Startups

Check out the official Disrupt 2022 roundtables

Comment

I tell you what, folks. The roundtable discussions at TechCrunch Disrupt — coming to you live and in person on October 18-20 in San Francisco — will be off the hook.

Disrupt attendees love roundtables — 30-minute, expert-led discussions designed for up to 20 attendees who share an interest in a particular subject. The format allows for deeper conversation, questions and answers, and time for attendees to connect and explore collaborative opportunities.

These roundtables cover a range of interesting topics. Check out the list of sessions below; for the full schedule and descriptions, check out the agenda.

Don’t forget! Prices jump $1,100 come September 16. Book your Disrupt 2022 Pass here.

THE DISRUPT 2022 ROUNDTABLES

Hypefeast: How Hype Fuels The Economy And The Unique Opportunity Startups Have To Take Advantage
with Alain Sylvain (SYLVIAN)

My Daughter The Cyborg
with Jeremiah Robison (CIONIC)

How Will I Know? How To Pick The Right Time (And Way) To Launch From Stealth Mode
with Andrej Safundzic (Lumos)

Starting Early: The How-Tos Of Investing In Student Founders
with Melissa Li (Dorm Room Fund)

From IPO Frenzies To Delays: What’s Changing With Equity
Sponsored By: Secfi

Using AI To Cut Meeting Costs And Time
with Sam Liang (Otter.Ai)
Sponsored By: Otter.Ai

Democratizing Retail With AI-Powered Marketplaces
with Kathy Zhou (Queenly)

Expanding Applications Of AI Across Real Estate And Beyond
with Sam Stone (Opendoor)

Startup Exits: The Good, The Bad & The Ugly
with Sam Wong (Fundable Startups)

Why Nine Out Of Ten Startups Fail
with Dheeraj Pandey (DevRev)
Sponsored By: Mayfield

NFTs For Real-World Problems
with Manuela Seve (alphaa.io)

Making Venture More Accessible
with Ryan Nece (Next Play Capital)

Changing Consumer Behavior & Turning Customers Into Advocates
with TBD

Gen Z: Adapting To The Next Generation Of Consumers
with Emir Talu (Pentas Ventures)

How To Build A Tech Team To Hack Government Bureaucracy
with Hongyi Li (Open Government Products)

Traction vs. Funding: The Chicken-Or-Egg Problem For Deep Tech Startups
with Thomas Rouffiac (Natrion)

Saving The World: The Playbook For Building Planetary Health Unicorns
with Arvind Gupta (Mayfield Fund)
Sponsored By: Mayfield

Art Of Persuasion: How To Convince People To Work With You
with Trisha Bantigue (Queenly)

The Fintech Scaling Dilemma: When To Expand Across Continents
with Yorick Naeff (BUX)

How To Approach Personalization In A Post-Cookie World
with Alexandre Robicquet (Crossing Minds)

How To Recession-Proof Your Saas Startup
with Haseeb Budhani (Rafay Systems)

Harnessing Data And Culture At Scale
with Christine Spang (Nylas)

Design And Scale Using Behavioral Science
with Shirin Oreizy (Next Step)

Love What You Do: Lessons From The Passion Economy
with Robin Åström (Wehype)

Lessons From Disrupting The Disruptors
with Shaival Shah (Ribbon)

Changing Consumer Behavior & Turning Customers Into Advocates
with Sofia Laurell (Tiny Organics)

Pricing For Competitive Advantage
with Andy Rooks (Price Theory)

Hacking Hiring: How To Build An A-Team Without A Budget Of A Large Corporation
with Anna Buldakova (Vektor AI)

The Value Of Flat Wins
with Alex Hersham (Zencargo)

Delivering Value & Driving Pipeline: How B2B Marketers Can Tackle Both
Sponsored By: LinkedIn

A Serial Software Entrepreneur Shares The Playbook For Building Breakout Companies
with Rehan Jalil (Securiti)
Sponsored By: Mayfield

More TechCrunch

Unlike ChatGPT, Claude did not become a new App Store hit.

Anthropic’s Claude sees tepid reception on iOS compared with ChatGPT’s debut

Welcome to Startups Weekly — Haje‘s weekly recap of everything you can’t miss from the world of startups. Sign up here to get it in your inbox every Friday. Look,…

Startups Weekly: Trouble in EV land and Peloton is circling the drain

Scarcely five months after its founding, hard tech startup Layup Parts has landed a $9 million round of financing led by Founders Fund to transform composites manufacturing. Lux Capital and Haystack…

Founders Fund leads financing of composites startup Layup Parts

AI startup Anthropic is changing its policies to allow minors to use its generative AI systems — in certain circumstances, at least.  Announced in a post on the company’s official…

Anthropic now lets kids use its AI tech — within limits

Zeekr’s market hype is noteworthy and may indicate that investors see value in the high-quality, low-price offerings of Chinese automakers.

The buzziest EV IPO of the year is a Chinese automaker

Venture capital has been hit hard by souring macroeconomic conditions over the past few years and it’s not yet clear how the market downturn affected VC fund performance. But recent…

VC fund performance is down sharply — but it may have already hit its lowest point

The person who claims to have 49 million Dell customer records told TechCrunch that he brute-forced an online company portal and scraped customer data, including physical addresses, directly from Dell’s…

Threat actor says he scraped 49M Dell customer addresses before the company found out

The social network has announced an updated version of its app that lets you offer feedback about its algorithmic feed so you can better customize it.

Bluesky now lets you personalize main Discover feed using new controls

Microsoft will launch its own mobile game store in July, the company announced at the Bloomberg Technology Summit on Thursday. Xbox president Sarah Bond shared that the company plans to…

Microsoft is launching its mobile game store in July

Smart ring maker Oura is launching two new features focused on heart health, the company announced on Friday. The first claims to help users get an idea of their cardiovascular…

Oura launches two new heart health features

Keeping up with an industry as fast-moving as AI is a tall order. So until an AI can do it for you, here’s a handy roundup of recent stories in the world…

This Week in AI: OpenAI considers allowing AI porn

Garena is quietly developing new India-themed games even though Free Fire, its biggest title, has still not made a comeback to the country.

Garena is quietly making India-themed games even as Free Fire’s relaunch remains doubtful

The U.S.’ NHTSA has opened a fourth investigation into the Fisker Ocean SUV, spurred by multiple claims of “inadvertent Automatic Emergency Braking.”

Fisker Ocean faces fourth federal safety probe

CoreWeave has formally opened an office in London that will serve as its European headquarters and home to two new data centers.

CoreWeave, a $19B AI compute provider, opens European HQ in London with plans for 2 UK data centers

The Series C funding, which brings its total raise to around $95 million, will go toward mass production of the startup’s inaugural products

AI chip startup DEEPX secures $80M Series C at a $529M valuation 

A dust-up between Evolve Bank & Trust, Mercury and Synapse has led TabaPay to abandon its acquisition plans of troubled banking-as-a-service startup Synapse.

Infighting among fintech players has caused TabaPay to ‘pull out’ from buying bankrupt Synapse

The problem is not the media, but the message.

Apple’s ‘Crush’ ad is disgusting

The Twitter for Android client was “a demo app that Google had created and gave to us,” says Particle co-founder and ex-Twitter employee Sara Beykpour.

Google built some of the first social apps for Android, including Twitter and others

WhatsApp is updating its mobile apps for a fresh and more streamlined look, while also introducing a new “darker dark mode,” the company announced on Thursday. The messaging app says…

WhatsApp’s latest update streamlines navigation and adds a ‘darker dark mode’

Plinky lets you solve the problem of saving and organizing links from anywhere with a focus on simplicity and customization.

Plinky is an app for you to collect and organize links easily

The keynote kicks off at 10 a.m. PT on Tuesday and will offer glimpses into the latest versions of Android, Wear OS and Android TV.

Google I/O 2024: How to watch

For cancer patients, medicines administered in clinical trials can help save or extend lives. But despite thousands of trials in the United States each year, only 3% to 5% of…

Triomics raises $15M Series A to automate cancer clinical trials matching

Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation. Sign up here for free — just click TechCrunch Mobility! Tap, tap.…

Tesla drives Luminar lidar sales and Motional pauses robotaxi plans

The newly announced “Public Content Policy” will now join Reddit’s existing privacy policy and content policy to guide how Reddit’s data is being accessed and used by commercial entities and…

Reddit locks down its public data in new content policy, says use now requires a contract

Eva Ho plans to step away from her position as general partner at Fika Ventures, the Los Angeles-based seed firm she co-founded in 2016. Fika told LPs of Ho’s intention…

Fika Ventures co-founder Eva Ho will step back from the firm after its current fund is deployed

In a post on Werner Vogels’ personal blog, he details Distill, an open-source app he built to transcribe and summarize conference calls.

Amazon’s CTO built a meeting-summarizing app for some reason

Paris-based Mistral AI, a startup working on open source large language models — the building block for generative AI services — has been raising money at a $6 billion valuation,…

Sources: Mistral AI raising at a $6B valuation, SoftBank ‘not in’ but DST is

You can expect plenty of AI, but probably not a lot of hardware.

Google I/O 2024: What to expect

Dating apps and other social friend-finders are being put on notice: Dating app giant Bumble is looking to make more acquisitions.

Bumble says it’s looking to M&A to drive growth

When Class founder Michael Chasen was in college, he and a buddy came up with the idea for Blackboard, an online classroom organizational tool. His original company was acquired for…

Blackboard founder transforms Zoom add-on designed for teachers into business tool