At the very beginning, there were 14 startups.
After two days of incredibly fierce competition, we now have a winner.Startups participating in the Startup Battlefield have all been hand-picked to participate in our highly competitive startup competition.
They all presented in front of multiple groups of VCs and tech leaders serving as judges for a chance to win $50,000 and the coveted Disrupt Cup.After hours of deliberations, TechCrunch editors pored over the judges notes and narrowed the list down to five finalists: Gmelius, Hawa Dawa, Inovat, Scaled Robotics and Stable.These startups made their way to the finale to demo in front of our final panel of judges, which included: Andrei Brasoveanu (Accel), Andrew Reed (Sequoia Capital), Carolina Brochado (SoftBank Vision Fund), Lila Preston (Generation Investment Management) and Mike Butcher (TechCrunch).Winner: Scaled RoboticsScaled Robotics has designed a robot that can produce 3D progress maps of construction sites in minutes, precise enough to detect that a beam is just a centimeter or two off.
Supervisors can then use the software to check things like which pieces are in place on which floor, whether they have been placed within the required tolerances or if there are safety issues like too much detritus on the ground in work areas.Read more about Scaled Robotics in our separate post.Runner-up: StableStable offers a solution as simple as car insurance, designed to protect farmers around the world from pricing volatility.
Through the startup, food buyers ranging from owners of a small smoothie shop to Coca-Cola employees can insure thousands of agricultural commodities, as well as packaging and energy products.Read more about Stable in our separate post.