Eighty thousand people have tuned in to TechCrunch Disrupt to watch the launch of twenty new startups and products in the Startup Battlefield – nearly 2,000 in live attendance and another staggering 78,000 on the live video stream.
Of those twenty just ten made it to the second round, where the focus was on the business model. After long deliberations, and after calculating the total score of each startup based on our panel of expert judges and voting from the audience and viewers, we now have the final five TechCrunch Disrupt startups.
The winner takes home an experience of a lifetime, $50,000 in cash and the Disrupt Cup.
But first they have to prove once more on stage that they deserve to take the top spot. And the final judges – John Borthwick, Ron Conway, Marissa Mayer, Sam Schwartz and Quincy Smith – are not going to be taking it easy on them.
They have five minutes to explain their business and why it rocks to an overstimulated audience and those judges. And then they have to defend themselves on stage for ten more minutes under a barrage of skeptical questions.
Who will be the final TechCrunch Disrupt Champion? We’ll know soon enough.
Here are the finalists:
Betterment (watch)
MOVIECLIPS Mashups (watch)
Publish2 News Exchange (watch)
Soluto (watch)
UJAM (watch)
Which is your favorite? Watch their launch videos and tell us below in the comments.