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