Meet the latest VC judges joining Startup Battlefield 200 at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 

The Startup Battlefield 200 global transportation contention at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, taking spot October 27–29 astatine San Francisco’s Moscone West, is conscionable weeks away, and the stakes person ne'er been higher. 

Twenty founders volition transportation their companies on the Disrupt Stage, but lone 1 volition locomotion distant with the $100,000 equity-free prize and the coveted Disrupt Cup. Helping to determine the victor is our world-class roster of judges, investors, and operators who cognize what it takes to physique enduring companies.

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Today, we’re unveiling the 3rd radical of judges who volition bring their expertise and pugnacious questions to this year’s competition. And we’re not done yet. Stay tuned for 2 much batches of judges successful the weeks ahead. 

Register now to witness the intense “World Series” of transportation competitions and prevention up to $668 connected your pass. Rates emergence aft September 26.

Without further ado, conscionable our adjacent 5 Battlefield 200 judges 

Check retired the Disrupt agenda to spot the 10 judges who person already been announced. 

Jon Chu, Partner, Khosla Ventures 

Jon Chu is a spouse at Khosla Ventures with a passionateness for instrumentality learning and its interaction connected endeavor infrastructure, applications, and developer tools. Before joining Khosla Ventures, helium built a vocation successful exertion arsenic a founder, aboriginal employee, and organizational person crossed a scope of engineering and merchandise roles. 

He started arsenic an aboriginal technologist astatine Palantir, helping the company grow from 200 to 1,800 employees. He past founded KoalityCode, which helium sold to Docker, wherever helium created and led Docker’s endeavor division. At Opendoor, Jon served arsenic caput of merchandise for maturation and caput of engineering for Core Machine Learning, contributing to the company’s maturation to IPO. Most recently, helium led planetary engineering organizations astatine Facebook successful some VR and instrumentality learning.

Eryk Dobrushkin, Partner, Index Ventures 

Eryk Dobrushkin is a spouse at Index Ventures, investing from inception to the maturation stages successful artificial intelligence, infrastructure, and robotics. He is drawn to funny and relentless founders who stock his passionateness for tackling the world’s toughest problems. 

Prior to Index, Eryk spent respective years astatine Databricks, where helium partnered intimately with Ali Ghodsi arsenic his chief of staff. During his tenure, Eryk had a front-row seat in one of the fastest-growing endeavor bundle companies successful history, moving crossed each facet of the business — from merchandise and engineering to income and operations. Eryk started his vocation astatine the Boston Consulting Group, wherever helium focused chiefly connected endeavor bundle and integer health. He holds a B.A. successful Applied Math and Economics from Harvard University. 

Cathy Friedman, Executive Venture Partner, GV 

Cathy Friedman is a concern enforcement with nearly 40 years of experience in finance, technology, and healthcare. As executive venture partner at GV, she advises the beingness sciences portfolio and invests crossed the healthcare continuum. Her interests see teen intelligence health, the afloat lifespan of women’s health, and more equitable systems for the underserved. 

Jen Hoskins, Startups Head of Cloud and Partnerships, NVIDIA 

Jen Hoskins leads cloud, partnerships, and go-to-market for Nvidia Inception, a programme designed to assistance startups accelerate method innovation and concern maturation astatine each stages, with 29,000+ members globally. 
 
Hoskins joined Nvidia aft 7 years astatine Microsoft, wherever she held roles successful concern improvement and partnerships crossed merchandise teams, including Microsoft Outlook, Teams, Graph, and Microsoft for Startups. Prior to Microsoft, Hoskins worked successful selling and confederation absorption astatine Cisco. 

Jon McNeill, Co-Founder and CEO, DVx Ventures 

Jon McNeill is the CEO and co-founder of DVx Ventures, a task workplace that has launched 12 companies tackling large-scale marketplace opportunities. A visionary entrepreneur, investor, and operator, Jon has founded six companies, gathering and scaling businesses that created tens of thousands of jobs and delivered 9x returns to investors.  
 
Jon’s operating vocation includes enactment astatine immoderate of the world’s astir transformative companies. As president of Tesla, helium helped standard the institution from $2 cardinal to $20 cardinal successful gross successful just 18 months, overseeing planetary sales, delivery, and service. At Lyft, wherever helium served arsenic COO during a captious maturation phase, Jon doubled revenue, expanded marketplace share, and prepared the institution for its IPO. 
 
He presently serves connected the boards of General Motors, Lululemon, Asurion, CrossFit, and Stash. At Lululemon, Jon played a cardinal relation successful its turnaround, contributing to a 5x summation successful banal value. He besides sits connected the Liquid AI Advisory Council.

Catch this unrecorded and get key lessons for scaling success 

The ultimate planetary pitch-off returns October 27–29. TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 brings unneurotic 10,000+ startups and VC leaders astatine San Francisco’s Moscone West. Witness Startup Battlefield 200 live, articulation sessions, and marque the deals that motorboat tomorrow’s innovation — all astatine the 20th anniversary of TechCrunch. Secure your ticket with up to $668 successful savings before prices rise after September 26.

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