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TechCrunch today announced 14 finalists for TechCrunch Disrupt Europe’s Startup Battlefield, taking place on 20 and 21 October at Old Billingsgate in East London.
The iconic international technology and thought leadership event brings together early stage startups and world-renowned players in the tech industry to share ideas, innovations and insights—all leading up to the heart of the conference, the Startup Battlefield competition.
Startup Battlefield competitors have mere minutes to present their company to a panel of judges, made up of innovators, venture capitalists and influencers in the tech community. The winning team will emerge from the conference with a prize of £30,000, the coveted Disrupt Cup, and a place among the 417 companies who have gone on to great success from the Startup Battlefield stage—among them, global brands Yammer , Mint.com and Dropbox . After competing in Battlefield, finalist startups have collectively raised more than $3.5 billion in funding, 56 have been acquired, and one has gone public.
The list of TechCrunch Disrupt Europe Startup Battlefield finalists for 2014 includes:
- Number26
- Cosmethics
- Sign2Pay
- Lobster
- Crate
- IO
- ONDiGO
- Levebee
- Oscadi
- Giftgaming
- Disease Diagnostic Group
- Photo Math
- Instant API
- CareZapp
Among the industry luminaries to take the stage at TechCrunch Disrupt Europe 2014 are:
- Brian Armstrong (Coinbase)
- Tim Armstrong (AOL)
- Alice Bentinck (Entrepreneur First)
- Niko Bonatsos (General Catalyst)
- Philippe Botteri (Accel Partners)
- Mat Braddy (Just Eat)
- Jon Bradford (Techstars)
- Eileen Burbidge (Passion Capital)
- Adora Cheung (Homejoy)
- Simon Cook (DFJ Esprit)
- Sonali DeRycker (Accel)
- Carlos Eduardo Espinal (Seedcamp)
- Onno Faber (TapTalk)
- Peter Fenton (Benchmark)
- Maelle Gavet (Ozon)
- Jason Goldberg (Fab, Hem)
- Peter Hames (Big Health)
- Taavet Hinrikus (Transferwise)
- Brent Hoberman (PROfounders Capital)
- Klaus Hommels (Lakestar)
- Tom Hulme , Avid Larizadeh , Bill Maris , Peter Read , MG Siegler , Eze Vidra (Google Ventures EU)
- Solomon Hykes (Docker)
- Benjamin Joffe (HXLR8R)
- Justin Kan (Y Combinator)
- Bindi Karia (Silicon Valley Bank)
- Damian Kimmelman (DueDil)
- Dr. Dominic King (HELIX Centre, Imperial College London)
- Saul Klein (Index Ventures)
- Neelie Kroes (European Commission)
- Uri Levine (Waze, FeeX)
- Mattias Ljungman (Atomico)
- Morten Lund (LundXY)
- Jeff Lynn (Seedrs)
- Alex Macpherson (Octopus Ventures)
- Christophe Maire (angel investor)
- Nenad Marovac (DN Capital)
- Florian Meissner (EyeEm)
- Frédéric Mazzella (BlaBlaCar)
- Brenden Mulligan (Cluster)
- Rohan Silva (Second Home)
- Michael Acton Smith (Mind Candy)
- Mikkel Svane (Zendesk)
- Sitar Teli (Connect Ventures)
- Tine Thygesen (Everplaces)
- Eben Upton (Raspberry Pi)
- Ed Vaizey (Minister for Culture and the Digital Economy)
- Eric Wahlforss (Soundcloud)
- Daniel Waterhouse (Balderton Capital)
- Jason Whitmire (Earlybird)
View the full and agenda for TechCrunch Disrupt Europe here.
About TechCrunch Disrupt Europe
TechCrunch Disrupt Europe 2014 is TechCrunch’s second conference in Europe, taking place in London. The format combines top thought-leader discussions with new product and company launches. Morning executive discussions debate technology-driven disruptions in many industries, while the afternoons are reserved for the Startup Battlefield, where 15 new companies will launch for the first time on stage. TechCrunch Disrupt will take place at Old Billingsgate Market, 1 Old Billingsgate Walk, EC3R 6DX from October 18-21.
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