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Edyn debuts smart water valve to put home gardens on autopilot 
And the winner of TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2016 is… Beam 
Ritual wants to reinvent the vitamin Past Battlefield Winners
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Beam
Seattle, WA, US |
$420K | Disrupt NY 2016 | Operating |
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Beam Seattle, WA, US |
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Nima
San Francisco, CA, US |
$17.2M | Hardware Battlefield 2016 | Operating |
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Nima San Francisco, CA, US |
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Jukedeck
London, H9, GB |
$3.8M | Disrupt London 2015 | Operating |
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Jukedeck London, H9, GB |
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Agrilyst
Brooklyn, NY, US |
$1M | Disrupt SF 2015 | Operating |
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Agrilyst Brooklyn, NY, US |
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Liquidity Nanotech Corporation
Alameda, CA, US |
$11.6M | Disrupt NY 2015 | Operating |
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Liquidity Nanotech Corporation Alameda, CA, US |
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Voltera
Kitchener, ON, CA |
$55K | Hardware Battlefield 2015 | Operating |
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Voltera Kitchener, ON, CA |
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Crate.IO
Dornbirn, 08, AT |
$1.5M | Disrupt EU 2014 | Operating |
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Crate.IO Dornbirn, 08, AT |
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Hello Alfred
New York, NY, US |
$12.5M | Disrupt SF 2014 | Operating |
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Hello Alfred New York, NY, US |
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Vurb
San Francisco, CA, US |
$10M | Disrupt NYC 2014 | Operating |
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Vurb San Francisco, CA, US |
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Koto Labs
Ljubljana, 61, SI |
$717K | Hardware Battlefield 2014 | Operating |
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Koto Labs Ljubljana, 61, SI |
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LOCK8
London, H9, GB |
- | Disrupt EU 2013 | Operating |
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LOCK8 London, H9, GB |
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Layer
San Francisco, CA, US |
$22M | Disrupt SF 2013 | Operating |
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Layer San Francisco, CA, US |
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Enigma Technologies
New York, NY, US |
$34.6M | Disrupt NYC 2013 | Operating |
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Enigma Technologies New York, NY, US |
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YourMechanic
Mountain View, CA, US |
- | Disrupt SF 2012 | Operating |
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YourMechanic Mountain View, CA, US |
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UberConference
San Francisco, CA, US |
- | Disrupt NYC 2012 | Operating |
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UberConference San Francisco, CA, US |
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OrderWithMe
Las Vegas, NV, US |
$37M | Disrupt Beijing 2011 | Operating |
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OrderWithMe Las Vegas, NV, US |
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Shaker
IL |
$18M | Disrupt SF 2011 | Operating |
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Shaker IL |
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Getaround
San Francisco, CA, US |
$25.7M | Disrupt NYC 2011 | Operating |
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Getaround San Francisco, CA, US |
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Qwiki
New York, NY, US |
$10.5M | Disrupt SF 2010 | Acquired |
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Qwiki New York, NY, US |
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Soluto
Tel Aviv, 05, IL |
$18M | Disrupt NYC 2010 | Acquired |
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Soluto Tel Aviv, 05, IL |
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Redbeacon
Foster City, CA, US |
$7.4M | TC50 2009 | Acquired |
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Redbeacon Foster City, CA, US |
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Yammer
San Francisco, CA, US |
$142M | TC50 2008 | Acquired |
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Yammer San Francisco, CA, US |
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Mint
Mountain View, CA, US |
$31.8M | TC40 2007 | Acquired |
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Mint Mountain View, CA, US |
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Battlefield News
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ShoCard and SITA want to store your ID details on the blockchain to authenticate travelers
ShoCard and SITA, the IT company for the air transport industry, have been working together on an interesting project. They’ve been looking at ways to store your ID details on the blockchain to manage traveler identification. More generally, ShoCard has been working on a seamless service that lets you store your identity onto the bitcoin blockchain. This way, anyone can retrieve and… Read More
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FireChat Alerts could help spread vital information in offline and disaster-stricken areas
Decentralized chat app FireChat is adding a new feature that could help disseminate critical info like storm warnings, health advisories and so on when the normal communications grid is down. Truth be told, Alerts aren’t terribly different from the normal chat function, which passes data from phone to phone over an ad-hoc network that doesn’t rely on cellular signals. In the case… Read More
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Edyn debuts smart water valve to put home gardens on autopilot
Oakland, Calif.-based Edyn started selling a new, smart gardening device this week: an Internet-connected water valve that lets users irrigate their gardens or lawns automatically. The Edyn Water Valve uses data from the company’s Edyn Garden Sensor, a soil sensor, along with local weather systems, to adjust the moisture levels in the soil. If a user wants, they can… Read More
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6SensorLabs raises a $9.2 million Series A to expand its line of food allergy testers
The Nima was the hit of CES 2016. As a tiny gluten tester, it won our Hardware Battlefield and made an impression on the tech press. And the company today is announcing it has raised a $9.2 million round to expand beyond testing just for gluten. The company also announced today that it will rebrand from 6SensorLabs to the name of its first product, Nima. Foundry Group lead the round with… Read More
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And the winner of TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2016 is… Beam
The competition has been incredibly fierce, but we now have a winner. At the very beginning, there were 22 startups. We hand-picked all these great companies from the wild world of startup land so that they could compete in our highly competitive startup competition — the Startup Battlefield. They all presented in front of multiple groups of tech leaders serving as judges. The startups… Read More
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GeoOrbital’s wheel turns almost any bike into an electric bike
TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2016’s “wildcard” participant GeoOrbital has a different take on the electric bike. Instead of putting a motor on the bike, they put it in the wheel. This crazy idea was actually prompted by something founder Michael Burtov saw in the movie “Tron.” He thought there was a lot of wasted space inside the motorcycles because of their hollow wheels. Read More
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Agrilyst raises $1M seed round for its indoor agriculture analytics service
Agrilyst, the winner of our Disrupt SF 2015 Battlefield competition, today announced it has raised a $1 million seed round for its indoor agriculture analytics service. The round was led by Brooklyn Bridge Ventures with participation from Metamorphic Ventures and a number of angel investors and seed funds, including the co-founders of QuickFire, another Battlefield company that was later… Read More
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The TC Disrupt NY Battlefield Finalists are Bark, Beam, BitPagos, Ritual, SeaDrone, and WaterO
Thus far at TC Disrupt NY, we’ve seen a handshake stalemate between IAB’s Randall Rothenberger and AdBlocker’s Till Faida. We’ve seen the Siri founders debut the next-generation of voice powered AI with . And we’ve seen Fred Wilson talk about New York. Twice. Tomorrow, we have a star-studded lineup that includes the likes of Jessica Alba, Carmelo Anthony and… Read More
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3Dprintler lets you order a 3D print via chatbot
Who do you call if you want to 3D print something? Step forward 3Dprintler, a startup that has made a search engine for locating 3D printing services in your area. The team was chosen as the wildcard company from Startup Alley to present onstage in the 2016 Battlefield here at TechCrunch Disrupt New York. Read More
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Birch gets your credit card rewards in order
Credit card reward programs can be confusing, and each can be totally different from the next. So managing all your points and rewards can quickly become a headache. Enter Birch, a service that helps users manage their rewards programs and points across multiple credit cards and accounts. Birch plugs into a bank account, looks at a user’s spending habits and recommends what kinds of… Read More
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