Every year, TechCrunch’s Startup Battlefield pitch contest draws thousands of applicants. We narrow those applications down to the top 200 contenders, and from them, the top 20 compete on the big stage to become the winner, taking home the Startup Battlefield Cup and a cash prize of $100,000. However, the remaining 180 startups also impressed us greatly in their respective categories and compete in their own pitch competition. Here is the full list of the consumer and edtech Startup Battlefield 200 selectees, along with a note on why they landed in the competition.
AHOI helps people find places that are accessible to those with limited mobility. Its inclusive technology makes locations more accessible to those who might otherwise struggle to find places that service their needs.
ALLFOCAL OPTICS LIMITED uses nanophotonic technology to create lenses that enhance visual clarity. The company says it has created breakthrough technology that helps people, especially those with conditions like headaches and dizziness, to withstand prolonged extended reality experiences.
BILLIGHT is a light-up pool table and gaming system. It calls itself the first of its kind.
CERCA DATING is a Gen Z dating app that brings back the way people used to meet via mutual friends. It is the latest spin on a dating app during this time of romance app fatigue, trying to prove that digital love is still alive.
FOUNDERWAY.AI is a platform that helps startups scale by providing business advice on topics like how to build a pitch deck or find a target market. The platform uses AI to offer insight into some of the most pressing questions founders always have about running and scaling a business, providing an easier solution than sourcing information from various places alone.
HOTEL TREATS is a platform where luxury hotels can give customers vouchers for services like spas and dining. The platform lets hotels monetize day passes while also giving consumers a way to treat themselves to a singular luxury experience without having to spend the money to stay at the hotel.
JOTTO creates QR codes for events and establishments so people can leave feedback and reviews. It is an interesting product that also lets people give feedback by video or voice.
NIM is a platform that lets users create AI videos. It is part of the wave of AI video companies launching, but it offers an all-in-one service with prompt assistance and numerous reusable clips.
PERFINGO is a financial planning tool. It hails itself as the first of its kind in its home base of Singapore.
PINTOURS is a tour-booking platform. It is an AI tour guide, letting consumers guide themselves through a tour and personalize the experience to their liking.
PRICKLY PEAR HEALTH provides a voice AI companion for women that monitors brain health. This is not a chatbot, but an AI trained to decipher changes in language and context that could indicate cognitive issues, especially those arising from hormonal changes that women in their 30s to 50s experience.
RAX is a peer-to-peer clothing rental platform. The winner of the top consumer pitch, Rax says it is one of the first to launch in Canada and just announced an expansion to the U.S.
RENT A CYBER FRIEND helps people find friends within their professions over the internet. Unlike a social network, this app helps people identify potential friends and includes options like video calls and chats to help friendships sprout.
RENUDE offers an AI-powered skin care recommendation engine for beauty brands. Using computer vision AI and large language models, this e-commerce tool allows skin care brands to offer personalized product recommendations to every customer.
SNAP DISCOVERY AG offers a brain-computer interface intended for hands-free everyday interaction. Snap interacts with the game development platform Unity and is intended for a range of uses, from games to stress management.
TASTEIT is an app that helps people meet to dine together. 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 meet.
TATTD is an AI-powered app that helps people find and book tattoo artists. The startup uses generative AI to create a mock-up of a design and then matches that to a tattoo artist whose work aligns with the mock-up.
VISTA INNOTECH LIMITED has invented technology that creates better photos by eliminating the effects of accidental shaking or shaking environments. It has created a technology called Micro Gimbal Stabilizer, small enough to be embedded in most mobile devices, that works well even in low-light conditions.
YOUNG MINDS APP is a parental control app that watches over and prevents kids from engaging in unsafe online behavior. The app rewards kids’ smart online choices and offers a distraction-blocking feature for study time.
ZORASAFE identifies and protects consumers against scams. Aimed at families and seniors, ZoraSafe scans links and messages to prevent scams, including those involving deepfakes and social engineering. It also offers features like AI coaching.
EDTECHCALIFICADAS provides AI-powered training to improve an employee’s workplace communications. This professional development app was designed with diversity, equity, and inclusion in mind and uses AI to help people level up their word choices, message structure, and even their nonverbal language.
CAMPUSAI offers a flexible platform to train people on AI. The platform is geared to help everyday people who want to use AI to improve their work, be it in sales, human resources, legal, or other areas.
GENERAL NEURO created the NeuroLingo headset, which helps people learn a foreign language. This headset creates conditions that assist with language learning along with a synchronized app.
READMIO is a story-time app for parents and kids. The app follows along with the words as they are being read aloud, automatically adding sounds and music at certain text sections to make stories more interactive.
SUPER TEACHER offers an AI-powered tutor for elementary schools. This AI tutor offers individualized instructions and assessments for use in classrooms, with 24/7 access for students at home.
ZEZEDU CORP. is an AI-powered platform, developed in South Korea, that offers personalized math learning. It is a math teaching tool for schools and academies that tracks assignments, grading, and feedback with a personalized curriculum.