Meet the 2019 CNBC Disruptor 50 companies

In the seventh annual Disruptor 50 list, CNBC features private companies — from biotech and machine learning to transportation, retail and agriculture — whose innovations are changing the world and fueling a race between superpowers like the U.S. and China. These forward-thinking start-ups have not only identified unexploited niches in the market that have the potential to become billion-dollar businesses, a majority of them already are billion-dollar businesses. A startling 36 disruptors this year are unicorns that have already reached or passed the billion-dollar mark.

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 over $46 billion in venture capital at an implied Disruptor 50 list market valuation of more than $266 billion, according to PitchBook data. Many already are part of our daily lives, whether or not we know it. Read more about the trends that stand out in the 2019 list ranking — from the future of farming and residential real estate to the battles for control in the rapidly growing artificial intelligence and genetics industries — and the methodology used to select this year's Disruptor companies.

1	Indigo Ag	A better way to feed the planet
2	Didi Chuxing	China's uber-disruptor
3	The We Company	We is the world
4	Grab	Southeast Asia's super app
5	Rent the Runway	Now rent the living room too
6	GoodRx	Leading the fight against high prescription drug costs
7	Airbnb	Hotel everywhere
8	Casper	Bed in a box
9	Peloton	On-demand workouts
10	Xiaohongshu	China’s trendspotting app
11	Convoy	Keep on trucking
12	InMobi	Unlocked content at a glance
13	Stripe	Global e-payments
14	Kabbage	Quick money for small businesses
15	LanzaTech	Transporting the world to a low-carbon future
16	Textio	A.I. for help-wanted ads
17	Phononic	Quietly cool
18	DoorDash	Food, faster
19	Ginkgo Bioworks	Made-to-order biology
20	YITU Technology	Eyes everywhere
21	Coursera	50% off master's degrees
22	CLEAR	I know your face
23	TransferWise	Borderless money exchange
24	Flexport	Moving $1 trillion in freight forward
25	Fanatics	Dress like a champion today
26	SoFi	So far, 600,000 members, $30 billion in loans
27	Impossible Foods	Home of the plant-based Whopper
28	Duolingo	Gōntan ao ūndegon Tymptir Dēmalȳti mōrī bantis?
29	Virta Health	Reversing diabetes
30	Progyny	Helping families form
31	Skillz	You've got (e)game
32	Cohesity	Better backup in the cloud
33	Affirm	Buy now, pay later
34	Palantir	Do you want to know a secret?
35	Opendoor	Low-stress home sales
36	Airtable	Next-generation workplace collaboration
37	Lemonade	Refreshing take on home insurance
38	Niantic	The wand chooses the wizard
39	Zipline International	Lifesaving drones
40	Nauto	Keeping drivers in focus until we don't need drivers
41	LISNR	Ultrasonic connections
42	Synack	The ethical edge of hacking
43	Houzz	A $4 billion house
44	Veritas Genetics	The doctor will see your genetic test results now
45	Ellevest	Yes, she can
46	23andMe	Science-based rationales for all your quirks
47	Robinhood	The stock market's fair trade
48	Apeel Sciences	Invincible avocados!
49	Uptake	Identifying success inside potential failures
50	C3.ai	It's all connected