2017 World's 50 Most Innovative Companies

Amazon: For offering even more, even faster and smarter
Google: For developing a photographic memory
Uber: For accelerating autonomous driving
Apple: For baking in its advantages
Snap: For bringing crackle and pop to a new way of seeing the world
Facebook: For launching the right ads at the right moment
Netflix: For making surfing fun again
Twilio: For giving apps a voice
Chobani: For stirring it up in the grocery store
Spotify: For enticing artists with data
Alibaba: For creating new hubs for commerce
Tencent: For reinventing messaging, again
Xiaomi: For elevating hardware design
BBK Electronics: For igniting new smartphone markets
Huawei: For iterating fast
Dalian Wanda: For staging its own dream factory
Airbnb: For putting a world of experiences at our fingertips
Buzzfeed: For feeding a viral fever
Open Whisper Systems: For bringing secure communication to the masses
Illumination Entertainment: For creating a monster out of a Minion
IBM: For embedding Watson where it's needed most
Vivint Smart Home: For opening the door to the connected home of the future
Slack: For fighting drudge work with bots
Glossier: For collaborating with customers to create cult cosmetics
Kenzo: For ripping up the seams of fashion marketing
Clique Media Group: For parlaying fashion advice into retail gold
Hypebeast: For uniting sneakerheads into a lucrative demographic
RewardStyle: For giving influencers a must-have accessory
GoFundMe: For finding the value in good deeds
TaskRabbit: For making work
Microsoft: For building new worlds in the classroom
Orbital Insight: For seeing the big picture in satellite imagery
One Medical: For changing the face of primary care
Farmers Business Network: For cultivating a new hybrid of data and agriculture
Adobe: For pushing creativity to the cloud
Casper: For making money in our sleep
Thinx: For turning periods into exclamation points
Resy: For feeding our desire to be VIP diners
Marriott: For prioritizing loyalty
Medtronic: For streamlining diabetes care
Nvidia: For powering the future
Pledge 1%: For seeding early-stage philanthropy
The Home Depot: For growing without building
Headspace: For giving us all a much-needed moment of Zen
Related Companies: For creating a thrilling new West Side story
Celmatix: For forecasting fertility
MailChimp: For giving little guys the marketing savvy of an 800-pound gorilla
Beyond Meat: For exceeding beefy expectations
Simplify Networks: For sharing wireless by the byte
Drone Racing League: For speeding into the mainstream