The judging panel for Start-up Battlefield 2025 is getting more and more powerful. The first set of venture capitalists contributed a lot of knowledge, and now we are augmenting our team with more top-tier investors who will thoroughly query entrepreneurs, investigate important problems. They will help choose this year’s $100,000 winner at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, which will take place at the Moscone West in San Francisco on October 27–29.
Like the honored investors who have contributed in earlier years, this incoming group has the knowledge, skills, and instinct to greatly change the path of the founder in only one Q&A session. Presenting the following cohort of investors ready to ask their most penetrating questions on the TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 Stage. Experience the pitch-off live and save more than $650 by booking your ticket right now.
Here are the VCs included in the TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 who will be crowning this year’s Startup Battlefield champion.
Beginning as an analyst at Insight Partners in 2012, Thomas Krane now works as a managing director there. Cybersecurity, DevOps, IT automation, and application software are among his investing interests.
The managing partner and founder of Precursor Ventures, Charles Hudson, is also on the list. He is known for investing in people over product when they are at the earliest stage of their journey.
Nicolas Sauvage leads TDK Corporation’s corporate venture capital arm, TDK Ventures, as president of $350 million. Initiative to support early-stage businesses inventing digital and energy inventions such as 1834 Ventures.
Early-stage venture fund Moxxie Ventures was founded and is headed by Katie Stanton. Before founding Moxxie, Stanton served in several executive capacities at Twitter, Google, Yahoo, and Color.
Santi Subotovsky has been instrumental in some of Emergence Capital’s most profitable investments since he is a general partner there. Entering in 2010, including major firms Chorus and Openpath. When Zoom (NASDAQ: ZM) was still a little-known company, Emergence’s investment in it was largely driven by him.
