Stripe, Coupang, Indigo Ag, Coursera and Klarna are top “disruptors” of 2020 … innovators poised to thrive as they emerge from the Covid-19 pandemic
August 19, 2020
CNBC’s 2020 Disruptor 50 list is a great source of companies whose breakthroughs are influencing business and market competition at an ever accelerated pace. In particular, this year, they are poised to emerge from the Covid-19 pandemic with tech platforms that have the power to dominate.
They are turning ideas in cybersecurity, education, health IT, logistics/delivery, fintech and agriculture into a new wave of billion-dollar businesses.
A majority of them, in fact, already are billion-dollar businesses: 36 disruptors this year are unicorns that have already reached or passed the $1 billion valuation mark. Maybe more important this year: 37 have hired new employees since the pandemic began, and 19 have pivoted their products or launched new ones to meet the challenges of the pandemic.
Technology is already a major part of our daily lives and the public markets, and that will only increase on the other side of Covid-19, from the future of food supply to health-care diagnostics and the way we shop, study, work and pay.
Here is CNBC’s top 50 ranking:
| 1 | Stripe | Unlocking the lockdown’s biggest value |
| 2 | Coupang | Beating Bezos at his own online game? |
| 3 | Indigo Agriculture | The future of farming is carbon negative |
| 4 | Coursera | Online ed’s biggest test begins |
| 5 | Klarna | No online sale left behind |
| 6 | Tempus | Precision medicine for the Covid crisis |
| 7 | Zipline | Medicine takes flight autonomously |
| 8 | SoFi | The future of your financial future |
| 9 | Neteera | Contactless health |
| 10 | Gojek | Indonesia’s original ridehail, growing up |
| 11 | WeLab | Branchless banking |
| 12 | DoorDash | The most in-demand in on-demand |
| 13 | Heal | The next big thing in medicine: housecalls? |
| 14 | Movandi | A network key to the 5G future |
| 15 | Better.com | Closing the mortgage gap online |
| 16 | Grab | Southeast Asia’s super app |
| 17 | Lemonade | A.I.-ing the end of the insurance agent |
| 18 | Root Insurance | Replacing demographics with real driver data |
| 19 | Healthy.io | Home-based health testing |
| 20 | GoodRx | Technology tackling the high cost of health care |
| 21 | Eat JUST | Just the egg, no chicken |
| 22 | goPuff | The convenience store gets more convenient |
| 23 | Affirm | Building new credit history |
| 24 | Kabbage | A main street lending lifeline |
| 25 | Chime | No-fee banking |
| 26 | Dave | Taking down the overdraft Goliath |
| 27 | Trulioo | Verification for a more virtual world |
| 28 | Ripple | A crypto answer to money transfer |
| 29 | TALA | Making microloans add up to a billion |
| 30 | Didi Chuxing | Riding a post-Covid pickup in China |
| 31 | SentinelOne | Cybercrime is up; so are defenses |
| 32 | Butterfly Network | A smarter ultrasound |
| 33 | Marqeta | Paying with a full deck of cards |
| 34 | Apeel | Ridding the world of rotten produce |
| 35 | K Health | Primary (smartphone) care |
| 36 | Databricks | Data help for data nerds |
| 37 | C3.ai | The world’s biggest brains building an even bigger one |
| 38 | Attabotics | Amazon’s ant-size competition |
| 39 | CLEAR | Biometric screening for a new world of hidden dangers |
| 40 | Snowflake | A data warehouse in the cloud |
| 41 | Airbnb | Your delayed destination |
| 42 | Duolingo | The universal language |
| 43 | LanzaTech | A carbon-capture moonshot |
| 44 | Ginkgo Bioworks | The world’s most advanced manufacturing |
| 45 | Guild Education | Upskilling America |
| 46 | Robinhood | The new bull market-makers |
| 47 | Convoy | A monster trucking problem solved |
| 48 | Beautycounter | A makeover for the cosmetics industry |
| 49 | Impossible Foods | Doesn’t seem so impossible anymore, does it? |
| 50 | UiPath | The robots are coming for your boring, repetitive job |