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. 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 for everything from hiring, establishing product market fit, finding investors, improving your leadership skills, and more.
Before you dig in on the event details, you can get info on all of our tickets, which are available for a $100 discount for investors and founders, right here. Even if you’re a student and an aspiring founder, or an investor looking to meet the next wave of East Coast innovators, we have an option for you. 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. 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. 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: We’re glad you asked!
Founder Summit will once again feature the much-requested So You Think You Can Pitch? competition, during which three early stage startups will try to impress a panel of judges within four minutes each. Their approaches, and the judges’ feedback, is invaluable for improving your own pitches. Founder Summit was formerly known as Early Stage and All Stage.
This year, we have the same mission, but with a new name. Keep that in mind if you want to do any more research before attending. Founder Summit is far from a series of panels, though the agenda does provide a ton of valuable insights for founders and investors.
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