CNBC Spotlights 50 Fast-Growing, Innovative Private Startups
CNBC, First in Business Worldwide, announced the thirteenth annual CNBC Disruptor 50, a ranked list of fast-growing, innovative private startups advancing breakthrough technology to identify new market opportunities and deliver solutions across a multitude of sectors.
The companies on this year’s Disruptor 50 list have a combined valuation of $798 billion and have collectively raised more than $127 billion in funding to date.
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The top five companies on the 2025 CNBC Disruptor 50 list – Anduril, OpenAI, Databricks, Anthropic and Canva – alone have a combined valuation of just under $500 billion. This is more than the combined total valuation of almost every past Disruptor 50 list of the last 12 years. $300 billion of this value is from OpenAI, the company that sparked a global arms race for new artificial intelligence capabilities and topped both the 2023 and 2024 Disruptor 50 lists.
CNBC revealed the list across the network’s platforms and is featuring special coverage throughout Business Day programming and on CNBC Digital this week. CNBC.com’s special report, CNBC.com/Disruptors, features complete profiles of all 50 companies, including a spotlight on the number one Disruptor, a look at the emerging trends making news within many of the sectors on the list, as well as an explanation of how CNBC selected and ranked the companies that made the final cut.
CNBC will also track each company’s progress throughout the year, expecting many to become perennial Disruptor 50 companies.
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Following are the top ten 2025 CNBC Disruptor 50 companies:
1. Anduril
2. OpenAI
3. Databricks
4. Anthropic
5. Canva
6. Ramp
7. Flock Safety
8. AlphaSense
10. Stripe
The CNBC Disruptor 50 was selected by CNBC and CNBC.com editorial staff using a proprietary blend of quantitative and qualitative information submitted by the nominated companies. Disruptor 50 data partners PitchBook and IBISWorld provided additional quantitative input. CNBC’s Disruptor 50 Advisory Council, a group of 50 leading thinkers in the field of innovation and entrepreneurship from around the world, weighted the quantitative criteria and provided additional analysis of qualitative information. CNBC’s Disruptor 50 VC Advisory Board also leveraged the expertise of leading venture capital firms and their investors. Each member of the board assessed a small group of finalists as an additional component of the qualitative review; however, they were not permitted to provide an assessment of any company in their firm’s own portfolios.
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