Enterprise Europe Film and TVFinance Food Gaming- HBO For succeed-
ing GoT with Euphoria,
Righteous Gem-
stones, Watchmen,
and, yes, Succession - CJ Entertain-
ment For using its
Korean hit Parasite
as the host for start-
ing to make English-
language content - Monkeypaw
For getting a rise out
of audiences with
Jordan Peele’s Us,
The Twilight Zone
reboot, and the
Lorena Bobbitt doc - Participant
For scoring with Ava
DuVernay’s searing
Netflix series on the
Central Park Five - Netflix For enlist-
ing auteurs in the
fight against “world-
wide audiovisual
entertainment” - Siemens For pav-
ing an electric high-
way: an Autobahn
that charges hybrid
electric trucks - Sprout World
For designing a pen-
cil that can be plant-
ed in the ground
so a tree can grow
from its used body - Elvie For fashion-
ing a silent, discreet
breast pump that
women can use
throughout the day - WayRay
For turning any
glass surface, such
as a car windshield,
into an augmented
reality display - Micro Mobility
Systems For build-
ing the Microlino,
a low-carbon-
footprint car for
city dwellers - Withings
For detecting atrial
fibrillation via
its low-cost analog
watch - Lilium For bring-
ing The Jetsons
to reality with the first
successful flight of
a five-seater vertical
takeoff and
landing electric jet - Amuse
For using AI to calcu-
late musicians’ future
royalties and pay
them in advance - Sthaler For iden-
tifying the most
secure biometric
authentication yet—
using unique blood
vessel patterns to
verify users - ApisProtect
For pollinating an in-
ternet of things for
beekeepers - Canva For bring-
ing its drag-and-
drop slideshow tools
to the corporate
world, empowering
anyone to get cre-
ative while still color-
ing within the lines - MongoDB
For enabling
developers’ data-
intensive web
and mobile apps - Unbabel
For combining the
speed of machine
translation with the
authenticity of a na-
tive speaker, to the
tune of 1 million cus-
tomer service mes-
sages a month - Elastic For un-
leashing the search
tools that power
Uber and Tinder
onto any enterprise’s
mess of data - InCountry
For flipping global
data compliance
into a service - Persuit For killing
the billable hour by
offering its RFP auc-
tion platform for
outside legal counsel - Stardog For
smashing data silos
and making com-
pany-knowledge
graphs accessible - Nearmap For
streaming 3D aerial
imagery on demand
to a web browser - IBM For meeting
businesses such as
Kraft Heinz where
they are with its
global network of
digital reinvention
Garages - Jobber For op-
timizing operations
for local service pros - Roblox For creat-
ing not just a game
but an ecosystem for
gamers, where they
can develop and sell
their own titles - Apple For win-
ning gamers with
the subscription
service they craved - Microsoft
For prodding millions
of young gamers to
get out of the house
with Minecraft Earth - Level Ex For put-
ting doctors’ surgical
skills to the test in
games that are fun
and earn continuing
education credit - Two Bit Circus
For making IRL
arcades cool
again with games
tailored for each
physical space - Zwift For turning
the stationary bike
into a video-game
controller, with users
collectively pedaling
1.5 million miles daily - E p i c G a m e s
For sharing the
wealth in its games
store, giving 88% to
publishers and
generating $680
million in its first year - 100 Thieves For
synthesizing the
worlds of esports,
fashion, and media - Exploding Kit-
tens For blowing up
the traditional board-
game business - N3rd Street
Gamers For profes-
sionalizing the world
of esports, with
training centers for
aspiring athletes - Beyond Meat
For marbling its fast-
food distribution—
and its profits - Sweetgreen
For stationing out-
posts everywhere
its customers
work to mass-deliver
fresh salads - Indigo
For bringing the
climate-change
fight to American soil - Chobani
For embracing fair
trade to help dairy
farmers and milking
consumer demand
for plant-based
products - Kind For crusad-
ing for more strin-
gent food-labeling
standards - Impossible
Foods For creating
a BK sensation and
debuting faux pork - Brightloom
For offering all res-
taurants the kind of
digital prowess that
powers Starbucks’s
mobile app - Athletic Brew-
ing For crafting a
nonalcoholic brew
that can go toe-to-
toe with the best IPAs - Imperfect
Foods For diverting
42.9 million pounds
of food from being
wasted, and ex-
panding into Minne-
apolis and New York - Air Co.
For capturing car-
bon and converting
it into an ultrapre-
mium, $65 vodka - Brex For reward-
ing startups with
a credit card tailored
to their needs - Carta For facili-
tating the rise of pri-
vate markets - Rally For opening
access to alternative
investments, from
cars to rare books - Kin Insurance
For applying preci-
sion data to insuring
homes vulnerable to
the effects of climate
change - LendingHome
For helping housing
stock get a face-lift
via its home-flipper-
friendly mortgages - Anchorage
For solving the big-
gest problem that
institutions face in
crypto investing - Oportun
For making small-
dollar loans afford-
able and bilingual - Portfolia
For turning affluent
women into
strategic investors
so they can back
ideas that deserve
funding - Citadel
Securities For de-
livering on the prom-
ise of direct listings - OpenInvest
For customizing
impact investing, at
scale, letting finan-
cial advisers create
tailored portfolios
for clients
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- Neon For betting
on daring, idiosyn-
cratic indies like
Apollo 11, Amazing
Grace, and Parasite - Focus Features
For amplifying re-
leases like Downton
Abbey with clever
partners like Airbnb - Gloria Sanchez
Productions For
subverting expecta-
tions about women
who are strippers
(Hustlers), teens
(Booksmart), and
widows (Dead to Me) - Thunderbird
Entertainment
For being the first kids
on earth to release
a show with a Native
American lead - SK Global
For building a world-
wide platform
for universal stories