The Startup Battlefield 200 is a big highlight of every Disrupt, and we can't wait to see which of the thousands of startup applicants will get the chance to pitch to top VCs at TechCrunch Disrupt 2024. Join Moscone West in San Francisco. It will be held from October 28th to 30th and will witness an epic showdown where all the candidates will have a huge impact.
Auditors provide detailed feedback on their evaluation criteria, giving you an insider's perspective on what they look for in a viable company. Don't miss your chance to learn from their expert insights and discover the key characteristics that lead to startup success, only at Disrupt 2024.
We look forward to introducing our next set of investors who will evaluate startups and dive into each pitch with a thorough and exploratory Q&A session. The final group of judges will be announced soon, so stay tuned!
Galim Imambaev, Partner, Lightspeed Venture Partners
Galym Imanbayev is a partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners, focused on investing in medical technology and services. Galim's interest in health is rooted in her childhood experiences growing up in Kazakhstan, following her father's medical trips to the countryside. Galym serves as a board member or board observer for Abridge, Aledade, Ancora, Fathom, Soda Health, and Wheel. Galym also worked as an investor at Martis Capital. He received his BA, MD, and MBA degrees from Stanford University, where he served as an alumni representative on the Stanford Board of Trustees.
Rohan Ganesh, Partner at Obvious Ventures
Rohan is a partner at Obvious Ventures, which invests in companies at the intersection of science, technology, and healthcare. He supports several companies as a director or observer, including Inceptive, Inato, Pi Health, Gandeeva Therapeutics, Anagenex, and LabGenius. Prior to joining Obvious, he led venture investments in healthcare technology, biotech, and diagnostics at Verily Life Sciences, a Google spinout, and Northpond Ventures, a multibillion-dollar science-driven venture firm. . He worked as a product manager in the computer-assisted disease detection and machine learning teams at CompuGroup Medical (a leading European EMR company) and Verily.
Lisa Morales Hellebo, Founder and Managing GP of REFASHIOND Ventures
Lisa has 28 years of experience in technology, design, systems thinking, entrepreneurship, and community building, most recently as founder and co-managing GP of REFASHIOND Ventures, a New York-based industry transformation fund. added to the title list. A venture fund that invests as a first institutional check in early-stage startups that are reshaping industrial value chains across data and AI, advanced materials, advanced manufacturing, and next-generation logistics. Defensible through an economic moat. Lisa is the CEO and Founder of REFASHIOND OS (rOS), which deploys an integrated data layer and control tower across the manufacturing value chain, driving a paradigm shift to localized demand chains. She is also the founder of the Worldwide Supply Chain Federation, an organization that transforms the way supply chain professionals around the world learn about, collaborate on, and implement early-stage supply chain innovations.
Andrew Shawn, NEA Partner
Andrew Schoen joined NEA in 2014 and is currently a partner in the technology investment team with a focus on AI/ML, fintech, frontier technologies, infrastructure software, technologically differentiated SaaS, and security. Andrew serves on the boards of Aigen, Clarifai, Dandelion, Super, ThreatQ, and Wispr. He also works closely with several other NEA portfolio companies and plays a key role in the firm's Asia investment operations. Prior to joining NEA, he was a member of Blackstone's M&A group. Prior to joining Blackstone, he founded Flicstart, a digital media startup that provides on-demand movie screenings.
Christopher Wang, Vice President, Bessemer Venture Partners
Christopher Wan is a vice president in the San Francisco office, primarily focused on early-stage deep technology. Prior to joining Bessemer, Chris was at In-Q-Tel and Tusk Ventures, investing in companies at the intersection of technology and government. Chris also worked at the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI, where he conducted research and wrote policy proposals on artificial intelligence. He started his career as a software engineer on the News Credibility team at Facebook.
Don't miss the battle at Disrupt 2024!
The winner of the Startup Battlefield will win a $100,000 non-stock prize and be announced at Disrupt 2024, the epicenter of startups. Witness this groundbreaking moment with 10,000 attendees and witness the next wave of technological innovation.
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