The time has lastly come to announce the 5 finalists of the Startup Battlefield. It began earlier this yr when the TechCrunch editorial group chosen 200 corporations from hundreds that utilized. From there, the group then selected the 20 finalists who pitched this week onstage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2024 to investor judges and packed crowds.
This yr’s finalists observe within the footsteps of Startup Battlefield legends like Dropbox, Discord, Cloudflare and Mint on the Disrupt Stage. With over 1,500 alumni having participated in this system, Startup Battlefield Alumni have collectively raised over $29 billion in funding with greater than 200 profitable exits.
The 5 finalists will pitch once more on the Disrupt Stage on Wednesday, October 30 at 11:30 a.m. PT to Navin Chaddha (Mayfield), Chris Farmer (SignalFire), Dayna Grayson (Assemble Capital), Ann Miura-Ko (Floodgate), and Hans Tung (Notable Capital).
Now, with out additional ado, listed below are the 5 TechCrunch Startup Battlefield 2024 finalists:
It appears to be like pretend, or a minimum of like a superb phantasm: There’s Gecko Supplies founder Capella Kerst dangling a full wine bottle from her pinky finger, the one factor conserving it from smashing to items being the super-strong dry-adhesive her startup has dropped at market. But it surely’s no trick. It’s the results of years of educational analysis that Kerst constructed on by inventing a technique to mass-manufacture the adhesive. Impressed by the way in which real-life geckos’ ft grip surfaces, the adhesive is sort of a new Velcro — besides it solely wants one aspect, leaves no residue, and may detach as shortly because it attaches. It may well do that a minimum of 120,000 occasions and, as Kerst famous in a current interview with TechCrunch, can keep hooked up for seconds, minutes, and even years.
Luna is a well being and well-being app for teen women that’s designed to assist them navigate teenhood. The app lets teenagers ask questions on their well being and wellness and get responses from consultants. It additionally lets them observe their durations, moods, and pores and skin. The London-based startup introduced immediately on the Startup Battlefield stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2024 to element its mission to coach and help teen women. Luna is the brainchild of finest buddy duo Jas Schembri-Stothart and Jo Goodall, who got here up with the thought for the startup as a part of an task throughout their MBA program at Oxford.
For anybody who events or goes out dancing, the chance of unintentionally taking adulterated medication is actual. MabLab has created a testing strip that detects the 5 most typical and harmful components in minutes. Co-founders Vienna Sparks and Skye Lam met in highschool, and through faculty the pair misplaced a buddy to overdose. It’s a narrative that, sadly, many individuals (together with myself) can determine with. Fortunately, testing strips are a standard sight now at venues and well being facilities, with a whole lot of hundreds of thousands transport yearly.
Six years in the past, whereas researching for a school entrepreneurship competitors, Valentina Agudelo recognized a troubling hole in breast most cancers survival charges between Latin America and the developed world, with girls in her native Colombia and the remainder of the continent dying at larger charges because of late detection. She realized that breast most cancers is extremely treatable when identified early, but many Latin American nations have massive rural populations missing entry to mammograms and different diagnostic instruments. So Agudelo and her two finest mates determined to create a theoretical moveable system that will detect breast most cancers early.
In the summertime of 2020, a hearth broke out onboard a naval ship docked in San Diego Bay. For greater than 4 days, the USS Bonhomme Richard burned as helicopters dropped buckets of water from above, boats spewed water from under, and firefighters rushed onboard to manage the blaze. Earlier than the embers had even cooled, lidar (mild detection and ranging) scans had been taken to evaluate how unhealthy the harm was and to determine how the hearth even began. However the investigation was stalled, partially due to how exhausting it’s to ship lidar scans.
