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Every year, TechCrunch’s Startup Battlefield pitch competition attracts thousands of applicants. We reduce these applications to the top 200 contendersand among them, the top 20 compete on the big stage to become the winner, taking home the Startup Battlefield Cup and a $100,000 cash prize. But the remaining 180 startups also blew us away in their respective categories and are participating in their own pitch competition.
Here’s the full list of consumer/edtech startups selected for Battlefield 200, along with a note explaining why they landed in the competition.
Ahoy
What it does: Helps people find places accessible to people with reduced mobility.
Why it’s notable: Its inclusive technology makes venues more accessible to those who would otherwise struggle to find locations to meet their needs.
AllFocal Optics Limited
What it does: Uses nanophotonic technology to create lenses that improve visual clarity.
Why it’s notable: The company claims to have created revolutionary technology that helps people, especially those suffering from headaches and dizziness, resist prolonged reality experiences.
Light
What it does: Billight is a lighted pool table.
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Why it’s notable: It is called the first illuminated pool table and gaming system.
Cerca meetings
What it does: This Gen Z dating app brings back the way people used to meet — through mutual friends.
Why it’s notable: This is the latest version of a dating app In this time of romance app fatigue, I’m trying to prove that digital love is still alive.
FounderWay.ai
What it does: A platform that helps startups scale by providing business advice on topics such as creating a pitch deck or finding a target market.
Why it’s notable: The platform uses AI to offer insight into some of the most pressing questions founders always ask: how to run and grow a business. This is an easier solution than trying to search for information in different places yourself.
Hotel treats
What it does: A platform where luxury hotels can offer their guests vouchers for services such as spas and restaurants.
Why it’s notable: The platform allows hotels to monetize day passes while providing consumers with a way to treat themselves to a unique luxury experience, without having to spend a lot of money and stay at a hotel.
Joto
What it does: A company that creates QR codes for events and establishments so people can leave comments and reviews.
Why it’s notable: It’s an interesting product that also allows people to give feedback via video or voice.
Nim
What it does: A platform that allows users to create AI videos.
Why it’s notable: It’s part of the wave of AI video company launches, but it offers an all-in-one service, offering fast support and lots of reusable clips.
Perfingo
What it does: Perfingo is a financial planning tool.
Why it’s notable: It presents itself as the first of its kind in its home port of Singapore.
Pintours
What it does: Pintours is a tour booking platform.
Why it’s notable: It is an AI tour guide, allowing consumers to guide themselves through a visit and personalize the experience as they see fit.
Prickly Pear Health
What it does: The prickly pear brings a voice AI companion for women that monitors brain health .
Why it’s notable: It’s not a chatbot, but an AI is trained to decipher changes in language and context that could indicate cognitive problems, particularly those resulting from the hormonal changes women experience between the ages of 30 and 50.
rax
What it does: Rax is a peer-to-peer clothing rental platform.
Why it’s notable: Best Consumer Pitch Winner, Rax Says It’s one of the first to launch in Canada and has just announced an expansion into the United States
Hire a cyber friend
What it does: Helps people find friends in their profession on the Internet.
Why it’s notable: Unlike a social network, this app helps people identify potential friends and includes options like video calls and chats to help friendships germinate.
Renu
What it does: Renude offers an AI-powered skincare recommendation engine for beauty brands.
Why it’s notable: Using computer vision AI and LLMs, this e-commerce tool allows skincare brands to offer personalized product recommendations to each customer.
Snap Discovery AG
What it does: Offers a brain-computer interface intended to be used for daily, hands-free interaction.
Why it’s notable: Snap interacts with the Unity game development platform and is intended for a range of uses, from gaming to stress management.
KEYS
What it does: Tasteit is an app that helps people meet to dine together.
Why it’s notable: Tasteit calls itself the anti-dating app because its mission is to use food and restaurants as a way for people to meet.
Tattd
What it does: Tattd is an AI-powered app that helps people find and book tattoo artists.
Why it’s notable: The startup uses Generative AI to create a mock-up of a design then he matches that with a tattoo artist whose work matches the mock-up.
Vista InnoTech Limited
What it does: Vista InnoTech invented technology that creates better photos by eliminating the effects of accidental shaking or shaky environments.
Why it’s notable: He created a technology called Micro Gimbal Stabilizer, small enough to fit into most mobile devices, that works well even in low light conditions.
Young Minds app
What it does: A parental control app that monitors and prevents children from engaging in dangerous online behaviors.
Why it’s notable: The app rewards children’s smart online choices and offers a distraction-blocking feature during study time.
ZoraSafe
What it does: ZoraSafe identifies and protects consumers from scams.
Why it’s notable: Aimed at families and seniors, ZoraSafe analyzes links and messages to prevent scams, including through deepfakes and social engineering. It also offers features such as AI coaching.
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Qualified
What it does: AI-powered training to improve an employee’s communications in the workplace.
Why it’s notable: This professional development app was designed with diversity, equity, and inclusion in mind and uses AI to help people improve their word choices, message structure, and even nonverbal language.
CampusIA
What it does: CampusAI offers a flexible platform train people in AI .
Why it’s notable: THE the platform is designed to help ordinary people who want to use AI to improve their work, whether in sales, HR, legal or other areas.
Neurogeneral
What it does: The NeuroLingo headset helps people learn a foreign language.
Why it’s notable: This headset creates conditions that facilitate language learning with a synchronized application.
Read reading
What it does: A story time app for parents and children.
Why it’s notable: The app tracks words as they are read aloud, automatically adding sounds and music to certain sections of text, making the stories more interactive.
Great teacher
What it does: Super Teacher offers an AI-based tutor for primary schools.
Why it’s notable: This AI tutor provides individualized instruction and assessments for use in the classroom, with 24/7 access for students at home.
ZEZEDU Corp.
What it does: Zezedu is an AI-powered platform, developed in South Korea, that offers personalized mathematics learning.
Why it’s notable: A math teaching tool for schools and academies that tracks homework, grades, and feedback with a personalized curriculum.
