SB200 2023

Travel wheelchair Revolve Air launches on Kickstarter

Revolve Air, a travel wheelchair that can fold to cabin luggage size, is now available for pre-orders on Kickstarter at a cost of $4,999.

LimeLoop’s sleek reusable mailers seek to replace cardboard boxes

The startup’s smart mailers are reusable dozens of times, reducing the carbon footprint by 90% compared with cardboard boxes.

AquaLith might have an answer to the US battery material shortage problem

AquaLith looks to make new types of battery cell components that don't rely on the scarce metals normally used in lithium-ion battery packs.

Akowe wants to fix Africa’s broken certificate system with blockchain

The crypto industry has long been criticized for its disconnection with the real world, but there are players who try to show that the underlying blockchain technology can solve some of our most press

Power amplifier startup Falcomm to close $4M, taking on Qualcomm and Broadcom

Smartphones are equipped with a range of chips that perform various functions. Among them, there’s a semiconductor chip called the power amplifier that is responsible for conditioning and amplif

Niura’s EEG-implemented earbuds scan your brain health and recommend music to your mood

Niura has developed a pair of earbuds that monitor brain activity and, it claims, can both watch for potential health issues and match music to a user’s mood. The founders, Ryan Ahmed, Shahriar

South Africa’s FinanceGPT simplifies financial analysis, set to interface in local languages

FinanceGPT is a generative AI startup built to help companies in their financial analysis tasks. Initially built for startups without in-house finance teams, and VCs looking to run financial health ch

Plantiga Technologies’ AI-powered footwear sensor pod aims to reduce injury risks

Plantiga Technologies, a Vancouver-based movement analytics company, wants to help people improve rehabilitation and reduce injury risks through an artificial intelligence-powered monitoring sensor po

HME Square aims to measure glucose painlessly with photoacoustics

People with diabetes have to monitor their blood sugar levels regularly by pricking their skin. Many glucose-monitoring device makers worldwide are pursuing needle-free approaches to make this painful

Communia hopes to build a digital safe space for women

Olivia Deramus' company Communia competes in TechCrunch's Battlefield 200, with the mission to create a safe digital space for women.

Inside Kinhub’s plan to democratize employee wellness

Kinhub, a B2B SaaS platform powered by AI, seeks to democratize access to coaching and wellness support for employees.

eStreamly blends physical, digital shopping with the video as the star

eStreamly offers business-to-business video commerce software to enable livestreams and videos to be shoppable across platforms.

AvantGuard wants to turn chlorine into the best antiseptic you’ve ever seen

AvantGuard, a Battlefield 200 company, is making a polymer version of chlorine-based disinfectants.

Don’t want that commuter stipend? Bundl enables employees to choose their own company benefits

Bundl provides a total rewards software that enables employees to build and customize their own rewards package that best fits their wants and needs.

AppCyclers wants to fight e-waste pollution across Africa

Most electronic waste isn’t recycled; instead, our dumped devices (and the toxic metals within) pile up in landfills, polluting the air and contaminating nearby soil and groundwater. Ghana-based

Kindo aims to take the security stress out of AI workflows

Ron Williams, co-founder and CEO of Kindo, knows a thing or two about cybersecurity, having previously led security teams at League of Legends developer Riot Games, shared scooter startup Bird and Alp

FireBot is designed to scout burning buildings before sending in firefighters

Stanley Wilson died a decade ago, battling a six-alarm fire at a Dallas, Texas, condominium complex. Two additional firefighters were taken to a hospital and two residents were treated on site for smo

Qruise wants to build AI to automate quantum device development

Can software work alongside human physicists and engineers in R&D labs to develop new quantum computers? That’s the question Qruise, a startup in TechCrunch’s Battlefield 200 competiti

Frontier Space Technologies is developing an on-orbit autonomous lab to make space science easy

Astronauts have been conducting experiments on the International Space Station for as long as the station has been in orbit, but astronaut labor is expensive: crew time costs $130,000 per hour, and co

Carrots&Cake wants to help parents make their kids’ screen time more beneficial and less addictive

Carrots&Cake, a Kuala Lumpur-based startup, is aiming to help parents manage their kids' screen time in an automated way.
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