Every year, TechCrunch’s Startup Battlefield pitch competition attracts thousands of applicants. We reduce those applications to the Top 200 contendersand of those, the top 20 compete on the big stage to become the winner, taking home the Startup Battlefield Cup and a $100,000 cash prize. But the remaining 180 startups also blew us away in their respective categories and are competing in their own pitch competition.
Here’s the full list of Startup Battlefield 200 consumer and edtech picks, along with a note on why they made it into the competition.
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What are you doing: Helps people find places that are accessible to people with limited mobility.
Why it is noteworthy: Its inclusive technology makes places more accessible to those who would otherwise struggle to find places that meet their needs.
AllFocal Optics Limited
What are you doing: It uses nanophotonic technology to create lenses that improve visual clarity.
Why it is noteworthy: The company says it has created innovative technology that helps people, especially those with conditions such as headaches and dizziness, endure prolonged extended reality experiences.
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What are you doing: Billight is an illuminated pool table.
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Why it is noteworthy: It calls itself the first illuminated pool table and gaming system.
Nearby appointments
What are you doing: This Gen Z dating app is bringing back the way people used to meet: through mutual friends.
Why it is noteworthy: is he latest twist on a dating app During this time of romance app fatigue, we’re trying to show that digital love is still alive.
FounderWay.ai
What are you doing: A platform that helps startups scale by providing business advice on topics such as how to create a presentation or how to find a target market.
Why it is noteworthy: The platform uses AI to offer insight into some of the most pressing questions founders always have: how to run and scale a business. It’s an easier solution than trying to get information from various places on our own.
Hotel delights
What are you doing: A platform where luxury hotels can offer customers vouchers for services such as spas and restaurants.
Why it is noteworthy: The platform allows hotels to monetize day passes while offering consumers a way to enjoy a unique luxury experience, without having to spend a lot of money and stay at the hotel.
joto
What are you doing: A company that creates QR codes for events and establishments so people can leave comments and reviews.
Why it is noteworthy: It is an interesting product that also allows people to give their opinion by video or voice.
nim
What are you doing: A platform that allows users to create AI videos.
Why it is noteworthy: It’s part of the wave of AI video companies launching, but offers an all-in-one service, offering quick support and numerous reusable clips.
Perfingo
What are you doing: Perfingo is a financial planning tool.
Why it is noteworthy: It is considered the first of its kind at its Singapore headquarters.
Pintours
What are you doing: Pintours is a travel booking platform.
Why it is noteworthy: It is an AI tour guide that allows consumers to guide themselves through a tour and personalize the experience in the way they see fit.
Prickly pear health
What are you doing: The prickly pear provides an AI voice companion for women that monitors brain health .
Why it is noteworthy: This is not a chatbot, but an AI is trained to decipher changes in language and context that could indicate cognitive problems, especially those arising from the hormonal changes experienced by women between 30 and 50 years old.
rax
What are you doing: Rax is a peer-to-peer clothing rental platform.
Why it is noteworthy: Rax, the winner of the most important consumer speech, says it is one of the first to launch in Canada and just announced an expansion to the US.
Rent a cyberfriend
What are you doing: Helps people find friends within their professions through the Internet.
Why it is noteworthy: Unlike a social network, this app helps people identify potential friends and includes options like video calls and chats to help friendships develop.
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What are you doing: Renude offers an AI-powered skincare recommendation engine for beauty brands.
Why it is noteworthy: Using computer vision artificial intelligence and LLM, this e-commerce tool allows skincare brands to offer personalized product recommendations to each customer.
Snap Discovery AG
What are you doing: It offers a brain-computer interface intended to be used for everyday hands-free interaction.
Why it is noteworthy: Snap interfaces with the Unity game development platform and is designed for a variety of uses, from gaming to stress management.
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What are you doing: Tasteit is an app that helps people meet up for dinner together.
Why it is noteworthy: Tasteit calls itself the anti-dating app, as its mission is to use food and dining out as a way for people to match and get to know each other.
tattooed
What are you doing: Tattd is an AI-powered app that helps people find and hire tattoo artists.
Why it is noteworthy: The startup uses Generative AI to create a mockup of a design and then compares him to a tattoo artist whose work aligns with the model.
Vista Inno Tech Limited
What are you doing: Vista InnoTech has invented a technology that creates better photos by eliminating the effects of accidental shake or shaking environments.
Why it is noteworthy: It has created a technology called Micro Gimbal Stabilizer, small enough to be integrated into most mobile devices, which works well even in low light conditions.
Young Minds app
What are you doing: A parental control app that monitors and prevents children from engaging in unsafe behavior online.
Why it is noteworthy: The app rewards kids’ smart decisions online and offers a distraction-blocking feature during study time.
ZoraSafe
What are you doing: ZoraSafe identifies and protects consumers against scams.
Why it is noteworthy: Aimed at families and seniors, ZoraSafe scans links and messages to prevent scams, including through deepfakes and social engineering. It also offers features like AI training.
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What are you doing: AI-powered training to improve communications in an employee’s workplace.
Why it is noteworthy: This professional development app was designed with diversity, equity, and inclusion in mind and uses artificial intelligence to help people improve their word choice, the structure of their messages, and even their non-verbal language.
CampusAI
What are you doing: CampusAI offers a flexible platform train people in AI .
Why it is noteworthy: He The platform is designed to help common people. who want to use AI to improve their work, whether in sales, human resources, legal or other areas.
Neuro general
What are you doing: NeuroLingo headphones help people learn a foreign language.
Why it is noteworthy: This headset creates conditions that help with language learning along with a synchronized app.
readmio
What are you doing: A story app for parents and children.
Why it is noteworthy: The app follows words as they are read aloud, automatically adding sounds and music to certain sections of the text, making stories more interactive.
Super Master
What are you doing: Super Teacher offers an AI-powered tutor for primary schools.
Why it is noteworthy: This AI tutor offers individualized instruction and assessments for use in classrooms, with 24/7 access for students at home.
ZEZEDU Corp.
What are you doing: Zezedu is an artificial intelligence-powered platform, developed in South Korea, that offers personalized mathematics learning.
Why it is noteworthy: A math teaching tool for schools and academies that tracks assignments, grades and feedback with a personalized study plan.
