Battlefield
At TechCrunch’s Startup Battlefield, held at TechCrunch’s Disrupt conference, companies compete for the investor attention, media coverage, glory and prize money that comes with the competitive pitching process that pits them against 200 of their fellow entrepreneurial comrades.
TC Startup Battlefield master class with Lightspeed Ventures: Use generative AI to supercharge efficiency
Raviraj Jain, partner at Lightspeed Ventures, explains how early-stage startups will be impacted by GenAI, and what to look out for.
TC Startup Battlefield master class with Blumberg Capital: Make the most of your investors’ expertise
David Blumberg, founder and managing partner at Blumberg Ventures, explains how early-stage startups can look to their investors for help with solving problems, scaling, hiring, and strategic planning.
TC Startup Battlefield master class with Canvas Ventures: Creating strategic defensibility as an early-stage startup
Canvas Ventures’ Mike Ghaffary outlines the important components of defensibility, the key strategic advantage buckets, and how startups can stay competitive.
AquaLith might have an answer to the US battery material shortage problem
AquaLith looks to make new types of battery cell components that don’t rely on the scarce metals normally used in lithium-ion battery packs.
Akowe wants to fix Africa’s broken certificate system with blockchain
The crypto industry has long been criticized for its disconnection with the real world, but there are players who try to show that the underlying blockchain technology can solve some…
Power amplifier startup Falcomm to close $4M, taking on Qualcomm and Broadcom
Smartphones are equipped with a range of chips that perform various functions. Among them, there’s a semiconductor chip called the power amplifier that is responsible for conditioning and amplifying the…
Niura’s EEG-implemented earbuds scan your brain health and recommend music to your mood
Niura has developed a pair of earbuds that monitor brain activity and, it claims, can both watch for potential health issues and match music to a user’s mood. The founders,…
South Africa’s FinanceGPT simplifies financial analysis, set to interface in local languages
FinanceGPT is a generative AI startup built to help companies in their financial analysis tasks. Initially built for startups without in-house finance teams, and VCs looking to run financial health…
Inside Kinhub’s plan to democratize employee wellness
Kinhub, a B2B SaaS platform powered by AI, seeks to democratize access to coaching and wellness support for employees.
eStreamly blends physical, digital shopping with the video as the star
eStreamly offers business-to-business video commerce software to enable livestreams and videos to be shoppable across platforms.
Kindo aims to take the security stress out of AI workflows
Ron Williams, co-founder and CEO of Kindo, knows a thing or two about cybersecurity, having previously led security teams at League of Legends developer Riot Games, shared scooter startup Bird…
FireBot is designed to scout burning buildings before sending in firefighters
Stanley Wilson died a decade ago, battling a six-alarm fire at a Dallas, Texas, condominium complex. Two additional firefighters were taken to a hospital and two residents were treated on…
Frontier Space Technologies is developing an on-orbit autonomous lab to make space science easy
Astronauts have been conducting experiments on the International Space Station for as long as the station has been in orbit, but astronaut labor is expensive: crew time costs $130,000 per…
Carrots&Cake wants to help parents make their kids’ screen time more beneficial and less addictive
Carrots&Cake, a Kuala Lumpur-based startup, is aiming to help parents manage their kids’ screen time in an automated way.
Mesh, which helps people manage their digital assets, raises $22M
Mesh (formerly Front Finance), a startup developing a service to help customers transfer and manage digital assets like crypto, has raised $22 million in a Series A funding round led…
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Here are the 6 finalists of Startup Battlefield at Disrupt 2023
During the last two days, 20 startups pitched their companies as part of TechCrunch Startup Battlefield at Disrupt 2023. These 20 companies were selected as the best of the Startup Battlefield 200 and competed for a chance to take home the Startup Battlefield Cup and $100,000. Expert judges asked the…
Several years ago, Aleksander Caban, the co-founder of Carbon Studio, a Polish VR game developer, observed a major problem in modern game design. He had to create rocks, hills, paths…
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Betweened wants to teach kids how to use social media, not shut them out of it
Keeping kids off social media is idealistic at best, and giving them access to it opens a Pandora’s box of privacy concerns.
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MakersHub deciphers accounts payable data so construction companies don’t have to
MakersHub’s WiseVision technology extracts and contextualizes all data on bills and receipts, including every line item and data field.
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Agri-Trak is helping farms replace pen and paper with digital tools to track labor and production
Meet Agri-Trak, a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform designed to help farms digitize, track and analyze their labor and production. The Pultneyville, New York-based startup presented today at TechCrunch Disrupt Startup Battlefield to detail how its labor tracking and H2-A compliance software is helping farms replace pen and paper with easy-to-use digital…
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AppFactor drags legacy enterprise apps to the cloud through automation
Technical debt is often the unsung villain of the enterprise, crippling companies seeking to modernize as they realize just how much “legacy” lives in their stack. And as with most kinds of debt, there is usually interest to pay, too. This is something that fledgling U.K. startup AppFactor is setting…
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Reekon hopes high-tech home improvement tools can drag contractors into the 21st century
TechCrunch Disrupt Battlefield company Reekon is building the next generation of smart tools for home contractors.
Alpha3D wants to accelerate digital asset and AI-powered generation through cheaper, hyperscaling technology
Alpha3D, a generative AI–powered platform, is a participant of the Startup Battlefield 200 cohort to showcase a technology that can hyperscale digital assets.
JusticeText taps AI to transcribe evidence for public defenders
While studying computer science at the University of Chicago, Devshi Mehrotra and Leslie Jones-Dove were inspired to build tech that centered on the needs of communities historically marginalized by law…
Clika is building a platform to make AI models run faster
Clika, a startup participating in the Battlefield 200 competition at TC Disrupt 2023, aims to build tech to “compress” existing AI models.
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PDS is coming to a cop car near you to stop you from drug-driving
According to a 2022 traffic safety study, 56% of drivers involved in serious injury or fatal crashes tested positive for at least one drug. In 2020, there were more than 5 million car accidents reported to the police — that’s about one crash every six minutes. Between those two stats,…
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Parallel Health takes a biotech-forward approach to skincare with custom phage therapy
Parallel Health turns the microbiome of the skin from creepy fact to potentially transformative skin care with custom phage therapy.
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Mainstack’s no-code online business service eliminates cross-border payment complexity
Ayobami Oyaleke and Olamide Akinola grew up in Nigeria dreaming of launching a tech startup. Today they are living that dream with Mainstack, a no-code website-building tool for small business owners that includes a twist: a tool that makes it easy to accept cross-border payments. Mainstack is also part of…
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Untap Health wants to help offices and care homes track risk from bugs like flu and COVID-19
Ever since the pandemic we’ve been told we’ll need to learn to live with COVID-19, while also being warned it won’t be the last pandemic to hit us. Yet health risks aren’t equal in their impacts, so finding ways to intelligently manage risks around illness and infectious disease is critical…
Kenyan fintech FlexPay is helping shoppers save for future purchases
FlexPay Technologies is a Kenyan fintech out to enable consumers to afford products that would have otherwise been out of reach for them.
