Bitcoin World Disrupt 2025: Unleash Critical Startup Growth Insights

Navigating Bitcoin World Disrupt 2025: Your Blueprint for Success

The countdown to Bitcoin World Disrupt 2025 is almost over, and the agenda promises an unparalleled experience. These aren’t just lectures; breakout sessions are designed for hands-on learning and practical takeaways. Imagine being shoulder-to-shoulder with the operators, founders, and investors who are actively building what’s next in tech. These first-come, first-served rooms are where the real work gets done, offering a direct line to expertise across a vast array of topics.

From October 27-29, you’ll have access to insights from heavy hitters like Google Cloud, Netflix, Microsoft, Box, a16z, ElevenLabs, and leaders from Coinbase and GitHub. These 250+ experts will guide over 200 sessions, all crafted to fuel startup growth and sharpen your competitive edge. Beyond the sessions, you can explore over 300 showcasing startups across all sectors, offering a glimpse into the future of technology and potential investment opportunities.

Don’t miss your chance to secure your spot and pocket significant ticket savings. Register now to save up to $444 on your pass, and consider bringing a plus-one to take advantage of a 60% discount on their pass. Prices will increase when the event doors open, so act fast.

Accelerating Startup Growth: Insights from Industry Titans

One of the core themes at Bitcoin World Disrupt 2025 is empowering founders to achieve sustainable startup growth. Several sessions are specifically tailored to help you identify opportunities and overcome common hurdles:

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  The Untapped Opportunity Hidden in Business Workflows: Umair Javed (CEO, tkxel), Marcus Torres (CPO, Quickbase), and Umair Bashir (fractional CTO, Signal) will reveal how to spot and productize everyday workflow pain points. This session is perfect for founders seeking wedge use cases in large, established categories, turning ‘boring’ processes into sticky software that drives ROI.
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  Build First, Fund Later: The Founder’s Guide to Bootstrapping Breakout Startups: Tarun Raisoni (co-founder and CEO, Gruve) shares pragmatic tactics for achieving capital efficiency. Learn how to find your initial ideal customer profile (ICP), land lighthouse customers, and fund early growth through revenue, ensuring you raise capital on your own terms.
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  Startup Lessons You Won’t Find in a Playbook: Santi Subotovsky (General Partner, Emergence Capital) and Melissa Wong (co-founder and CEO, Zipline) offer unvarnished lessons from scaling enterprise software and consumer operations. Expect candid discussions on hiring executives, navigating slow sales cycles, and adapting when plans meet reality.
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  How to Get Acquired in Tech (Without Selling Out): M&A Tips for Founders and Builders: Aklil Ibssa (Head of Corporate Dev and M&A, Coinbase) and Yonas Beshawred (co-founder and CEO, StarSling) provide an inside view on M&A readiness, outreach, and deal mechanics, from packaging financials to integration planning, ensuring premium outcomes without compromising your mission.

Mastering Fundraising Strategies: Avoiding Common Pitfalls

Securing capital is often a make-or-break moment for startups. Bitcoin World Disrupt 2025 dedicates significant time to helping founders refine their fundraising strategies:

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  Fundraising Mistakes That Will Kill Your Round (and How to Avoid Them): Kamila Khasanova (Founder and CEO, On Top Strategy), Sam Li (co-founder and CEO, Thoropass), Ashley Paston (Partner, General Catalyst), and Dr. Richard Munassi (Managing Director, Tampa Bay Wave) provide four distinct vantage points – comms, founder, VC, and accelerator. They break down deal-killers like muddy narratives, incorrect metrics, and mismatched targets, offering fix-it habits that lead to a ‘yes.’
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  Fundraising Process Workshop with TC editor turned VC Josh Constine: Josh Constine (Venture Partner, SignalFire) offers a hands-on teardown of your fundraise, covering story arc, proof points, data room, and outreach sequencing. As a former TC editor who has reviewed thousands of pitches, his insights are invaluable.
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  Inside the Family Office Playbook: How the Wealthiest Invest in Startups and Venture Funds: Mariane Bekker (Managing Partner, Founders Bay), Amanda Daniels (Founder, VP, and Investor, 5840 Holdings), Brett Horton (Chief Investment Officer, Paris-Roubaix Group), and Daniel Idzkowski (CIO, I.D.I.T. Family Office) decode the mandates, diligence processes, and pacing within family offices. This session helps founders and emerging managers understand how and when to engage this growing capital source.
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  CVC: What’s Different? What’s Their Superpower?: Nicolas Sauvage (President, TDK Ventures) demystifies modern Corporate Venture Capital (CVCs), revealing how to identify the 20% that deliver strategic and financial value, move with speed, and genuinely accelerate founder success.

Leveraging Cutting-Edge AI Tools for Development and Beyond

Artificial intelligence is at the forefront of technological advancement, and Bitcoin World Disrupt 2025 offers deep dives into how AI tools are transforming various sectors:

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  From Vibes to Velocity: How AI Tools Can Help You Achieve Your Development Goals: Tim Rogers (Staff Product Manager, GitHub Copilot) moves beyond demos to show real patterns for using agents and copilots. Learn how to reduce toil, speed up reviews, and unblock teams without compromising code quality or security in your Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
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  AI at the Brink: Strategic Playbook for National Security: Daniel Hendrycks (Executive Director, Center for AI Safety) explores where frontier-model risk meets real-world stakes. This session provides practical frameworks for evaluating, red-teaming, and governing high-impact AI systems where failure is not an option.
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  Agentic AI for Startups: Automate, Adapt, and Accelerate Growth: Anmol Rastogi (Head of Product Management, AI & ML – Amazon Business) and Anjali Mann (Technical Program Manager, Microsoft) discuss where agents excel today and their current limitations. Discover patterns to deploy agents in operations, support, and sales while keeping humans in the loop for quality assurance.
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  Rewriting Healthcare Workflows with AI: Zubair Ahsan (co-founder and CEO, Max AI), Kanyi Maqubela (Managing Partner, Kindred Ventures), and Varun Krishnamurthy (co-founder and CEO, Assured Health) explore how healthcare organizations are reinventing workflows post-scribes and AI documentation, transforming intake, billing, credentialing, and patient care.
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  Embracing AI for a Better Digital Future: Meghana Dhar (Tech Advisor and Investor) and Matt Madrigal (CTO, Pinterest) outline pragmatic paths to deploy AI that users genuinely love. The discussion covers measurement, safety, and how AI impacts every surface area, from discovery to commerce.
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  Being Heard in the Age of AI: Qianwen Chen (CEO, EchoHer), Fay Kallel (Chief Product and Design Officer, Headspace), and Chenxi Wang (General Partner, Rain Capital) address the challenge of standing out in a feed saturated by AI-generated content. Learn tactics for signal, trust, and measurable lift for brands, creators, and products.
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  Powering AI: The Race to Scale Gigawatts of New Energy: Mike Schroepfer (Founder and Partner, Gigascale Capital) and Garth Sheldon-Coulson (co-founder and CEO, Panthalassa) reveal how the world’s largest new energy platforms can power AI and share lessons on scaling breakthrough clean-tech from R&D to market.
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  AI & Agents: Shaping How We Build, Live & Connect: Patrick Murphy (co-founder and CEO, Maket), Alyx van der Vorm (founder and CEO, Clyx), Jeremiah Owyang (General Partner, Blitzscaling Ventures), and Thomas Foley (Revenue Leader, Composio) showcase real agent use cases spanning build tools, real estate, and social, alongside the infrastructure and product decisions that transform novelty into daily utility.

Exploring Deep Tech Innovation: Beyond Just AI

While AI dominates headlines, Bitcoin World Disrupt 2025 also highlights the vast potential of Deep Tech Innovation, recognizing that groundbreaking science is shaping industries beyond traditional software:

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  Discovery to Disruption: Turning Research into Venture-Backable Companies: Pratik Nimbalkar (CEO, Plaid Semiconductors), Jared O (co-founder and CEO, SirenOpt), Chon Tang (Managing Partner, Berkeley SkyDeck Fund), and Asad Tirmizi (CEO, T-robotics) provide the translational playbook. This session covers validating markets, securing non-dilutive capital, and sequencing milestones so deep tech ventures can pass VC filters without losing their scientific edge.
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  SOSV: Where Deep Tech is Headed (It’s Not JUST AI): Westley Dang (Principal), Philipp Sander (Investment Analyst), Po Bronson (General Partner), and Sierra Brooks (Senior Scientist and Analyst) from SOSV IndieBioSF reveal how deep-tech founders can transform breakthrough science into scalable, world-changing companies in biomanufacturing, advanced materials, energy solutions, and health.