TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026: Everything you need to know

TechCrunch Founder Summit is a full-day gathering in Boston on November 4 where founders across all stages connect with top VCs and experienced entrepreneurs to gain tactical insights on building and scaling their companies. It’s the latest in our long line of founder-centric events, which are smaller and more hands-on than Disrupt.

If an extensive lineup of speakers from Anthropic, Nvidia, OpenAI, and Benchmark is your thing, Disrupt tickets are still available here. But for the founder looking to really get in the weeds during a one-day crash course, Founder Summit is the ideal place to get a head start on your 2027 plans.

Before you dig in on the event details, you can get info on all of our tickets, which are available for a $200 discount for investors and founders, right here.

Who is TechCrunch Founder Summit for? 

All founders end up wrestling with the extensive, complicated mechanics of building a company from the ground up. There’s fundraising, hiring, legal, marketing, PR, and leadership, as well as the investors needing the means to vet, invest in, and develop founders as they build out their skills.

Founder Summit is the best way to cover all of the challenging questions with community members who have been there, and lived to tell the tale, through constructive failure and massive success.

When and where is TechCrunch Founder Summit? 

The event takes place on Wednesday, November 4, 2026, at the SoWa Power Station in Boston. It’s accessible via public transportation and a short walk from the Back Bay and Tufts Medical Center stops on the Orange Line, or the Broadway stop on the Red Line.

What’s on the TechCrunch Founder Summit agenda? 

To deliver on that promise of equipping founders for success, this year’s agenda and speakers lean hard into fundraising, AI-native building, and leadership. Sessions include:

• Not Every Dollar Is Equal: Cogent Security co-founder and CEO Vineet Edupuganti on evaluating investors and cap-table trade-offs beyond valuation.