25 Innovative Companies to Watch in 2021

Those of us with a wish that 2020 would end recently got their wish granted with a whole brand new year. Despite the continuing national tumult, you can be sure that efforts to return to a sense of New Normalcy will pervade the new year we all are pinning our hopes on: 2021. In the spirit of moving forward boldly into a new and better world, here are 25 companies with cutting-edge ideas and innovative processes that are making their mark as 2021 begins in earnest.

About the company: Ohmconnect is a software-based power plant. Instead of turning on a dirty coal or gas power plant during times of peak demand, Ohmconnect has hundreds of users reduce their electricity. The best part is that instead of paying dirty gas power plants to turn on, Ohmconnect can pay its users to turn it down. When users sign up, they are told when to reduce their electricity. If they participate, their energy reductions can be sold into the markets as an additional generation. Ohmconnect hooks into users’ wifi thermostats, electric cars, and smart devices to automate these reductions.

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About the company: Bravado is a community platform for sales professionals. It offers online tools and craft in-person events that help its members amplify their voices, build their personal brands, connect with other sales professionals, and be great at their jobs. Its members hail from over 7,000 organizations around the world — including sales teams many may have heard of (Google, Salesforce, Facebook, Amazon) and their challengers. They are sales directors, #influencers, junior SDRs, founders, and everything in between.

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About the company: Attabotics provides a robotic warehousing and fulfillment system that has the potential to redefine the market. Attabotics has taken a different perspective on the technology. Instead of developing technology to speed the human workload, Attabotics is a robotic-centric storage and retrieval system. A goods to person system that can be deployed in a smaller space, for a smaller entry-level cost, providing industry-leading throughput and an opportunity to redefine the warehouse space from large, hub and spoke systems, to small, agile, nodal delivery stations.

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About the company: Kaia Health is a leading digital therapeutics company that creates evidence-based treatments for a range of disorders including musculoskeletal conditions and COPD. Kaia Health uses innovative technology, including artificial intelligence and computer vision, and works with medical experts to create an interdisciplinary digital approach. This empowers and motivates individuals to take control and self-manage their condition with effective, non-pharmacological, digital alternatives at low costs.

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About the company: Xbird is a provider of software solutions in the healthcare sector.. The company uses artificial intelligence to personalize therapies for better results. Especially in diabetes therapy, the algorithms developed by xbird can record the behavior and lifestyle of patients using smartphones and other wearables. In this way, as part of holistic care, health risks can be identified and prevented and long-term treatment can be optimized.

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About the company: Meow Wolf is comprised of over 400 employees creating and supporting art across a variety of media, including architecture, sculpture, painting, photography, video production, cross-reality (AR/VR/MR), music, audio engineering, narrative writing, costuming, performance, and more! Meow Wolf creates immersive and interactive experiences that transport audiences of all ages into fantastic realms of story and exploration. This includes art installations, video and music production, and extended reality content.

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About the company: Incyte is a global biopharmaceutical company focused on finding solutions for serious unmet medical needs through the discovery, development, and commercialization of novel medicines. Incyte is committed to the relentless pursuit of science that can improve the lives of patients. Its unique expertise in medicinal chemistry and biology has enabled us to create a diversified portfolio of marketed products and clinical candidates, the majority of which were discovered by Incyte scientists.

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About the company: Cynet is a pioneer and leader in advanced threat detection and response. Cynet simplifies security by providing a rapidly deployed, comprehensive platform for detection, prevention, and automated response to advanced threats with near-zero false positives, shortening the time from detection to resolution and limiting damage to an organization. Cynet’s unique visibility of files, users, network traffic, and endpoints, and continuous monitoring of an environment uncovers behavioral and interaction indicators across the attack chain, giving a complete picture of an attack operation over time.

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About the company: At Novartis US, the mission is to reimagine medicine and discover new ways to improve and extend people’s lives. As a leading global medicines company, the company uses innovative science and digital technologies to create transformative treatments in areas of great medical need. Novartis products reach nearly 800 million people globally and the company is finding innovative ways to provide solutions to address the evolving needs of patients. Novartis consistently ranks among the world’s top companies investing in research and development.

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About the company: WalkMe’s mission is to make digital adoption for employees and customers simple while increasing enterprise productivity. The platform works as an invisible layer of visual cues and personalized content placed on top of a user’s website or enterprise software. WalkMe’s DAP is used by thousands of enterprises worldwide spanning all industries and platforms for onboarding, training new and existing users on new processes, and improving overall productivity by providing contextual guidance in real-time.

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About the company: Sisense gives users a great way to get real business insights from complex data with radically innovative business analytics. Sisense empowers everyday business users to independently manage, analyze, and visualize complex data quickly and cost-effectively. Its mission is to transform complex data into insights everywhere, enabling access to business intelligence across an entire organization.

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About the company: HackerOne empowers the world to build a safer internet. As the world’s trusted hacker-powered security platform, HackerOne gives organizations access to the largest community of hackers on the planet. Armed with the most robust database of vulnerability trends and industry benchmarks, the hacker community mitigates cyber risk by searching, finding, and safely reporting real-world security weaknesses for organizations across all industries and attack surfaces.

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About the company: Canva is an online design and publishing platform that provides user-friendly design tools for non-designers. The company is disrupting the way businesses design with an integrated marketplace that has both free and paid stock photography, fonts, illustrations, and thousands of templates; a paid subscription that offers the ability to set up a brand kit so users can save their brand colors, fonts, and assets, and ensures consistency across their designs; and a print service that gives users the ability to produce professional prints in a variety of formats and sizes, delivered straight to their doorstep.
About the company: Roblox is the leading global platform for shared digital experiences – and the only of its kind to empower a global community of over 100M monthly users to play, imagine and create together. Roblox has embraced the hardest engineering and product challenges to bring people together through play. And the company has only just begun. The Roblox platform rests on a rich technology stack that is as inspiring as its players and creators. Roblox takes play seriously.
About the company: KaiOS Technologies is the company behind KaiOS, the world’s leading operating system for smart feature phones. Nominated by TIME magazine as one of the Best Inventions in the Social Good category, KaiOS brings connectivity and apps to affordable devices. KaiOS Technologies is based in Hong Kong and has offices in China, India, France, and the US. Over 300 people worldwide work for KaiOS so that more people can access the internet.
About the company: WHOOP is the performance optimization system that tracks recovery, training, and sleeping hours thus helping elite athletes and teams win. The company provides athletes, coaches, and trainers with a continuous understanding of strain and recovery to balance training, reduce injuries, and predict performance. The company creates a product that makes individuals and teams perform at a higher level through a deeper understanding of their bodies and daily lives. The WHOOP Strap 3.0 collects physiological data 24/7 to provide an accurate and granular understanding of the body.
About the company: Indigo harnesses nature to help farmers sustainably feed the planet. Indigo focuses on the microbes that have evolved in conjunction with plants over billions of years to optimize their health and maximize their productivity. Indigo believes we are on the forefront of something that serves the needs of both farmers and consumers. For farmers, the yield benefits will help improve grower profitability while increasing our capacity to feed a growing population. For consumers, Indigo can begin to make fundamental changes in how food is grown; like being more efficient with water, and reducing the use of nitrogen fertilizer and pesticides over time.
About the company: ThredUp is a resale platform, inspiring a new generation to think secondhand first. The company has spent the past 10 years reinventing resale, building a marketplace and infrastructure now poised to power the $50B resale economy and usher in a more sustainable fashion future. Backed by world-class investors, thredUP designed a resale engine that has redistributed nearly 100 million unique garments from closets across America and is now powering resale for the broader fashion industry via its Resale-As-A-Service (RAAS) platform.
About the company: Brex is the financial OS for growing companies, with credit cards, cash management, and controls in a single account. Brex is reimagining financial systems so every growing company can realize its full potential. With the financial OS, new customers can get up and running in minutes with corporate credit cards and cash management in a single, strategic account. Plus, companies save hours every month with built-in tools and integrations to track spend, and earn points on every card purchase.
About the company: Combining massive amounts of data and advanced machine learning algorithms, Hopper predicts and analyzes airfare and accommodation to save users money and enable them to travel more often. Since its launch in 2015, Hopper has become one of the fastest-growing travel apps ever with over 30 million installs to date. It is now the most downloaded travel booking app in North America and travelers have booked hundreds of millions of dollars in flights and hotels around the world using Hopper.
About the company: Strava is an online network where runners and cyclists can record their activities, compare performance, and compete with their community. Millions of athletes have joined Strava for the competition and camaraderie found in tracking and sharing their fitness activities. The company’s free mobile apps and website help members discover and plan workouts, record and share activities, and analyze and compare performance. Strava’s ability to connect athletes around the world makes fitness a more social experience, providing extra motivation even when training alone.
About the company: Immuta provides a cloud-native data governance platform for organizations to automate data access control, security, and privacy compliance, ensuring each user who queries data sees only the data they’re supposed to see, for their approved purpose or role. The platform aims to create trust across data engineering, security, legal, compliance, and business teams so they can work together to ensure timely access to critical data with minimal risk while adhering to global data privacy regulations including the GDPR, CCPA, and HIPAA.
About the company: Wattpad’s vision is to entertain and connect the world through stories. The global multiplatform entertainment company uses the power of community and technology to enable the creation and distribution of content across a variety of formats. Its flagship app, Wattpad, is home to a community of more than 65 million people who spend over 20 billion minutes a month engaged in original stories.
About the company: Rothy’s transforms sustainable materials into beautiful products for life on the go. Redefining expectations of comfort, style, and sustainability, Rothy’s began by turning single-use plastic water bottles into artfully-designed shoes and recently furthered its commitment to material innovation with the launch of The Bag Collection using recycled marine plastics. Considering every step of production, Rothy’s owns and operates its state-of-the-art production workshop and uses a proprietary 3D knitting process to significantly reduce material waste.
About the company: Graphcore has created a new processor, the Intelligence Processing Unit (IPU), specifically designed for artificial intelligence. The IPU’s unique architecture means developers can run current machine learning models orders of magnitude faster. More importantly, it lets AI researchers undertake entirely new types of work, not possible using current technologies, to drive the next great breakthroughs in general machine intelligence.