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32 enterprise startups selected for Startup Battlefield 200
TechCrunch has unveiled 32 enterprise tech startups selected for its Startup Battlefield 200, highlighting emerging innovations in AI and business software.
TechCrunch has announced the 32 enterprise tech startups selected for its Startup Battlefield 200, a pool of companies chosen from thousands of applicants. Startup Battlefield is a pitch contest organized by TechCrunch that draws thousands of applicants annually. While 20 of these startups will compete on the main stage for the Startup Battlefield Cup and a $100,000 cash prize, the remaining 180 startups are also recognized for their contributions to their respective categories.
The selected startups demonstrate a significant global footprint. For instance, KrosAI operates in 50 emerging-market countries, delivering voice AI agents, while Rayda helps IT departments equip remote workers across 170 countries, managing devices globally. The list also highlights the depth of innovation within the cohort, such as Atlantix Portal, which leverages a database of 6,000 university-research innovations to help founders find ideas and build business plans.
To ensure readability, here is the full list of the selected enterprise tech companies:
- AI Seer: Builds systems that use multiple forms of AI to uncover untruths and authenticate information.
- Atlantix Portal: Helps aspiring startup founders find ideas and build business plans using a database of 6,000 university-research innovations.
- Billow AI: Offers AI tools for financial operations geared toward automating manual workflows.
- Blok: Allows product development teams to do user testing with synthetic users.
- Breakout: Offers an inbound sales development representative product that acts as an AI agent for website visitors.
- Cashew Research: Offers a platform that eases marketing research tasks, including conducting surveys.
- CODA: Offers AI avatars that translate spoken and written language into sign language.
- Collabwriting: Offers a web-highlighting tool that allows users to save, make notes, and collaborate on insights.
- Dextego: Offers AI agents that act as coaches to help employees level up their skills.
- Dobs AI: Offers AI agents that sift through large volumes of unstructured documents to extract information or analytics.
- Elloe AI: Addresses the AI hallucination problem with real-time fact-checking of AI outputs.
- Elroi: Offers a platform that handles user permissions and offers datasets for AI training.
- Etiq AI: Builds a data science AI copilot that handles tapping into data sources to enable AI code generation or agentic workflows.
- GRAVL: Serves as a storefront platform for core research facilities.
- Hypercubic: Offers a platform to capture institutional knowledge around mainframe applications.
- JustAI: Offers AI agents for marketing tasks.
- KrosAI: Offers voice AI agents, including provisioning phone numbers, for 50 emerging-market countries.
- Libertify: Offers an AI platform that converts written documents into interactive videos.
- Maisa: Runs enterprise AI agents as digital co-workers.
- Mappa: Offers a recruiting platform that includes behavioral voice analysis.
- mAy-I: Offers AI technology for retailers and other foot traffic businesses to capture information about physical visitors.
- Mendo: Offers a tool that helps train the workforce on how to use generative AI technology.
- Nimblemind: Helps healthcare organizations prepare clinical data for use with AI.
- Plurall AI: Detects multimodal deepfakes using its own technology.
- PRVIEW: Automates the tracking of speaking and award programs for public relations professionals.
- Rayda: Helps IT departments equip remote workers across 170 countries, managing devices globally.
- Sponstar: Helps marketers turn events or cities into treasure hunts.
- Unthread: Offers a help desk built from the ground up to integrate with Slack conversations.
- Visualsyn: Offers a platform for businesses to create, edit, and post 3D and XR content to the web.
- WeShop AI: Offers an AI video agent that creates product photos from a prompt.
- ZETIC.ai: Offers a developer tool to deploy real-time AI directly on users’ devices.
- Zinnia: Offers an AI-powered platform that gathers data and assists salespeople.
Why it matters
The list provides a curated look at emerging enterprise tech, showcasing how startups are applying AI to solve specific business problems across global markets.