#Founders

Your customers live on their phones 📱 but your shop doesn't have an app. Yet. For most small...

I've spent 10+ years around fundraising deals, and the pattern repeats: founders raise because it feels like the next step, not because the business needs it yet.…

Anthropic’s planned IPO raises questions over whether it can maintain its safe and responsible AI priorities.

Seven of Anthropic's cofounders can confidentially list up to 10 successors who would inherit their power in a special LLC with voting control.

Founder LLC is one component of the "novel capital and corporate governance structure" that Anthropic outlined in its public S-1 filing.

Europe has more AI talent per capita than the US. It still can't keep its best founders from leaving — here's why.

The staggering fortunes of Anthropic’s seven co-founders have been revealed as the company heads to Wall Street. They have pledged to give most of it away.

Hey everyone, I built a small marketplace called Afyore where SaaS founders post their products and look for affiliates, creators, digital marketers and bloggers to promote them. For promoters it’s completely free right now. No paid plan for us.…

Most non-technical founders we talk to have the same fear: they'll spend months and their savings on...

Hosted by TechCrunch in partnership with Fidelity Private Shares, the full-day event goes beyond fundraising and AI to explore the realities of finding customers, building teams, sharpening a pitch, developing founder leadership, and scaling companies…

TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026 is coming to SoWa Power Station in Boston on November 4, bringing founders, investors, and operators together for a full day of candid conversations, practical sessions, live pitching, networking, and smaller roundtables…

We did it! Photos: Llama Lounge 26 was hosted last week. We were graciously hosted by Microsoft in the heart of Silicon Valley in their newly renovated, state-of-the-art theatre.…

Raising a Series A these days isn't so simple — top investors break down what founders need to know now.

Among the Startup Battlefield 200 were many industry-defining companies exhibiting and pitching on the Showcase Stage. Here are the standouts.

While women expressed an interest in starting businesses at nearly the same rate as men, the transition from aspiration to action remained uneven.

Last month (actually it was August—I’ve been busy), my desperate plea to founders to please stop sending AI slop decks went viral. I wrote it because my Monday-morning pitch deck review routine had gone from exciting to neutral to mildly annoying to…

Do you build the operational backbone of your business before you need it, or do you wait until the cracks show and scramble to fix it?

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.

The Ultimate Beneficial Owner declaration is easy to overlook, but missed updates can expose companies to escalating penalties and licensing complications

An anti-pattern is a commonly used process, structure, or pattern of action that, despite initially appearing to be an appropriate and effective response to a problem, has more bad consequences than good ones.Simeon Simeonov first wrote an introduction to…