INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
TechCrunch scoured all of Europe to find the most innovative and disruptive early-stage startups to launch at TechCrunch Startup
Battlefield Europe 2018 at VivaTech
And today starting at 9:05 am CET on the TechCrunch homepage you can watch the pitches from the latest 15 Startup Battlefield
companies.
Each company will pitch for six minutes on the Pitch B stage at VivaTech, followed by a rigorous six-minute QA with esteemed
judges from all over Europe
Five companies will be selected to pitch in the finals this evening at 6:15 pm on the VivaTech Main Stage in front of a fresh crop of
judges.
Our teams come from a diverse set of industries and are using a range of technologies, from insurance tech to biotech, and from
blockchain technology to the latest in bioluminescent capture
Some are first-time founders and others have already negotiated $60 million financing rounds and developed tokens with over a billion-dollar
These founders are challenging industry norms, and replacing the status quo of today businesses with technologies that support circular
economy, optimized IoT design, GDPR-compliant data innovation and so much more.
Many of the problems these startups attempt to solve are
rooted in personal experiences: One entrepreneur is building an insole to help Parkinson patients, like her father, regain their ability to
sense the ground beneath them
Another entrepreneur grew up in a port city watching the dysfunction of shipments and became fixated on making them more seamless
And there an entrepreneur participating who built a flight marketplace, realizing first-hand that hobby pilots& empty seats were a market
opportunity waiting to be unlocked.
Here are the 15 Startup Battlefield Europe companies and the order in which they will pitch:
Session 1
at 9:05 am CET: Statice, Anorak, Tapoly, Wakeo, BIMlosophy
Session 2 at 10:30 am CET: Glowee, Mapify, DROVA, Walk With Path,
StatusToday
Session 3 at 12:00 pm CET: Wingly, Varanida, Solely Original Shoes, Wisebatt, IOV
Over the last two months, these 15 startups
refined their business models, demos and messaging with TechCrunch Startup Battlefield team and editors
Today, it will culminate onstage as they share their business with the world and answer the judges& questions about the viability of their
businesses.
Battlefield alumni have raised more than $8.2 million with over 105 successful exits, so investors, get your checkbooks ready
One of these 15 startups will receive the TechCrunch Startup Battlefield Top European startup award along with €25,000 in equity-free
money.
TechCrunch Editor-in-ChiefMatthew Panzarinoand I will kick off Startup Battlefield Europe at 9:05 am CET
You can find more information about Startup Battlefield Europe here.
