CNBC is now accepting nominations for the 2022 CNBC Disruptor 50, our annual checklist of personal firms the usage of leap forward era to become industries and construct the following era of serious public firms.
The closing date for submissions is Friday, Feb. 4, at 3 pm Jap time. All impartial, privately-owned firms based after Jan. 1, 2007, are eligible, and any corporation founder or government, investor within the corporation, or any in their communications representatives are welcome to post the nomination shape.
This 12 months’s Disruptor 50 checklist will likely be CNBC’s 10th annual, and as we get ready to expose the following checklist of game-changing firms, we’re going to additionally take a contemporary take a look at the previous decade and replicate at the paths of businesses that made the inaugural checklist in 2013. A number of the firms at the authentic checklist, 21 have long past public, whilst 14 were bought, some by means of incumbent giants together with Alphabet (the father or mother of Google), Meta Platforms (the father or mother of Fb), and United Healthcare, others by means of non-public fairness corporations and even by means of different start-ups.
There were some exceptional good fortune tales from that first 12 months’s checklist — sector-defining firms similar to Twitter, Pinterest, Uber, Airbnb, Spotify and Warby Parker, to call a couple of. We will be rolling out a company-by-company function protecting the inaugural Disruptor 50 in our weekly e-newsletter. That e-newsletter additionally supplies updates at the greater than 200 firms (85 of which are actually public) which have been named to the Disruptor 50 checklist over the past 9 years.
The 2021 Disruptor 50 has already delivered a justifiable share to the general public markets – six of ultimate 12 months’s honorees have made their public debut since we introduced the checklist ultimate Would possibly, together with 2021’s top-ranked disruptor, Robinhood. That suggests a brand new No. 1 corporation is assured for 2022. Who will or not it’s?
Nominees for the 2022 Disruptor 50 will likely be put thru a complete and rigorous means of researching and scoring throughout quite a lot of quantitative and qualitative standards, together with scalability, income and person enlargement, and team of workers variety. An advisory board made up of main thinkers within the box of innovation and entrepreneurship will supply weighting for the quantitative standards, whilst a staff of CNBC editorial workforce will learn submissions and supply qualitative exams of each and every unmarried nominee. That is no small feat; a report 1,565 firms have been nominated for the 2021 checklist.
Winners will likely be notified in April, and the checklist will likely be launched in Would possibly throughout CNBC’s TV and virtual platforms. Eligible firms can post their nominations for the 2022 CNBC Disruptor 50 by means of clicking right here.