TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 Audience Choice
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Meet the finalists

Kevin Bai
Founding Forward Deployed Engineer, Rippling
FDE: The Best Commercial Motion in Enterprise Software You’ve Never Heard Of
Learn how Forward Deployed Engineers bridge customer needs and product delivery to drive retention and growth.

Radha Basu
Founder and CEO,
iMerit
Arm Wrestling Your Data: The Physical AI Challenge
Learn how expert-driven data strategies help physical AI handle edge cases, scale safely, and perform in the real world.

Ethan Batraski
Partner,
Venrock
Physical AI Isn’t a Model Problem. It’s an Execution Problem.
Join investors backing the AI category to diagnose what separates intelligence that absorbs real-world variability from intelligence that narrates it.

Jack McCauley
Co-Founder / Board of Trustee,
Oculus VR / UC Berkeley
Business Transformation Leveraging on AI and Cloud Computing
Learn how AI personalizes customer experiences, boosts service efficiency, and drives loyalty and engagement.

Srishti Chaudhary
Senior Manager, Product,
Walmart eCommerce
Beyond Inventory: The Commerce AI Playbook for the Intent Era
Learn how AI interprets shopper intent, reshapes personalization, and transforms the future of commerce.

Sara Choi
Partner, Wing VC
Rebuilding Health Infrastructure with AI
Explore how founders are using AI to build more efficient, personalized, and scalable healthcare solutions.

Sid Coelho-Prabhu
Head of Business,
Coinbase
Selling to AI Agents: Is Your Business Ready?
Learn how to accept payments from AI agents and prepare your business for agent-driven commerce.

Josh Constine
Venture Partner and Solo GP,
SignalFire
How to Launch Your Startup…Without the “Excited to Announce” Clichés
Get a practical playbook for startup launches, media pitching, social growth, and announcement-day success.

Eléonore Crespo
Co-Founder and CEO, Pigment
Can AI Take You Public? The New Playbook for IPO-Ready Finance
Get a practical playbook for building AI-powered, IPO-ready finance operations and controls.

Jack Hidary
CEO, SandboxAQ
What Comes After ChatGPT? AI for the Physical World
Explore the rise of scientific AI and its impact on healthcare, energy, and industrial innovation.

Adarsh Hiremath
Co-CEO and Co-Founder, Mercor
The Enterprise AI Gap: Why Pilots Succeed and Rollouts Fail
Learn why AI pilots stall in production and how to build systems that scale in real-world environments.

James Joaquin
Co-Founder and Managing Director, Obvious Ventures
I Built Before the Internet. AI Is Different.
Explore how AI is reshaping energy, biology, and industry at a pace unlike any prior platform shift.

Nomi Khedawala
Senior Technical Program Manager, Reddit
Talent as the Operating System: How High-Performance Teams Scale in the AI Era
Learn how trust, talent, and alignment drive performance in fast-changing, AI-powered organizations.

Seth Kugler
Partner, Grellas Shah
The Modern Founder’s Blueprint: Safeguarding IP in the Age of GenAI
Learn how AI creates new IP and trade secret risks and how to protect sensitive business information.

Yufeng Li
Member of Technical Staff, OpenAI
When AI Agents Write the Code, What Should Developers Write?
Explore how AI coding agents shift developers from writing code to defining specs, guardrails, and quality.

Sachin Malhotra
Member of Technical Staff, Anthropic
One Engineer, Six Agents: What AI-Native Development Looks Like From Inside
Learn how coding agents let one engineer operate like a multi-engineer team using specs, swarms, and guardrails.

Aditi Maliwal
General Partner, Upfront Ventures
How to Land Your First Institutional Check (From the Person Who Writes Them)
Learn what VCs really underwrite in early-stage deals and how founders should position their story.

Ankita Mehta
Senior Product Manager, GTM and Automation, Databricks
Agentic AI in the Enterprise: Separating Signal From Noise for GTM and Ops Leaders
Learn what’s working in agentic AI deployments, from ROI use cases to adoption and infrastructure challenges.

Keyvan Mohajer
CEO and Co-Founder, SoundHound AI
The Maintenance Tax: What Nobody Tells You About Shipping AI Agents
Learn the hidden costs of scaling AI agents and what it takes to keep them reliable in real-world environments.

Harrison Rolfes
Senior Research Analyst, Late-Stage Company Research, PitchBook
The $100 Billion Entry Fee: Can Anyone Still Compete in AI?
Explore whether the AI frontier is already locked up and where real moats in models, data, and distribution sit.

Nicolas Sauvage
President,
TDK Ventures
Deeptech Is Eating Silicon Valley: Why the Next $100B Companies Won’t Look Like Startups
Explore why AI is shifting venture capital from software toward deeptech, infrastructure, and physical industries.

Rudina Seseri
Founder and Managing Partner, Glasswing Ventures
The Inference Economy: Why AI’s Next Trillion Dollars Won’t Look Like Its First
Explore how AI value is shifting from training to inference and what that means for startups and moats.

Avi Shultz
Director, Industrial Technologies Office,
U.S. Department of Energy
Deciphering Government: How VCs and Startups Can Tap $200M+ per Year in Funding and Technical Expertise From DOE’s Industrial Technologies Office
Learn how DOE programs support startups and investors with funding, validation, and industrial partnerships.

Rajeev Singh
CEO,
Smartsheet
Is SaaS Dead? AI Is Exposing What Enterprise Software Got Wrong
Explore why AI agents aren’t killing SaaS but exposing the need for orchestration across enterprise systems.

Kulveer Taggar
Founder,
Phosphor Capital
Your Series A Is Won Before the Pitch
Learn how founders win Series A rounds before the pitch by building momentum, leverage, and investor alignment.
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