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Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch's flagship podcast about the business of startups. Today is Friday, August 28th. I'm Kirsten Koresak, Transportation Editor at TechCrunch, and I'm joined, as always,

with TechCrunch Senior AI Reporter Max Zeph and weekend editor Anthony Ha.

Well, I'm excited to see both of you in person in, I guess, just a couple months at Disrupt.

The opportunity, I mean, it's great for a variety of reasons, but one of those reasons is the Tech Crunch staff actually gets to hang out in person. But of course, the headline event, I would argue, is the startup battlefield

and we've just announced the Startup Battlefield 200, which are a variety of companies that are

going to either be presenting on stage or they're going to be featured at disrupting different

ways. Kirsten, have you looked at the list you have a favorite company yet?

Well, okay, so we shouldn't do favorite companies, right?

But yes, I have looked actually at the list quite a bit.

And you didn't mention the most exciting part about Battlefield, which is that you will be hosting.

Yet again, you're sort of like tied an iconic part of Battlefield.

But yes, I have looked at them.

And there's a bunch of companies I'm super interested in. One, I ended up doing kind of like this deep dive on. It's called Ahoy, A-H-I-O. And they don't describe themselves like this, but I sort of do.

They're sort of like the ways of like crowdsourced on

accessibility. So is that ramp actually functional? Can you get into this building? Really fascinating

and interesting like co-founder list, including this one guy who has, I'm not going to even get

into it. I could talk about it all day long, but I'm obsessed with the podcast that he is a part of called Blank. And I'll just put it that. He survived this thing called Lockton Syndrome. So I highly recommend everyone just do this deep dive. It's a very interesting startup, but there's a ton of other ones too. Max, I'm sure you've seen some of them, lots of AI in there.

Yes, lots of really impressive startups that are working with big AI companies.

We have a really good crop this year. And Anthony, I talked to the people at the Moscone Center,

and we are going to get you set up with a sleeping bag, water and food, so you can just live on

the stage this year. So that should be really good. Does that work? That sounds horrible,

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