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2025 CNBC Disruptor 50: How we chose companies on this year's list

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Anduril , OpenAI , Databricks , Anthropic and Canva have combined valuation of just under $500 billion .

That's more than the combined total valuation of almost every Disruptor 50 list over the past 12 years .

Booming investment in the generative AI era is allowing the cash-rich startups receiving the dollars to grow and scale rapidly.

Put another way, only 11 of the 2025 honorees are pre-ChatGPT CNBC Disruptors. But for most of that group (Anduril, Databricks, and Canva chief among them), the embrace of the new era is what has kept them here. Sign up for our weekly , original newsletter that goes beyond the annual Disruptor 50 list, offering a closer look at list-making companies and their innovative founders..

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