The Four Best Reasons To Attend Disrupt SF

The 6th annual Disrupt SF (Sept. 21-23) kicks off Monday next week at Pier 70 in San Francisco’s Dogpatch. We expect record-breaking attendance.  Maybe you should be there too, and here are four reasons why. Click here for tickets.

Speakers. TechCrunch’s editors dedicate half of each day at Disrupt to interviews with key figures in the startup ecosystem. Where else can you hear Snoop Dogg, Houzz’s Adi Tatarko, Dropbox’s Drew Houston, DST’s Yuri Milner, the Warriors’ Andre Iguodala, and Cowboy Venture’s Aileen Lee — along with 80 other speakers and Battlefield judges.

Startup BattlefieldNearly 1,000 companies applied to TechCrunch’s startup competition, and the editors chose 25 to compete. One will win the Disrupt Cup and $50,000. All will join the amazing ranks of Battlefield alums, which currently number 543 companies, which all together have raised $5.7 billion and seen 69 exits.  Look for the Battlefield SF’s contestants to be revealed on TechCrunch on Monday morning. 

Startup Alley. TechCrunch’s showcase for startups fills the heart of the Disrupt exhibit area. This year we have a record number of companies exhibiting in every category.

  • 294 in Startup Alley over Monday and Tuesday
  • 49 in Hardware Alley on Wednesday
  • 102 startups in pavilions from overseas.

Virtual Reality. So what are you going to do with that new Oculus Rift, coming in early 2016? TechCrunch wonders the same thing, which is why Disrupt will have 64 virtual reality experience creators exhibiting in our VR Pavilion. Here’s the full list (some companies exhibit on more than one day):

Monday

3DPUNKS | www.3dpunks.com

8i | www.8i.com

Anipany | www.anipany.com

byondata | www.byondata.com

Cerevrum | www.cerevrum.com

Eyllo  | www.eyllo.com/website/eng/index.html

Innerspace | www.innerspacevr.com

InsiteVR | www.insitevr.com

inVR | www.invr.co

IonVR | www.ionvr.com

Membit | www.membit.co

MergeVR  | www.mergevr.com

Mimesys | www.mimesysvr.com

NextVR | www.nextvr.com

Optinvent | www.optinvent.com

Otherworld Interactive | www.otherworldinteractive.com

Parle Innovation | www.parleinnovation.com

Retinad | www.retinadvr.com

Rival Theory | www.rivaltheory.com

Solirax | www.NeosVR.com

SpaceVR | www.spacevr.co

SurrealVR | www.surrealvr.com

Totwise Studios | www.totwisestudios.com

TRICK 3D  | http://www.trick3d.com/

uSens | www.usens.com

Vantage | www.vantage.tv

VRChat | www.vrchat.com

Tuesday

Apotact Labs | www.apotact.com

Casino VR | www.casino-vr.com

Cerevrum | www.cerevrum.com

Deepstream | www.deepstreamvr.com

EEVO | www.eevo.com

Emblematic | www.EmblematicGroup.com

Fringefy | http://www.fringefy.com

GeoCV | www.geocv.com

gestigon  | www.gestigon.com

Innerspace | www.innerspacevr.com

InsiteVR | www.insitevr.com

inVR | www.invr.co

IrisVR | www.irisvr.com

moBack | www.digital.moback.com/#/

Piazza Labs | www.piazza.io

Pinch VR | www.pinchvr.ca

Retinad | www.retinadvr.com

Solirax | www.NeosVR.com

triMirror | www.triMirror.com

Vantage | www.vantage.tv

Vision Board VR  | www.visionboardvr.com

Voxon | voxiebox.com

VRChat | www.vrchat.com

VRLIVE  | http://www.vrlive.tv/

Vufine | Vufine.com

Wednesday

360 Designs | www.smashing.com

Artificial Intelligence (AI) Machines | www.ai-machine.com

Ascape | www.ascapevr.com

Augumenta | www.augumenta.com

Bivrost | www.bivrost360.com/

Cerevrum | www.cerevrum.com

CubiCasa | www.cubi.casa

Discovr | www.disccovrlearning.com

DODOcase VR | www.dodocasevr.com

Emblematic | www.EmblematicGroup.com

Fringefy | http://www.fringefy.com

Funiot | www.chemi-on.com

Georama | www.georama.com/

GetVu | http://www.getvu.net/

Happy Goon | www.happygoon.com

I AM Cardboard | www.imcardboard.com

Inflight VR  | www.inflight-vr.com/

Interana | http://www.interana.com/

inVR | www.invr.co

Lucid VR | www.lucidcam.com/

OBE | www.machina.cc/obe

Retinad | www.retinadvr.com

Rokoko | www.salto3d.com

Temple Gates | www.TempleGatesGames.com

TVRN | http://www.tvrn.co.uk/

Vantage | www.vantage.tv

Viorama | http://www.viorama.com/

VRChat | www.vrchat.com

It’s going to be an exciting year for Disrupt, hope to see you there!