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Here are the 5 Startup Battlefield finalists at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025

After two days full of live demos and pitches, it’s time to announce the five finalists at this year’s Startup Battlefield. These finalists were selected from an initial pool of thousands of applicants, with TechCrunch’s editorial team narrowing the field down to the 200 companies that all joined us here at Disrupt, with the Top […]

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‘Silicon Valley’ star Thomas Middleditch makes a surprise appearance at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025

If you were wandering the Expo Hall at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, or watching our pitch stage earlier Tuesday, you might have noticed a familiar face from Pied Piper. Thomas Middleditch, who starred in HBO’s popular “Silicon Valley” show that prominently featured Disrupt back in 2014, had a planned takeover of Australian startup (and Battlefield 200

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Waabi unveils autonomous truck made in partnership with Volvo

Self-driving truck startup Waabi shared Tuesday at TechCrunch Disrupt the launch of a new autonomous truck made in partnership with Volvo, the Volvo VNL Autonomous truck. The unveiling comes eight months since the Uber- and Nvidia-backed startup announced it was partnering with Volvo Autonomous Solutions to build a custom-built truck based on Volvo’s autonomy platform

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Mappa’s AI voice analysis helps you find the best job candidates and will show off its tech at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025

Even after reviewing resumes, cover letters, and interviews, choosing the right candidate for a job can be a mysterious process. Hiring managers often rely on their biases about the world or gut feelings to inform their decision, making the process far from an exact science. That’s why Sarah Lucena built Mappa, an AI-powered behavioral intelligence

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Unlisted connects homeowners with prospective buyers before they even put their homes up for sale and is part of TechCrunch Disrupt 2025

Katie Hill’s dream home isn’t on the market — but one day, it will be, and she wants dibs. That, and a bit of neighborly envy, is how she got the idea for her startup, Unlisted Homes, which is a Top 20 Startup Battlefield finalist at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025. “I’ve always imagined myself as an

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Inside CampusAI’s mission to close the AI training gap for everyday workers — check it out at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025

As companies push to increase efficiency and stay competitive, they’re encouraging, or in some cases outright requiring, workers to know how to use AI tools. However, the push for AI use has exposed a training gap.  “There are few solutions available on the market that are dedicated to non-technical people,” Aureliusz Gorski, founder and CEO

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Unthread has a plan for cleaning up Slack and will show off its tech at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025

If every good startup begins with a problem, this one may have begun with a bad Slack conversation. As CEO and co-founder Tom Bachant tells it, he remembers seeing the chaos of Slack-based support — the haphazard ticketing, the jumble of DMs, and little chance for insight into the underlying problems. “The first point was

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Super Teacher is building an AI tutor for elementary schools — catch it at Disrupt 2025

Tutoring is one of the most effective tools for improving a child’s education, yet very few kids in the U.S. receive it. A 2023 survey of the nation’s largest school districts found that fewer than 10% of students received tutoring. One factor is that tutoring is too expensive for many families, often costing hundreds or

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Khosla-backed Mazama taps super-hot rocks in race to deliver 24/7 power

As grids come under strain from growing demand from data centers and EVs, geothermal startups have been racing to unlock energy that lurks deep within the Earth. Now, one startup has developed the world’s hottest geothermal well — one that harbors enough energy to power thousands of homes. Mazama Energy said today that it had

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Mirror’s founder is back with a new ‘connected screen’ startup: a gaming device called ‘Board’

Brynn Putnam, the founder behind the connected fitness startup Mirror, is back with a new startup: a tech-powered gaming console that combines the best of board games and video games, called Board. After selling Mirror to Lululemon for $500 million in 2020, Putnam returned to entrepreneurship to create an entirely new product, which she unveiled

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