TechCrunch Disrupt — San Francisco

The legendary Startup Battlefield competition has launched companies including Dropbox, Mint, and Cloudflare, making Disrupt the conference where seed-stage founders still go to get discovered by top-tier VCs. It produces 50% more unicorns than any other seed-stage focused conference on this list, with participating startups raising an average of $3.2 million within a year of pitching.