Two of our portfolio companies selected to CNBC’s list of top disruptors

 

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www.cnbc.com/2016/06/07/2016-cnbcs-disruptor-50.html

Meet the 2016 CNBC Disruptor 50 companies

In the fourth annual Disruptor 50 list, CNBC features private companies in 15 industries — from aerospace to financial services to cybersecurity to retail — whose innovations are revolutionizing the business landscape. These forward-thinking starts-ups have identified unexploited niches in the marketplace that have the potential to become billion-dollar businesses, and they rushed to fill them. Some have already passed the billion-dollar mark at a speed that is unprecedented. In the process, they are creating new ecosystems for their products and services. Unseating corporate giants is no easy feat. But we ranked those venture capital–backed companies doing the best job. In aggregate, these 50 companies have raised $41 billion in venture capital at an implied Disruptor 50 list market valuation of $242 billion, according to PitchBook data. Already it’s hard to think of the world without them. Read more about the consumer and business trends that stand out in the 2016 list ranking and the methodology used to select this year’s Disruptor companies.

1Uber A $66 billion on-demand ride 
2Airbnb There’s no place like (someone else’s) home 
3Ezetap Leading India’s cashless revolution 
4Palantir Technologies Big data; bigger secrets 
523andMe Decoding your ancestry 
6Bloom Energy Live off the grid; keep the lights on 
7Ginkgo Bioworks Custom organism design 
8Klarna No cart left behind 
9Blippar Change your reality 
10Coursera Now we can all get in to Princeton 
11Houzz Open for renovations 
12Udacity Closing the skills gap 
13LanzaTech Don’t just reduce your carbon footprint — recycle it! 
14Cloudera You make me want to Hadoop 
15DAQRI Virtual reality on the shopfloor 
16Snapchat The ghost in Facebook’s machine 
17Oscar Health insurance for the 21st century 
18Phononic Seriously cool 
19MongoDB Big data’s thought leader 
20Synack The white-hat army 
21Teespring Turning T-shirt designers into millionaires 
22SimpliVity Hyperconverged IT Infrastructure (ask your IT guy) 
23Slack There’s no “I” in Slack 
24CloudFlare The internet’s neighborhood watch 
25Spotify Playlists are the new mixtapes 
26Medium Life after Twitter for Biz, Ev and many more characters 
27Lyft Hitch a ride with General Motors 
28Veniam The internet of moving things 
29Stripe How the internet gets paid 
30SpaceX Mars or bust? 
31InsideSales.com Automated lead generation 
32SurveyMonkey Ask more questions 
33Diamond Foundry Conflict-free marriage proposals 
34WeWork Working together is better 
35Kabbage Funding for the little guy on Main St. 
36Deezer It’s French for “Spotify” 
37Humacyte New and improved blood vessels 
38Okta Protecting your identity at work 
39Twilio The telecom unicorn that makes Uber work better 
40Cylance Using A.I. to fight cybercrime 
41Moderna Therapeutics Building a massive drug pipeline 
42Dropbox Billions and billions of files saved 
43Dataminr Making Twitter make sense 
44Motif Invest in ideas 
45LISNR Using sound to make waves in the app world 
46Pinterest The world’s bulletin board 
47Jaunt Put yourself in the story 
48GitHub Faster software development 
49SoFi Trying to ease the student-debt crisis 
50Instacart Squeezing melons so you don’t have to