At TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, all your M&A questions will be answered

The year keeps moving swiftly, and so is all of our planning for TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 ! We have an exciting new panel in store for founders in need of merger and acquisition advice … but first, we have a limited-time ticket offer to share. Disrupt will once again be held in San Francisco’s Moscone West from October 13–15, and for a limited time, attendees can also bring a colleague, co-founder, investor, or teammate for less! You can buy one Disrupt 2026 pass here , and get 50% off a second pass of the same ticket type with a limited-time offer that ends May 8 at 11:59 p.m. PT. As for the kind of programming that’ll keep you locked in during Disrupt’s three days, let’s dive into our newest panel that will be on the Builders Stage. Image Credits: TechCrunch Hear at Disrupt how M&A is now an early-stage strategy If you’ve been following our recent coverage, acquisitions and acqui-hires remain in vogue, especially within the AI scene. Whether it’s OpenAI buying Hiro , Anthropic acquiring Vercept , Google taking the team behind Hume AI , or Databricks pulling in two startups just for its security product , it’s been a busy year! And being acquired is far from being the end of a long road for founders; it can be part of their early-stage journey. And with those, and many other acquisitions in mind, we’ve gathered an expert panel to help equip founders with what they need to know about all the M&A options that lie before them. …