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Meet the ScaleUp Startups exhibiting at TechCrunch Disrupt 2024
We’re excited to announce the debut of the ScaleUp Startup Exhibitor Program at TechCrunch Disrupt 2024! Join us at Moscone West in San Francisco from October 28-30 to meet an exciting lineup of startups that are poised to make their mark in the tech world.
The ScaleUp Startup Exhibitor Program offers Series A and B startups a prime opportunity to exhibit in the bustling Expo Hall, where they can showcase their groundbreaking innovations to over 10,000 Disrupt attendees. It’s also a powerful program for startups to make valuable connections with investors and tech leaders eager to back the next big thing.
And now we’re excited to introduce our ScaleUp startups, ready to showcase in the Expo Hall across all three days. Be sure to register for your ticket here so you can explore their tables and see what’s coming next in the world of tech.
Meet the ScaleUp startups
8vdX
Building fine-tuned AI/ML models for asset-backed securities analysis in minutes, which scales the underwriting capabilities of hedge funds by 10x.
The Agenda.
The Agenda. is a revolutionary app that transforms menstrual cycle data into actionable health insights through AI-driven technology and a dynamic e-commerce platform.
Agent2.AI
Agent2.AI delivers instant, AI-driven product demos for SaaS companies, allowing users to explore software in real time and transition to live agents when needed.
TheAgentic
TheAgentic is the most accurate LLM for agentic workloads that involve reasoning, function calling and structured outputs. We outperform GPT4 and Claude 3.5 by 25% to 40%.
Agree.com
An all-in-one platform to securely send and sign agreements with AI-powered workflows, free e-signature, automated invoicing, and integrated payments.
AppSentinels Inc
AppSentinels is a full life-cycle API security platform that protect applications against advanced business logic API flaws.
BeyimTech LLC
Revolutionizing K-12 learning with AI-powered microlearning social network, delivering personalized education in bite-sized, engaging formats.
BoardroomIQ
A groundbreaking AI-generated boardroom simulator, the first of its kind to equip entrepreneurs with the strategic prowess of Fortune 500 companies.
BYO Inc
BYO is the first workshop-to-market platform that provides users with personalized trainable AI experts, enabling them to augment their intellectual and research capabilities.
CLIKA
We make AI efficient, tiny, and fast on any device through automated model compression and format compilation.
Cloudgov Inc.
Save 30% on your monthly cloud bill — AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, MongoDB, and more. Try 14 days for free before you make data-driven informed decisions on your own projected savings.
Common Computer Inc.
Common Computer revolutionizes back-end infrastructure, leveraging a web3 AI marketplace to solve large language model computation challenges.
Cosmonic
Powered by CNCF wasmCloud, the Wasm-native orchestrator, Cosmonic allows the seamless reuse of code, as components, written in any language and deployed anywhere.
Coxwave
GDPR and SOC-II compliant, Align AI power analytics for enterprises building LLM-powered conversational products — think Google Analytics for ChatGPT.
CreateMe
CreateMe enables digital apparel manufacturing with automation, robotics, and adhesives. No sewing, no manual labor. We’re reinventing a 200-year industry.
Da1ilmverse
Transforming education with immersive VR, AI-driven personalized learning, and virtual campuses for a dynamic and engaging educational experience
En Garde
A mobile app where users can make money playing video games by competing in hourly and daily leaderboard challenges powered by AI validation.
FairShare
FairShare revolutionizes data sharing by empowering users with control and fair compensation, while businesses access compliant, transparent data through blockchain technology.
Fondo
Fondo is the all-in-one accounting platform for high-growth startups. Trusted by over 1,000+ founders, we deliver peace of mind and the financials critical for every startup.
FriendliAI Corp.
Achieve your generative AI potential with FriendliAI. Deploy custom LLMs or AI agents at blazing speed and scale while slashing GPU costs.
Gem Mint Club
The Gem Mint Club is an exclusive, universal rewards club (app) for sports and trading card collectors and enthusiasts. Members get rewarded every single time they purchase cards. Anywhere.
Guard Owl
Uber for security. All-in-one tech-first security service platform designed to bring guards and clients together to handle all security needs at the click of a button.
HuLoop Automation
HuLoop Automation streamlines work with AI-driven tools, optimizing tasks, enhancing efficiency, and integrating seamlessly with existing systems.
Immersivision
We bring hotel spaces to life through advanced immersive VR technology, allowing users to fully immerse themselves in a realistic environment.
Infinity
Firms use less than 3% of their data: Current tools are too complex for the business user and cannot mine unstructured data. Infinity is the AI-first BI platform that solves both these problems.
Invo Station Inc
Invo Station is an autonomous, silent flying EV that utilizes an electromagnetic motor instead of propellers and rotors.
IRBI
IRBI restarts e-commerce with AI-powered transparency, connecting buyers, sellers, and advertisers in a trust-driven place for smarter shopping.
ISRA
ISRA is a mobile app that allows hairstylists and barbers to deliver in-home services. Join us to disrupt a $70 billion industry before it’s too late.
Landbase
Landbase combines leading agentic AI with human expertise to intelligently automate your go-to-market.
Loan Factory
Loan Factory is the fastest-growing mortgage broker in the U.S. Because we have closed so many loans, we can negotiate and obtain ridiculously low rates from lenders.
Logically
Logically builds AI to give to government, enterprise, and trust and safety missions worldwide the information advantage in combating threats online.
Matic Robots
Matic is pioneering the next generation of fully autonomous, helpful, and elegant home robots using AI and computer vision. Level-5 autonomy in your home.
Meticuly
The leading innovator of AI-powered, 3D-printed patient-specific titanium bone implants in Southeast Asia, with 1,800+ cases, has now expanded into the U.S.
MM Lawyers Marketing
We are a marketing company based in the Bay Area with thousands of clients from Latin America. We focus on connecting our Latino clients with the best law firms specializing in workers’ compensation and personal injury cases.
Omi
Open source AI wearables.
Panam in Space
PANAM in SPACE is a company looking to develop large-scale 3D printing with laser and electron beam systems to aid in the next generation of space exploration.
Pitch Avatar
Pitch Avatar by ROI4Presenter is an AI-based platform for making your slides interactive and delivering them in the most effective way to grow the number of leads, demo calls, and user’s engagement with your sales, marketing, onboarding, training, and other content.
PLAUD Inc
PLAUD.AI is a hardware and software company at the cutting edge of AI native productivity tools. Our products are game changers in how individuals and businesses interact with real-life data.
PocketPiano
“The first professional portable modular grand piano that fits into a backpack.” PocketPiano is a real-size modular professional piano — with 87 keys and 1 pedal. Once folded, it fits into a backpack.
Popmarq
Popmarq is a live commerce fintech that transforms the buying and selling experience. The Pop experience integrates payment, audience, and financial solutions to unify the consumer journey and help people achieve their dreams.
Puzzle
Puzzle is a modern general ledger for tech startups to take on QuickBooks. Founders now have automated, scalable accounting software that can grow and scale with their startup from incorporation to IPO.
Quanergy Solutions, Inc.
Quanergy Q-Track provides precise, continuous 3D tracking of people and vehicles, overcoming the limitations of traditional physical security and crowd management technologies.
Readyset
Readyset is a modern database scaling platform and SQL query caching system for MySQL/PostgreSQL. Boost performance and optimize infrastructure costs with zero code changes.
Renormalize
Renormalize boosts engineering teams’ productivity by up to 30% through improved team efficiency and motivation for software developers.
Retail Robotics Solutions
Zap the wait, boost your plate! Our AI checkout vanishes lines, speeds up service 5x, and hikes revenue by 40% — all with a dash of tech magic and fun.
Reteta
At Reteta, we use AI to streamline healthcare documentation and coding. Our platform accurately transcribes patient-physician interactions and automates medical coding.
RISE Robotics
RISE Robotics, a deep tech MIT affiliate, has invented a new $60 billion category of fast, efficient, regen actuators to electrify industrial machinery.
Robbox Inc.
Robbox has developed the first digital AI-ready platform to integrate automation in power tools and devices and help professionals around the world increase efficiency, reduce human error, increase safety, and reduce storage space.
SAASTEPS, LLC
SAASTEPS offers a pre-packaged revenue life cycle management solution that automates workflows and fosters inclusivity, 100% native to Salesforce.
Sensori Robotics
We are building the de facto standard outdoor mobile robotics platform starting with AI-based robots sold directly to landscapers, saving labor and costs.
SoCreate
SoCreate empowers writers to create, AI-produce, and stream their stories globally without the need for publishers, studios, or expensive equipment.
SonicEdge
Sonic Edge’s second-gen MEMS Modulated Ultrasound Speakers will fuel the third great revolution in audio reproduction history, the first major breakthrough in the way we experience sound in 75 years.
Surefront
Surefront provides PLM + PIM + wholesale CRM tools to streamline merchandising, product development, and sales management between retailers and suppliers.
SynPhNe Pte Ltd
SynPhNe is the world’s first wearable tech that restores brain and muscle function — digitally. We help stroke and brain injury patients get back to life.
TensorOpera, Inc
FEDML is your generative AI platform at scale to enable developers and enterprises to build and scale their GenAI applications easily and economically.
Tensor Tech CO., Ltd.
Tensor Tech invents the world’s first commercial spherical motor. Such one spherical motor can do the job of multiple traditional motors.
THDR Group
THDR Group is focused on scaling made-to-measure fashion: developing technology to build brands that shift how consumers engage with fashion.
Transitional Forms
Transitional Forms is revolutionizing entertainment with a generative AI platform that empowers creators and audiences to create and interact with real-time, culturally relevant content.
Truck It In Pte. Ltd.
Truck It In is the only digital freight player in the MENAP region providing integrated services on a LaaS model (logistics as a service) to large enterprises and SMEs, combining CloudTrucks and UberFreight offerings — a bidding marketplace, ledger, and closed-loop wallet.
tweety.ai
Tweety.ai reinvents customer interactions with an AI-powered personalized voice agent that all of us wish we had, yet we could not find until now.
Ubilite
Wi-Fi connectivity with size, cost, and power consumption less than Bluetooth, both enabling data-rich IoT connectivity and a path to ambient, battery-free IoT saving 100 million single-use batteries per day in 2030.
Uniqus Consultech
Founded in 2022, Uniqus delivers transformative solutions in accounting, ESG, and tech consulting, serving 200+ global clients with a 400+ expert team.
Valier Technologies
MAWI automates logistics documentation entry and classification, boosting accuracy and efficiency while saving time and cutting operational costs.
VividQ
VividQ are the pioneers of computational displays; the light architects who hold 50 patents in this field and are light-years ahead of competitors even in Big Tech companies.
Voovio Technologies
Our tech-driven SaaS harnesses collective workforce expertise, enhancing productivity and decision-making in the process industries.
Yazaki Innovation Inc.
Yazaki Innovations, Inc., is a wholly owned subsidiary of Yazaki, created to grow innovation and emerging automotive.
Zepp Aura
AURA_TAL is your smart health companion that empowers you to take control of your health with precision nutrition tracking, utilizing advanced smart food recognition technology to log your meals and provide personalized insights automatically.
Zulip
Zulip is an open source team chat application designed for seamless remote and hybrid work. It’s ideal for both live and asynchronous communication.
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Cursor makes its biggest India push yet ahead of SpaceX acquisition with localized pricing
Weeks before its expected acquisition by SpaceX closes, AI coding startup Cursor is making its biggest push into India yet, launching its first country-specific subscription as the company bets on one of the world’s largest developer markets to drive its next stage of growth.
On Monday, the startup introduced Cursor Start, a ₹649-a-month (about $7) subscription built specifically for India — and priced well below Cursor’s standard $20-a-month Pro subscription.
The move reflects India’s growing importance to Cursor’s business. The startup says India is already its third-largest market globally and home to its highest concentration of power users, with its user base in the country more than tripling over the past year.
That scale, coupled with India’s deep pool of software engineering talent, made it the first market where Cursor chose to localize pricing, Simon Green, Cursor’s head of Asia-Pacific and Japan, told TechCrunch. “We felt that we had an opportunity there to right-size the commercial model and drive scale,” Green said. “The technical competency of the country and the engineering talent that already exists make it a very natural fit.”
India has emerged as one of the world’s largest software developer hubs. Earlier this year, GitHub said that the country has more than 27 million developers on its platform, second only to the U.S., with more than two million joining in 2026 alone.
Cursor Start includes access to Cursor’s Composer 2.5 model and Grok 4.5, with higher usage limits than the free tier, alongside cloud agents, its iOS app, plugins, Model Context Protocol support, hooks, and skills. The startup said the plan is aimed at developers who need more AI-assisted coding capacity than the free tier offers without upgrading to its full Pro subscription.
The lower-priced plan is intended to broaden access rather than replace Cursor’s flagship offering, Green said. Unlike the $20-a-month Pro subscription, Start does not include access to frontier AI models from providers such as OpenAI and Anthropic, or advanced features including Bugbot, Auto Mode, Automations, and the Cursor SDK.
The plan is billed in Indian rupees and supports payments through credit and debit cards as well as India’s Unified Payments Interface (UPI).
Green told TechCrunch that Cursor would use multiple checks to ensure the India-only subscription is available only to individual users in the country, including measures to deter people from accessing the plan through virtual private networks (VPNs).
Cursor is not alone in tailoring its pricing for India. OpenAI and Anthropic have also rolled out India-specific plans over the past year as global AI companies compete for users in one of the world’s fastest-growing AI markets.
While Cursor Start is initially limited to India, Green told TechCrunch that the startup could expand localized pricing to other markets if the model proves successful.
“We will continue to do everything we can to fuel the demand and serve those clients that are using us,” Green said. “Now, if this model proves that we could take it to other markets, perhaps we will. But I think it’d be crazy to say we would never do it elsewhere.”
OpenAI provides one precedent for this strategy, having launched its sub-$5 ChatGPT Go in India before expanding the lower-priced subscription to other markets.
In addition to the localized pricing strategy, Cursor is also expanding its presence in India through new hires. Green told TechCrunch that the startup recently hired its first salesperson in India and expects another leader to join in Delhi. The company is also building out its a government affairs office, alongside three technical customer support hires, as it expands its presence in Bengaluru, Chennai, Hyderabad, and Mumbai.
Cursor’s enterprise push is still in its early stages in India, Green said, where adoption has so far been driven largely by individual developers, startups, and universities. He said Cursor sees significant opportunities in sectors including banking and large enterprises as it expands its local sales efforts.
Green said, the India-specific pricing was designed to be commercially sustainable rather than a loss leader. He said the lower-priced plan is viable because it is built around Cursor’s own AI models, which carry lower operating costs than relying primarily on third-party frontier models.
Cursor’s India expansion comes a little over a month after Elon Musk’s SpaceX agreed to acquire the AI coding startup in a $60 billion all-stock deal, following SpaceX’s blockbuster initial public offering. The acquisition is expected to close in Q3. However, SpaceX has been partnered with Cursor since April to develop a next-generation “coding and knowledge work AI.”
Green said Cursor will continue to operate independently until the transaction closes and that the company’s India expansion plans were already in motion before the deal. Once the acquisition closes, however, Green said SpaceX’s existing presence in India through Starlink could help Cursor expand faster by lowering commercial and operational barriers.
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Lyft and Baidu enter London’s robotaxi battleground as testing begins
Chinese tech giant Baidu has started testing autonomous vehicles in London as part of its partnership with Lyft and Freenow, the German taxi and multi-mobility app that Lyft now owns. Baidu is the latest in a string of companies to test self-driving technology in the UK ahead of commercial robotaxi deployments.
The testing, which began Tuesday with human safety operators, comes nearly a year after the two companies struck a strategic partnership to deploy Baidu’s purpose-built Apollo Go RT6 robotaxi across key European markets through the Lyft platform. The vehicles will eventually be available through Freenow, which Lyft acquired in 2025 for about $197 million.
That deal gave Lyft a foothold in Europe’s ride-hailing market, where a handful of well-funded companies are now jockeying to be first to market with robotaxis.
London is particular is shaping up to be a key battleground in the region. In April, Waymo began testing its autonomous vehicles with human safety operators in the city. Uber and its self-driving tech partner, Wayve, also announced plans to launch a robotaxi service in London this year. That initial service — which customers can now sign up for on an interest list — will have human safety operators behind the wheel before fully driverless operations begin later.
Baidu and Freenow by Lyft (as the latter service is now called) said they expect to invite the public to hail their robotaxis in 2027. The companies, which didn’t provide a more detailed timeline, noted that the launch will depend on regulatory approval.
For now, dozens of test vehicles will operate within London’s borough of Brent. Lyft and Freenow said they continue discussions with safety and city officials, including Transport for London (TfL) and the Centre for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CCAV). The UK government is in the process of creating autonomous vehicle regulations and opened applications in May for companies interested in an AV pilot program that lets companies test self-driving vehicles under government oversight.
When the service does launch, Freenow by Lyft said it will operate a hybrid network — employing the same language rival Uber has used — meaning human drivers operating taxis and private-hire vehicles will work alongside the robotaxis.
“As a platform with deep roots in the taxi industry, our priority is ensuring that autonomous technology supports the professional drivers who keep London moving,” Thomas Zimmermann, CEO of Freenow by Lyft, said in a statement.
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Granola launches an Apple Watch app
AI note-taking app Granola is launching an app for the Apple Watch in hopes that its users will want to record meetings and take notes without using their smartphones.
Users can set the Granola app as one of the watch faces to start transcribing at any time. The app can also surface reminders about upcoming meetings, and works with the iOS app, which launched last year.
The company’s co-founder, Chris Pedregal, told TechCrunch that the Apple Watch app is meant to be a way to capture in-person meetings without having to take your phone out of your pocket — for example, if someone is having a walking one-on-one meeting.
When Granola tested its app with employees who had Apple Watches, a big chunk of their mobile usage switched from iOS to the Watch, the company said.
In the past year, companies have released auxiliary devices that can be used with smartphones to record and transcribe meetings. Granola said it considered it easier to develop an app for Apple Watches rather than integrate with another hardware product at this point. Dictation app Monlogue earlier this year also added support for meeting note-taking, for both online and offline modalities, along with Apple Watch support.
Granola became a unicorn earlier this year with a $125 million Series C round that was led by Index Ventures.
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