In this article, we take a look at the 5 most disruptive companies in 2022. If you want to check out our detailed analysis of innovation in the private sector, head to 22 Most Disruptive Companies in 2022.
5. Guild Education
Funding: $378.5 million
Valuation: $3.7 billion
Key technologies: N/A
Guild Education, as the name implies, is an education company based in Denver, Colorado. It is contracted by many Fortune-1000 companies for their employees’ education. Guild Education offers a diverse array of educational programs from high school education to trade’s, bachelor’s and master’s programs.
As of 2022, Guild Education is valued at $3.7 billion and is using its fresh financing of $150 million from June this year to expand its educational capacity in terms of the number of certificates it offers.
4. Canva
Funding: $560 million
Valuation: $40 billion
Key technologies: Cloud computing
Canva is one of the most disruptive companies in 2022. It is based in Sydney, Australia. The company has massively disrupted the graphic-designing industry by bringing easy-to-use tools straight to the end-user. It allows users to craft their own designs without having to spend much time learning how to do it or paying a professional to get it done.
Canva offers ready-made templates that users can customize and tailor according to their own needs, with intuitive editing tools that come with the company’s app.
It’s used by individuals, as well as companies like Coca-Cola, Nike and McDonald’s. Canva’s versatility is what makes it a disruptive company, with users designing their CVs, presentations, marketing campaigns and much more.
3. Lineage Logistics
Funding: $8.6 billion
Valuation: $25 billion
Key technologies: Autonomous systems, blockchain, deep learning, Internet of Things, machine learning
Lineage Logistics is based in Novi, Michigan. The company is trying to transform food supply chains to tackle food shortages and maximize efficiency. It aims to do that by operating a global network of temperature-controlled storage units for mainly foods with short shelf-life like fruits, vegetables and dairy.
The company uses “blast-freeze” methods to freeze air at extremely low temperatures in its storage units, with each having five million pounds of food a day. Lineage runs 400 storage units across the world in regions like North America, Europe, Asia Pacific and Latin America.
Lineage’s valuation and funding has allowed it to acquire 70 companies to expand its food storage capabilities. It is one of the most innovative companies in 2022.
2. Brex
Funding: $1.2 billion
Valuation: $12.3 billion
Key technologies: Cloud computing, machine learning
Brex is a startup for startups to manage their finances. It offers credit lines as well as other financial solutions to startup companies to accelerate growth. The high-limit credit it offers to companies is unsecured, which exposes it to risk as well. However, this is where Brex employs machine learning technologies and big data to assess credit risk for companies and make lending decisions.
1. Flexport
Funding: $2.2 billion
Valuation: $8 billion
Key technologies: Cloud computing
Flexport is a logistics-solutions company that aims to maximize supply-chains efficiency. Its cloud-based system allows it to better estimate costs, container efficiency and other logistics issues than traditional systems.
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