2 days till TechCrunch Founder Summit: Boston founders don’t need a Silicon Valley address to build something big
Two days from now, TechCrunch Founder Summit, presented by Fidelity Private Shares, brings founders, investors, and operators together at SoWa Power Station to talk about building companies from Boston and beyond. November 4 is the day to make meaningful founder-focused connections, gain practical…
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Two days from now, TechCrunch Founder Summit, presented by Fidelity Private Shares, brings founders, investors, and operators together at SoWa Power Station to talk about building companies from Boston and beyond. November 4 is the day to make meaningful founder-focused connections, gain practical insights, and take part in conversations designed to move your startup forward. It’s also the last day to secure your pass before ticket prices increase and all special group discounts disappear. Secure your pass savings now. Practical scaling insights to move the needle in your startup Explore the full Founder Summit agenda to discover today’s hottest scaling topics across breakout and roundtable sessions. A Boston company that became much bigger than Boston. Steve Fredette, President, Co-founder, and Director of Toast, brings one of the city’s most recognizable founder stories to the stage. Toast’s journey offers a look at finding customers, developing product-market fit, scaling a company, and continuing to evolve after the original idea succeeds. It is proof that founders don’t have to leave Boston to build a company with national and global reach. Image Credits:Halo Creative The Boston Founder Playbook Chase Garbarino, CEO and Co-founder of HqO, will tackle the geography question directly. He has built from Boston for more than a decade, raised significant capital, and expanded HqO internationally without relocating the company to a traditional West Coast startup hub. His conversation will dig into the advantages, disadvantages, and realities of building where the startup playbook wasn’t necessarily written. Check out the rest of the agenda and all the ticket deals here. A community worth meeting and scaling with Founder Summit isn’t only about the people onstage. It’s also about putting Boston-area founders, investors, and startup leaders into the same room. Braindate networking makes it easier to find conversations around shared challenges. Roundtables bring founders and VCs closer together around specific problems in interactive sessions facilitated by a scaling expert. Official Side Events extend those relationships beyond the event itself, across the Boston startup hub. Image Credits:Halo Creative / Flickr (opens in a new window) 2 days left to save on your pass For founders building in Boston, the ecosystem isn’t something happening somewhere else. It’s already here. On November 4, TechCrunch Founder Summit doors open at SoWa Power Station, bringing Boston’s startup community together for a day of meaningful connections, practical insights, and growth opportunities. Don’t miss your chance to lock in current ticket savings and special deals before prices increase. Register now. Image Credits:TechCrunch Topics AI, Biotech & Health, Climate, Fintech, Robotics, Startups, TC, TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026, Venture When you purchase through links in our articles, we may earn a small commission. This doesn’t affect our editorial independence. TechCrunch Events View Bio November 4 Boston Buy One Pass, Get a Second FreeCover more ground at TechCrunch’s ultimate founder bootcamp of the year by bringing your co-founder or partner for freeBook before the BOGO deal expires Register Now Most Popular Anthropic expected to receive high ‘junk’ rating from credit agencies following IPO, FT report says Lucas Ropek Google’s first data center satellite is online and writing poetry Tim Fernholz As search traffic dries up, Reddit announces it’s shifting to a logged-in experience Sarah Perez AI execs may be too out of touch to build for the general public Amanda Silberling VCs will make billions on Anthropic’s IPO, but Amazon is set to make much (much) more Marina Temkin Billionaire Palmer Luckey isn’t leaving California over the wealth tax Julie Bort Anduril, Qualcomm launch BlueChip, a new kind of US-made laptop Julie Bort