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It’s finally time to announce the five Startup Battlefield finalists. It all started earlier this year when the TechCrunch editorial team selected 200 companies from thousands of applicants. From there, the team then selected 20 finalists who pitched their ideas this week on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2024 in front of a jury of investors and packed crowds.
This year’s finalists follow in the footsteps of Startup Battlefield legends like Dropbox, Discord, Cloudflare, and Mint on the Disrupt Stage. With over 1,500 alumni participating in the program, Startup Battlefield alumni have raised over $29 billion in funding with over 200 successful exits.
The five finalists will perform again on the Disrupt Stage on Wednesday, October 30 at 11:30 AM PT opposite Naveen Chadha (Mayfield), Chris Farmer (Signal Fire), Dayna Grayson (Construct Capital), Anne Miura-ko (Floodgate), and Hans Tong (Eminent Capital).
Now, without further ado, here are the five TechCrunch Startup Battlefield 2024 finalists:
It seems fake, or at least like a good illusion: There’s Gecko Materials founder Capella Kirst, an entire bottle of wine dangling from her pinky finger, and the only thing keeping it from shattering into pieces is the super-strong dry adhesive her startup brought along. market. But it’s not a trick. It is the result of years of academic research that Kirst built upon by inventing a way to manufacture the adhesive in large quantities. Inspired by the way real-life gecko feet grip surfaces, the adhesive is like new Velcro — except it only needs one side, leaves no residue, and comes off as quickly as it’s attached. They can do this at least 120,000 times, and as Kirst pointed out in a recent interview with TechCrunch, they can stay connected for seconds, minutes, or even years.
Luna is a health and wellness app for teen girls, designed to help them navigate adolescence. The app allows teens to ask questions about their health and wellness and get answers from experts. It also allows them to track their menstrual cycle, mood and skin. The London-based startup presented today on the Startup Battlefield stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2024 to explain its mission to educate and support teenage girls. Luna is the brainchild of best friends duo Jas Schembri Stothart and Joe Goodall, who came up with the startup idea as part of an assignment during their MBA program at Oxford.
For anyone partying or out dancing, the risk of accidentally taking adulterated drugs is real. MabLab has created a test strip that detects the five most common and dangerous additives in minutes. Co-founders Vienna Sparks and Skye Lam met in high school, and during college the couple lost a friend to an overdose. It’s a story that, unfortunately, a lot of people (myself included) can relate to. Fortunately, test strips are now a common sight in health settings and centers, with hundreds of millions of them shipped annually.
Six years ago, while researching a college entrepreneurship competition, Valentina Agudelo identified a troubling gap in breast cancer survival rates between Latin America and the developed world, with women in her native Colombia and the rest of the continent dying at higher rates from delayed pregnancies. a statement. She recognized that breast cancer is highly treatable when diagnosed early, yet many Latin American countries have large rural populations who lack access to mammograms and other diagnostic tools. So Agudelo and her two best friends decided to create a theoretically portable device that could detect breast cancer early.
In the summer of 2020, a fire broke out on a cruise ship anchored in San Diego Bay. For more than four days, the USS Bonhomme Richard burned, as helicopters dropped buckets of water from above, boats spewed water from below, and firefighters aboard rushed to control the blaze. Before the embers cooled, LIDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) scans were carried out to assess the extent of the damage and to find out how the fire started. But the investigation stalled, in part because of how difficult it is to transmit lidar scans.
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