Six companies that have demonstrated their fintech innovations on the Finovate stage have been recognized this year by CNBC as part of their Disruptor 50 roster for 2020.
This year’s list, the eighth in the series, is marked by the high number of billion-dollar companies, or “unicorns.” Fully 36 of the firms in the 2020 CNBC Disruptor 50 have reached or surpassed the $1 billion valuation mark. Combined, the 50 companies have raised more than $74 billion in VC funding and achieved an implied market valuation of almost $277 billion.
The companies making the cut range in industry from cybersecurity and healthcare IT to education and, of course, fintech. In fact, the top-ranked company in the 2020 Disruptor 50 is none other than Stripe, the $36 billion payments platform founded in 2010. Stripe earned a #13 ranking in last year’s Disruptor 50 roster, and likely owes its first place appearance this year to a major $600 million funding raising – the company’s largest to date – and the economic and social consequences of the global health crisis.
“With many people throughout the world under lockdown to prevent the spread of Covid-19,” CNBC’s capsule on the company noted, “the move to shopping online has never been greater. That’s good news for digital payments platform Stripe.”
Stripe was not the only fintech to earn high marks from the 2020 Disruptor 50’s methodology. In addition to the half dozen Finovate alums below, some of the other fintechs on this year’s roster include:
- Virtual bank WeLab (Hong Kong)
- Digital mortgage company Better.com (New York City)
- “Buy now pay later” e-commerce company Affirm (San Francisco, California)
- Challenger bank Chime (San Francisco, California)
- Banking app Dave (Los Angeles, California)
- Microfinancier TALA (Santa Monica, California)
- Trading and investing platform Robinhood (Menlo Park, California)
Also earning spots in this year’s list were a pair of insurtech companies, Lemonade and Root Insurance, as well as cybersecurity and biometric authentication firms SentinelOne and CLEAR, respectively.
Here’s a look at the Finovate alums that made this year’s list.
#5 Klarna
- Founded: 2005
- Headquarters: Stockholm, Sweden
- CEO: Sebastian Siemiakowski
- Valuation: $5.5 billion
- Previous ranking: #8 in 2016
#8 SoFi
- Founded: 2011
- Headquarters: San Francisco, California
- CEO: Antony Noto
- Valuation: $4.8 billion
- Previous ranking: #26 in 2019
#24 Kabbage
- Founded: 2009
- Headquarters: Atlanta, Georgia
- CEO: Rob Frohwein
- Valuation: $1.1 billion
- Previous ranking: #14 in 2019
#27 Trulioo
- Founded: 2011
- Headquarters: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- CEO: Steve Munford
- Valuation: N.A.
- Previous ranking: #37 in 2017
#28 Ripple
- Founded: 2012
- Headquarters: San Francisco, California
- CEO: Brad Garlinghouse
- Valuation: $10 billion
- Previous ranking: First appearance
#33 Marqeta
- Founded: 2010
- Headquarters: Oakland, California
- CEO: Jason Gardner
- Valuation: $4.3 billion
- Previous ranking: First appearance