Startup competition
TechCrunch Disrupt — Startup Battlefield
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Highest-profile early-stage startup pitch competition. Top-30 selected each year.
Stages
Geographies
Industries
Business models
Check size
$100,000 to $100,000
Founder segments
How to reach them
Apply via the website. Selective.
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# TechCrunch Disrupt — Startup Battlefield application draft — {{idea name}}
1. **What are you building?** (1-2 sentences)
{{one-line description}}
2. **Why is this hard for others?**
{{Defensibility — what existing players can't easily copy}}
3. **What have you shipped so far?**
{{Concrete artifacts: prototype, beta users, contracts, demos}}
4. **What did you learn from your first 10 conversations?**
{{The single most surprising customer insight}}
5. **Why this team?**
{{The unfair advantage each founder brings}}
6. **What's the 90-day goal during the batch?**
{{One concrete metric you'll move in the batch — usage, revenue, partners}}
7. **What would you do with the check?**
{{The single biggest constraint $100-500k would unblock}}Fill in: idea name, one-line description, Defensibility — what existing players can't easily copy, Concrete artifacts: prototype, beta users, contracts, demos, The single most surprising customer insight, The unfair advantage each founder brings, One concrete metric you'll move in the batch — usage, revenue, partners, The single biggest constraint $100-500k would unblock
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