These are the 2024 Our Disruptor 50 companies: See the full list of startups riding the AI wave

Post At: May 14/2024 07:00PM

It's fair to say that AI is all over the 12th annual Our Disruptor 50 list. 

Roughly two-thirds of the 50 companies making the Disruptor 50 list describe artificial intelligence as "critical" to their businesses. And it starts at the very top: for the first time ever, a company repeats as the list 's No. 1: OpenAI.

AI's remaking of the market extends much further. Thirteen of the 2024 Disruptors call themselves "generative AI companies," including five of the top 10 on this year's list, a group that in all raised at least $5.5 billion from investors in the past year.

Companies in industries ranging from cybersecurity to agriculture are also defining AI as mission critical. And in an important shift from the past Silicon Valley-led disruptive innovation era, the "better, faster, cheaper" mantra funded almost wholly by VCs is on the way out.

AI requires massive capital investment, inevitably leading to close partnership with the incumbent giants rather than just disruptive competition.

In all, the 2024 Disruptors have raised $70 billion at a total implied valuation of $436 billion.

1 OpenAI The first-ever back-to-back top disruptor
2 Anduril Industries A future fighting force
3 Stripe $1 trillion in online transactions
4 Brex Well spent
5 Databricks Building, bit by bit
6 Canva Design star
7 Anthropic An Amazon-backed OpenAI threat
8 ElevateBio A basecamp for drug discovery
9 Wiz A hyper cyber grower
10 Exotec What's up in the warehouse
11 Octopus Energy A highly intelligent grid
12 Scale AI AI's personal trainer
13 Notion Creative collaboration
14 Flutterwave Fintech for fast-growing populations
15 Relativity Space Rocket stars
16 Monzo One of Britain's biggest banks
17 Transcarent A friend with benefits
18 Arctic Wolf Cold cyber comfort
19 Einride Trucking's next stop
20 Thrive Market An online grocer to check out
21 Zipline Delivering on drones' promise
22 Chime Banking on more banking distrust
23 GrubMarket Digital transformation for America's food supply chain
24 Carbon Robotics The laser-based weed killer
25 Generate:Biomedicines Designer AI drugs
26 Figma Adobe's ex, getting friendlier with Google
27 Kapital The bank that wants small business
28 Deel On a payroll
29 Alto Pharmacy Big online pharma
30 Cohere The gen AI inside more company firewalls
31 Zum Making the yellow school bus green
32 Ramp The corporate expense hawk
33 Dedrone Smart air security
34 Lead Bank An extreme bank makeover
35 Phononic Heating up, and cooling down
36 Solugen A sugar fix for the climate
37 Tala Developing credit in developing markets
38 Navan The corporate traveler
39 Beewise Busy with bee collapse
40 AlphaSense Wall Street's AI search engine
41 Trust & Will Where there's a will, there's need for better estate planning
42 Gecko Robotics Critical mission robots
43 Glean A Google and a ChatGPT for the enterprise
44 Discord Its game is still on
45 Spring Health Completely mental
46 Lineage The largest link in the global food supply chain
47 Abnormal Security Looking for phishy business
48 Watershed The operating system for corporate climate commitments
49 Maven Clinic Whole-person healthcare for women and families.
50 Cityblock A high stakes bet on lowering the cost of Medicaid

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