These are the 2024 Disruptor 50 companies: See the full list of startups riding the AI wave
Summary
Roughly two-thirds of the 50 companies making the Disruptor 50 list describe artificial intelligence as "critical" to their businesses. Thirteen of the 2024 Disruptors call themselves "generative AI companies," including five of the top 10 on this years list, a group that in all raised at least $5.5 billion from investors in the past year. Companies in industries ranging from cybersecurity to agriculture are also defining AI as mission critical. And in an important shift from the past Silicon Valley-led disruptive innovation era, the "better, faster, cheaper" mantra funded almost wholly by VCs is on the way out. AI requires massive capital investment, inevitably leading to close partnership with the incumbent giants rather than just disruptive competition.