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Leadership changes at Bellevue, Wash.-based companies are dominating the news in this week’s Tech Moves, plus some notable items in neighboring Redmond.

Molly Liu and Aman Puri are tackling the U.S. accounting shortage from another angle — a global one, that is. On Monday, they announced that their AI-powered talent marketplace Mavi, founded in 2023, has officially emerged from stealth. The service helps connect and onboard U.S. companies with top AI-proficient global financial and accounting talent within…

An AI demo can look brilliant in five minutes. Then customers start using the product. They push it into workflows you didn’t anticipate. They expect it to work reliably. And they quickly find out whether it solves a big enough problem to become part of how they work — or becomes another AI experiment they…

When Alexandru Voica, head of corporate affairs at the video-generation startup Synthesia, sent me a link this summer to the newest addition to their PR team, I was surprised. It was aninteractive virtual avatar of him, trained to answer common press questions about Synthesia, like what it does and how it works. The day before,…

If you’ve been laid off, you can get a TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 Expo+ Pass for just $75. The offer is limited to the first 100 qualifying people, or until Disrupt doors open on October 13 at 8 a.m. PT. Once all 100 passes are claimed, the offer is no longer available.

There are now three days left to save up to $200 on your TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 ticket before prices increase. As we continue our countdown of the five reasons why you should attend, we arrive at a key reason that brings 10,000+ founders, investors, and operators together at San Francisco’s Moscone West, October 13–15.

On November 4, TechCrunch’s Founder Summit will bring a vital one-day crash course on startup building to Boston’s SoWa Power Station. Founders shouldn’t have to learn the hardest lessons the hardest way, and this event is designed to make the challenges of starting a company easier and the highs that much greater.

Your window to save up to $200 is closing fast. Current ticket pricing ends Sept. 25 at 11:59 p.m. PT. After that, prices go up.

Shashank Pathak&Mukul Manchanda19 Sep 2026 10:45IST New Update

Comp AI, a cybersecurity and compliance startup, announced that it has raised a $34 million Series A round on Thursday. The round was led by Roo Capital and Grand Ventures.