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This year, TechCrunch Disrupt showcased the unthinkable endowment and groundbreaking ideas of our 2025 Startup Battlefield 200 cohort.
Out of thousands of applications, we selected 200 of the astir promising startups, each bringing unsocial innovations to their respective industries. The contention culminated successful an electrifying lawsuit wherever these startups had the accidental to transportation and show their solutions unrecorded implicit 3 days.
From the top 20 finalists, TechCrunch editorial selected the top 5 companies that past battled it retired for the $100,000 equity-free prize wealth and the coveted Disrupt Cup. The well-deserved triumph went to Glīd, with a beardown runner-up, Nephrogen.
Among the Startup Battlefield 200 were galore industry-defining companies exhibiting and pitching connected the Showcase Stage. Here are the standouts:
Best Showcase Stage transportation by manufacture group
Sustainability
HomeBoost provides AI-powered location vigor assessments that prevention money, chopped carbon, and boost comfort.
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Investwise is gathering AI-driven compliance for commercialized buildings.
Consumer
Rax is democratizing luxury manner done a two-sided marketplace.
Enterprise
Cashew Research delivers adept lawsuit insights accelerated and affordably with AI-powered research.
Health
AWEAR has developed an ear-worn EEG with AI manager for brainwave tracking and accent management.
Policy + Protection
JustiGuide is turning migration from bureaucratic nightmare into seamless infrastructure.
Best booth — it’s a tie!
Billight brought 1 of their light-up excavation gaming systems and secured it to their pop-up banner. They are gathering the “Top Golf” of pool, but without having a excavation array disposable to demo, they did what immoderate bully laminitis would: improvise! This was an innovative usage of abstraction and a large deed successful the Expo Hall.
Calificadas brought the energy, colors, and creativity each the mode from Argentina to their booth setup. They demonstrated their AI-powered connection quality manager successful an interactive way, encouraging attendees to usage their level unrecorded astatine the booth. They were the speech of their row, and rightfully so!
Spirit of Disrupt award
The Spirit of Disrupt grant goes to Manu Seve, co-founder and CEO of Sponstar, who went supra and beyond to make exposure, connections, and opportunities for chap founders done a treasure hunt she organized for weeks starring up to the event. Using her platform, the hunt served 33 participating companies, 15 broadside events featured 200 leads captured, implicit 700 locations visited (about 4 locations per user), and 50 prizes claimed from 8 antithetic startups.
The Startup Battlefield is much than a transportation competition; it’s an accidental to physique relationships with investors, imaginable customers, and chap founders to enactment each different connected their entrepreneurial journeys.
As we observe the achievements of this year’s winners, we are excited to spot however they volition signifier their industries and thrust innovation successful the months and years to come. Congratulations to each the participants of the Startup Battlefield 200, and a peculiar convey you to our judges and sponsors for their enactment successful making TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 a resounding success.
Isabelle leads Startup Battlefield, TechCrunch’s iconic launchpad and contention for the world’s astir promising early-stage startups.
You tin interaction oregon verify outreach from Isabelle by emailing isabelle.johannessen@techcrunch.com.
She scouts apical founders crossed 99+ countries and prepares them to transportation connected the Disrupt signifier successful beforehand of tier-one investors and planetary media. Before TechCrunch, she designed and led planetary startup acceleration programs crossed Japan, Korea, Italy, and Spain—connecting planetary founders with VCs and helping them successfully participate the U.S. market. With a Master’s successful Entrepreneurship & Disruptive Innovation—and a past beingness arsenic a nonrecreational singer—she brings a blend of strategical rigor and signifier beingness to assistance founders trade compelling stories and basal retired successful crowded markets.
Michael operates Startup Battlefield, TechCrunch’s iconic launchpad and contention for the world’s astir promising early-stage startups.
You tin interaction oregon verify outreach from Michael by emailing michael.schick@techcrunch.com.
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