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Every year, TechCrunch\u2019s Startup Battlefield pitch contest draws thousands of applicants. We whittle those applications down to the top 200 contenders<\/a>, 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.<\/p>\n Here is the full list of the enterprise tech Startup Battlefield 200 selectees, along with a note on why they landed in the competition<\/p>\n What it does:<\/strong> Builds systems that use multiple forms of AI to uncover \u201cuntruths\u201d and authenticate information.<\/p>\n Why it\u2019s noteworthy:<\/strong> AI Seer has a couple of products, including an AI-powered real-time fact-checker and a device that\u2019s like a next-generation polygraph to determine authenticity of information.\u00a0<\/p>\n What it does:<\/strong> Atlantix is a platform that helps aspiring startup founders find ideas and build business plans.<\/p>\n Why it\u2019s noteworthy:<\/strong> 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.\u00a0<\/p>\n What it does:<\/strong> Offers AI tools for financial operations geared toward automating manual workflows.<\/p>\n Techcrunch event<\/p>\n \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSan Francisco<\/span> Why it\u2019s noteworthy:<\/strong> Billow integrates a variety of AI beyond LLMs to assist with financial operations, including voice technology.\u00a0<\/p>\n What it does:<\/strong> Blok allows product dev teams to do user testing with synthetic users<\/a> \u2014 AI agents that represent their user base.\u00a0<\/p>\n Why it\u2019s noteworthy:<\/strong> 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.\u00a0<\/p>\n What it does:<\/strong> Breakout offers an in-bound sales development representative product, an AI agent that can assist users visiting a website.<\/p>\n Why it\u2019s noteworthy:<\/strong> Breakout wants to turn one-size-fits all websites into personalized destinations that perform tasks like answering questions or making recommendations interactively.\u00a0<\/p>\n What it does:<\/strong> Cashew offers a platform that eases marketing research tasks, including conducting surveys.\u00a0<\/p>\n Why it\u2019s noteworthy:<\/strong> 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.\u00a0<\/p>\n What it does:<\/strong> CODA offers AI avatars that serve the deaf community by translating spoken and written language into sign language.\u00a0<\/p>\n Why it\u2019s noteworthy: <\/strong>CODA is using advanced machine learning to provide accessibility for the hard of hearing.\u00a0<\/p>\n What it does<\/strong>: Collabwriting offers a web-highlighting tool that allows users to save, make notes across all their apps, and collaborate on those insights with others.\u00a0<\/p>\n Why it\u2019s noteworthy:<\/strong> This is the AI generation\u2019s bookmarking tool that includes access to AI features like fact-checking, \u201cknowledge triggers\u201d that resurface your saved info when you need or ask for it.<\/p>\n What it does:<\/strong> Dextego offers AI agents that act as coaches to help employees level up their skills.\u00a0<\/p>\n Why it\u2019s noteworthy<\/strong>: Dextego has taken proven behavioral intelligence data and translated it into coaches dedicated to tasks like\u00a0leadership, sales, motivation, and role-playing.<\/p>\n What it does: <\/strong>Offers AI agents that can sift through large volumes of unstructured documents to perform tasks like extracting information or analytics.\u00a0<\/p>\n Why it\u2019s noteworthy:<\/strong> Dobs AI plugs into enterprise data sources but leaves all the data, and control of it, in the enterprise\u2019s hands, not sharing the data with others like LLM model makers.\u00a0<\/p>\n What it does:<\/strong> Elloe is addressing the AI hallucination problem with real-time fact-checking of AI outputs<\/a>.<\/p>\n Why it\u2019s noteworthy: <\/strong>Elloe is like an AI auditor that uses machine learning but not the same LLM models that it is there to safeguard against.\u00a0<\/p>\n What it does:<\/strong> Elroi offers a platform that handles user permissions and offers datasets for AI training that comply with privacy regulations.\u00a0<\/p>\n Why it\u2019s noteworthy:<\/strong> Privacy regulations can be onerous and ever changing, so Elroi solves this with user-consented datasets.\u00a0<\/p>\n What it does:<\/strong> Etiq is building a data science AI copilot that handles tapping into data sources to enable AI code generation or agentic workflows.\u00a0<\/p>\n Why it\u2019s noteworthy:<\/strong> Etiq has an emphasis on context about the data, much like a data scientist, which helps it ensure accuracy, not hallucinations.\u00a0<\/p>\n What it does<\/strong>: Gravl is a storefront platform for core research facilities.<\/p>\n Why it\u2019s noteworthy:<\/strong> Gravl is like a Shopify for science facilities, which may have amazing technology innovations to license but need websites and back-office IT to help them do so.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n What it does:<\/strong> Hypercubic offers a platform to capture the institutional knowledge around aging mainframe applications.<\/p>\n Why it\u2019s noteworthy: <\/strong>The mainframe, running on legacy code, is still the backbone of many an enterprise, so Hypercubic uses AI for features like debugging and documenting that code.\u00a0<\/p>\n What it does:<\/strong> JustAI offers AI agents for marketing tasks.<\/p>\n Why it\u2019s noteworthy:<\/strong> This startup promises that its agents can run marketing tasks end to end, from crafting a marketing plan to analyzing results.\u00a0<\/p>\n What it does:<\/strong> KrosAI offers voice AI agents, including provisioning phone numbers, for emerging markets.<\/p>\n Why it\u2019s noteworthy<\/strong>: KrosAI delivers ultra-low-latency voice AI agents in about 50 emerging-market countries for uses such as call centers.\u00a0<\/p>\n What it does:<\/strong> Libertify offers an AI platform that converts written documents into interactive videos.<\/p>\n Why it\u2019s noteworthy<\/strong>: Libertify takes a PowerPoint or PDF and quickly generates an AI interactive where the document can explain itself or answer questions, yet the document and its data remain secure, it says.<\/p>\n What it does:<\/strong> Maisa is a platform that runs enterprise AI agents as digital co-workers.<\/p>\n Why it\u2019s noteworthy:<\/strong> This agentic platform is designed to handle complex processes and it creates fully auditable trails that verify the agent\u2019s work.\u00a0<\/p>\n What it does:<\/strong> Mappa offers a recruiting platform that includes behavioral voice analysis<\/a>.<\/p>\n Why it\u2019s noteworthy:<\/strong> Mappa trained an AI model to analyze voice patterns that correlate with traits that employers may be seeking from job candidates, such as communication style, empathy, and confidence.\u00a0<\/p>\n What it does: <\/strong>MAy-I offers AI technology for retailers and other foot traffic businesses that captures information about their visitors.\u00a0<\/p>\n Why it\u2019s noteworthy: <\/strong>Using computer vision, this company offers physical space businesses similar kinds of data that e-commerce sites can obtain about their customers such as gender, age group, and customer journey through the space.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n What it does:<\/strong> Mendo offers a tool that helps train the workforce on how to use generative AI tech.<\/p>\n Why it\u2019s noteworthy:<\/strong> This tool shows workers ideal uses for their corporate AI and allows users to share time-saving tips and evolve usage so no worker gets left behind.\u00a0<\/p>\n What it does:<\/strong> A platform that helps healthcare organizations easily prepare clinical data for use with AI.<\/p>\n Why it\u2019s noteworthy: <\/strong>Nimblemind offers a faster and safer way to structure, label, and manage multimodal health data with automation, audit trails, and APIs.\u00a0<\/p>\n What it does: <\/strong>Plurall AI has created proprietary technology that can detect multimodal deepfakes.<\/p>\n Why it\u2019s noteworthy:<\/strong> Plurall has designed its deepfake detection tool from the ground up, not bolted on top of a state-of-the-art model maker.\u00a0<\/p>\n What it does:<\/strong> PRVIEW is a platform for public relations professionals that automates the tracking of speaking and award programs for their clients.<\/p>\n Why it\u2019s noteworthy:<\/strong> Rather than manually tracking programs via a spreadsheet that could be big PR opportunities for clients, PRVIEW is a platform designed to do that work for the communications team.\u00a0<\/p>\n What it does:<\/strong> Rayda is a platform that helps IT easily equip remote workers across over 170 countries.<\/p>\n Why it\u2019s noteworthy:<\/strong> In addition to configuring and shipping IT equipment, the platform tracks devices and manages offboarding and device recycling, globally.\u00a0<\/p>\n What it does:<\/strong> Sponstar helps marketers turn any event or city into a treasure hunt.<\/p>\n Why it\u2019s noteworthy<\/strong>: Treasure hunts are a beloved form of entertainment, and Sponstar makes them easy for brands to organize with quests, rewards, Pok\u00e9mon Go\u2013style experiences.\u00a0<\/p>\n What it does:<\/strong> Unthread is a help desk built from the ground up to integrate with Slack<\/a> conversations, rather than having a Slack chat bolted on later.\u00a0<\/p>\n Why it\u2019s noteworthy:<\/strong> By watching Slack, Unthread is a new way to track the issues that slow companies down and fix them before they become problems.\u00a0<\/p>\n What it does:<\/strong> Offers a platform for businesses to easily create, edit, and post immersive 3D and XR content to the web.<\/p>\n Why it\u2019s noteworthy: <\/strong>The company allows users to capture immersive video with a mobile device using the on-device AI processing.\u00a0<\/p>\n What it does:<\/strong> WeShop offers an AI video agent that easily creates professional product photos from a prompt.<\/p>\n Why it\u2019s noteworthy:<\/strong> The company promises e-commerce sites and influencers the ability to upload the product photo and type in a prompt to create an AI-generated photo-shoot-quality pic.\u00a0<\/p>\n What it does:<\/strong> Zetic is a dev tool to deploy real-time AI directly on their users\u2019 devices.<\/p>\n Why it\u2019s noteworthy:<\/strong> This company offers an enticing alternative to cloud-based AI, allowing AI app makers to decouple their user growth from skyrocketing AI cloud costs.\u00a0<\/p>\n What it does:<\/strong> Zinnia offers an AI-powered platform that gathers data and assists salespeople.<\/p>\n Why it\u2019s noteworthy:<\/strong> The product acts like a sales assistant to boost human productivity rather than an attempt to replace the salesperson with 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