{"id":27477,"date":"2020-09-18T11:22:36","date_gmt":"2020-09-18T05:52:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.the-next-tech.com\/?p=27477"},"modified":"2020-09-18T11:22:37","modified_gmt":"2020-09-18T05:52:37","slug":"meet-the-five-startup-battlefield-finalists-at-disrupt-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.the-next-tech.com\/business\/meet-the-five-startup-battlefield-finalists-at-disrupt-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the five startup Battlefield finalists at Disrupt 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TechCrunch hosted an unusual Startup Battlefield this week \u2014 the founders, judges, audience and moderator (me) were all in different locations, doing our best to interact over WebEx.<\/p>\n<p>However, the 20 startups nevertheless exhibited their merchandise and clarified their dreams, afterward were grilled by professional judges. And these judges aided the TechCrunch staff pick our five finalists.<\/p>\n<p>Those finalists will be presenting tomorrow at 10:40 a.m. Pacific for a completely new group of judges, and you&#8217;ll be able to watch the live stream by logging into TechCrunch. (Also: It is not too late to sign up for the complete Disrupt experience.) Those judges will select a runner-up and a winner, and the winner will take home $100,000, equity-free.<\/p>\n<h2>Here are the finalists:<\/h2>\n<h3>Canix<\/h3>\n<p>Canix has assembled a strong enterprise resource planning platform built to decrease the time that it requires cannabis growers to enter information.<\/p>\n<p>It integrates well with shared bookkeeping applications, in addition to Metrc, an industry-wide regulatory system. You may read about Canix here.<\/p>\n<h3>Firehawk Aerospace<\/h3>\n<p>Hybrid rockets are not new, but they&#8217;ve always faced significant constraints concerning their performance metrics and greatest push electricity.<\/p>\n<p>Firehawk Aerospace is constructing a secure, cost-effective hybrid fuel engine which uses industrial-scale 3D printing to overcome the barriers and limitations of prior designs. You may read about Firehawk Aerospace here.<br \/>\n<span class=\"seethis_lik\"><span>Also read:<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-next-tech.com\/top-10\/best-ai-hugging-video-generator\/\">10 Top-Rated AI Hugging Video Generator (Turn Images Into Kissing Instantly!)<\/a><\/span>\n<h3>HacWare<\/h3>\n<p>Tiffany Ricks based HacWare at Dallas, Texas, in 2017 to help bring improved email safety consciousness to small companies. The tech sits on a organization&#8217;s email server and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-next-tech.com\/machine-learning\/how-ai-and-machine-learning-are-ecommerce-tech-game-changers\/\">utilizes machine learning how to categorize and examine each message for danger<\/a>. You may read about HacWare here.<\/p>\n<h3>Jefa<\/h3>\n<p>Jefa is constructing a challenger lender specifically intended for women in Latin America. It concentrates on solving the issues that girls face when opening a bank account and handling it. You may read about Jefa here.<br \/>\n<span class=\"seethis_lik\"><span>Also read:<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-next-tech.com\/gadgets\/best-oculus-quest-2-accessories\/\">Best Oculus Quest 2 Accessories To Bring Home In 2025<\/a><\/span>\n<h3>Matidor<\/h3>\n<p>Matidor is constructing a project platform for both engineers and consultants to keep track of jobs and geospatial information in one dashboard.<\/p>\n<p>It delivers an all round data visualization package for clients in the environmental and energy solutions fields. You may read about Matidor here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TechCrunch hosted an unusual Startup Battlefield this week \u2014 the founders, judges, audience and moderator (me) were all in different<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":147,"featured_media":27478,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[2655,2658,2657,2656],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.the-next-tech.com\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27477"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.the-next-tech.com\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.the-next-tech.com\/rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.the-next-tech.com\/rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/147"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.the-next-tech.com\/rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27477"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.the-next-tech.com\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27479,"href":"https:\/\/www.the-next-tech.com\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27477\/revisions\/27479"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.the-next-tech.com\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/27478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.the-next-tech.com\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.the-next-tech.com\/rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.the-next-tech.com\/rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}