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Hello and welcome back to Equity TechCrunch's podcast about the business of startups. Today is

Friday, February 20th, and I'm Kirsten Koresk

transportation editor here at TechCrunch, and I'm joined by our weekend editor, Anthony Ha,

and our very human reporter who covers AI, Rebecca Boulon. So welcome, Rebecca. We're used to

listening to you on the Wednesday show, but thanks for joining us on the Friday show.

Yeah, thanks for having me. I'm in the office today, so I don't have my usual equipment. So you might hear some sirens and other things going on around me, but hopefully it's not too distracting. I'm sure our producer will handle and get rid of all those ambulance, sirens. Maybe sound like them. Before we get into the show today, we do have quite a bit to talk about in terms of TechCrunch and what is coming up.

So, Anthony, what is happening at TechCrunch that our listeners might care about?

Well, there are a couple things.

I mean, first of all, of course, there's always interesting news that they should be checking out on TechCrunch.

But some newer things are Startup Battlefield, which is our annual startup competition at Disrupt, is now open for applications. So if you have

a startup that, you know, doesn't necessarily have to be launching in the fall, but is new,

hasn't gotten a ton of exposure, you'd like to be on stage at Disrupt. Now is the time to apply. And one thing to kind of underline about it is that in the last couple of years we've started, we've kind of expanded the pool. And so now it's the Startup Battlefield 200. And so there's going to be a smaller group of companies that are actually on stage, but then there's also a much larger group that they still get to come to disrupt. They have a booth and they still have a presence. So it's not just a small group of 20 startups. So you should apply for that. We also have the TechCrunch Founder Summit in Boston in June. Kirsten, maybe you can tell us a little more about that. Yeah, well, I was there last year.

We hold it every year in Boston.

Some might remember it as early stage or all stage.

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