Five Startup Experts to Choose Contest Winner

TechCrunch chose five founder-investors, founders who now fund startups, to pick the winner of Startup Battlefield, its contest for young companies, at Disrupt 2026, October 13-15. Each leads a firm they started, including Stacy Brown-Philpot of Cherryrock Capital and Chi-Hua Chien of Goodwater Capital. They will also answer audience questions live on the Builders Stage that afternoon.