Five companies will compete in the Startup Battlefield finals at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, after 20 startups pitched over two days. The finalists work across space and physical AI, energy and manufacturing, health tech and life sciences, and enterprise and security.
The finals are scheduled to begin Thursday at 11:30 a.m. Pacific. Judges will choose a winner, who will receive the Startup Battlefield Cup and $100,000 with no equity taken.
Apate uses thousands of AI agents that pose as potential scam victims to engage fraudsters through calls, messages, email, phishing links and social media groups. Flox Intelligence uses motion sensors, cameras and on-device models to identify nearby wildlife and play species-appropriate sounds intended to scare animals away.
Intero Biosystems is developing human intestinal organoids—lab-grown tissue intended to mimic the gut and help study how drugs and other compounds may affect the body before human testing. Industrial Next makes AI-driven robotic stations that it says can allow production lines to be retooled in minutes instead of weeks, without traditional programming. Some of its workstations are already used to make one of the world’s most popular smartphones.
Satlyt has flown its satellite-computing software on two demonstration missions. It aims to let satellites share computing work, with a next goal of demonstrating a shared computing cloud between two satellites.
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