The Wait Is Almost Over: The 2025 Startup Battlefield 200 List Drops August 27

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After reviewing thousands of groundbreaking applications from astir nan globe, TechCrunch is conscionable days distant from announcing nan 2025 Startup Battlefield 200 — our handpicked cohort of nan astir promising early-stage startups group to return nan shape astatine TechCrunch Disrupt this October 27-29.

The 2025 Startup Battlefield 200 database will spell live, correct here, connected Wednesday, August 27, astatine 9:00 a.m. PT.

Whether you applied, referred a standout founder, aliases conscionable want to spot who made nan cut, this is nan infinitesimal you’ve been waiting for. Your name. Your rival. Your adjacent investment. They mightiness each beryllium connected this list.

This October marks 20 years that TechCrunch Disrupt has been shaping nan startup world — and we’re pulling retired each nan stops. For 2 decades, nan biggest names successful tech, task capital, and startups person taken our shape to stock their visions and make history. Game-changers for illustration Dropbox, Cloudflare, Fitbit, and Discord sewage their commencement successful Startup Battlefield — and this is wherever nan adjacent procreation of breakout companies will beryllium born.

Want to spot these rising stars transportation live? Hear from top-tier founders and investors? Network pinch nan group shaping nan early of tech? Grab your summons to Disrupt 2025, happening October 27–29 successful San Francisco.

Last year’s winner, Salva Health, topped a competitory section of startups pinch its improvement of a portable instrumentality to observe bosom crab early, particularly successful agrarian populations that deficiency entree to mammograms and different diagnostic tools. You tin relive their triumph below, listen to our Equity podcast question and reply pinch CEO Valentina Agudelo, aliases get a elaborate rundown of their travel here.

Salva was acold from alone. Out of nan cohort of 200 trailblazing startups, TechCrunch editorial selected nan 2024 Top 20 finalists who wowed nan crowd pinch their disruptive innovations, unrecorded demos, and perfected pitches. Runner-up geCKo Materials turned heads pinch its compelling story astir really years of investigation led to a breakthrough invention successful adhesive materials that is disrupting nan Velcro manufacture 1 impossibly sticky business astatine a time.

This year’s Startup Battlefield 200 Top 20 finalists will beryllium revealed connected Day 1 of Disrupt 2025 (Monday, October 27). You don’t want to miss nan chance to spot these founders conflict it retired unrecorded onstage for nan $100,000 prize and Disrupt Cup. Your incumbent will beryllium there. Your competitors person registered. Don’t get near down — get your tickets to Disrupt 2025.

Mark your calendars and group your alarms — nan 2025 Startup Battlefield 200 database drops correct present connected Wednesday, August 27 astatine 9:00 a.m. PT. Be nan first to spot which exceptional startups made nan cut.

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