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Every year, TechCrunch’s Startup Battlefield pitch contest attracts thousands of applicants. We count the programs so far Top 200 competitorsand among them, the top 20 compete on the main stage to become the winner, taking part in the Startup Battlefield Cup with a cash prize of $100,000. But the rest of the 180 have all confused us and in their groups and competed in their competitions.
Here’s the full list of businesses selected for the Startup Battlefield 200, along with a note on why they made it to the competition.
What it does: They develop systems that use several types of AI to uncover “fakes” and verify information.
Why it matters: AI Seer has a number of features, including an AI-powered virtual reality scanner and a next-generation polygraph-like tool to determine the truth of information.
What it does: Atlantix is ​​a platform that helps aspiring startups find ideas and create business plans.
Why it matters: The platform is based on a research database of more than 6,000 university innovations and offers examples of everything from forums to startups.
What it does: They provide AI tools for financial operations that are designed for automated operations.
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Why it matters: Billow integrates a variety of AI beyond LLMs to help finance, including voice technology.
What it does: Blok allows product dev teams to test users and production users – AI assistants that represent their users.
Why it matters: Blok is using AI, not only to improve operations but also to improve data, giving sales teams faster feedback than traditional methods like A/B testing or feedback research.
What it does: Breakout offers a product that represents product development, an AI assistant that can help users navigate a website.
Why it matters: Breakout aims to turn one-size-fits-all websites into social networks that function like answering questions or generating ideas collaboratively.
What it does: Cashew provides a platform that supports business research activities, including conducting surveys.
Why it matters: Cashew is the next generation market research platform that helps marketers build their plans and analyze their customers with real people, not AI-generated data.
What it does: CODA provides AI avatars that assist the deaf by translating spoken and written language into sign language.
Why it matters: CODA is using advanced machine learning to provide accessibility for the deaf.
What it does: Collaborative writing provides an online review tool that allows users to store, annotate all of their programs, and collaborate on that information with others.
Why it matters: This is a bookmarking tool for the AI ​​generation that includes access to AI features such as real-time analysis, “knowledge triggers” that refresh your bookmarks when you search or query them.
What it does: Dextego provides AI assistants that act as coaches to help employees improve their skills.
Why is it interesting: Dextego has taken behavioral intelligence insights and translated them into dedicated coaches for careers such as leadership, marketing, motivation, and drama.
What it does: They provide AI agents that can analyze large amounts of unstructured text to perform tasks such as data extraction or analysis.
Why it matters: Dobs AI connects to business processes but leaves everything, and control, in the hands of the business, not sharing data with others such as LLM developers.
What it does: Eloe is speaking The challenge of AI simulations is to assess the true nature of AI .
Why it matters: Elloe is like an AI calculator that uses machine learning but not the same types of LLMs that are available for protection.
What it does: Elroi provides a platform that manages user permissions and provides AI training datasets that adhere to privacy laws.
Why it matters: Privacy rules can be complex and constantly changing, so Elroi solves this problem with user-approved datasets.
What it does: Etiq is developing a data science AI copilot that manages the deployment of data sources to generate AI code or agency workflows.
Why it matters: Etiq emphasizes the experience, as a data scientist, which helps to ensure accuracy, not facts.
What it does: Gravl is a web hosting platform for research.
Why it matters: Gravl is like the Shopify of science sites, which may have the technology to license but need websites and back office IT to help them do so.
What it does: Hypercubic provides a platform to capture the knowledge of aging organizations.
Why it matters: Mainframes, running on legacy code, are still the backbone of many businesses, so Hypercubic uses AI for things like debugging and writing the code.
What it does: JustAI provides AI assistants for marketing tasks.
Why it matters: The startup promises that its agents can manage end-to-end marketing activities, from creating marketing plans to analyzing results.
What it does: KrosAI provides AI voice assistants, including phone numbers, for emerging markets.
Why is it interesting: KrosAI provides AI-powered voice assistants in nearly 50 developing countries for use as call centers.
What it does: Libertify provides an AI platform that turns text into interactive videos.
Why is it interesting: Libertify takes a PowerPoint or PDF and quickly creates an AI interface where the document can explain itself or answer questions, yet the document and its content remain secure, it says.
What it does: Maisa is a platform that powers AI businesses as digital partners.
Why it matters: This platform is designed for complex tasks and creates clear processes that ensure the work of the agent.
What it does: The map provides a a recruiting platform that includes behavioral voice analytics .
Why it matters: Mappa trained an AI model to analyze the tone of voice associated with the qualities that employers are looking for in job candidates, such as communication style, empathy, and confidence.
What it does: MAy-I provides AI technology to retailers and other foot traffic businesses that capture information about their visitors.
Why it matters: Using computer vision, the company provides space businesses with the same types of data that e-commerce sites can obtain about their customers such as gender, age, and customer journeys.
What it does: Mendo offers a tool that helps train employees on how to use generative AI tech.
Why it matters: This tool shows the best employees using their company’s AI and allows users to share time-saving tips and improve performance so no employee is left behind.
What it does: A platform that helps healthcare organizations easily prepare clinical data for use by AI.
Why it matters: Nimblemind provides a fast and secure way to create, document, and manage multimodal health data using automation, analytics, and APIs.
What it does: Plural AI has developed proprietary technology that can detect multimodal deepfakes.
Why it matters: Plurall built his signature deep-dive instrument from the ground up, unencumbered on top of a modern design.
What it does: PRVIEW is a platform for public relations professionals who track communication strategies and reward their clients.
Why it matters: Instead of manually tracking programs through a spreadsheet that can be a great PR opportunity for clients, PRVIEW is a platform designed to work for the communications team.
What it does: Rayda is a platform that helps IT prepare remote workers in more than 170 countries.
Why it matters: In addition to the maintenance and delivery of IT equipment, the platform tracks equipment and manages the return and recycling of equipment, worldwide.
What it does: Sponstar helps advertisers turn any event or city into a treasure hunt.
Why is it interesting: Searching for treasure is a fun and exciting activity, and Sponstar makes it easy for brands to organize it with quotes, prizes, Pokémon Go-style events.
What it does: Unthread is a help desk that was built from the ground up to integrate with Slack conversation, rather than having a Slack chat afterwards.
Why it matters: By looking at Slack, Unthread is a new way to identify problems that slow companies down and fix them before they become problems.
What it does: They provide a platform for businesses to easily create, edit, and deploy 3D and XR products online.
Why it matters: The company allows users to record immersive video with a smartphone using AI technology on the device.
What it does: WeShop offers an AI video assistant that makes professional photos easy from scratch.
Why it matters: The company promises e-commerce websites and enables them to upload the image and quickly type in order to create a beautiful image created by AI.
What it does: Zetic is a dev tool for deploying real AI on user devices.
Why it matters: The company offers an attractive alternative to cloud-based AI, allowing AI software developers to reduce user growth from cloud AI costs.
What it does: Zinnia provides an AI-powered platform that collects data and supports retailers.
Why it matters: The product works as a sales assistant to boost human productivity rather than trying to replace the salesperson with AI.