Every year, TechCrunch’s Startup Battlefield competition attracts thousands of applicants. We narrow these applications down to the top 200 contenders, and of those, 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 all blew us away in their respective categories and are competing in their own competition.
Here’s the full list of Consumer/edtech Startup Battlefield 200 picks, along with a note on why they landed in the competition.
Ahoy
What it does: It helps people find places that are accessible to people with reduced mobility.
Why it’s notable: Its inclusive technology makes places more accessible to those who would otherwise struggle to find locations to serve their needs.
AllFocal Optics Limited
What it does: It uses nanophotonic technology to create lenses that enhance visual clarity.
Why it’s notable: The company says it has created breakthrough technology that helps people, especially those with conditions such as headaches and dizziness, endure prolonged experiences of reality.
Billlight
What it does: Billight is an illuminated pool table.
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Why it’s notable: It calls itself the first illuminated pool table and gaming system.
Cerca Dating
What it does: This Gen Z dating app is bringing back the way people used to meet – through mutual friends.
Why it’s notable: It’s the latest spin on a dating app during this period of romance app fatigue, 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 things like how to build a pitch deck or find a target market.
Why it’s notable: The platform uses artificial intelligence to offer insight into some of the most pressing questions founders always have—how to run and scale a business. It’s an easier solution than trying to pull information from different places yourself.
Hotel delicacies
What it does: A platform where luxury hotels can offer customers vouchers for services such as spas and dining.
Why it’s notable: The platform allows hotels to monetize day passes, while also giving consumers a way to enjoy a unique luxury experience without having to spend a lot of money and stay at a hotel.
Jotto
What it does: A company that creates QR codes for events and facilities so users 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 companies starting up, but it offers an all-in-one service, offering instant help and lots of reusable clips.
Perfingo
What it does: Perfingo is a financial planning tool.
Why it’s notable: It hails itself as the first of its kind in its Singapore headquarters.
Pintours
What it does: Pintours is a tour booking platform.
Why it’s notable: It’s an artificial intelligence tour guide that allows consumers to take a tour and personalize the experience in ways they see fit.
Prickly Pear Health
What it does: Prickly Pear provides an AI voice companion for women that monitors brain health.
Why it’s notable: This is not a chatbot, but an AI trained to decipher changes in language and context that could indicate cognitive problems, especially those resulting from hormonal changes experienced by women between the ages of 30 and 50.
rax
What it does: Rax is a peer-to-peer clothing rental platform.
Why it’s notable: Top consumer winner, Rax says it’s one of the first to launch in Canada and just announced an expansion to the U.S.
Cyber Friend Rental
What it does: It helps people find friends in their professions through the Internet.
Why it’s notable: Unlike a social network, this app helps people find potential friends and includes options like video calls and chats to help friendships develop.
Renude
What it does: Renude offers an AI-powered skincare recommendation engine for beauty brands.
Why it’s notable: Using computer vision AI and LLM, this e-commerce tool allows skin care brands to offer personalized product recommendations to each customer.
Snap Discovery AG
What it does: It offers a brain-computer interface intended to be used for everyday hands-free interaction.
Why it’s notable: Snap interacts with the Unity game development platform and is intended for a range of uses, from games to stress management.
Tasteit
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, as its mission is to use food and eating out as a way for people to match and 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 genetic artificial intelligence to create a mockup of a design and then matches it to a tattoo artist whose work aligns with the mockup.
Vista InnoTech Limited
What it does: Vista InnoTech has invented technology that creates better photos by eliminating the effects of random shaking or shaking environments.
Why it’s notable: It has created a technology called the 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 unsafe online behavior.
Why it’s notable: The app rewards kids’ smart online choices and offers an anti-distraction feature for study time.
ZoraSafe
What it does: ZoraSafe detects and protects consumers from fraud.
Why it’s notable: Aimed at families and seniors, ZoraSafe scans links and messages to prevent fraud, including through deepfakes and social engineering. It also offers features like AI guidance.
Edtech
Calificadas
What it does: AI training to improve employee communications in the workplace.
Why it’s notable: This professional development app was designed with diversity, equality and inclusion in mind and uses artificial intelligence to help people improve their word choices, message structure and even their non-verbal language.
CampusAI
What it does: CampusAI offers a flexible platform for training people in AI.
Why it’s notable: The platform is designed to help everyday people who want to use AI to improve their work, whether it’s in sales, HR, legal or other fields.
General Neuro
What it does: NeuroLingo headsets help people learn a foreign language.
Why it’s notable: This headset creates conditions that help language learning along with a synchronized app.
Readmio
What it does: A story app for parents and kids.
Why it’s notable: The app follows along with the words as they are read aloud, automatically adding sounds and music to certain sections of text, making the stories more interactive.
Super Teacher
What it does: Super Teacher offers an artificial intelligence teacher for elementary schools.
Why it’s notable: This AI tutor offers personalized instruction and assessments for use in classrooms, 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 math learning.
Why it’s notable: A maths teaching tool for schools and academies that tracks assignments, grading and feedback with a personalized curriculum.
