Imagine you’re a Formula One driver hurtling down a race track at 200 miles per hour when your engineer comes on the radio and says … something . You can’t make it out, but you’re also not going to spend a lap playing out that old Verizon commercial (“Can you hear me now?”) with the race — and your life — on the line.

This is just one problem Norwegian startup Hance is solving with an impressively small and fast bit of audio processing software that’s already attracted customers like Intel and Riedel Communications, the official radio supplier to F1. Hance is one of the 200 startups selected to show off its technology at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 , which runs October 27 through 29 at Moscone Center in San Francisco.

The outfit of around 10 employees boasts a wealth of audio industry

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