Startup idea: remove salt from oceans via continuous desalination powered by solar panels to increase the freezing temperature of oceans to increase sea ice to kickstart an ice age to reverse climate change
Startup Battlefield alumni include Dropbox, Cloudflare, and Discord — companies that all benefited from the Disrupt stage.
Across its history, Battlefield alumni have raised over $32 billion and produced 250 exits.
And this year's 200 companies are the next chapter. Experience their pitches and exhibitions live at Disrupt, Oct 13 – 15:
Startup Battlefield 200 returns to Disrupt 2026, with alumni having collectively raised more than $32 billion and produced more than 250 exits.
This year's impressive cohort of competitors will pitch for a $100,000 equity-free prize live on stage, and you can watch, and learn, live by getting your ticket today:
Startup idea:
Give tools that can build anything to people who don’t write software, then block them from being able to fix the bugs those tools introduce. Lobby the government about how dangerous AI is for marketing, then paywall the solution behind another model.