• Introducing Your TechCrunch Disrupt Battlefield Finalists

    Michael Arrington

    J. Michael Arrington (born March 13, 1970 in Huntington Beach, California) is a serial entrepreneur and the founder of TechCrunch, a blog covering startups and technology news. Arrington attended Claremont McKenna College (BA Economics, 1992) and Stanford Law School (JD, 1995) and practiced as a corporate and securities lawyer at two law firms: O’Melveny & Myers and Wilson Sonsini Goodrich... → Learn More

    Tuesday, May 24th, 2011

    Thirty new startups have battled it out in front of a live audience and judges over two days at TechCrunch Disrupt: New York. Tomorrow at 3:30 EST six of those startups will show their stuff again in front of a new set of judges. One of them will take home the Disrupt Cup and $50,000 in cash.

    These are the finalists, in alphabetical order, based on judges’ scoring:

    1. Billguard (Israel) (Crunchbase) (launch post/video)

    Company: BillGuard
    Website: billguard.com
    Launch Date: April 11, 2010
    Funding: $13M

    BillGuard is people-powered antivirus for bills. BillGuard, a personal finance security company recognized by Online Banking Report as one of the top online banking innovations of all time, has developed a groundbreaking new approach to identifying deceptive, erroneous and unauthorized charges on consumer credit card and debit card bills. BillGuard uses crowdsourced big-data analytics to harness the collective knowledge of millions of consumers reporting billing complaints online and to their merchants and banks. The free service scans user’s e-statements...

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    2. ccLoop (San Francisco) (Crunchbase) (launch post/video)

    Company: Pipewise
    Website: pipewise.com
    Launch Date: September 1, 2010
    Funding: $3.5M

    Pipewise provides User Relationship Management solutions for today’s cloud-based companies who acquire, engage, convert, and support customers via web and mobile channels. Pipewise is backed by Benchmark Capital, Floodgate, SVAngel, Felicis, and an experienced team of advisors.

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    3. Do@ (Israel) (Crunchbase) (launch post/video)

    4. Getaround (San Francisco) (Crunchbase) (launch post/video)

    Company: Getaround
    Website: getaround.com
    Launch Date: September 10, 2009
    Funding: $19M

    Getaround provides a peer-to-peer carsharing marketplace that enables car owners to rent their cars - from Priuses to Teslas - to a community of trusted drivers by hour, day, or week using just their smartphones. Car owners invest huge amounts of time and money into an asset they barely use. The average car is idle 92% of the time, while potential drivers walk past block after block of underutilized cars. We are here to connect the dots… to help people...

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    5. InvoiceASAP (New Orleans) (Crunchbase) (launch post/video) (audience choice/startup alley)

    Company: InvoiceASAP
    Website: invoiceasap.com
    Launch Date: November 6, 2010

    invoiceASAP provides a fully-integrated, cloud-based mobile invoicing and payments platform that is compatible with QuickBooks and QuickBooks Online. Future releases will connect to other accounting platforms. The robust cloud-based invoice engine provides small and medium-sized businesses with the ability to quickly and easily create and send invoices, estimates and accept payments on the go. Users also have the ability to attach photos to the estimate or invoice and securely store it all in the cloud. InvoiceASAP’s feature-rich mobile invoicing platform...

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    6. Sonar (New York) (Crunchbase) (launch post/video)

    Company: Sonar.me
    Website: sonar.me
    Launch Date: 2010
    Funding: $200k

    Sonar is a a mobile application that shows you how you are connected to the other people in the room. Sonar combines publicly available profile and location information to help you discover business contacts, colleagues, old friends and new ones at conferences, cafes, and bars. Sonar enables you take your online identity offline, to help you meet real people, in the real world.

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