During the last three days, 20 startups participated within the extremely aggressive Startup Battlefield at TechCrunch Disrupt. These 20 corporations had been chosen as the most effective of the Startup Battlefield 200 and competed for an opportunity to take residence the Startup Battlefield Cup and $100,000. After three days of intense pitching, we now have a winner.
The startups collaborating within the Startup Battlefield had all been hand-picked to take part in our startup competitors. All the businesses offered a dwell demo in entrance of a number of teams of VCs and tech leaders serving as judges for an opportunity to win $100,000 and the coveted Disrupt Cup.
After hours of deliberations, TechCrunch editors pored over the judges’ notes and narrowed the record down to 5 finalists: Gecko Supplies, Luna, MabLab, Salva Well being, and Stitch3D.
These startups made their solution to the finale to demo in entrance of our remaining panel of judges, which included Navin Chaddha (Mayfield), Chris Farmer (SignalFire), Dayna Grayson (Assemble Capital), Ann Miura-Ko (Floodgate), and Hans Tung (Notable Capital).
We’re now able to announce that the winner of TechCrunch Startup Battlefield 2024 is . . .
Winner: Salva Well being
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 ladies in her native Colombia and the remainder of the continent dying at greater charges because of late detection. She realized that breast most cancers is very treatable when identified early, but many Latin American international locations have massive rural populations missing entry to mammograms and different diagnostic instruments. So Agudelo and her two finest mates determined to create Salva Well being, a theoretical transportable gadget that might detect breast most cancers early.
Learn extra about Salva Well being in our separate put up.
Runner-up: Gecko Supplies
It appears to be like faux, or at the very least like a superb phantasm: There’s Gecko Supplies founder Capella Kerst dangling a full wine bottle from her pinky finger, the one factor preserving it from smashing to items being the super-strong dry-adhesive her startup has delivered to market. However it’s no trick. It’s the results of years of educational analysis that Kerst constructed on by inventing a way 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 could actually do that at the very least 120,000 instances and, as Kerst famous in a current interview with TechCrunch, can keep hooked up for seconds, minutes, and even years.
Learn extra about Gecko Supplies in our separate put up.
These two corporations 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.
