Hello and welcome back to Equity, Tech Runches Venture Capital Focus Podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines.

My name is Alex Wilhelm and I'm joined today by one of the biggest equity teams we've ever had on the show.

But first up, we it in Natasha here.

Natasha say hi.

Hey, hey, how are you, Alex?

I survived, disrupt, and unlike most years in the past, I am not going to get violently

sick now that I'm done with it, so it's an upgrade.

Mary Ann, this was your first disrupt as part of the TC team in 15 seconds.

Tell us how much fun you had and why it was the most you've ever had.

I was just blown away by the quality of of the sessions the panelists the speakers everything it was amazing and the technology platform didn't crash shout out hopping but with us today is a special guest one of my favorite people on the face of the planet,

someone who has not been on this show, someone who you may not know but is very

much a key and vital part of TC and Disrupt, it's Nisha Tambi. Nisha,

hi. Hey, how's it going Tambi. Nisha, hi.

Hey, how's it going?

Thanks for having me on.

Yeah, so, Nisha, for folks who don't know quickly,

what is Battlefield, and how long have we been doing this?

We've been doing it for over a decade now.

Start a battlefield is Techrin's early-stage startup launch competitions.

The companies come on stage at Disrupt, a variety of our events,

pitch for six minutes, and then answer some judge questions.

And how many startups were they disrupt this year?

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