INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Over the past two days, 21 companies have taken the stage at the Disrupt SF Startup Battlefield
We&ve now taken the feedback from all our expert judges and chosen five teams to compete in the finals.These teams will all take the stage
again tomorrow afternoon to present in front of a new set of judges and answer even more in-depth questions
Then one startup will be chosen as the winner of the Battlefield Cup — and they&ll also take home $100,000.Here are the finalists
The competition will be livestreamed on TechCrunch starting at 1:35pm on Friday.CB TherapeuticsCB Therapeutics is a new biotech company
that aims to change the game with cannabinoids produced cleanly and cheaply in the lab, out of sugar
What it done is bioengineer microorganisms — specifically yeast — to manufacture cannabinoids out of plain-old sugars.Read more about CB
Therapeutics here.ForethoughtForethought has a modern vision for enterprise search that uses AI to surface the content that matters most in
Its first use case involves customer service, but it has a broader ambition to work across the enterprise.Read more about Forethought
here.MiraMira is a new device that aims to help women who are struggling to conceive
The Mira Fertility system offers personalized cycle prediction by measuring fertility hormone concentrations in urine samples, telling women
which days they&re fertile.Read more about Mira here.Origami LabsOrigami Labs wants to bring voice assistants right to your ear without
requiring you to wear a device like a Bluetooth headset or Apple AirPods
Instead, the startup is using a ring on your finger combined with bone conduction technology to allow you to use your smartphone built-in
assistant & whether that Google Assistant or Siri & in an all-new way.Read more about Origami Labs here.UnboundUnbound makes fashion-forward
vibrators, and their latest is the Palma
The new device masquerades as a ring, offers multiple speeds, and is completely waterproof
And the team plans to add accelerometer features.Read more about Unbound here.
