital corporate regime for startups has met resistance from member states and trade unions, while a founders' campaign has warned of the project being 'diluted.' A leaders' summit has been scheduled for February 2027 to break the deadlock.
Otabek YusupovOn 19 October, the European Parliament's Committee on Legal Affairs once again failed to approve the draft report on the EU Inc initiative — a pan-European form of company that would allow a business to be registered in one country and operate across the entire bloc. The sticking point is disagreements over workers' rights, with both startup founders and trade unions unhappy with the current version of the draft.
Otabek YusupovAt TechCrunch Disrupt, the Databricks co-founder explained why 'the best technology' alone doesn't sell to corporations, how a partnership with Microsoft opened the door to UBS, and named the 'four Cs' that customers care about when buying AI.
Aziz KarimovAccording to unofficial estimates, the volume of the influencer marketing market in Uzbekistan has exceeded $100 million, but most deals are still made manually — through correspondence with channel administrators and transfers to personal cards. The main problems: lack of transparency, unreliable statistics and missed placements. Local startups, in particular the Blogix platform, offer automation and AI solutions to bring order to the industry.
Otabek YusupovTechCrunch has published an updated list of shut-down AI startups and products: Character.ai filed for bankruptcy, Relay ceased operations, Notion Mail, Huxe, Yupp, and Figgs AI shut down, and the Humane AI Pin was sold to HP. According to S&P Global Market Intelligence, about 42% of corporate AI initiatives are ultimately abandoned. TechCrunch has published a continuously updated list of shut-down AI startups and products: Character.ai filed for bankruptcy, Relay ceased operations, Notion Mail, Huxe, Yupp, and Figgs AI shut down, and the Humane AI Pin was sold to HP. According to S&P Global Market Intelligence, about 42% of corporate AI initiatives are ultimately abandoned.
Aziz KarimovTechCrunch published a review of the growing market of AI agents that work right inside text messages — from general-purpose assistants Instinct and Poke to family services Fambot and Ollie. The leader by valuation remains Instinct with a $10 billion valuation after a $1 billion round. TechCrunch published an overview of the growing market for AI agents that work right inside text messages — from universal assistants Instinct and Poke to family services Fambot and Ollie. Instinct remains the leader by valuation, with a $10 billion valuation after a $1 billion round.
Otabek YusupovAt the TechCrunch Disrupt conference, the founders of Gamma and Engine and a partner at Google Ventures shared their approaches to acquiring and retaining customers: Gamma grew through its 'Gambassador' influencer program, Engine grew without social media through cold calls and events, and Crystal Huang emphasized the importance of analyzing data on product usage.
Sevara AzamovaAt TechCrunch Disrupt, Iconiq and Sapphire Ventures partners and Superhuman Mail founder Rahul Vohra discussed the new rules of product-market fit: pilots have become easy to get, but conversion to production is hard, and revenue metrics are often inflated. The experts named red and green flags and shared practices such as the internal metric “delighted ARR”.
Javlon TursunovThe third GO! GLOBAL Türkiye Summit opened in Istanbul and will last three days. Organizers are DEIK, the TAIK council and Endeavor Türkiye. More than 50 investment firms with combined capital exceeding $800 billion, 250 startup founders and 900 participants are expected. The program includes over 200 pre-scheduled meetings, as well as speeches by ministers and representatives of Uber, OpenAI, Google DeepMind and other companies.
Sevara AzamovaOn November 4, 2026, TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026 will take place at SoWa Power Station in Boston. The program includes six roundtables with experts on topics ranging from event strategy and entering regulated markets to GraphRAG, selling AI products to enterprises, and how small teams work with AI. Also announced are the Build and Impact stages, a pitch competition, and networking.
Sevara AzamovaPlatform Carta and fund NewView Capital announced a partnership aimed at making it easier for startups to organize tender offers that allow employees to sell a portion of their shares early. According to the companies' joint research, over three years the number of such deals at Series C and later startups could triple, even though only 44 were conducted in the first half of 2026.
Javlon TursunovOn November 4, 2026, TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026 will take place at the SoWa Power Station venue in Boston in partnership with Fidelity Private Shares. Among the speakers are Steve Fredette (Toast), Kent Bennett (Bessemer Venture Partners), Rudina Seseri (Glasswing Ventures), Lior Div (7AI), Chase Garbarino (HqO) and Dave Balter (True Ventures). The program includes sessions on product-market fit, scaling, AI and pitching, as well as live startup pitches before an investor jury.
Javlon TursunovAt TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, Luca Arrighi (Lovable), Ben Broca (Polsia) and Tomasz Tunguz (Theory Ventures) discussed how to build growth in the AI era: early sales don't mean readiness to scale — the key is repeatable go-to-market and closeness to customers.
Sevara AzamovaAt TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, 200 startups were selected from thousands of applications for Startup Battlefield. Five finalists competed for $100,000 with no equity stake and the Disrupt Cup — Intero Biosystems won, with Apate taking second place. Best pitches by industry were also named, along with the best booth (Legali AI) and the Spirit of Disrupt award winner — Shoger Atanesyan of Ardook Data.
Javlon TursunovStartup Nirva, founded by former Meta Reality Labs employees, raised $25 million in a pre-Series A round, bringing total investment to $33 million. The company is developing a pendant weighing about eight grams that passively listens only to the owner's speech, filters out other people's voices, and does not store audio recordings after processing. The $249 device will go on sale in November.
Sevara AzamovaGazeta.uz, in partnership with IT Park Uzbekistan, has launched a series of interviews with women founders of startups from the regions of Uzbekistan. The first heroine was programmer Maftuna Karimova from Andijan, who created the Femmy app about women’s reproductive health in the Uzbek language. The app is used by more than 100,000 women in more than 20 countries, the project won a $100,000 grant at the President Tech Award competition and cooperates with the Ministry of Health.
Sevara AzamovaTechCrunch will hold a one-day Founder Summit 2026 on November 4 at the SoWa Power Station venue in Boston. The program includes sessions on fundraising, AI-focused company building and leadership, a pitch competition, breakout sessions, and networking via the Braindate app. The event was previously called Early Stage and All Stage.
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