TechCrunch has announced five additional venture capital judges for Startup Battlefield 200 at Disrupt 2026, where selected founders will pitch their companies in six minutes before facing detailed investor questioning. The event will take place from 13–15 October at San Francisco’s Moscone West, giving founders and the wider audience insight into how investors assess execution, market opportunity, timing and defensibility.

The newly announced judges include Vaibhav Agrawal of ODDBIRD VC, Anu Bharadwaj of ICONIQ and Sho Sho Leigha Ho of General Catalyst. Their backgrounds span healthcare and industrial AI, enterprise software, startup investing and major technology leadership roles; the competition’s winner will receive a $100,000 prize, with more judges already announced and over 10,000 technology leaders expected to attend.