Sports- Nex Team For
bringing shooting-
practice routines of
NBA stars to its AI-
driven training app - St. Louis Blues
For skating to where
the puck is going
with gambling by
engaging fans to bet
on in-game events - Populous For
granting home-field
advantage to Tot-
tenham Hotspur and
Minnesota United FC - Dazn For fighting
for boxing’s audience - Catapult
For creating the
first wearable
technology for soc-
cer players - Second Spec-
trum For giving bas-
ketball and soccer
fans new perspective - P r e m i e r L a -
crosse League For
barnstorming a new
type of pro league - Fanatics For hit-
ting another homer
with MLB and Nike - AS Roma
For using the hype
around new player
transfers to help
find missing children - IBM For adding
sound analysis to its
AI-powered golf and
tennis highlights
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Playr, a $170 wearable device for soccer players,
brings the quantified revolution to the world’s most
popular game, giving footie players advice on their
pitch performance and letting them compare their ef-
ficiency to other users, even Premier League players.- SpaceX For build-
ing up its Starlink
satellite constellation - Swarm Technol-
ogies For creating
sandwich-size, low-fi
affordable satellites - Spaceflight
For introducing
“ride share”
for space cargo
4. Johns Hopkins
APL For designing a
craft that NASA will
send to explore Titan
in search of E.T.
5. Capella Space
For inventing satel-
lites that see through
weather patterns—
and send images to
the cloud
6. Space Tango
For launching two
human brain organ-
oid models to the
International Space
Station
7. Mo m e n t u s For
developing a prom-
ising method of us-
ing water to move
satellites in orbit
8. Accion Systems
For making more
efficient satellite
propulsion systems
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engineering a high-
volume assembly
line for satellites
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tempting the first
private lunar landing
Space StyleTransportation- Trove
For showcasing the
long-term value
of clothing brands by
helping them enter
the resale market - Rothy’s
For fashioning a
direct-to-consumer
shoe brand that can
stand on its own - Savage x Fenty
For turning the run-
way show into a
televised music-and-
dance spectacle - Pyer Moss
For using fashion to
move the conversa-
tion about race
forward - Madewell
For deploying smart
collaborations and
fair-trade lines to
thrive in the face of
the retail apocalypse
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For inventing a
breathable perfor-
mance-wear fabric
that keeps moisture
out and sweat at bay
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taking 1.5 million
body measurements
to design a swimsuit
that fits real women
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Co. For crafting
jeans that can easily
be recovered, recy-
cled, and turned into
next-generation
materials
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ing the Kelley Blue
Book for luxury
handbags
10. Tommy
Hilfiger For leading
the industry to
embrace fashion-
forward adaptive
clothing - Tesla For proving
it’s a mass-market
automaker by deliv-
ering more than
350,000 cars in 2019 - Brightline/
Virgin Trains For re-
vamping train travel
in Florida and break-
ing ground on a line
from L.A. to Las Vegas - Swiftly For help-
ing Boston, Austin,
and Baltimore
plan, schedule, and
optimize public
bus routes - Aptiv For com-
pleting more
than 70,000 paid
autonomous car
rides with Lyft - ChargePoint For
letting drivers “roam”
anywhere in its net-
work of 100,000 EV
charging stations
6. Kodiak
Robotics For au-
tonomously driving
freight loads from
Dallas to Houston
7. Pa s s p o r t
For bringing order
to Detroit, Charlotte,
and Omaha
after electric scooter
invasions
8. ShipEx For pay-
ing truck drivers an-
nual salaries and
pushing the industry
to more reasonable
work-life standards
9. Cake For design-
ing off-road and
street-legal electric
motorcycles bikers
want to ride
10. LM Industries
For 3D-printing low-
speed, self-driving
cars that pass safety
crash tests
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