Tea Battlefield 2025 startup The jury is becoming even stronger. Our first wave of VC has brought a serious firepower, and now we add more investors who grill the founders, deduct the big questions and help the sample of $ 100,000 of Crown this year a Techcrunch disruptWhich takes place from 27 to 29 October to the Moscone West in San Francisco.
Like the legendary investors who have judged in past years, this next group brings intuition, experience and instincts that can move on to the founder’s trajectory in a single supply and answer.
Here is the next series of investors ready to bring their most acute questions to the interruption stage. Now secure your ticket to save $ 650+ And to attend the live patch-off.

Meet the next wave of our startup Battlefield 200 judges
By presenting the second lot of five vc that will help the battle champion this year, with multiple investors coming. Check the Stop the speaker page To know our judges.
Thomas Krane, CEO, Insight Partners
Thomas Krane is a managing director of Partner of deepening And it was with the company since 2012, when he joined himself as an analyst. As an investor, its areas of interest include computer security, devops, IT automation and software application. Five of his investments continued to create an ipo (tenobile, Jfrog, Darkracce, 1stdibs, Sentinelona) and others have seen successful strategic exits, including recorded future, adaptive shield, tycotic, nearpod, cilanza and qasymphony. Thomas studied Astrophysics at the University of Pennsylvania, where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa and graduated in four years.
Charles Hudson, CEO, Precursor Ventures
Charles Hudson Is the administrator and founder partner of Precursor adventuresAn initial risk capital company focused on the investment in the first institutional tour of investments for companies most promised software and hardware. It invests in people compared to the product as soon as possible internship of their entrepreneurial journey. Under his leadership, the precursor has raised four funds and has $ 250+ million in management. It has been invested in over 400 companies and over 450 founders has been supported, including the teams behind Bobbie Baby, Carrot, Incredible Health, Juniper Square, Modern Health, Eyewear in a couple, Rad Ai and The Athletic (sold at the New York Times for $ 525 million in 2022).
Nicolas Sauvage, President, TDK Ventures
Nicolas Sauvage is president of TDK VenturesThe Corporate Venture Capital Arm of TDK Corporation, where he guides the mandate of $ 350 million from the company to invest in startups in the initial phase that guide digital and energy innovation. Since its foundation in 2019, Tdk Ventures supported 45 startups under his leadership, included three unicorns: Ascendi, Grq and Silicon Box.
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Recognized globally, Sauvage appeared in the GCV powerlist for six consecutive years, recently ranking no. 17 among the first 150 leaders of venture capital. It is also one of the only two corporate VCs induced in the prestigious Kauffman Fellow program.
Katie Stanton, founder and general partner, Moxxie Ventures
Katie Stanton Is the founder and general partner of Moxxie Venturesan initial risk background. Before Moxxie, Stanton held numerous executive operational roles on Twitter, Google, Yahoo and Color. In addition to working in Silicon Valley, Stanton served in the White House and in the State of Obama and began his career as a banker at JP Morgan Chase. Stanton is part of the Board of Directors of Vivendi, a French multinational average company Seta in Paris in Paris, and previously he was part of the Board of Directors of Time Inc. has started his risk career as a founding partner of #angels and has invested in companies of over 100 stars, includes Airpitable, calm, coata, literati coinbase, modern fertility and safety of the shapes.
Saints Subotovsky, General Partner, Emergence
Saints Subotovsky is a general partner a Emergency capitalWhere he has a driving force behind some of the most successful sales of the company who joined in 2010, including Chorus and Openpath. He led the investment of Emergence in Zoom (Nasdaq: ZM) when he was a little known startup and remains in his board of directors since the company is a market capitalization giant of $ 24 billion. It is also part of the boards of administration of leading companies such as crunch, Logik.io, Zipline, Tundra and Class and works closely with Startup Studio and Accelerator High Alpha and Quasar Ventures, which helps Latin American entrepreneurs to give life to disruptive ideas.
Disorder: where technological and hard innovation is launched
The last global launch awaits. This 27-29 October, Techcrunch Disrup 2025 brings together over 10,000 startups and VC leaders, transforming Moscone West of San Francisco into the technological epicenter. The startup arena may have changed, but the disintegration remains where the founders launch tomorrow’s innovation. Join the sessions, do the business and witnesses of Battlefield of the startup. Protect your ticket now before the principles get up.