At the heart of Silicon Valley’s biggest annual gathering for startups and VCs, the cracks in tech’s foundation became impossible to ignore. The closing fireside chat at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 on October 26th delivered an unintentionally perfect metaphor for the tech industry’s current moment. There sat Tristan Thompson, NBA champion turned crypto evangelist, earnestly pitching […]
For years, by late autumn, the air over Lahore, Pakistan, was a seasonal weapon. A dense, copper-grey haze would settle over the streets, swallowing highways, schoolyards, and the horizon, reducing traffic lights to blinking, obscured fires. Commuters wore masks long before pandemics made them necessary. By night, hospitals consistently brimmed with coughing children and asthmatic […]
Most companies have no idea how much they are really spending on software. Licenses get renewed automatically, cloud services scale quietly in the background, and expenses pile up without anyone noticing. For the team behind Spendbase, that realization began with a friend who still had access to a company-paid software license worth $3,000 two years […]
Each year, the U.S. spends billions cleaning up fertilizer runoff that pollutes rivers, fuels toxic algal blooms, and drives up food and water costs. What starts in the soil doesn’t stay there. It flows downstream into drinking water systems, fishing communities, and even family grocery budgets. It’s an overlooked crisis, and for soil scientist and […]
Australian parents look for gymnastic equipment that gives children the stability they deserve. The first question asked in a Perth garage led to the founding of a company bent on building a junior training bar without the risk of tipping. Gym Plus created the J-curve base and reinforced joint system, anchoring its best-selling bar with […]
A new decentralized finance (DeFi) platform named Sprout is preparing to enter the market with a bold mission: to demystify crypto yields and make high-performance investing accessible to everyone, not just crypto natives. One core contributor is Sprout’s Brand Experience Designer Yuanchao Zhang, who built the product design on a foundation of intuitive design, transparency, […]
Get ready for prime-time disruption. On November 4, 2025, Season 4, Episode 1 of Go Fund Yourself hits the airwaves and streaming platforms, and this time, the stakes are higher than ever. The show brings two game-changing companies into the spotlight: Patriot Critical Minerals and Opti-Harvest. These are not your typical seed-stage apps. These are industrial-scale innovators […]
At first glance, it might seem that a scanner that won’t power up or a mobile device misplaced on a shift change are pretty minor things. In the abstract, these are just small hiccups. Yet, in distribution centers, hospitals, and public sector offices, they’re actually shockwaves that ripple outward with real financial, operational, and even […]
CereBree, a multi-vertical platform combining agentic AI, enterprise software, and human development, envisions becoming a Technology-as-a-Service (TaaS) enterprise disrupting traditional SaaS by overlaying blockchain integration, advanced technology, and security at its core. The company is targeting one of the biggest inefficiencies in modern business: fragmentation. Its mission is to connect how individuals learn, work, and […]
Picture this: A teacher requests classroom supplies, but the list is long and vague. A nonprofit needs food donations, but volunteers do not know what brands or sizes to buy. A parent in a group chat is tasked with organizing snacks, only to be met with a chorus of conflicting suggestions. What should be straightforward […]
