In the ninth annual Disruptor 50 list, CNBC highlights the private companies leading out of the pandemic with business models and growth rates aligned with a rapid pace of technological change.
Investors have taken notice that the companies on the 2021 Disruptor 50 list have become critical players in fundamental economic and consumer transformations.A majority of the CNBC Disruptor 50 are already billion-dollar businesses.Thirty-four disruptors are unicorns that have already reached or passed (in some cases far surpassed) the $1 billion valuation mark — 10 of the companies on this year’s list are worth at least $10 billion.
The 50 companies selected using the proprietary Disruptor 50 methodology have raised over $72 billion in venture capital, according to PitchBook, at an implied Disruptor 50 valuation of more than $388 billion.While technologies including AI, 5G, cloud computing and the Internet of Things are key to many companies making the 2021 Disruptor 50 list, the sectors they are upending are widespread, from financial services to health care, biotech, education, food, media, agriculture and transportation.
1 Robinhood Wall Street’s frenemy 2 Stripe The GDP of the Internet 3 Discord The Internet chat room, re-imagined 4 SentinelOne A SolarWinds saving grace 5 Didi Chuxing Your $100 billion IPO is on the way 6 Brex Giving credit to the start-up economy 7 Marqeta Playing their cards right 8 Chime Software as a bank 9 TytoCare Urgent care delivered virtually 10 ElevateBio Building a deep lab bench 11 K Health The health care app will see you now 12 Convoy Freight’s neural network 13 Checkout.com Transactional relationships 14 Indigo Ag Top soil 15 Snyk Sniffing out open-source flaws 16 Tempus Informing the precision clinician 17 Lineage Logistics Cold comfort 18 Gojek Southeast Asia’s super-app 19 CLEAR Keep the line moving 20 TALA The underserved deserve credit 21 Flutterwave Helping Africa’s small business soar 22 Thrasio Transforming the Amazon economy 23 Relativity Space Engineering an interplanetary future 24 Impossible Foods Beyond possible 25 AMP Robotics Robots recycle better 26 Neteera A sixth sense in medicine 27 Cockroach Labs Deep inside enterprise cloud data 28 Cityblock Health Because everyone deserves good health care 29 Udacity Graduating a new generation of skilled labor 30 Apeel Good preservatives 31 Sight Diagnostics See the whole picture in two drops of blood 32 Cybereason Fighting the dark side 33 Clubhouse The new sound of social 34 Sila Nanotechnologies Making EV batteries better is no small thing 35 Bestow Digital transformation comes to life (insurance) 36 Gopuff When you need stuff ASAP 37 Databricks The next Snowflake? 38 Ripple Making waves in crypto regulation 39 Plaid The gateway to Venmo, Robinhood, Coinbase 40 Nubank Latin America’s big bank challenger 41 Flexport Supply chain economics 42 Flock Freight Carbon-smart truckloads 43 Eat Just The egg and the chicken 44 Movandi Making 5G a broader reality 45 Footprint Just three words for you: No more plastic 46 Airtable Code for non-coders 47 BlocPower Fighting climate change block-by-block 48 Patreon How the creative class gets paid 49 Guild Education Education as a benefit 50 Heal New ideas in home-based health care More In CNBC Disruptor 50 The 2021 CNBC Disruptor 50: How we chose the list of companies David Spiegel Relativity Space’s massive 3D printers are reinventing rockets, and manufacturing a multiplanetary future Michael Sheetz a minute ago SoftBank is backing buy-now-pay-later firm Klarna in funding round that values it at over $40 billion Ryan Browne an hour ago Read More .
These are the 2021 CNBC Disruptor 50 companies
In the ninth annual Disruptor 50 list, CNBC highlights the private companies leading out of the pandemic with business models and growth rates aligned with a rapid pace of technological change. Investors have taken notice that the companies on the 2021 Disruptor 50 list have become critical players in fundamental economic and consumer transformations.A majority…
