INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
At the very beginning, there were 20 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 $100,000 and the coveted
Disrupt Cup.After hours of deliberations, TechCrunch editors pored over the judges’ notes and narrowed the list down to five finalists:
OmniVis, Orbit Fab, Render, StrattyX and Traptic.These startups made their way to the finale to demo in front of our final panel of judges,
which included: Mamoon Hamid (Kleiner Perkins), Ashton Kutcher (Sound Ventures), Alfred Lin (Sequoia), Marissa Mayer (Lumi Labs), Ann
Miura-Ko (Floodgate Ventures) and Matthew Panzarino (TechCrunch).Winner: RenderRender has created a managed cloud platform
The company wants to provide an alternative to traditional cloud providers, such as AWS, Azure and GCP
And it starts with an infrastructure that is easier to manage thanks to automated deployments and a abstracted way to manage your
application that is reminiscent of Heroku.Read more about Render in our separate post.Runner-Up: OmniVisOmniVis aims to make detection of
cholera and other pathogens as quick, simple and cheap as a pregnancy test
Its smartphone-powered detection platform could save thousands of lives.Read more about OmniVis in our separate post.
