This year’s Disruptive 50 listOn the top Enduril In number 1 spot, and then OpeniShow 50 companies that are challenging the status quo and using technology (most often, AI) to change a series of industries.

This year’s list is particularly notable about how sectors represented not only in technology and VC, but also in politics and society. This is the first time in the 13 -year display 50 list that it tops by a defense technology company. The Defense Tech sector is not represented only by Enduril, in which herd safety, saronic technologies and shield AI are also making a list of 2025.

Their scope and scale demonstrate a growing trend. The joint value of four companies is more than $ 45 billion and raised about $ 10 billion from investors. They have geographical variety – all headquartered outside the Silicon Valley. And their focuses are different. Herd security (7 numbers in this year’s list) makes security hardware and software. Succulent (Number 19) manufactures unmanned sea ships. Shield ai (No. 38) is an autonomous drone company.

There is also beyond companies focusing on the creation of physical methods of defense Unusual AI , Gecko Robotics ,

The growth of this sector is expected to accelerate thanks to the increase in money. Last week, Enduril announced a new $ 2.5 billion funding On an evaluation – $ 30.5 billion – it is doubled by its previous round evaluation of funding. According to the pitchbook, in 2025, Cyronic and Shield AI have also closed the major funding era; $ 600 million in terms of saronic.

AI infrastructure company Scale AI (Number 28) Safe A historic deal last August With the main digital and artificial intelligence office of the Defense Department to carry forward AI capabilities for the US Army. Scale AI also announced A new multi -million dollar deal with DOD To help with “Thunderforge” in March, an initiative to develop AI agents for American military plan and operations including enduril.

Funding has increased as President Trump has proposed an increase in defense spending, with focus on modernizing military capabilities and opening opportunities beyond the inheritance defense sector. There is also an increasing focus on dual -use technologies: Enduril handled Microsoft’s enhanced reality headset program that worked with the army, and then announced a deal for Meta in late May. Create VR and AR devices for army use,

With the rise of military technology, the capabilities of generative AI are running a chain change of regions, from explosion farming to law and robotics. During the list, 17 enterprise tech companies, seven fintech, four health care companies, four in food/agriculture and three in transport and biotech.

The AI-centric investment and high evaluation are on the full performance of the disruptive 50 list of this year. The 13th annual disruptive 50 square is priced at $ 798 billion, more than the previous year’s $ 436 billion, which is due to a large part of the $ 300 billion evaluation of Openai. Total amount companies have increased to $ 127 billion, which has increased by $ 70 billion last year.

It is clear that the Generative AI Revolution has changed the list along with 20 new people this year along with the startup ecosystem. In this year’s list, only 11 companies were disruptive before the launch of the sprants, and many in that group – including Enduril, DatabricAnd Canva – General Ai has succeeded due to his embrace.

More than two-thirds of companies in this year’s D50 list -38 companies-AI said “above 34,” above 34. And 21 companies of this year say that generative AI is their essential technology, which is above 13 last year.

This reflects the growing focus of Venture Capital on AI: Around 58% of the global VC dollar invested in the first quarter went to AI and machine learning startups, while in North America, 70% of the deal Value AI and machine went into learning startups. And the number of funding is increasing, with $ 73 billion in the first quarter, more than half of the total last year, although it is roughly due to openi’s round of $ 40 billion, led by the SoftBank.

AI is being used by disinterators including laws being used in a range of cases of diverse use (Harvey), fighting crime (Herd security), And in the doctor’s office (Abandon And Red AIBut this year’s disruptive 50 list has the highest sector enterprise AI with most companies, with 17 companies (above 14 last year). From these range DatabricWhich helps companies to mine their data, PourWhich enables its customers to create a custom AI apps and custom search tools, for the cooperative workpiece and the note-teching tool perception,

Design platform Canva has invested rapidly in AI and AI has created the center of its toolkit. With a partnership with Chatgpt and anthropic (No. 4 in the list of this year), and the acquisition of several AI-managed companies in the previous year, CEO Melani Perkins is expected to make their $ 32 billion company public in the following year. “We are continuously investing at this place with the recommendations of magic at this place, and then, with a liberal AI, for years,” Perkins said. “Being able to embed that magic as you write your documents and your presentations, being capable of canva AI … It is actually an expansion of that initial promise that to continue the latest biggest technology in your hands, to design us, to strengthen the world, to empower the world, to empower the world.”

Perkins says that Canva has a three-dimensional approach to AI: integrating the best available products, which in-depth in the areas required to expert their customers, and there is a platform where the latest AI products and other apps can come on Canwa and can be accessed by the community.

He is optimistic about AI’s ability to be a democratic force for 220 million customers worldwide to be a democratic force worldwide. “I think it is seriously important that as a world of humanity, we use AI to every person to really raise a person living here, so that everyone can help to meet their basic human needs,” he said. “And I think there is a huge opportunity for us that we can dream about what we want rapidly in technology.