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.
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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-chec …