THE Battlefield 200 boot global competition at the court at TechCrunch disturbs 2025held on October 27-29 at Moscone West, San Francisco, is a few weeks away and the stakes were never higher.
Twenty founders will place their companies at the disorder stage, but only one will walk away with the $ 100,000 shares and the coveted Cup Disprupt Cup. Helping to decide that the winner is the world class list of judges, investors and operators who know what they need to build on constant companies.
Today, we are revealing the third group of judges to bring their experience and harsh questions in this year’s competition. And we’re not over yet. Stay tuned for two more batches of judges in the coming weeks.
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Without further ado, meet the next five judges of Battlefield 200
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Jon Chu, Associate, Khosla Ventures
Jon chu He is a partner in Khosla ventures Passionate about mechanical learning and its impact on business infrastructure, applications and developer tools. Before joining Khosla Ventures, he created a career in technology as a founder, an early employee and an organizational leader in a series of engineering and product roles.
He started as the first engineer in Palantir, helping the company grow from 200 to 1,800 employees. He then founded KoalityCode, whom he sold to Docker, where he created and drove the Docker business department. At OPENDOOR, Jon served as the head of the product for the development and head of engineering for basic mechanical learning, contributing to the development of the company in the IPO. Recently, it has led international mechanical organizations on Facebook both to VR and mechanical learning.
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Eryk Dobrushkin, Associate, Ventures Indicators
Erryk Dobrukin He is a partner in Index argumentsInvesting from the start of growth stages in artificial intelligence, infrastructure and robotics. It is attracted to curious and relentless founders who share his passion for tackling the world’s most difficult problems.
Before the index, Eryk spent several years in Databricks, where he worked closely with Ali Ghodsi as his staff leader. During his term, Eryk had a front row seat in one of the fastest growing business software companies in history, working in every aspect of the business-from the product and engineering to sales and businesses. Eryk began his career at the Boston Consulting Group, where he focused mainly on business software and digital health. He holds a degree in applied mathematics and economics from the University of Harvard.
Cathy Friedman, Executive Venture Partner, GV
Cathy Friedman He is a business manager with almost 40 years of experience in funding, technology and health care. As Venture’s Executive Partner in GvHe advises the Life Sciences portfolio and invests in the course of health care. Its interests include adolescent mental health, full life of women’s health and more fair systems for inadequate.
Jen Hoskins, Chief of Standard Young and Corporate Relations, Nvidia
Jen Hoskins leads the cloud, partnerships and go-to-market for Nvidia Starting, a program designed to help newly established businesses accelerate technical innovation and business development at all stages, with 29,000+ members worldwide.
Hoskins joined Nvidia after seven years in Microsoft, where she maintained roles in business development and partnerships in product groups, including Microsoft Outlook, groups, graph and Microsoft for newly established businesses. Before Microsoft, Hoskins worked in marketing and alliance management at Cisco.
Jon McNeill, co -founder and CEO, DVX Ventures
Jon mcneill Is its chief executive and co -founder Dvx venturesA business studio that started 12 companies facing large -scale market opportunities. A visionary entrepreneur, investor and operator, Jon founded six companies, manufacturing and escalating businesses that created tens of thousands of jobs and delivered 9 -time return to investors.
Jon’s career includes leadership in some of the most transformative companies in the world. As president of Tesla, it helped escalate the company from $ 2 billion to $ 20 billion in just 18 months, overseeing world sales, delivery and service. In Lyft, where he served as COO during a critical phase of growth, Jon doubled the revenue, expanded the market share and prepared the company for the IPO.
He is currently serving the Boards of General Motors, Lululemon, Asurion, CrossFit and Stash. In Lululemon, Jon played a key role in his recovery, contributing to a 5x increase in stock value. It also sits on the AI liquid consulting council.
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