CNBC is now accepting nominations for the 2021 CNBC Disruptor 50, our ninth annual record of start-ups and personal companies utilizing breakthroug
CNBC is now accepting nominations for the 2021 CNBC Disruptor 50, our ninth annual record of start-ups and personal companies utilizing breakthrough expertise to remodel industries and construct the subsequent technology of nice public firms.
The deadline for submissions is Friday, Feb. 12, at three pm Japanese time. All unbiased, privately-owned firms based after Jan. 1, 2006, are eligible, and any firm founder or government, investor within the firm, or any of their communications representatives are welcome to submit the nomination kind.
In 2020 greater than 1,350 firms from all over the world and throughout each sector of the economic system — from agriculture to well being care to transportation — submitted functions. The 50 firms that made the ultimate lower proved to be on the heart of developments accelerated by the Covid-19 pandemic together with cybersecurity, telemedicine and meals supply. Disruptors are on the frontlines of reworking industries which have had no alternative however to alter within the face of the pandemic and its aftermath, and in consequence have attracted record-level curiosity from buyers.
Final yr’s record has already lived as much as the Disruptor 50 mission of figuring out the subsequent technology of public firms. Because the 2020 record was launched final June, eight of the businesses named to the record have gone public, together with new family names like Airbnb and DoorDash, a pair of insurance coverage tech disruptors (Lemonade and Root), and enterprise software program suppliers like C3.ai and Snowflake, which raised extra money in its debut than any software program firm ever has. Two others — SoFi and Butterfly Community — have introduced plans to change into public through mergers with particular function acquisition firms (SPACs), a part of a booming new pattern.
The wave of IPOs means the competitors for the 2021 record is extensive open, as solely 36 of final yr’s 50 are eligible to repeat.
As at all times, nominees for the 2021 Disruptor 50 shall be put by a complete and rigorous strategy of researching and scoring throughout a variety of quantitative and qualitative standards, together with scalability, income and person progress, and workforce range. An advisory board made up of main thinkers within the area of innovation and entrepreneurship will present weighting for the quantitative standards, whereas a workforce of CNBC editorial employees will learn submissions and supply qualitative assessments of each single nominee.
Winners shall be notified in April, and the record shall be launched in Could throughout CNBC’s TV and digital platforms. Once more, eligible firms can submit their nominations for the 2021 CNBC Disruptor 50 by clicking right here.