CNBC is now accepting applications for the 2025 Disruptor 50 list, our 13th annual selection of the most innovative venture-backed companies leveraging breakthrough technologies to address an increasingly challenging economy and consumer challenge.
The deadline for submissions is Friday, February 10th at 11:59pm ET.
All independent private companies formed after January 1, 2010 are eligible as well as any company founder or executive, company investor or any of their communications representatives Can visit and submit an application.
Nominees will undergo a comprehensive, rigorous research and scoring process covering a wide range of quantitative and qualitative criteria, including scalability, revenue and user growth, and use of breakthrough technologies.
Naturally, this means artificial intelligence. Last year, about two-thirds of the 50 companies Named to the Disruptor 50 list Describes artificial intelligence as “critical” to its business, including Open artificial intelligenceincluding Ranked first for two consecutive years.
But it also means that a third of last year’s disruptors were not AI companies, and the 2025 list will also recognize market-changing innovations in food, energy, financial services and other industries where some of the disruption is less obvious. Thriving on generative artificial intelligence.
CNBC’s two advisory boards—one composed of leading academic thinkers in innovation and entrepreneurship, the other composed of top venture capitalists—will provide weightings for the quantitative criteria that underpin the list’s proprietary methodology that makes the Disruptor 50 The gold standard for accredited entrepreneurial communities. Quantitative scoring is combined with qualitative assessment and editorial review by CNBC staff, who read all submissions in the process of finalizing this year’s Top 50.
The 2025 winners will be notified in April and the names will be published on CNBC television, digital and social platforms in June
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