Startup Battlefield 200 is a major highlight at every Disrupt, and we’re thrilled to find out which of the thousands of startup applicants will get the chance to pitch to top-tier VCs at TechCrunch Disrupt 2024. Join us at Moscone West in San Francisco from October 28–30 to witness the epic showdown where every contender is set to make a significant impact.
Get an insider’s view of what the judges look for in a viable company as they provide detailed feedback on their evaluation criteria. Don’t miss the chance to learn from their expert insights and discover the crucial traits that lead to startup success, only at Disrupt 2024.
We’re excited to introduce our next set of investors who will evaluate the startups and dive into each pitch with a thorough and probing Q&A session. Stay tuned for our last group of judges to be announced soon!
Galym Imanbayev is a partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners where he focuses on health tech and services investments. Galym’s interest in health is rooted in his childhood experiences growing up in Kazakhstan following his father on rural medical trips. Galym serves as a board member or board observer on Abridge, Aledade, Ancora, Fathom, Soda Health, and Wheel. Galym also spent time as an investor at Martis Capital. He completed his BA, MD, and MBA degrees at Stanford University, where he served as the graduate representative on the Stanford University Board of Trustees.
Rohan Ganesh, Partner, Obvious Ventures
Rohan is a partner at Obvious Ventures, where he invests in companies at the intersection of science, technology, and healthcare. He supports several companies as a board 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 at Northpond Ventures, a multi-billion-dollar science-driven venture firm. He worked as product manager for CompuGroup Medical (leading EMR company in Europe) and in Verily’s computer-aided disease detection and machine learning team.
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Lisa Morales-Hellebo, Founder and Managing GP, REFASHIOND Ventures
Lisa has 28 years experience in tech, design and systems thinking, entrepreneurship, and community building, and has recently added VC to her list of titles as founder and co-managing GP at REFASHIOND Ventures: the Industrial Transformation Fund — a New York-based venture fund that invests as the first institutional check in early-stage startups refashioning industrial value chains across data and AI, advanced materials, advanced manufacturing, and next-generation logistics; defensible through economic moats. Lisa is catalyzing the paradigm shift to localized demand chains as CEO and founder of REFASHIOND OS (rOS), which is deploying a unified data layer and control tower across manufacturing value chains. She is also a founder of the Worldwide Supply Chain Federation, an organization that is changing how supply chain professionals learn about, collaborate, and adopt early-stage supply chain innovation around the world.
Andrew Schoen, Partner, NEA
Andrew Schoen joined NEA in 2014 and is currently a partner on the Technology Investing Team focused on AI/ML, fintech, frontier tech, infrastructure software, technically differentiated SaaS, and security. Andrew serves on the board of directors for Aigen, Clarifai, Dandelion, Super, ThreatQ, and Wispr; he also works closely with several other NEA portfolio companies and plays an integral role in the firm’s Asia investing practice. Prior to NEA, he was a member of Blackstone’s M&A Group. Prior to Blackstone, he founded Flicstart, a digital media startup that provided on-demand movie screenings.
Christopher Wan, Vice President, Bessemer Venture Partners
Christopher Wan is a vice president in the San Francisco office, where he focuses primarily on early-stage deep technologies. Before joining Bessemer, Chris was at In-Q-Tel and Tusk Ventures, investing in companies at the intersection of technology and government. Chris was also part of the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI, where he researched and wrote policy proposals on artificial intelligence. He began his career as a software engineer on Facebook’s News Credibility team.
Don’t miss the battle at Disrupt 2024!
The Startup Battlefield winner, who will walk away with a $100,000 equity-free prize, will be announced at Disrupt 2024 — the startup epicenter. Join 10,000 attendees to witness this groundbreaking moment and see the next wave of tech innovation.
Valve is now explicitly disclosing that you don’t own the games you buy from its Steam online store. The company has added a note on the payment checkout screen stating that “a purchase of a digital product grants a license for the product on Steam,” as reported earlier by Engadget.
We confirmed the message appears in the Steam desktop app, but we haven’t seen it in the mobile app yet. Some Steam users noticed the disclosure go live earlier this week and posted their findings on Reddit.
My colleague Sean is not actually buying this yet; he says he has to play Persona 3 first.Image: Steam
There’s speculation Valve went live with the new message to get ahead of the law. The law states digital storefronts must not say you can “buy” or “purchase” something unless that something is a license, and it must link to the terms and conditions of the license — which Valve already seems to have covered.
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Intel is already working on support for its Xe3 GPU architecture in Linux – even though Xe3, codenamed Celestial, won’t be used in any chips until late in 2025 (at the earliest)
Indeed, Battlemage, Intel’s 2nd-gen Arc graphics, is only just here (in Lunar Lake laptops as the integrated GPU), so it’s very early days for 3rd-gen Celestial.
However, as Phoronix reports, Intel engineers are currently laying the groundwork for enabling Xe3 in the Linux kernel.
Thus far, we don’t know anything about how Xe3 – which will first be used as the integrated graphics in next year’s Panther Lake processors, the successor to Lunar Lake on the laptop side of the PC fence – will improve on its predecessor.
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The Linux driver code might eventually give us a clue, but it doesn’t yet. It builds on the existing Xe2 code, and focuses on Xe3 LPM (low-power mode).
What about discrete Celestial?
While this is Xe3 for laptops, the prospect of discrete graphics cards built on Celestial seems far more distant. After all, as we’ve already noted, Battlemage discrete GPUs haven’t even arrived yet, just the implementation of integrated graphics for Intel’s Lunar Lake mobile chips. It may be a while yet before we see standalone Battlemage graphics cards for desktop PCs, but hopefully these might turn up relatively early in 2025, with any luck.
Few streaming services have as many titles worth considering as Amazon Prime Video. Every time you think you’ve exhausted the lineup of available titles, you find that there are more to discover. Not every movie on the service is worth watching, however. And between scrolling through the app itself and looking at info about all the titles you’re interested in, you could find yourself spending hours just trying to find the perfect movie to watch this weekend.
We’ve made that a little bit easier by picking out three movies that are the perfect titles to check out this weekend.
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No Way Out features one of Yellowstone star Kevin Costner’s peak movie star roles. Ittells the story of a young navy officer who begins an affair and discovers that the secretary of defense is also involved with the same woman. When she winds up dead, he’s put in charge of the murder investigation before he eventually becomes a suspect himself.
While it’s not a perfect movie, No Way Out is nonetheless a joy to watch, in part because it features actors like Gene Hackman and Costner himself chewing up the scenery. Above all else, No Way Out is immensely satisfying, which is exactly what you want this kind of movie to be.
One of the most slept-on horror movies of the past 10 years, Doctor Sleep is a sequel to The Shiningthat manages to honor both Stanley Kubrick’s original movie and the Stephen King novel it’s based on. The film follows the first film’s Danny, who is now an adult and trying to ignore the trauma of his past.
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The first quarter of next year will see the arrival of the Samsung Galaxy S25 series. Leaks have revealed key details of the lineup, but there are still things yet to come to light. Meanwhile, the company seems optimistic about the sales expectations of its upcoming flagship mobile devices. Samsung seems to have particular faith in the Galaxy S25 Ultra, projecting that it will account for half of the series’ sales.
Every year, Galaxy S flagships are among the best-selling mobile devices. The popularity of the Galaxy S and Galaxy A sustains Samsung’s position as the leading brand in the smartphone market. There are rumors that Apple would overtake Samsung’s position next year thanks to a possible boost in sales of the iPhone 16 series and older models. However, the South Korean giant wants to make it difficult for the American company until the last moment.
Samsung expects the Galaxy S25 Ultra to account for half of the sales in the lineup
South Korean media reports healthy sales expectations for the Samsung Galaxy S25 series. According to estimates based on component orders, Samsung expects to ship about 22 million units of the Galaxy S25 lineup by the first half of 2025. Of those, 11 million units would be the Galaxy S25 Ultra, the most premium and expensive model. The Galaxy S25 and Galaxy S25+ would account for 6 million and 5 million units, respectively.
The strategy of launching Ultra models has paid off for the company. Galaxy S fans have made these devices the most popular and valuable. They also offer higher profit margins to Samsung. The upcoming Galaxy S25 Ultra is expected to feature an even larger display, reaching 6.9 inches. This puts it on par with the latest iPhone 16 Pro Max in terms of screen size. On the other hand, the base Galaxy S25 will remain a compact model, while the S25+ will be an intermediate variant with a bigger screen and battery than the vanilla one.
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Samsung could discard the base Galaxy S26
Recent reports suggest that Samsung will be shaking up its launch policy for the Galaxy S series. The brand could ditch the base Galaxy S26 in 2026, although this will likely depend on the popularity of its equivalent model in the Galaxy S25 lineup. Samsung has already launched the Galaxy Tab S10 series without a base model, offering only Plus and Ultra models.
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