A better way to cook.
Category: Food
Disrupting: Restaurant & Grocery Industries

Our mission is to make incredible home cooking accessible to everyone. We believe you're never done learning in the kitchen—our recipes are created to encourage our home chefs to try new ingredients and cooking techniques every week, while honoring our philosophy of seasonal eating. We take great care to ensure that our recipes are suitable for beginner chefs and experts alike. Our direct relationships with farmers allow us to send our home chefs produce at peak freshness, with minimal time in transit, and at a better value than they can find at their local grocery store. These direct relationships provide our farmers with guaranteed demand for their harvest, allowing them to better plan their crop rotations to grow specialty produce just for us, and improving their livelihoods in the process.

Wheels when you want them.
Category: Automotive
Disrupting: Car Ownership & Rental Industry

Zipcar is a smarter way to get around the city. Drive Zipcars by the hour or day with gas and comprehensive insurance included. The beauty of car sharing is that it just makes sense. It’s there when you need it and not when you don’t. Just imagine never having to make a car payment, pay an auto insurance bill, or worry about the cost of gas again. There are a variety of cars available, and rates and plans to choose from or change in as you wish to fit your needs. Apply in the app and drive in minutes. Or apply online. Once approved, we'll send you a Zipcard to access vehicles worldwide. Book a Zipcar for as little as 1 hour or as long as 7 days. Own the trip, not the car.

See what’s next.
Category: Entertainment
Disrupting: Film & Television Industries 

Netflix is the world’s leading Internet television network with over 81 million members in over 190 countries enjoying more than 125 million hours of TV shows and movies per day, including original series, documentaries and feature films. Members can watch as much as they want, anytime, anywhere, on nearly any Internet-connected screen. Members can play, pause, and soon download their favorite shows all without commercials or commitments.

We are about the freedom of on-demand and the fun of binge viewing. We are about the flexibility of any screen at any time. We are about a personal experience that finds for each person the most pleasing titles from around the world. To deliver this experience to our members, we expect to spend over $800 million on technology & development in 2016.

And you're done.
Category: Shopping
Disrupting: Retail Industry

Through heavy investment in expansion, efficient use of inventory thanks to a lack of brick-and-mortar storefronts, and thousands of third-party affiliates, Amazon has an unmatched array of brands and products. Customers looking for a basket of diverse goods are going to be hard-pressed to find items elsewhere with free shipping, let alone a single store that has each item and the ability of next-day delivery. Amazon benefits from a cost structure that does not require the ongoing operation of thousands of expensive storefronts. The company's long-term focus isn't weighed down by short term margins, thus they can offer the same products at equal or lower prices than the competition while still providing the convenience of fast delivery—and with the introduction of Prime Now, Restaurant delivery, and the future Prime Air customers will receive goods under two hours.

Better rates. Together.
Category: Financial Services
Disrupting: Lending

Lending Club is the world’s largest online marketplace connecting borrowers and investors. We’re transforming the banking system to make credit more affordable and investing more rewarding. We operate at a lower cost than traditional bank lending programs and pass the savings on to borrowers in the form of lower rates and to investors in the form of solid returns. Borrowers who used a personal loan via Lending Club to consolidate debt or pay off high interest credit cards report in a survey that the interest rate on their loan was an average of 30% lower than they were paying on their outstanding debt or credit cards. By providing borrowers with better rates, and investors with attractive, risk-adjusted returns, Lending Club has earned among the highest satisfaction ratings in the financial services industry.

Making life multi-planetary.
Category: Space Exploration
Disrupting: Military & Government Agencies

SpaceX designs, manufactures and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft. The company was founded in 2002 to revolutionize space technology, with the ultimate goal of enabling people to live on other planets. SpaceX has gained worldwide attention for a series of historic milestones. It is the only private company ever to return a spacecraft from low-Earth orbit, which it first accomplished in December 2010. The company made history again in May 2012 when its Dragon spacecraft attached to the International Space Station, exchanged cargo payloads, and returned safely to Earth—a technically challenging feat previously accomplished only by governments. Since then Dragon has delivered cargo to and from the space station multiple times, providing regular cargo resupply missions for NASA.

This is 7.
Category: Telecommunications
Disrupting: Communications, Photography, Productivity Software, Video, Specialist Device Industries

iPhone 7 reaches a new level of innovation and precision while dramatically improving the most important aspects of the iPhone experience. It introduces advanced new camera systems, and holds the best performance and battery life ever in an iPhone to run any App longer with the A10 Fusion Chip, the most powerful chip ever in a smartphone. It contains an immersive stereo speakers along with the brightest, most colorful iPhone display yet. The Home button is completely reengineered with a new unibody design that’s seamless to the touch. The jet black finish is like nothing we’ve ever made, and the enclosure is splash and water resistant. It's everything you need, all in one device.

We do chores. You live life.
Category: Future of Work
Disrupting: Employment

It’s one thing to hire help around the house. It’s another to hire someone you can trust. Taskers undergo an extensive background check and in-person on-boarding before joining the TaskRabbit community. They’re professional, highly rated, and always ready to lend a hand.

TaskRabbit connects you with the same-day help in 3 simple steps. Select from a list of popular chores and submit your request, choose a same-day appointment or a future time with time that suits your schedule and we’ll match you with the right Tasker for the job. Manage your booking directly in the App—chat with your Tasker, get accurate arrival times, and pay electronically in the App when the task is complete.

Never stop playing.
Category: Entertainment
Disrupting: Music, TV, & Film Industries

iTunes is the best way to organize and enjoy the music, movies, and TV shows you already have—and shop for the ones you want to get. It’s home to Apple Music, which gives you unlimited access to millions of songs, curated playlists, and Beats 1 radio. The iTunes Store is available on all your devices, which means you can buy that catchy song you just heard or rent that movie you’ve been meaning to see, anytime you want. All the music, movies, and TV shows you buy are immediately available, no matter how you want to play them. With over 85,000 movies and more than 300,000 TV shows to choose from, there’s always something great to watch on iTunes—anytime, anywhere. Just tap to play, or even download if you’re going somewhere you won’t have Wi-Fi.

Discover the AWS platform.
Category: New Platforms
Disrupting: Consulting, Development, Server, Hardware Industries

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a secure cloud services platform, offering compute power, database storage, content delivery and other functionality to help businesses scale and grow. Explore how millions of customers are currently leveraging AWS to build sophisticated applications with increased flexibility, scalability and reliability. The AWS Cloud provides a broad set of infrastructure services, such as computing power, storage options, networking and databases, delivered as a utility: on-demand, available in seconds, with pay-as-you-go pricing. The AWS Cloud is available in 190 countries, through 13 geographic Regions, 35 Availability Zones, and over 50 local Points of Presence. Compared to other cloud computing companies, the global footprint of AWS is second to none.

A marketplace for work.
Category: Future of Work
Disrupting: Employment

Amazon Mechanical Turk is a marketplace for work that requires human intelligence. The Mechanical Turk service gives businesses access to a diverse, on-demand, scalable workforce and gives Workers a selection of thousands of tasks to complete whenever it's convenient.

Amazon Mechanical Turk is based on the idea that there are still many things that human beings can do much more effectively than computers, such as identifying objects in a photo or video, performing data de-duplication, transcribing audio recordings, or researching data details. Traditionally, tasks like this have been accomplished by hiring a large temporary workforce (which is time consuming, expensive, and difficult to scale) or have gone undone.

From tap to table in minutes.
Category: New Platforms
Disrupting: Last-Mile Logistics

Get the food you want, from the restaurants you love, delivered at Uber speed. UberEATS is the new food delivery platform that makes getting great food from your favorite local restaurants as easy as requesting a ride, available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. We're working with over a hundred of the best restaurants to put the best local food all in one place. If you’re craving it, you can find it on UberEATS. By tapping into the Uber network, you can get anything from our roster of local restaurants, fast. The average order takes 35 minutes from start to finish. When you're ready to place your order, you'll see a total that includes the food and delivery price. There's no need to tip. Pay with your Uber account and track your order on the site as it comes to you.

Power a new generation.
Category: Electric Vehicles
Disrupting: Energy

Volta aims to use technology as a force for social change where community services, including free electric car charging, are underwritten by companies with a vested interest in the community. Volta Charging is a unique electric vehicle charging company that installs and maintains charging networks for communities at high-end, premium retail locations for free. Properties attract and retain loyal electric vehicle driver consumers and experience increased sales. By benefiting the community with a sustainable amenity, property reputation is enhanced. Volta’s model benefits both the community & site owners with free Installation, free Maintenance, environmental goodwill, reimbursement of Electricity Costs, and rent. With Volta, everyone has an outlet for taking action to make the community better.

Try cloud computing for free.
Category: Big Data
Disrupting: IT, Tech Ownership

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) is a web service that provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud. It is designed to make web-scale cloud computing easier for developers. The simple web service interface allows you to obtain and configure capacity with minimal friction. It provides you with complete control of your computing resources and lets you run on Amazon’s proven computing environment. Amazon EC2 reduces the time required to obtain and boot new server instances, allowing you to quickly scale capacity as your computing requirements change. Amazon EC2 changes the economics of computing by allowing you to pay only for capacity that you use. Amazon EC2 gives developers the tools to build failure resilient applications and isolate themselves from common failure scenarios.