These are the 2020 CNBC Disruptor 50 companies

In the eighth annual Disruptor 50 tabulate, CNBC identifies private companies whose breakthroughs are influencing business and market competition at an accelerated pace. They are prepared to emerge from the coronavirus pandemic with tech platforms that have the power to dominate. The start-ups remodeling the 2020 Disruptor list are at the epicenter of a world changing in previously unimaginable ways, turning ideas in cybersecurity, drilling, health IT, logistics/delivery, fintech and agriculture into a new wave of billion-dollar businesses. 

A majority of them, in fact, already are billion-dollar concerns: 36 disruptors this year are unicorns that have already reached or passed the $1 billion valuation dent. Maybe more important this year: 37 have hired new employees since the pandemic began, and 19 require pivoted their products or launched new ones to meet the challenges of the pandemic.

The 50 companies selected using the proprietary Disruptor 50 methodology possess raised over $74 billion in venture capital, according to PitchBook, at an implied Disruptor 50 list vend valuation of near-$277 billion. Technology is already a major part of our daily lives and the public markets, and that wishes only increase on the other side of Covid-19, from the future of food supply to health-care diagnostics and the way we blow the whistle on buy, study, work and pay.