Eighty thousand people have tuned in to TechCrunch Disrupt to watch the launch of twenty new startups and products in the Startup Battlefield – nearly 2,000 in live attendance and another staggering 78,000 on the live video stream.
Of those twenty just ten made it to the second round, where the focus was on the business model. After long deliberations, and after calculating the total score of each startup based on our panel of expert judges and voting from the audience and viewers, we now have the final five TechCrunch Disrupt startups.
The winner takes home an experience of a lifetime, $50,000 in cash and the Disrupt Cup.
But first they have to prove once more on stage that they deserve to take the top spot. And the final judges – John Borthwick, Ron Conway, Marissa Mayer, Sam Schwartz and Quincy Smith – are not going to be taking it easy on them.
They have five minutes to explain their business and why it rocks to an overstimulated audience and those judges. And then they have to defend themselves on stage for ten more minutes under a barrage of skeptical questions.
Who will be the final TechCrunch Disrupt Champion? We’ll know soon enough.
Here are the finalists:
Betterment (watch)
MOVIECLIPS Mashups (watch)
Publish2 News Exchange (watch)
Soluto (watch)
UJAM (watch)
Which is your favorite? Watch their launch videos and tell us below in the comments.
Betterment is the smarter, more accessible investment account for anyone seeking a better way to manage their savings. Our customers range from sophisticated investors looking for a set-and-forget investment alternative, to traditional savers looking for a conservative bridge into stock and bond investing. Using insights from behavioral finance, we help customers invest in the right stock and bond allocation for their individual needs, and set intelligent defaults to help people make better investing decisions and protect them from costly,...
Launched in December 2009, MOVIECLIPS.com is an online video destination offering audiences the largest and most diverse collection of movie scenes. MOVIECLIPS.com allows fans to find, watch and share more than 12,000 movie clips from the libraries of most major Hollywood studios. Each clip is tagged with up to 1,000 pieces of data (dialogue, actor, director, action, mood, etc) to make the most searchable collection of movie scenes on the web.
Publish2 is the easiest way to share and distribute news for print and web publishing. Publish2 News Exchange enables newspapers to create a comprehensive, customized newswire for print, combining content sharing networks with the highest quality free and paid news sources. Publish2 Link Newswire captures the collective editorial judgment of journalists, based on what they read every day, to create engaging news aggregation features for multichannel distribution. The company announced an initial $2.75 million round of financing in March 2008....
Soluto is a web service that helps people to make their own PC and other people’s PCs better. The company was founded by Tomer Dvir and Ishay Green in 2008 with the goal of making PCs easy and fun to use. Tomer and Ishay began by helping people in their hometown with their computer issues and realized that they could make people all over the world happier by helping them enjoy their computers more. A seed was planted and...
UJAM is a cloud-based service enabling everyone – musician or not – to produce great sounding music and share it with their friends and the world. UJAM aims to be the go-to place to create music easy, fast and from everywhere UJAMs core technology augments simple user input such a singing or whistling into fully-fledged, studio-quality songs by interpreting melody, composing chords, arranging song form and rendering the result with professionally produced musical styles. Long-term, UJAM can be integrated and embedded...
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