Startup Battlefield 200 is a significant spotlight at each Disrupt, and we’re thrilled to seek out out which of the 1000’s of startup candidates will get the prospect to pitch to top-tier VCs at TechCrunch Disrupt 2024. Be a part of us at Moscone West in San Francisco from October 28–30 to witness the epic showdown the place each contender is ready to make a major affect.
Get an insider’s view of what the judges search for in a viable firm as they supply detailed suggestions on their analysis standards. Don’t miss the prospect to be taught from their skilled insights and uncover the essential traits that result in startup success, solely at Disrupt 2024.
We’re excited to introduce our subsequent set of buyers who will consider the startups and dive into every pitch with an intensive and probing Q&A session. Keep tuned for our final group of judges to be introduced quickly!
Galym Imanbayev, Accomplice, Lightspeed Enterprise Companions
Galym Imanbayev is a companion at Lightspeed Enterprise Companions the place he focuses on well being tech and providers investments. Galym’s curiosity in well being is rooted in his childhood experiences rising up in Kazakhstan following his father on rural medical journeys. Galym serves as a board member or board observer on Abridge, Aledade, Ancora, Fathom, Soda Well being, and Wheel. Galym additionally frolicked as an investor at Martis Capital. He accomplished his BA, MD, and MBA levels at Stanford College, the place he served because the graduate consultant on the Stanford College Board of Trustees.
Rohan Ganesh, Accomplice, Apparent Ventures
Rohan is a companion at Apparent Ventures, the place he invests in firms on the intersection of science, expertise, and healthcare. He helps a number of firms as a board director or observer, together with Inceptive, Inato, Pi Well being, Gandeeva Therapeutics, Anagenex, and LabGenius. Previous to becoming a member of Apparent, he led enterprise investments in healthcare expertise, biotech, and diagnostics at Verily Life Sciences, a Google spinout, and at Northpond Ventures, a multi-billion-dollar science-driven enterprise agency. He labored as product supervisor for CompuGroup Medical (main EMR firm in Europe) and in Verily’s computer-aided illness detection and machine studying group.
Lisa Morales-Hellebo, Founder and Managing GP, REFASHIOND Ventures
Lisa has 28 years expertise in tech, design and methods pondering, entrepreneurship, and neighborhood constructing, and has just lately added VC to her record of titles as founder and co-managing GP at REFASHIOND Ventures: the Industrial Transformation Fund — a New York-based enterprise fund that invests as the primary institutional verify in early-stage startups refashioning industrial worth chains throughout knowledge and AI, superior supplies, superior manufacturing, and next-generation logistics; defensible by way of financial moats. Lisa is catalyzing the paradigm shift to localized demand chains as CEO and founding father of REFASHIOND OS (rOS), which is deploying a unified knowledge layer and management tower throughout manufacturing worth chains. She can also be a founding father of the Worldwide Provide Chain Federation, a corporation that’s altering how provide chain professionals study, collaborate, and undertake early-stage provide chain innovation all over the world.
Andrew Schoen, Accomplice, NEA
Andrew Schoen joined NEA in 2014 and is at the moment a companion on the Expertise Investing Crew centered on AI/ML, fintech, frontier tech, infrastructure software program, technically differentiated SaaS, and safety. Andrew serves on the board of administrators for Aigen, Clarifai, Dandelion, Tremendous, ThreatQ, and Wispr; he additionally works intently with a number of different NEA portfolio firms and performs an integral position within the agency’s Asia investing observe. Previous to NEA, he was a member of Blackstone’s M&A Group. Previous to Blackstone, he based Flicstart, a digital media startup that supplied on-demand film screenings.
Christopher Wan, Vice President, Bessemer Enterprise Companions
Christopher Wan is a vice chairman within the San Francisco workplace, the place he focuses totally on early-stage deep applied sciences. Earlier than becoming a member of Bessemer, Chris was at In-Q-Tel and Tusk Ventures, investing in firms on the intersection of expertise and authorities. Chris was additionally a part of the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI, the place he researched and wrote coverage proposals on synthetic intelligence. He started his profession as a software program engineer on Fb’s Information Credibility group.
Don’t miss the battle at Disrupt 2024!
The Startup Battlefield winner, who will stroll away with a $100,000 equity-free prize, shall be introduced at Disrupt 2024 — the startup epicenter. Be a part of 10,000 attendees to witness this groundbreaking second and see the subsequent wave of tech innovation.
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