Startup Battlefield 200 In global pitch competition Techcrunch disintegration 2025The Moscone West, San Francisco, is taking place on 27–29 October, just a few weeks away, and the stakes have never been too much.
Twenty founders will pitch their companies on the stage of disintegration, but will run with only one $ 100,000 equity-free award and reputed display cup. Helping the winner to decide is our world class roster of our judges, investors and operators who know what it seems in the manufacture of permanent companies.
Today, we are unveiling the third group of judges who will bring their expertise and difficult questions in this year’s competition. And we have not been done yet. Stay for two more batches of judges in the coming weeks.
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Without further movement, meet our next five battlefields from 200 judges
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John Chu, Partner, Khosla Ventures
John Chu But there is a partner Khosla Ventures With a passion for machine learning and enterprise infrastructure, application and its impact on the developer tool. Before joining Khosla Ventures, he made a career in technology as a founder, early employee and organizational leader, which was in a series of engineering and product roles.
He started as an early engineer in Palantir, helping the company grow from 200 to 1,800 employees. He then established the co -lecode, which he sold to Dokar, where he built and led the Doctor Enterprise Division. In Opendoor, John served as the head of the product for the head of the core machine learning and the head of engineering, which contributed to the company’s development in the IPO. Recently, he led international engineering organizations on Facebook in both VR and machine learning.
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Erik Dobrashin, Partner, Index Ventures
Erik dobrachin But there is a partner Index undertakingInvesting with the establishment of stages of development in artificial intelligence, infrastructure and robotics. He is ready for curious and tireless founders who share their passion to deal with the world’s most difficult problems.
Prior to the index, Erik spent several years in Databricics, where he participated in association with Ali Ghodasi as his Chief of Staff. During his tenure, Erik had a front-row seat in one of the fastest growing venture software companies in history, working on every aspect of business-from products and engineering to sales and operations. Erik began her career in the Boston Consulting Group, where she mainly focused on enterprise software and digital health. He holds Applied Math from Harvard University and BA in Economics.
Kathy Freedman, Executive Enterprise Partner, GV
Kathy Freedman Finance, technology and healthcare have a professional executive with about 40 years of experience. As executive enterprise partner GVShe advises Life Sciences Portfolio and invests in Healthcare Continum. Their interests include adolescent mental health, full lifespan of women’s health and more equitable systems for understanding.
Jane Hoskins, Startups Head of Cloud and Partnership, Nvidia
Jane Hoskins Leeds for Cloud, Partnership and Go-to-Market Nvidia Inception, designed to help startups, accelerate technological innovation and professional development in all stages with 29,000+ members globally.
Hosakins joined NVidia after seven years at Microsoft, where he played a role in business development and partnership in product teams including Microsoft Outlook, teams, graphs and Microsoft for startups. Before Microsoft, Hoskins worked in marketing and alliance management in Cisco.
John McNell, co-founder and CEO, DVX Ventures
John McNell K. CEO and co-founder DVX undertakingAn enterprise studio has launched 12 companies to deal with large -scale market opportunities. A visionary entrepreneur, investor and operator, John has established six companies, produced businesses and scaling, who has created tens of thousands of jobs and gave 9X returns to investors.
John’s operational career includes leadership among some of the world’s most transformative companies. As the Chairman of Tesla, he helped the company to score in revenue from $ $ 2 billion to $ 20 billion in just 18 months, overseeing global sales, distribution and service. In Lyft, where he served as COO during an important development phase, John doubled revenue, expanded the market stake, and designed the company for his IPO.
He currently works on boards of General Motors, Lululemon, Asuraian, Crossfit and Stash. In Lululeman, John played an important role in his change, contributing to the growth of 5X in stock value. He also sits on the Liquid AI Advisory Council.
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Final global pitch-off Returns on 27-29 October. Techcrunch disintegration 2025 San Francisco’s Moscone brings 10,000+ startups and VC leaders together in West. Witness Startup Batalfield 200 Live, join the sessions, and create deals launched tomorrow’s innovation – all on the 20th anniversary of Techchchan. Secure your ticket by $ 668 in savings Before the prices rise after 26 September.
