Disrupt

TechCrunch Disrupt — the original startup conference — is focused on founders, investors, and the future of tech. It’s a must-attend for anyone just joining a startup, seasoned investors or experienced founders, with opportunities to to learn from expert speakers, interview panels or network with industry leaders and potential future partners. Its flagship event, Startup Battlefield, has been helped many companies reach the next stage of their development.

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Reekon hopes high-tech home improvement tools can drag contractors into the 21st century

TechCrunch Disrupt Battlefield company Reekon is building the next generation of smart tools for home contractors.

1:34 pm PDT • September 20, 2023
Reekon hopes high-tech home improvement tools can drag contractors into the 21st century

Alpha3D, a generative AI–powered platform, is a participant of the Startup Battlefield 200 cohort to showcase a technology that can hyperscale digital assets.

Alpha3D wants to accelerate digital asset and AI-powered generation through cheaper, hyperscaling technology

While studying computer science at the University of Chicago, Devshi Mehrotra and Leslie Jones-Dove were inspired to build tech that centered on the needs of communities historically marginalized by law…

JusticeText taps AI to transcribe evidence for public defenders

Clika, a startup participating in the Battlefield 200 competition at TC Disrupt 2023, aims to build tech to “compress” existing AI models.

Clika is building a platform to make AI models run faster

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PDS is coming to a cop car near you to stop you from drug-driving

According to a 2022 traffic safety study, 56% of drivers involved in serious injury or fatal crashes tested positive for at least one drug. In 2020, there were more than 5 million car accidents reported to the police — that’s about one crash every six minutes. Between those two stats, it’s obvious that we have…

11:08 am PDT • September 20, 2023
PDS is coming to a cop car near you to stop you from drug-driving

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Parallel Health takes a biotech-forward approach to skincare with custom phage therapy

Parallel Health turns the microbiome of the skin from creepy fact to potentially transformative skin care with custom phage therapy.

10:55 am PDT • September 20, 2023
Parallel Health takes a biotech-forward approach to skincare with custom phage therapy

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Mainstack’s no-code online business service eliminates cross-border payment complexity

Ayobami Oyaleke and Olamide Akinola grew up in Nigeria dreaming of launching a tech startup. Today they are living that dream with Mainstack, a no-code website-building tool for small business owners that includes a twist: a tool that makes it easy to accept cross-border payments. Mainstack is also part of the 2023 TechCrunch Disrupt Battlefield…

10:41 am PDT • September 20, 2023
Mainstack’s no-code online business service eliminates cross-border payment complexity

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Untap Health wants to help offices and care homes track risk from bugs like flu and COVID-19

Ever since the pandemic we’ve been told we’ll need to learn to live with COVID-19, while also being warned it won’t be the last pandemic to hit us. Yet health risks aren’t equal in their impacts, so finding ways to intelligently manage risks around illness and infectious disease is critical work. Step forward Untap Health,…

10:15 am PDT • September 20, 2023
Untap Health wants to help offices and care homes track risk from bugs like flu and COVID-19

Edsoma, which offers an AI-powered reading, education and communication platform for children, raised $2.5 million in a seed round led by Shaquille O’Neal.

Why Shaquille O’Neal led edtech startup Edsoma’s $2.5M seed round

FlexPay Technologies is a Kenyan fintech out to enable consumers to afford products that would have otherwise been out of reach for them.

Kenyan fintech FlexPay is helping shoppers save for future purchases

Ten years ago, Robinhood was founded to “democratize” stock trading, or more simply, to make it more accessible for anyone to trade stocks. Over time, the now publicly traded company…

As Robinhood eyes global expansion, CEO says: ‘We’ve made a lot of progress’

Shaquille O’Neal, 15-time NBA All-Star, four-time NBA champion and three-time NBA Finals MVP, took the stage at TechCrunch Disrupt to talk about his passion for investing in edtech and backing…

Shaquille O’Neal talks investing in edtech and startups that are going to ‘change people’s lives’

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Magnestar wants to solve the satellite signal interference problem for the entire space industry

Satellites depend on radio frequency spectrum to communicate with each other and with ground stations on Earth, but spectrum is a finite resource that’s prone to interference — an issue that’s only gotten worse as more satellites are launched into orbit. Satellite operators have become increasingly concerned that growing numbers of spacecraft over the same…

2:18 pm PDT • September 19, 2023
Magnestar wants to solve the satellite signal interference problem for the entire space industry

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Phalanx protects company data by automatically securing and tracking sensitive documents

Data loss prevention (DLP) has emerged as a foundational strategy for businesses looking to prevent workers from inadvertently (or advertently) sharing sensitive data outside the confines of the company network. At its core, DLP is about solving the “people problem” — humans are often at the center of security lapses, whether it’s through sharing a…

2:04 pm PDT • September 19, 2023
Phalanx protects company data by automatically securing and tracking sensitive documents

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Nolej’s AI-generated classroom tools are a force multiplier for educators

The idea of bringing AI into the classroom doesn’t sit well with everyone, but the team behind Nolej believes that generative AI can supercharge learning — all while keeping teachers front and center. Nolej AI is an AI-powered tool that lets educators quickly generate interactive learning modules like quizzes, flashcards, games and interactive videos. “We…

1:52 pm PDT • September 19, 2023
Nolej’s AI-generated classroom tools are a force multiplier for educators

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Beyond Aero is building a hydrogen-powered jet

The aviation industry is well aware of its carbon footprint, but it’s not an industry where things change quickly.

1:39 pm PDT • September 19, 2023
Beyond Aero is building a hydrogen-powered jet

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AI startup speeds up the creation of climate-resilient crops

Creating crops that’ll endure climate change — think worse droughts, heat waves and pests — is a time-consuming and costly feat. Avalo is betting its machine learning models can speed that process up and make it a whole lot cheaper too.  The Durham, North Carolina–based startup, which pitched onstage at the TechCrunch Disrupt Startup Battlefield…

1:25 pm PDT • September 19, 2023
AI startup speeds up the creation of climate-resilient crops

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Allie wants to layer intelligence on top of factory floors

Factory downtime is an expensive problem. According to one estimate, it costs enterprise companies 11% of their yearly turnover, amounting to almost $1.5 trillion each year. That works out to about $129 million per facility among Fortune 500 companies, over double what Fortune 500 companies reported paying in downtime in 2020. Part of the reason…

12:48 pm PDT • September 19, 2023
Allie wants to layer intelligence on top of factory floors

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Electrified Thermal Solutions’ e-bricks could be key to decarbonizing heavy industry

Heavy industry relies on fossil fuels not just for power, but heat. Thermal batteries could help make electrification a reality for those companies.

10:45 am PDT • September 19, 2023
Electrified Thermal Solutions’ e-bricks could be key to decarbonizing heavy industry

Credit cards payment processor Checkout.com views crypto as a meaningful space for merchant relationships but needs to continue to focus on regulatory growth, according to Céline Dufétel, president and COO…

After cutting ties with Binance, Checkout.com says crypto companies are about 4% of its total processing volume

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BioticsAI wants to improve prenatal ultrasound scans with AI

Meet BioticsAI, a startup that has built an AI-based platform that plugs into an ultrasound machine to prevent fetal malformation misdiagnosis. BioticsAI has been quietly working on its solution for the past two years and is now unveiling its product onstage at TechCrunch Disrupt as part of the Startup Battlefield. “BioticsAI processes all of the…

10:31 am PDT • September 19, 2023
BioticsAI wants to improve prenatal ultrasound scans with AI

Fairly AI, participating in the Startup Battlefield 200 competition, is tackling challenges around AI risk, compliance and governance.

Fairly AI wants to help companies better understand their AI risk

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Flint wants to disrupt the battery industry with paper

Lithium-ion batteries have become the standard in the electrification revolution. In fact, they’ve become so unquestionably integral to the development of batteries that everyone from government to automakers to big oil is rushing to shore up access to the mineral. The only problem is, lithium is expensive, time-consuming and labor-intensive to extract. And that extraction…

10:17 am PDT • September 19, 2023
Flint wants to disrupt the battery industry with paper

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Monoclonal antibody treatments have many challenges — Narval is fixing them

Monoclonal antibodies are the building blocks of some of the most important medical treatments in the world. But they have limitations. For example, the large size of the molecules mean monoclonal antibody treatments usually need to be injected — even for eye conditions. Narval CEO Jose Luis Nuno describes the first time he saw a…

10:04 am PDT • September 19, 2023
Monoclonal antibody treatments have many challenges — Narval is fixing them

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In Diagnostics launches a $30 test that aims to tell you if your liver is working

If you’re rushed to the hospital and into emergency surgery, it would be helpful if the anesthesiology team could predict whether your body will react in the way they expect. In the majority of cases, things work out just fine, but if a patient has liver failure, things can get hairy pretty fast. Over time,…

9:52 am PDT • September 19, 2023
In Diagnostics launches a $30 test that aims to tell you if your liver is working

I’m thrilled to announce the Startup Battlefield 20 companies, pitching at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023. After last year’s big hit, TechCrunch editorial hand-selected 200 startups, out of thousands of applicants, to…

Introducing the 2023 Startup Battlefield Top 20 onstage at TechCrunch Disrupt

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TRI is developing a new method to teach robots overnight

Learning may well be the most exciting frontier in the whole of robotics. The field itself dates back decades. The 80s, for instance, brought exciting breakthroughs in learning by demonstration, but a slew of research projects out of schools like CMU, MIT and UC Berkeley point to a future in which robots learn much like…

6:00 am PDT • September 19, 2023
TRI is developing a new method to teach robots overnight

Two years ago, after Vlad Shipilov, a Russian immigrant, moved to Portugal, his business visa was denied because his lawyer wasn’t aware of certain requirements pertaining to visa applications originating…

Migrun wants to simplify the process of immigrating to a new country

Today, Agility Robotics announced it’s getting ready to crank up its RoboFab, which can build more than 10,000 Digits per year.

RoboFab is ready to build 10,000 humanoid robots per year

If fintech, robotics and hardware are your thang, then get ready to get busy on the exhibition floor at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023 — it’s less than two weeks away! That’s…

Startup Battlefield 200: Fintech and Hardware edition at TC Disrupt 2023