From Dropbox to Cloudflare, Battlefield Startup graduates have redefined industries. Who will win $ 100,000 and the focus this year?
Battlefield 200 boot It is the jewelry of TechCrunch DISRUPT – and this year’s competition promises to be unforgettable. By thousands of applicants, only the top 20 will take the scene to Disorder 2025 (October 27-29, San Francisco) to place their vision on panels of the top VCs in front of a living audience. Every candidate chases the impact that changes the game-and we are here for drama, discoveries and great revelations.
We are excited to announce the first wave of judges who will put these newly formed businesses in the test with strictly, without barriers to Q & A. Their honest feedback offers a rare window on how world-class investors magnify a company and what they do.
Whinning Startup Battlefield launched companies such as Dropbox, Mint, VURB and Cloudflare in the spotlight-and with a $ 100,000-dollar award, the next big name could be born at the October disorder stage.
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First Show: Get to know the VCs by taking the positions of judges
Here are the first five VCs ready to help the champion Battlefield Startup Battlefield 2025 – with more top investors coming soon.
Philip Clark, investor, prosperity capital
Philip Clark is an investor in Thrives chapterWhere he has worked with leading software and hardware companies, which are technological advances in AI and robotics, including Anduril, Runner, Neuralink, Physical Intelligence and Wiz. Previously invested in Bridgewater. Philip graduated from Stanford with degrees in science and managing science and engineering. He continues to advise the Hoover Foundation on various issues on emerging technologies.
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Madison Faulkner, Associate, Nea
Madison He is a partner in NEWS Investing in early stage data, infrastructure, developer tools, data science and AI, and also drives the data and AI platform internally for improved investment decision making. Throughout her investment career, she has worked with newly formed companies, including World Labs, Factory, Ceramic, Metabase, Datafold, Delphina, Mindtrip, Fixify and others. Prior to the investment, Madison was head of data science and mechanical learning at a growth start, Thrasio, head of Greycroft’s science science, and led a Facebook science team focused on auction and deep learning with just. Madison received a BS in Engineering from Stanford and grew up in Colorado playing at Rodeos.
Leslie Feinzaig, Founder and General Partner, Graham & Walker VC
Leslie Feinzaig is the founder and general associate in Graham & WalkerAn early stage business fund that supports excellent founders and ideas that break the mold, whose mission is to change the face of public markets by supporting a new guard of the founders and Managers. Prior to the start of the Fund, Ms Feinzaig was 2x Exec starting with 8 and 10 outputs that began her career under the guardian of Professor HBS Clayton Christensen, author of the sperm theory of annoying innovation.
Ilya Kirnos, Founding Partner & CTO, Signalfire
Ilya kirnos is the co -founder, CEO and CTO of ~ 3 billion dollars AUM Early Stage Business Fire. It drives the development of Signalfire’s Beacon AI data platform, which it manufactures for a decade with the team of AI PhDS, Engineering and Data Scientists. Beacon is watching more than 660 million employees and 80 million companies to guide the fund’s investment with the surface of high quality founders and rapidly growing companies and helps its portfolio companies with hiring and acquiring customers. As an investor, Ilya focuses on supporting seeds in B series companies on entrepreneurial infrastructure and developer tools. It supports extremely technical newly formed companies in Signalfire’s portfolio, including Horizon3 (Autonomous Pen Test), OneSignal (notification infrastructure) and Planetscale (scale databases).
Doug Pepper, partner, iconiq
Doug Pepper He is a general partner in the development of Iconiq. Joined Iconiq development In 2019, Doug helped drive Iconiq investment in Airtable, Guild Education, Reify and others. Prior to entering the development of Iconiq, Doug was Managing Director of Shasta Ventures, a leading early stages business company. Previously, he was a general associate of Interwest Partners for 15 years, where he was the first investor in Marketo and served on his board for 10 years. He started his career at Goldman Sachs and Amazon.com.
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