Austin, Texas – Polygraf AI has been selected to Startup Battlefield 200, amongst thousands of the most promising early-stage startups worldwide, to pitch at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 this October in San Francisco. The company has also been announced as the #1 Tech Company at the Road to TechCrunch Battlefield 200 regional finals, organized by Silkroad Innovation Hub, from over 480 other innovative technology companies.

This adds to a landmark year for Polygraf AI. Earlier in 2025, it took home Best in Show at SXSW, and Best Insurtech/Fintech at Summerfest Tech. This milestone underscores Polygraf’s role as a frontrunner in AI-driven data governance and privacy.

This October marks 20 years that TechCrunch Disrupt has been shaping the startup world. Startup Battlefield is TechCrunch’s flagship annual competition, featuring 200 global startups.  Startup Battlefield 200 Top 20 finalists will be revealed on Day 1 of Disrupt 2025 (Monday, October 27). These 20 founders battle it out live onstage for the $100,000 prize and the iconic Disrupt Cup. Notable Startup Battlefield alumni include Dropbox, Trello, Mint, Discord, Fitbit and Cloudflare. 

Polygraf AI is redefining how organizations protect their most critical information in the age of AI. The platform detects deepfakes and synthetic threats, prevents fraud attacks, and data loss, while enforcing security policies with locally deployed, explainable and auditable  AI solutions.

“Being selected to join Startup Battlefield underscores the global importance of our mission to bring Clarity within Chaos, by delivering explainable, on-premise Small Language Model AI solutions for critical operations,” said Yagub Rahimov, CEO of Polygraf AI. “While the world is focussed on LLMs, critical operations can not adopt AI as is, and 15% of enterprises worldwide need automation for their routine operations, SLMs are a perfect match for these tasks. We are excited to demonstrate our smallest and mightiest AI solutions on the world stage at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco this October.”

What’s Next

• August 27, 2025, at 9:00 a.m. PT: TechCrunch will publish the full Startup Battlefield 200 list on TechCrunch.
  
• October 27–29, 2025: Disrupt unfolds in San Francisco. Polygraf AI will deliver its pitch, engage VCs, media, and industry leaders.

About Polygraf AI

Polygraf AI provides award-winning AI-native data integrity, monitoring & governance solutions to organizations via an on-prem, Zero Trust framework. As artificial intelligence advances, organizations face new risks from confidential data loss, data breaches, and fake or altered AI-generated content. Polygraf enables data-centric organizations to identify, monitor & and mitigate these emerging threats with its proprietary, agentic AI solutions. The company is headquartered in Austin, TX.