Meet the latest VC judges joining Startup Battlefield 200 at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 

The Startup Battlefield 200 Global pitch competition TechCrunch Disruption 2025San Francisco’s Moscon West 2 27-29 is just a few weeks away, and its price has never been high.

Twenty founders will pitch on their companies on the disrupted stage, but only one $ 100,000 equity-free award and alluring disrupted cup will be taken away. Helping to decide the winner is the world -class rosters of our judges, investors and operators who know what it takes to create permanent companies.

Today, we are unveiling the third group judges who will bring their skills and strict questions in this year’s competition. And we haven’t done yet. Stay for two more batch judges in the weeks ahead.

Please register now To see the acute “World Series” of the pitch competition and to save up to $ 668 on your pass. Increase the rate after September 26.

Without more Ado, meet our next five battlefield 200 judges

Check out Disrupted agenda To see 10 judges already announced.

John Chu, Partner, Khosla Ventures

Important If partner Crooked Emotions on machine learning and its impact on enterprise infrastructure, applications and developering equipment. Prior to joining the Khosla Venture, he created a career in technology as an organizational leader throughout the role of founders, primary employees and various engineering and products.

He started as a preliminary engineer in Palanthir, helped the agency grow from 200 to 1,800 employees. He then founded the quailiticode, which he sold to Docker, where he created Docker’s Enterprise Department and led. Opendore, Zone IPO contributed to the growth of the company as the head of the Product of Product and Engineering to grow for the core machine learning. Recently, he led international engineering agencies on Facebook both VR and Machine Learning.

Eric Dobrushkin, Partner, Index Initiative

Erak If partner IndexInvestment from the beginning of artificial intelligence, infrastructure and robotics growth. He is attracted to curious and relentless founders who share his emotions in dealing with the most difficult problems in the world.

Prior to the index, Erek spent several years in the databrix, where he was closely parted as his Chief of Staff with Ali Ghodsi. During his tenure, one of the fastest growing enterprise software companies in the history of Eric had a front row seat, working all over the business aspects of the business, from engineering to sales and activities. Erak started his career in the Boston Consulting Group, where he originally focused on enterprise software and digital health. He did a BA in Applied Mathematics and Economics from Harvard University.

Kathy Fredman, Executive Venture Partner, GV

Kathy Fredman A business executive with about 40 years of experience about money, technology and healthcare. As the Executive Ventures Partner GVHe suggested Life Sciences Portfolio and invests throughout healthcare continuity. His interest includes adolescent mental health, full lifetime of women’s health and more equitable systems for undervert.

Jane Hoskins, Cloud and Partnerships, Nvidia’s Initial Chief

Jane Hoskins Clouds, partnerships and lead to the market for Nvidia A program designed to help accelerate technical innovation and business growth at all levels, including inness, 29,000+ members worldwide.

Hoskins joined Microsoft seven years later in Nvidia, where he played a business development and partnership role in product teams including Microsoft Outlook, team, graph and Microsoft for startups. Prior to Microsoft, Hoskins worked on marketing and coalition in Cisco.

Zone McNel, Co-founder and CEO, DVX Ventures

John McNel CEO and co-founder DVX VentureA Venture Studios that 12 companies have launched to deal with large market opportunities. A visionary entrepreneur, investor and operator, zone has established six companies, building and scaling business that have created thousands of jobs and provided 9X return to investors.

People’s operating career includes the leadership of several converting agencies in the world. As the president of Tesla, he helped the agency earn $ 2 billion to $ 20 billion in just 18 months by supervising global sales, distribution and services. In the elevator, where he worked as a COO at a critical growth, doubles the zone, extend the market shares and prepare the company for its IPO.

He is currently serving on General Motors, Luliun, Asurion, Crossfit and Stash Boards. In Lulimon, the zone played a key role in its turn arrive, contributing to the growth of 5X in the stock value. He is also sitting on the Liquid AI Advisory Council.

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The Final Global Peach Off 27-29 comes back on October. TechCrunch Disruption 2025 San Francisco combines 10,000+ startups and VC leaders in Moscone West. Witness Startup Battlefield 200 Live, Join the session and make the deals launched tomorrow’s innovation – all on the 20th anniversary of TechCrunch. Protect up to $ 668 on your ticket savings Before September 26 before the price rises.