One more innovation ranking

This year marks the 10th edition of the Fast Company World’s Most Innovative Companies ranking. Our reporting team sifts through thousands of enterprises each year, searching for those that tap both heartstrings and purse strings and use the engine of commerce to make a difference in the world. Impact is among our key criteria.

WINNERS BY RANK

Amazon

For offering even more, even faster and smarter

Google

For developing a photographic memory

Uber

For accelerating autonomous driving

Apple

For baking in its advantages

Snap

For bringing crackle and pop to a new way of seeing the world

Facebook

For launching the right ads at the right moment

Netflix

For making surfing fun again

Twilio

For giving apps a voice

Chobani

For stirring it up in the grocery store

Spotify

For enticing artists with data

Alibaba

For creating new hubs for commerce

Tencent

For reinventing messaging, again

Xiaomi

For elevating hardware design

BBK Electronics

For igniting new smartphone markets

Huawei

For iterating fast

Dalian Wanda

For staging its own dream factory

Airbnb

For putting a world of experiences at our fingertips

BuzzFeed

For feeding a viral fever

Open Whisper Systems

For bringing secure communication to the masses

Illumination Entertainment

For creating a monster out of a Minion

IBM

For embedding Watson where it’s needed most

Vivint Smart Home

For opening the door to the connected home of the future

Slack

For fighting drudge work with bots

Glossier

For collaborating with customers to create cult cosmetics

Kenzo

For ripping up the seams of fashion marketing

Clique Media Group

For parlaying fashion advice into retail gold

Hypebeast

For uniting sneakerheads into a lucrative demographic

RewardStyle

For giving influencers a must-have accessory

GoFundMe

For finding the value in good deeds

TaskRabbit

For making work

Microsoft

For building new worlds in the classroom

Orbital Insight

For seeing the big picture in satellite imagery

One Medical

For changing the face of primary care

Farmers Business Network

For cultivating a new hybrid of data and agriculture

Adobe

For pushing creativity to the cloud

Casper

For making money in our sleep

Thinx

For turning periods into exclamation points

Resy

For feeding our desire to be VIP diners

Marriott

For prioritizing loyalty

Medtronic

For streamlining diabetes care

Nvidia

For powering the future

Pledge 1%

For seeding early-stage philanthropy

The Home Depot

For growing without building

Headspace

For giving us all a much-needed moment of Zen

Related Companies

For creating a thrilling new West Side story

Celmatix

For forecasting fertility

MailChimp

For giving little guys the marketing savvy of an 800-pound gorilla

Beyond Meat

For exceeding beefy expectations

Simplify Networks

For sharing wireless by the byte

Drone Racing League

For speeding into the mainstream

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