Next Set Of Vc Judges Locked In For Startup Battlefield 200 At Techcrunch Disrupt 2025

The Startup Battlefield 2025 judging sheet is getting moreover stronger. Our first activity of VCs brought superior firepower, and now we’re adding much apical investors who will grill founders, unpack nan large questions, and thief crown this year’s $100,000 champion astatine TechCrunch Disrupt, October 27–29 successful San Francisco’s Moscone West.

Like nan legendary investors who’ve judged successful years past, this adjacent group brings nan insight, experience, and instincts that tin alteration a founder’s trajectory successful conscionable 1 Q&A.

Here’s nan adjacent group of investors fresh to bring their sharpest questions to nan Disrupt Stage. Secure your summons now to prevention $650+ and to witnesser nan pitch-off live.

Meet nan adjacent activity of our SB200 Judges

Introducing nan 2nd batch of 5 VCs who will thief crown this year’s Startup Battlefield champion, pinch much investors connected nan way. Check nan Disrupt speaker page to get to cognize our judges.

Crissy Behrens, Principal, Insight Partners

Crissy Behrens joined Insight Partners successful 2021 to attraction connected investments successful high-growth package businesses crossed SaaS, DevOps, and infrastructure. She antecedently spent clip astatine Primary Venture Partners arsenic a seed investor and astatine B Capital Group arsenic a maturation investor. Across her investing career, Behrenshas collaborated pinch companies astatine each shape of growth, from pre-seed to IPO.

Before becoming an investor, Behrens worked successful go-to-market roles astatine respective B2B startups and developer platforms. These customer-facing roles gave her invaluable problem-solving skills that person made her a existent partner to nan founders and entrepreneurs she invests in.

Charles Hudson, Managing Partner, Precursor Ventures

Charles Hudson is nan managing partner and laminitis of Precursor Ventures, an early­ shape task superior patient focused connected investing successful nan first organization information of finance for nan astir promising package and hardware companies. He invests successful group complete merchandise astatine nan earliest shape of their entrepreneurial journey. Under his leadership, Precursor has raised 4 costs and has $250+ cardinal nether management. He has invested successful complete 400+ companies and has supported 450+ founders, including nan teams down Bobbie Baby, Carrot, Incredible Health, Juniper Square, Modern Health, Pair Eyewear,  Rad AI, and The Athletic (sold to nan NY Times for $525 cardinal successful 2022).

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Nicolas Sauvage, President, TDK Ventures

Nicolas Sauvage is president of TDK Ventures, nan firm task superior limb of TDK Corporation, wherever he leads nan firm’s $350M instruction to put successful early-stage startups driving integer and power innovation. Since its founding successful 2019, TDK Ventures has backed 45 startups nether its leadership, including 3 unicorns — Ascend Elements, Groq, and Silicon Box.

Recognized globally, Sauvage has appeared connected nan GCV Powerlist for six consecutive years, astir precocious ranking #17 among nan apical 150 heads of firm venture. He is besides 1 of only 2 firm VCs inducted into nan prestigious Kauffman Fellows program.

Katie Stanton, Founder & General Partner, Moxxie Ventures

Katie Stanton is nan laminitis and wide partner of Moxxie Ventures, an early-stage task fund. Prior to Moxxie, Stanton served successful galore executive operating roles astatine Twitter, Google, Yahoo, and Color. In summation to moving successful Silicon Valley, Stanton served successful nan (Obama) White House and State Department and began her profession arsenic a banker astatine J.P. Morgan Chase. Stanton sits connected nan Board of Vivendi, a French multinational media institution headquartered successful Paris, and antecedently served connected nan Board of Time Inc. She started her task profession arsenic a founding partner of #Angels and has invested successful complete 100 early-stage companies including Airtable, Calm, Cameo, Carta, Coinbase, Literati, Modern Fertility, and Shape Security.

Santi Subotovsky, General Partner, Emergence

Santi Subotovsky is simply a wide partner astatine Emergence Capital, wherever he has been a driving unit down immoderate of nan firm’s astir successful investments since joining successful 2010, including Chorus and Openpath. He led Emergence’s finance successful Zoom (NASDAQ: ZM) erstwhile it was a little-known startup and remains connected its committee arsenic nan institution stands arsenic a $24 cardinal marketplace headdress giant. He besides serves connected nan boards of starring companies for illustration Crunchbase, Logik.io, Zipline, Tundra, and Class, and useful intimately pinch startup workplace and accelerator High Alpha, and Quasar Ventures, which helps Latin American entrepreneurs bring disruptive ideas to life.

Disrupt: Where tech invention launches — and lasts

The eventual world pitch-off awaits. This October 27-29, TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 brings together 10,000+ startups and VC leaders, turning San Francisco’s Moscone West into nan tech epicenter. The startup arena whitethorn person changed, but Disrupt remains wherever founders motorboat tomorrow’s innovation. Join nan sessions, make nan deals, and witnesser Startup Battlefield live. Secure your summons now earlier prices rise.