Five investors to join Startup Battlefield 200 jury in the US — TechCrunch
Five venture investors will join the jury of the Startup Battlefield 200 competition, which will take place as part of TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 in San Francisco, United States. The event will be held on October 13–15 at the Moscone West convention center, and the winner of the startup competition will receive $100,000.
As TechCrunch reports, founders of the selected startups will have six minutes to present. The judges will then ask questions about the team’s ability to execute the idea, the size of the market, the timeliness of the opportunity, and the business’s defensibility against competitors.
New jury members
The jury will include ODDBIRD VC co-founder and general partner Vaibhav “Dr.V” Agrawal, ICONIQ Growth partner Anu Bharadwaj, General Catalyst partner Sho Sho Leigha Ho, IVP partner Miloni Madan Presler, and Eclipse Ventures partner Aidan Madigan-Curtis.
Agrawal founded the pre-seed fund ODDBIRD VC in 2024, which supports artificial intelligence companies in healthcare, biotechnology, critical supply chains, and automation. He previously served as a general partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners India.
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At ICONIQ Growth, Bharadwaj focuses on enterprise software and artificial intelligence companies. Before that, she spent nearly 12 years as Atlassian’s president and chief operating officer, leading the company’s product, engineering, and corporate business functions.
Investors’ experience
Sho Sho Leigha Ho works on General Catalyst’s seed investment team and invests in early-stage startups. At IVP, Miloni Madan Presler works with founders of technology companies from Series B through initial public offering, including in enterprise software, healthcare, and security.
Aidan Madigan-Curtis invests in solutions based on AI, the Internet of Things, computer vision, and software for manufacturing, logistics, supply chains, and the climate transition. She previously held a senior leadership role at Apple, where she scaled Apple Watch manufacturing, and later served as vice president and general manager at Samsara.
The five new investors will join 10 judges whom TechCrunch has already announced for the Disrupt program. More than 10,000 representatives of the technology sector, venture investors, and startup founders are expected at the conference.
