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And the winner of Startup Battlefield at Disrupt NY 2017 is… RecordGram

Published May 17, 2017

 Startups participating in the Startup Battlefield have all been hand-picked to participate in our highly competitive startup competition. They all presented in front of multiple groups of VCs and tech leaders serving as judges for a chance to win $50,000 and the coveted Disrupt Cup. After hours of deliberations, TechCrunch editors pored over the judges’ notes and narrowed the list down… Read More

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Pinterest’s visual search technology is coming to its ads

Published May 16, 2017

 Pinterest offers advertisers a unique opportunity for its audience of 175 million users: the ability to catch them at all points of their purchasing lifetime. Brands can advertise against moments of discovery and people searching for and saving products, eventually pushing them down to the point of actually buying a product. But since it fired up its ads business, it’s had to give… Read More

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CreditHero wants to help fix credit scores for those afraid to even look

Published May 15, 2017

 With apps and services for investing and checking credit scores, it might seem like financial services are finally getting more mainstream. But people still need to have decent credit to get to the point where they’ll use those services. That’s why Nicole Sanchez and her co-founders started CreditHero, a service to help people understand their credit score — and how to… Read More

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WeWork’s Adam Neumann on how to hit $1B in revenue with a careful balance

Published May 15, 2017

 WeWork, which is said to be raising as much as $4 billion at a valuation of more than $20 billion, is still on its way to hitting $1 billion in annual revenue this year — though CEO Adam Neumann said at TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2017 that it’s not quite as simple as betting big on enterprise deals. Neumann said that enterprise deals, which would help handle office space for larger… Read More

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reVIVE wins the Disrupt NY 2017 Hackathon Grand Prize

Published May 14, 2017

 It’s been a long night at Pier 36, the site of the Disrupt NY Hackathon. Around 750 engineers and designers got together to come up with something cool, something neat, something awesome. The only condition was that they only had 24 hours to work on their projects. Some of them were participating in our event for the first time, while others were regulars. Here are the top hacks … Read More

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Meet 3 of our Disrupt NY Startup Spotlight companies: Duo Security, Lemonade, and Tala

Published April 5, 2017

 Disrupt NY is right around the bend, and with it comes a brand new type of content: The Startup Spotlight.
Each of these companies will have a total of 15 minutes to tell their story, from origin to potential pivot to real solution, with all the highs and lows that come with it.
Today, I’m pleased to announce three of the companies we’re highlighting at the Disrupt NY Startup… Read More

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Halo is building a wearable to make athletes better, stronger, faster

Published May 9, 2016

Halo Neuroscience Halo Neuroscience wants to build a new category of wearable. Not for passively tracking human activity, as so many existing wearables are, but for actively and positively influencing physical abilities — or that’s the claim — using an existing neurostimulation technique called transcranial direct current stimulation. The team demoed their wearable on stage today, here at… Read More

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Tinder’s Sean Rad Swipes Right On Disrupt NY

Published March 23, 2015

tinder sean rad (6 of 9) Tinder cofounder Sean Rad has been interviewed at Disrupt Europe in 2013, at Disrupt San Francisco in 2014, and this year, he’ll be hitting up the Disrupt NY stage. Tinder has had a wild year. The company started off 2014 with a sexual discrimination lawsuit filed by former VP of marketing Whitney Wolfe after a relationship between her and cofounder and CMO Justin Mateen ended badly.… Read More

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