The 32 top enterprise tech startups from Disrupt Startup Battlefield
SOURCE:TechCrunch|BY:Julie Bort
Here is the full list of the enterprise tech Startup Battlefield 200 selectees, along with a note on what made us select them for the competition.
Every year, TechCrunch’s Startup Battlefield pitch contest draws thousands of applicants. We whittle those applications down to the top 200 contenders, and of them, the top 20 compete on the big stage to become the winner, taking home the Startup Battlefield Cup and a cash prize of $100,000. But the remaining 180 startups all blew us away as well in their respective categories and compete in their own pitch competition.
Here is the full list of the enterprise tech Startup Battlefield 200 selectees, along with a note on why they landed in the competition
What it does: Builds systems that use multiple forms of AI to uncover “untruths” and authenticate information.
Why it’s noteworthy: AI Seer has a couple of products, including an AI-powered real-time fact-checker and a device that’s like a next-generation polygraph to determine authenticity of information.
What it does: Atlantix is a platform that helps aspiring startup founders find ideas and build business plans.
Why it’s noteworthy: The platform is grounded in a searchable database of over 6,000 university-research innovations and offers examples of everything from pitches to launch materials.
Why it’s noteworthy: Blok is using AI, not just to automate tasks but also to power the data, giving product teams speedier guidance than classic methods like A/B testing or feedback surveys.
What it does: Breakout offers an in-bound sales development representative product, an AI agent that can assist users visiting a website.
Why it’s noteworthy: Breakout wants to turn one-size-fits all websites into personalized destinations that perform tasks like answering questions or making recommendations interactively.
What it does: Cashew offers a platform that eases marketing research tasks, including conducting surveys.
Why it’s noteworthy: Cashew is a next-gen market research platform that helps marketers build their plans and survey their proprietary customer panels of actual humans, not AI synthetic data.
What it does: Collabwriting offers a web-highlighting tool that allows users to save, make notes across all their apps, and collaborate on those insights with others.
Why it’s noteworthy: This is the AI generation’s bookmarking tool that includes access to AI features like fact-checking, “knowledge triggers” that resurface your saved info when you need or ask for it.
What it does: Dextego offers AI agents that act as coaches to help employees level up their skills.
Why it’s noteworthy: Dextego has taken proven behavioral intelligence data and translated it into coaches dedicated to tasks like leadership, sales, motivation, and role-playing.
What it does: Offers AI agents that can sift through large volumes of unstructured documents to perform tasks like extracting information or analytics.
Why it’s noteworthy: Dobs AI plugs into enterprise data sources but leaves all the data, and control of it, in the enterprise’s hands, not sharing the data with others like LLM model makers.
What it does: Gravl is a storefront platform for core research facilities.
Why it’s noteworthy: Gravl is like a Shopify for science facilities, which may have amazing technology innovations to license but need websites and back-office IT to help them do so.
What it does: Hypercubic offers a platform to capture the institutional knowledge around aging mainframe applications.
Why it’s noteworthy: The mainframe, running on legacy code, is still the backbone of many an enterprise, so Hypercubic uses AI for features like debugging and documenting that code.
What it does: Libertify offers an AI platform that converts written documents into interactive videos.
Why it’s noteworthy: Libertify takes a PowerPoint or PDF and quickly generates an AI interactive where the document can explain itself or answer questions, yet the document and its data remain secure, it says.
Why it’s noteworthy: Mappa trained an AI model to analyze voice patterns that correlate with traits that employers may be seeking from job candidates, such as communication style, empathy, and confidence.
What it does: MAy-I offers AI technology for retailers and other foot traffic businesses that captures information about their visitors.
Why it’s noteworthy: Using computer vision, this company offers physical space businesses similar kinds of data that e-commerce sites can obtain about their customers such as gender, age group, and customer journey through the space.
What it does: Mendo offers a tool that helps train the workforce on how to use generative AI tech.
Why it’s noteworthy: This tool shows workers ideal uses for their corporate AI and allows users to share time-saving tips and evolve usage so no worker gets left behind.
What it does: A platform that helps healthcare organizations easily prepare clinical data for use with AI.
Why it’s noteworthy: Nimblemind offers a faster and safer way to structure, label, and manage multimodal health data with automation, audit trails, and APIs.
What it does: PRVIEW is a platform for public relations professionals that automates the tracking of speaking and award programs for their clients.
Why it’s noteworthy: Rather than manually tracking programs via a spreadsheet that could be big PR opportunities for clients, PRVIEW is a platform designed to do that work for the communications team.
What it does: Rayda is a platform that helps IT easily equip remote workers across over 170 countries.
Why it’s noteworthy: In addition to configuring and shipping IT equipment, the platform tracks devices and manages offboarding and device recycling, globally.
What it does: Sponstar helps marketers turn any event or city into a treasure hunt.
Why it’s noteworthy: Treasure hunts are a beloved form of entertainment, and Sponstar makes them easy for brands to organize with quests, rewards, Pokémon Go–style experiences.
What it does: WeShop offers an AI video agent that easily creates professional product photos from a prompt.
Why it’s noteworthy: The company promises e-commerce sites and influencers the ability to upload the product photo and type in a prompt to create an AI-generated photo-shoot-quality pic.
What it does: Zetic is a dev tool to deploy real-time AI directly on their users’ devices.
Why it’s noteworthy: This company offers an enticing alternative to cloud-based AI, allowing AI app makers to decouple their user growth from skyrocketing AI cloud costs.