Three days · Moscone West expo floor
57 founders.
Three days on the floor.
At TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 I walked the expo hall with a camera and a handheld mic and asked founders what they are building, why, and what they would tell someone thinking about starting. Here is every conversation, day by day, in the order it happened. Newest day first.
- Founders
- 57
- Days
- 3
- Clips
- 288
- Hours of talk
- 7.2
Day 3 Thursday, Oct 15
14 founders.
Day three on the floor.
The last day on the expo floor: the same questions, a new set of founders, every conversation in the order it happened.
- Founders
- 14
- First interview
- 9:29 AM
- Last interview
- 2:54 PM
- Clips
- 65
Day 3 at a glance: the venue, then every founder I met, one line each.
Day 3, in order
Times are when each interview started on the floor.
Karl Schlegel
onSpark
an AI partnership-matching platform: deals that get done through relationships
Founder
Shah Paran
Tabby
AI bookkeeping for small businesses: connect your bank and Tabby runs your books
Co-Founder
Karmesh Gupta
Osto
a one-stop cybersecurity platform for startups that goes live in under an hour
Co-Founder
Zeke Chavez
Indora Labs
an authorization layer that controls what AI and agents can do inside companies
Founder
Sankung Fatty
Rassket
peak-load energy forecasting for utilities and data centers
Founder
Matteo Vismara
SatEnlight
laser links for satellites and cell towers that use a new property of light
Founder & CEO
Fela Akinse
Trotta
stopping social-engineering attacks before they reach people or their AI agents
Founder
Martha Underwood & Shella Sylla
Prismm
inheritance infrastructure that helps banks pass money to the next generation
Founder & CEO · Co-Founder
Archie Sharma
Hops
a shared workspace where teams and their AI agents work in one place
Founder
Kristina Subbotina
Lexsy
an AI-native embedded general counsel for startups
Founder & CEO
Aim Phattananat Wongwan
MUI Robotics
AI that can smell: an odor-sensing foundation model for robots
Co-Founder
Iaroslav Argunov
WarpStop
gas-price prediction that sends drivers to the cheapest station on their route
Founder
Vitaly Pentegov
Urbanchain
vehicle recognition that turns your car into your pass: no tickets, cards or keys
Co-Founder
Raghavender Sahdev
NuPort Robotics
autonomous trucking for private sites: distribution centers, ports, forestry and mines
Co-Founder & CEO
Day 2 Wednesday, Oct 14
22 founders.
Day two on the floor.
Back on the expo floor for the second day: the same questions, a new set of founders, every conversation in the order it happened.
- Founders
- 22
- First interview
- 10:11 AM
- Last interview
- 4:52 PM
- Clips
- 123
Day 2 at a glance: the venue, then every founder I met, one line each.
Day 2, in order
Times are when each interview started on the floor.
Al-Karim Khimji
Propra
property management software for small and mid-size landlords
Founder
Ori Ohayon
Titl
automated property title data: a week of title work in 30 minutes
Co-Founder & President
Aihui Ong & Michael Han
EasyMate.ai
AI that makes a creator's whole content library searchable and learns what the audience asks
Co-Founder & CEO · Co-Founder & CTO
Anton Vedeshin
Snoika
getting brands seen and recommended in AI and Google search
Founder
Charles Nicholls
SimplicityDX
getting brands recommended by AI search with the video they already have
Founder
Dustin Allen
Trinitite
an on-device AI model that makes other AI follow your rules
Co-Founder & CEO
Shogher Atanesyan
Ardook Data
household data for physical AI, recorded by women working from home
Founder & CEO
Erkang Zheng
Ariso
an AI system for the management bottleneck: progress without the telephone game
Founder & CEO
Phil Hong
GuideAI
a voice-driven operating system for regulated industries
Co-Founder
Irosha de Silva & Yasith Jayawardana
Marketrix
259 million simulated personas for instant user research
Co-Founder & CEO · Co-Founder & CTO
Erin Kim
Mesh
automation for corporate accounting teams
Co-Founder & CEO
Irawati Puteri
Legali
a trauma-informed companion that helps survivors document abuse and reach justice
Founder & CEO
Kitty Yeung
Wear It AI
placing brands' products in user-generated content
Founder
Liz Mason
TaxFigure
the tax intelligence layer for tax advisors
Co-Founder
Enguerand Chretien
VitroBOT
robots that clean and inspect high-rise windows instead of people on ropes
Co-Founder & CEO
Salah Azzouz
Watad
buying, selling and financing construction materials
Founder
Prateek Tripathi
AIRS ML
smartwatch-like edge AI devices that look after industrial machines
Founder
Joshua Bush & Tayo Adesanya
Lola Vision Systems
AI chiplets and an edge-AI software stack that works when the cloud doesn't
Co-Founder · Founder & CEO
Sujit Pal
Public Access
laser-wire metal printing that makes legacy aircraft parts in weeks, not months
Founder & CEO
Honorebel Walker
SpaceTime Industries
deployable robotic posts that let robots work dangerous, remote sites
Founder & CEO
Shruti Gupta
PollSee
digital twins of voters and lawmakers that predict whether proposed laws pass
Founder
Kathy Wang
Press Club
a press agent for founders that only charges when an article lands
Co-Founder
Day 1 Tuesday, Oct 13
21 founders.
One day on the floor.
On the first day of TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 I walked the expo hall with a camera and a handheld mic and asked founders what they are building, why, and what they would tell someone thinking about starting. Here is every conversation, in the order it happened.
- Founders
- 21
- First interview
- 11:42 AM
- Last interview
- 5:15 PM
- Clips
- 100
Day 1 in under a minute: the drive in, the doors opening, and every founder I met.
Day 1, in order
Times are when each interview started on the floor.
Juha Chung
West of the Sun
local, end-to-end dataset synthesis for training your own models
Founder
Almas Kebekbayev
topfm.io
AI-native facility management (cleaning, electrical, HVAC)
Founder
Ansar Keles
Sarqyt
surprise bags of unsold food from cafes and bakeries in Kazakhstan
Team
Nurkan Bolatov
Artisan Education
magnetic, solder-free STEM electronics kits + learning platform for schools
Founder
Keunwoo Lee
LASER N GRAPN
femtosecond lasers that turn wood waste into battery anode carbon
Founder & CEO
Jony Jung
TDS Innovation
2D-semiconductor materials for faster, lower-power AI chips
Founder
Aidar Sadyrov
RoadOne.ai
AI fleet payments that stop fuel fraud
Founder
Vitaliy Ostapchuk
OST Engineering
environmental monitoring hardware + software; Clear Sky City air cleaning
Founder & CEO
Dominik Durner
CedarDB
one database for transactional and analytical workloads
Co-Founder
Dileep Dhakal
Veel
social + creator commerce SaaS for creators and brands
Founder & CEO
Annabelle Zhang
Allin AI
a capital brain for companies: investor relations to fundraising
Founder
Sanket Sahu
AntFabric
AI-native workspace connecting chat, meetings, tasks and agents
Founder
Harris Edelman
Ombligo
data-center decommissioning and refurbished IT hardware
Founder & CEO
Eilin Schjetne
Aparta
flexible co-ownership of the home you live in
Founder & CEO
Yuvraj Singh
Arusto
AI that builds compliant training content for any organization
Founder
Sandra Sertel
Tzun
a receipt for every AI decision
Founder
Tarini Padmanabhuni
Detectif.ai
the world's fastest deepfake detector
Founder & CEO
Ron Ranaldi
Apate.ai
AI agents that infiltrate fraud networks
Team
Jared Goralnick
Your360.ai
a voice-AI executive coach that runs 360 reviews
Co-Founder & CEO
Amresh Singh & Debjit Saha
Ziffy.ai
find, analyze and finance cash-flowing rentals
Founder & CEO · Co-Founder & CTO
Sunmin He
PitchIN
an AI BD agent for B2B matchmaking
Founder