Every year, TechCrunch’s Startup Battlefield pitch contest draws thousands of applicants. We narrow those applications down to the top 200 contenders. From that group, the top 20 compete on the big stage for the Startup Battlefield Cup and a cash prize of $100,000. However, the remaining 180 startups also impressed us greatly across their respective categories and compete in their own pitch competition. Here is the full list of the enterprise tech Startup Battlefield 200 selectees, along with a note on why they earned a spot.
AI Seer builds systems that use multiple forms of AI to uncover untruths and authenticate information. It is noteworthy for its products, including an AI-powered real-time fact-checker and a device that functions as a next-generation polygraph to determine the authenticity of information.
Atlantix Portal is a platform that helps aspiring startup founders find ideas and build business plans. It stands out because it is grounded in a searchable database of over 6,000 university-research innovations and offers examples of everything from pitches to launch materials.
Billow AI offers AI tools for financial operations geared toward automating manual workflows. It is noteworthy because it integrates a variety of AI beyond large language models to assist with financial operations, including voice technology.
Blok allows product development teams to conduct user testing with synthetic users, which are AI agents that represent their user base. It is notable because it uses AI not just to automate tasks but to power the data, giving product teams speedier guidance than classic methods like A/B testing or feedback surveys.
Breakout offers an inbound sales development representative product, an AI agent that can assist users visiting a website. It is noteworthy for aiming to turn one-size-fits-all websites into personalized destinations that perform tasks like answering questions or making recommendations interactively.
Cashew Research offers a platform that eases marketing research tasks, including conducting surveys. It is a next-generation market research platform that helps marketers build their plans and survey their proprietary customer panels of actual humans, not AI synthetic data.
CODA offers AI avatars that serve the deaf community by translating spoken and written language into sign language. It is using advanced machine learning to provide accessibility for the hard of hearing.
Collabwriting offers a web-highlighting tool that allows users to save and make notes across all their apps and collaborate on those insights with others. This is the AI generation’s bookmarking tool, featuring AI capabilities like fact-checking and “knowledge triggers” that resurface saved information when needed.
Dextego offers AI agents that act as coaches to help employees level up their skills. It has taken proven behavioral intelligence data and translated it into coaches dedicated to tasks like leadership, sales, motivation, and role-playing.
Dobs AI offers AI agents that can sift through large volumes of unstructured documents to perform tasks like extracting information or analytics. It is notable because it plugs into enterprise data sources but leaves all the data, and control of it, in the enterprise’s hands, not sharing it with others like large language model makers.
Elloe AI is addressing the AI hallucination problem with real-time fact-checking of AI outputs. It functions like an AI auditor that uses machine learning but not the same large language models it is designed to safeguard against.
Elroi offers a platform that handles user permissions and provides datasets for AI training that comply with privacy regulations. It solves the challenge of onerous and ever-changing privacy rules with user-consented datasets.
Etiq AI is building a data science AI copilot that handles tapping into data sources to enable AI code generation or agentic workflows. It emphasizes context about the data, much like a data scientist, which helps ensure accuracy and prevent hallucinations.
Gravl is a storefront platform for core research facilities. It is like a Shopify for science facilities, which may have amazing technology innovations to license but need websites and back-office IT to help them do so.
Hypercubic offers a platform to capture the institutional knowledge around aging mainframe applications. As mainframes running on legacy code are still the backbone of many enterprises, Hypercubic uses AI for features like debugging and documenting that code.
JustAI offers AI agents for marketing tasks. This startup promises that its agents can run marketing tasks end to end, from crafting a marketing plan to analyzing results.
KrosAI offers voice AI agents, including provisioning phone numbers, for emerging markets. It delivers ultra-low-latency voice AI agents in about 50 emerging-market countries for uses such as call centers.
Libertify offers an AI platform that converts written documents into interactive videos. It takes a PowerPoint or PDF and quickly generates an AI interactive where the document can explain itself or answer questions, while the document and its data remain secure.
Maisa is a platform that runs enterprise AI agents as digital co-workers. This agentic platform is designed to handle complex processes and it creates fully auditable trails that verify the agent’s work.
Mappa offers a recruiting platform that includes behavioral voice analysis. It trained an AI model to analyze voice patterns that correlate with traits employers may seek, such as communication style, empathy, and confidence.
MAy-I offers AI technology for retailers and other foot traffic businesses that captures information about their visitors. Using computer vision, it provides physical space businesses with data similar to what e-commerce sites obtain, such as gender, age group, and customer journey through the space.
Mendo offers a tool that helps train the workforce on how to use generative AI tech. It shows workers ideal uses for their corporate AI and allows users to share time-saving tips so no worker gets left behind.
Nimblemind is a platform that helps healthcare organizations easily prepare clinical data for use with AI. It offers a faster and safer way to structure, label, and manage multimodal health data with automation, audit trails, and APIs.
Plurall AI has created proprietary technology that can detect multimodal deepfakes. It designed its deepfake detection tool from the ground up, not bolted on top of a state-of-the-art model maker.
PRVIEW is a platform for public relations professionals that automates the tracking of speaking and award programs for their clients. Instead of manually tracking opportunities via a spreadsheet, PRVIEW is designed to do that work for the communications team.
Rayda is a platform that helps IT easily equip remote workers across over 170 countries. In addition to configuring and shipping IT equipment, the platform tracks devices and manages offboarding and device recycling on a global scale.
Sponstar helps marketers turn any event or city into a treasure hunt. It makes it easy for brands to organize quests, rewards, and Pokémon Go–style experiences, which are a beloved form of entertainment.
Unthread is a help desk built from the ground up to integrate with Slack conversations, rather than having a Slack chat added later. By monitoring Slack, it provides a new way to track the issues that slow companies down and fix them before they become problems.
VisualSyn offers a platform for businesses to easily create, edit, and post immersive 3D and extended reality content to the web. It allows users to capture immersive video with a mobile device using on-device AI processing.
WeShop AI offers an AI video agent that easily creates professional product photos from a prompt. It promises e-commerce sites and influencers the ability to upload a product photo and type in a prompt to create an AI-generated, photo-shoot-quality picture.
Zetic.ai is a developer tool to deploy real-time AI directly on users’ devices. It offers an enticing alternative to cloud-based AI, allowing AI app makers to decouple their user growth from skyrocketing AI cloud costs.
Zinnia offers an AI-powered platform that gathers data and assists salespeople. The product acts like a sales assistant to boost human productivity rather than an attempt to replace the salesperson with AI.