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How to Get Booked on TechCrunch Startup News
TechCrunch Startup News is a startups podcast with 2000+ episodes. Your strongest route into TechCrunch Startup News starts with evidence from its feed and the contact path this show publishes.
TechCrunch Startup News is not affiliated with Let's Make A Podcast. We cannot book its guests.
What TechCrunch Startup News is about
Listen to select TechCrunch articles on startups coverage, who's raising, who's exiting, who's changing the world.
In the show’s own words, from its public feed.
- Publishes
- a few times a week
- Latest episode
- Aug 21, 2026
- Catalogue
- 2000+ episodes
Recent episodes
Listen to a few of these before you pitch, then reference one by name.
- Apollo Atomics wants to make nuclear power cheaper by shrinking an overlooked part; plus, Detroit startup Grounded raises $5M to customize electric and gas-powered vans
- AI isn’t close to curing cancer. Vivodyne says it knows what it will take; plus, TerraPower’s nuclear reactor has a secret weapon for powering AI data centers
- DOJ’s probe into Andreessen Horowitz over board seats baffles VCs; plus, Etched’s valuation doubles to $21B in a month
- Sound-powered fire protection startup gets $15M to snuff out fires before they turn catastrophic; plus, Wispr looks beyond dictation
- SpaceX officially closes its Cursor acquisition; plus, Stripe will reportedly acquire AI gateway startup OpenRouter for $7B+
Episode list read from the show’s public RSS feed on 2026-08-23.
3 show-specific steps to pitch TechCrunch Startup News
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Listen before you pitch
Start with the latest episode of TechCrunch Startup News, which publishes a few times a week, currently “Apollo Atomics wants to make nuclear power cheaper by shrinking an overlooked…”. Listen for how the host frames the conversation, then make your angle fit TechCrunch Startup News.
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Send it to the address TechCrunch Startup News publishes
TechCrunch Startup News's feed publishes a contact address. We do not print TechCrunch Startup News's address on public pages. A free account opens a pre-addressed draft for TechCrunch Startup News in your mail app; we never send it. TechCrunch Startup News also publishes a contact page on its own site, at techcrunch.com. That one is public, so you can use it right now with no account at all. Get the address for TechCrunch Startup News. Open the TechCrunch Startup News contact page.
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Lead with a specific, relevant angle
Hosts want early-stage specifics: fundraising, product bets, and go-to-market experiments others can learn from. Open with one sentence on why you fit TechCrunch Startup News and the exact topic you would bring to an episode. See our pitch template, or write it now, prefilled for TechCrunch Startup News, then grade the draft against TechCrunch Startup News.
Pitch basics: read the complete guide. TechCrunch Startup News is listed from Apple Podcasts (iTunes Search API), public directory data; its host can manage it below.
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