For 3 days this week, 20 startups participated within the Startup Battlefield at TechCrunch Disrupt. Every was chosen to characterize the very best of the Startup Battlefield 200 and competed for an opportunity to take dwelling the Startup Battlefield Cup and $100,000. In any case that intense pitching, we now have a winner.

These startups had been hand-picked to compete in Startup Battlefield, and all of them offered a reside demo in entrance of the VCs and tech leaders who judged the competitors.

After hours of deliberations, TechCrunch editors pored over the judges’ notes and narrowed the checklist down to 5 finalists: Constitution Area, Glīd, MacroCycle, Nephrogen, and Unlisted Houses.

The ultimate 5 made their strategy to the finale to demo in entrance of our remaining panel of judges, which included Aileen Lee, founder and managing associate of Cowboy Ventures, and Digg founder Kevin Rose.

We’re now able to announce that the winner of TechCrunch Startup Battlefield 2024 is:

Winner: Glīd

Glīd (pronounced “Glide”) goals to streamline the complicated, multistep course of concerned in shifting a container from a ship to a freight prepare. The corporate has developed a number of {hardware} and software program merchandise to hurry up and scale back the price of getting delivery containers to the railhead and finally their vacation spot. Its first product is GliderM, a hybrid-electric car with a hook on the again that may choose up and transfer 20-foot containers on to the rail with out the necessity for forklifts of hostler vehicles.

Learn extra about Glīd in our separate put up.

Runner-up: Nephrogen

Nephrogen is a biotech startup that makes use of AI and superior screening to develop a specialised supply system for safely getting gene-editing medicines into the precise cells within the kidney. Founder Demetri Maxim says that after three years of improvement, Nephrogen has succeeded in making a supply mechanism that’s 100 occasions extra environment friendly at transporting medication to the kidney than the “autos” at the moment accredited by the FDA. And he plans to take part within the scientific research himself, given the challenges he faces residing with polycystic kidney illness.

Learn extra about Nephrogen in our separate put up.

These two firms observe within the footsteps of Startup Battlefield legends like Dropbox, Discord, Cloudflare, and Mint on the Disrupt stage. With greater than 1,500 alumni having participated in this system, Startup Battlefield Alumni have collectively raised over $29 billion in funding with greater than 200 profitable exits.