SB200 2023
Pilot is a social travel hub that uses AI to help you plan, book and share trips
Pilot, a Vancouver-based startup, wants to become “the hub of global travel experience” and connect people via travel.
Being is an app that wants to help users map out and address mental health concerns
Being, a Delaware-based startup, is on a mission to scale its mental health app, which aims to help users create a map of their concerns to better navigate their everyday…
Blend uses generative AI to give you a personalized clothing guide
Shopping for clothing online has liberated us from the need to brave the endless aisles, fluorescent lights and sale-hungry crowds of the brick-and-mortar retail inferno. But anyone who has found…
KSOC says it’s tackling cloud-native security in a way that is Kubernetes-first
The take-up of Kubernetes, a tool for managing containerized workloads, is only expected to increase as demand for cloud-native architectures and containerization continues. In terms of security, this can mean…
This startup wants to verify your ID without storing your personal data
As government and banking services move away from verifying identities in the real world, moving toward online ID verification, several companies have entered the market to solve this problem. A…
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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…
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 amplifying the…
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,…
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…
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 pod that can be embedded into shoes,…
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 process more…
Olivia Deramus’ company Communia competes in TechCrunch’s Battlefield 200, with the mission to create a safe digital space for women.
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.
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 AppCyclers aims…
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…
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…
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 competition at Disrupt 2023,…
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…
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.
Mesh, which helps people manage their digital assets, raises $22M
Mesh (formerly Front Finance), a startup developing a service to help customers transfer and manage digital assets like crypto, has raised $22 million in a Series A funding round led…
Several years ago, Aleksander Caban, the co-founder of Carbon Studio, a Polish VR game developer, observed a major problem in modern game design. He had to create rocks, hills, paths…
Alpha3D wants to accelerate digital asset and AI-powered generation through cheaper, hyperscaling technology
Alpha3D, a generative AI–powered platform, is a participant of the Startup Battlefield 200 cohort to showcase a technology that can hyperscale digital assets.
JusticeText taps AI to transcribe evidence for public defenders
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…
Clika, a startup participating in the Battlefield 200 competition at TC Disrupt 2023, aims to build tech to “compress” existing AI models.