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    Here are the 5 Startup Battlefield finalists at TechCrunch Disrupt 2024

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    The time has finally come to announce the five Startup Battlefield finalists. It all started earlier this year when TechCrunch’s editorial team selected 200 companies from thousands of applications. From there, the team then chose the 20 finalists who pitched this week on stage at TechCrunch disrupts 2024 to investor judges and packed crowds.

    This year’s finalists follow in the footsteps of Startup Battlefield legends like Dropbox, Discord, Cloudflare and Mint on the Disrupt Stage. With over 1,500 alumni having participated in the program, Startup Battlefield Alumni have collectively raised over $29 billion in funding with over 200 successful exits.

    The five finalists will present again on the Disrupt Stage on Wednesday, October 30 at 11:30 a.m. PT with Navin Chaddha (Mayfield), Chris Farmer (SignalFire), Dayna Grayson (Construct Capital), Ann Miura-Ko (Floodgate) and Hans Tung (Notable Capital).

    Now, without further ado, here are the five TechCrunch Startup Battlefield 2024 finalists:

    It looks like a fake, or at least a good illusion: there’s Gecko Materials founder Capella Kerst dangling a full wine bottle from her little finger, the only thing keeping it from shattering into pieces being the super strong dry adhesive that his startup brought. walk. But it’s not a trap. It’s the result of years of academic research that Kerst built on by inventing a method for mass-producing the adhesive. Inspired by the way real geckos’ feet stick to surfaces, the adhesive is like new Velcro, except it only needs one side, leaves no residue, and can come off as quickly as he fixes himself. It can do this at least 120,000 times and, as Kerst noted in a recent interview with TechCrunch, can stay attached for seconds, minutes or even years.

    Luna is a health and wellness app for teenage girls, designed to help them navigate adolescence. The app allows teens to ask questions about their health and wellness and get answers from experts. It also allows them to track their periods, mood, and skin. The London-based startup took to the Startup Battlefield stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2024 today to detail its mission to educate and support teenage girls. Luna is the brainchild of best friend duo Jas Schembri-Stothart and Jo Goodall, who came up with the idea of ​​creating a startup as a mission during their MBA program at Oxford.

    For anyone partying or going out dancing, the risk of accidentally taking adulterated drugs is real. MabLab has created a test strip that detects the five most common and dangerous additives in just minutes. Co-founders Vienna Sparks and Skye Lam met in high school, and in college they lost a friend to an overdose. It’s a story that, unfortunately, many people (myself included) can relate to. Fortunately, test strips are now commonplace at health sites and centers, with hundreds of millions of them shipped each year.

    Six years ago, while conducting research for a university entrepreneurship competition, Valentina Agudelo identified a troubling gap in breast cancer survival rates between Latin America and the developed world, women from his native Colombia and the rest of the continent dying at higher rates due to stunted growth. detection. She realized that breast cancer is highly treatable when diagnosed early, but that many Latin American countries have large rural populations that lack access to mammograms and other diagnostic tools. So Agudelo and her two best friends decided to create a theoretical wearable device that would detect breast cancer at an early stage.

    In the summer of 2020, a fire broke out aboard a military ship docked in San Diego Bay. For more than four days, the USS Bonhomme Richard burned as helicopters dropped buckets of water from above, boats spewed water from below, and firefighters rushed aboard to contain the fire. Even before the embers cooled, lidar (light detection and ranging) analyzes were carried out to assess the extent of the damage and understand how the fire started. But the investigation stalled, in part because of the difficulty of sending lidar scans.

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