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Every year, TechCrunch’s Startup Battlefield competition attracts thousands of applicants. We reduce those applications down to Top 200 competitorsAmong them, the top 20 compete on the big stage to become the winners, taking home the Startup Battlefield Cup and a $100,000 cash prize. But the remaining 180 startups all also impressed us in their own categories and competed in their own competition.
Here’s the full list of Startup Battlefield 200 Enterprise Technology picks, plus a note on why they made it to the competition
AI seer
What does: Builds systems that use multiple forms of artificial intelligence to detect “lies” and verify information.
Why it’s noteworthy: AI Seer has a couple of products, including an AI-powered real-time fact checker and a next-generation polygraph-like device to determine the veracity of information.
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What does: Atlantix is a platform that helps aspiring startup founders find ideas and build business plans.
Why it’s noteworthy: The platform is based on a searchable database of more than 6,000 university research innovations and provides examples of everything from presentations to launch materials.
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What does: It offers AI tools for financial operations geared towards automating manual workflows.
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Why it’s noteworthy: Billow integrates a variety of AI beyond LLMs to assist with financial operations, including voice technology.
roadblock
What does: Block is allowed Product development teams conduct user testing with artificial users — AI agents that represent their user base.
Why it’s noteworthy: Blok uses AI not only to automate tasks but also to operationalize data, giving product teams faster guidance than classic methods like A/B testing or surveys.
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What does: Breakout offers an Inside Sales Development Representative product, which is an AI agent that can help users visit 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 does: Cashew offers a platform that facilitates marketing research tasks, including conducting surveys.
Why it’s noteworthy: Cashew is a next-generation market research platform that helps marketers build their plans and scan their customer panels from actual humans, not artificial AI data.
Coda
What does: CODA offers AI avatars that serve the deaf community by translating spoken and written language into sign language.
Why it’s noteworthy: CODA uses advanced machine learning to provide accessibility for the hearing impaired.
Collaborative writing
What does he do?: Collabwriting provides a web highlighting tool that allows users to save and transcribe notes across all their applications and collaborate on these insights with others.
Why it’s noteworthy: This is the bookmarks tool of the AI generation that includes access to AI features such as fact checking, and “knowledge triggers” that resurface your saved information when you need or request it.
Dextigo
What does: Dextego offers AI agents that act as coaches to help employees level up their skills.
Why is it noteworthy?: Dextego has taken proven behavioral intelligence data and translated it into personalized coaches for tasks like leadership, sales, motivation, and role-playing.
hollow ai
What does: It offers artificial intelligence agents that can sift through large amounts of unstructured documents to perform tasks such as information extraction or analytics.
Why it’s noteworthy: Dobs AI is connected to enterprise data sources but leaves all data and control in the hands of the enterprise, and does not share data with others such as LLM modelers.
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What does: Elloe addresses The AI hallucination problem with real-time AI output validation .
Why it’s noteworthy: Elloe is similar to an AI auditor that uses machine learning but not the same LLM models that exist to protect against it.
Elroy
What does: Elroi offers a platform that handles user permissions and delivers datasets for training AI that comply with privacy regulations.
Why it’s noteworthy: Privacy regulations can be burdensome and constantly changing, so Elroi solves this problem with user-consented data sets.
Atiq i
What does: Etiq is building an AI co-pilot for data science that handles leveraging data sources to enable the generation of AI code or agent workflows.
Why it’s noteworthy: Etiq focuses on the context of the data, just like a data scientist, which helps it ensure accuracy, not hallucinations.
Gravel
What does he do?: Gravl is a storefront platform for basic search facilities.
Why it’s noteworthy: Gravl is like Shopify for scientific facilities, which may have amazing technological innovations to license but need websites and back-office IT to help them do so.
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What does: Hypercubic provides a platform for capturing enterprise knowledge about legacy mainframe applications.
Why it’s noteworthy: The mainframe, running on legacy code, is still the backbone of many organizations, so Hypercubic uses AI for features like debugging and documenting that code.
JustAI
What does: JustAI offers AI agents for marketing tasks.
Why it’s noteworthy: This startup promises that its agents can carry out marketing tasks from start to finish, from formulating a marketing plan to analyzing the results.
Crosay
What does: KrosAI offers voice AI agents, including providing phone numbers for emerging markets.
Why is it noteworthy?: KrosAI provides ultra-low latency voice AI agents in approximately 50 emerging market countries for uses such as call centers.
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What does: Libertify offers an AI platform that turns written documents into interactive videos.
Why is it noteworthy?: Libertify takes a PowerPoint or PDF file and quickly creates an interactive, AI-powered file where the document can explain itself or answer questions, yet the document and its data remain safe, she says.
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What does: Maisa is a platform that manages enterprise AI agents as digital co-workers.
Why it’s noteworthy: This agent platform is designed to handle complex processes and create fully auditable trails to verify agent work.
Draw a map
What does: Map progress A Recruitment platform that includes behavioral voice analysis .
Why it’s noteworthy: Mappa trained an AI model to analyze voice patterns that correlate with traits employers might look for in job candidates, such as communication style, empathy, and confidence.
Maybe it’s me
What does: MAy-I offers AI technology to retailers and other traffic companies that captures information about their visitors.
Why it’s noteworthy: Using computer vision, this company provides physical space businesses with similar types of data that e-commerce sites can obtain about their customers such as gender, age group, and the customer’s journey through space.
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What does: Mendo offers a tool that helps train the workforce on how to use generative AI technology.
Why it’s noteworthy: This tool shows workers ideal uses for their company’s AI and allows users to share time-saving and usage improvement tips so no worker is left behind.
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What does: A platform that helps healthcare organizations easily prepare clinical data for use with artificial intelligence.
Why it’s noteworthy: Nimblemind provides a faster, more secure way to organize, classify, and manage multimedia health data using automation, audit trails, and APIs.
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What does: Plural AI has created a special technology that can detect multi-modal deepfakes.
Why it’s noteworthy: Pluralal designed its deepfake detection tool from the ground up, not bolted onto the head of a sophisticated modeller.
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What does: PRVIEW is a platform for PR professionals that automates the tracking of speaking programs and awards for their clients.
Why it’s noteworthy: Instead of manually tracking programs via a spreadsheet that can represent significant PR opportunities for clients, PRVIEW is a platform designed to do this work for the communications team.
Raida
What does: Rayda is a platform that helps IT easily onboard remote workers in over 170 countries.
Why it’s noteworthy: In addition to configuring and shipping IT equipment, the platform tracks devices and manages the take-out and recycling process globally.
Sponstar
What does: Sponstar helps marketers turn any event or city into a treasure hunt.
Why is it noteworthy?: Treasure hunts are a favorite form of entertainment, and Sponstar makes it easy for brands to organize them with Pokémon Go-style quests, rewards and experiences.
Untie the thread
What does: Unthread is a help desk built from the ground up to integrate with Slack conversations, rather than launching a Slack conversation later.
Why it’s noteworthy: Watching Slack, Unthread is a new way to track issues that slow down businesses and fix them before they become problems.
Physalcin
What does: It provides a platform for businesses to easily create, edit and publish 3D and XR content on the web.
Why it’s noteworthy: The company allows users to capture immersive videos with a mobile device using on-device AI processing.
WeShop Artificial Intelligence
What does: WeShop offers an AI video agent that easily creates professional product images with a prompt.
Why it’s noteworthy: The company promises e-commerce sites and influencers the ability to upload a product photo and write a claim to create a photo-op quality image generated by AI.
ZETIC.ai
What does: Zetic is a development tool for deploying real-time AI directly on users’ devices.
Why it’s noteworthy: This company offers an attractive alternative to cloud-based AI, allowing AI app makers to decouple their user growth from the high costs of cloud AI.
Zinnia
What does: Zinnia offers an AI-powered platform that collects data and assists salespeople.
Why it’s noteworthy: The product acts as a sales assistant to enhance human productivity rather than trying to replace the salesperson with artificial intelligence.