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Since 2017, Fortune has teamed up with consulting firm BCG to produce the Future 50, an index of companies that exhibit that kind of resilience—and are built to deliver better-than-average growth in the long term. This year's list is our first to include venture-backed private companies as well as publicly traded ones. Read on for the 2024 rankings.","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Fortune Editors","url":"/author/fortune-editors/","image":"https://fortune.com/img-assets/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/fortune-social-logo-square.png"}],"itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","item":{"@id":"https://fortune.com/company/atlassian/","@type":"Organization","name":"Atlassian"},"position":1},{"@type":"ListItem","item":{"@id":"https://fortune.com/company/roblox/","@type":"Organization","name":"Roblox"},"position":2},{"@type":"ListItem","item":{"@id":"https://fortune.com/company/monday-com/","@type":"Organization","name":"Monday.com"},"position":3},{"@type":"ListItem","item":{"@id":"https://fortune.com/company/hubspot/","@type":"Organization","name":"HubSpot"},"position":4},{"@type":"ListItem","item":{"@id":"https://fortune.com/company/openai/","@type":"Organization","name":"OpenAI"},"position":5},{"@type":"ListItem","item":{"@id":"https://fortune.com/company/sambanova-systems/","@type":"Organization","name":"SambaNova Systems"},"position":6},{"@type":"ListItem","item":{"@id":"https://fortune.com/company/klaviyo/","@type":"Organization","name":"Klaviyo"},"position":7},{"@type":"ListItem","item":{"@id":"https://fortune.com/company/rippling-people-center/","@type":"Organization","name":"Rippling People Center"},"position":8},{"@type":"ListItem","item":{"@id":"https://fortune.com/company/snowflake/","@type":"Organization","name":"Snowflake"},"position":9},{"@type":"ListItem","item":{"@id":"https://fortune.com/company/blueprint-medicines/","@type":"Organization","name":"Blueprint Medicines"},"position":10}],"isAccessibleForFree":false,"hasPart":{"@type":"WebPageElement","cssSelector":".franchise-content","isAccessibleForFree":"False"}}

The Future 50

The global economy today is a tale of two forces: optimism sparked by falling interest rates, and the uncertainty caused by geopolitical unrest. As companies focus on sustainable growth, such a volatile environment inevitably tests their resilience.

 

Since 2017, Fortune has teamed up with consulting firm BCG to produce the Future 50, an index of companies that exhibit that kind of resilience—and are built to deliver better-than-average growth in the long term. This year's list is our first to include venture-backed private companies as well as publicly traded ones. Read on for the 2024 rankings.

The Highlights

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Atlassian

Amid the seemingly endless post-pandemic debate over returning to the office, collaboration-software company Atlassian has doubled down on remote work, both internally—it describes its own 12,000-person workforce as “fully distributed”—and in its products. The maker of enormously profitable project-management software such as Jira and Confluence has posted average revenue growth of 30% over the past three years, and generated $4.4 billion in revenue in fiscal 2024, as large enterprises rely on its products to help their own far-flung teams cooperate. Atlassian’s own ultra-flexible culture has earned it a reputation as a desirable employer, attracting a strong team of tech talent. That fact, along with its strategic clarity and steady investments in R&D, helped Atlassian earn the top spot on this year’s list, up from No. 26 in 2023.

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Roblox

Long before Facebook became Meta, this gaming platform had built a metaverse, enabling users to create and play games, attend concerts, and just hang out in virtual spaces. Roblox claims 89 million daily users, and revenue—mostly from in-game purchases and other e-commerce—is expected to top $4 billion in 2024. Challenges loom: Profits remain elusive, and critics want the company to do more to fight online predators. (Roblox says its platform is “safe and secure.”)

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OpenAI

Three years ago, few people outside of Silicon Valley were aware of OpenAI. Today, virtually every business leader is obsessing over how to use, adapt to, or compete with ChatGPT, the large language model OpenAI invented. The protean startup has become almost synonymous with generative AI, and its groundbreaking advancements have earned it unparalleled influence. After an October funding round, the company is valued at a dizzying $157 billion.

OpenAI and cofounder and CEO Sam Altman have raced to solidify this first-mover advantage: In late October, OpenAI introduced its first AI-powered search engine, and the company is tackling its ever-growing processing needs by developing its own chips in-house. The New York Times has reported that the startup anticipates $3.7 billion in revenue in 2024—and more than three times that much in 2025. The trillion-dollar question: How long can OpenAI sustain its leading position, as deep-pocketed competitors like Google, Amazon Web Services, and major OpenAI investor Microsoft strengthen their own AI products?

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1Atlassian160.2$4,569$-392$63,95012,501811-38-View More details about Atlassian
2Roblox156.1$3,364$-1,040$33,8102,457935---View More details about Roblox
3Monday.com144.9$907$22$12,7281,854----View More details about Monday.com
4HubSpot143.8$2,506$-14$35,8528,103----View More details about HubSpot
5OpenAI139.7--------View More details about OpenAI
6SambaNova Systems138.1--------View More details about SambaNova Systems
7Klaviyo135.4$869$-46$9,5721,815----View More details about Klaviyo
8Rippling People Center133.9--------View More details about Rippling People Center
9Snowflake133.4$3,206$-1,018$43,2817,630931---View More details about Snowflake
10Blueprint Medicines130.6$434$-128$6,023638----View More details about Blueprint Medicines
11Databricks129.1--------View More details about Databricks
12Snap124.9$5,165$-955$17,7624,800679---View More details about Snap
13Zscaler121.9$2,168$-58$30,6417,348----View More details about Zscaler
14Cloudflare121.8$1,572$-94$33,2264,160----View More details about Cloudflare
15Content Square SAS121.4--------View More details about Content Square SAS
16Datadog117.5$2,536$192$45,9525,200----View More details about Datadog
17Freenome Holdings115.8--------View More details about Freenome Holdings
18Themis Solutions115.1--------View More details about Themis Solutions
19Arctic Wolf Networks114.2--------View More details about Arctic Wolf Networks
20MongoDB114.0$1,820$-220$20,8135,037----View More details about MongoDB
21Roku113.7$3,896$-172$9,9803,150----View More details about Roku
22Tempus AI113.6$640$-743$9,1552,300----View More details about Tempus AI
23Brex113.0--------View More details about Brex
24DataRobot111.2--------View More details about DataRobot
25Shopify111.1$8,212$1,383$134,19410,000----View More details about Shopify
26WeRide109.5$51$-290-9,129----View More details about WeRide
27Scale AI109.3--------View More details about Scale AI
28Verisk Analytics109.2$2,823$922$40,1327,500950---View More details about Verisk Analytics
29HashiCorp108.8$628$-149$6,9512,200----View More details about HashiCorp
30CrowdStrike107.4$3,516$170$85,8559,129883---View More details about CrowdStrike
31Elastic106.7$1,376$60$9,1023,299----View More details about Elastic
32Unity Software105.3$1,965$-794$8,7136,748----View More details about Unity Software
33Procore Technologies105.3$1,110$-73$10,4453,694----View More details about Procore Technologies
34Nvidia105.1$113,269$63,074$3,572,84629,60065-38View More details about Nvidia
35Adani Green Energy105.1$1,287$153$26,5173,324----View More details about Adani Green Energy
36Affirm Holdings103.4$3,633$-446$19,8462,006----View More details about Affirm Holdings
37SentinelOne103.1$724$-282$8,5872,300----View More details about SentinelOne
38Palo Alto Networks102.9$8,288$2,734$128,47615,289512---View More details about Palo Alto Networks
39Mohalla Tech Private102.0--------View More details about Mohalla Tech Private
40Celsius Holdings101.7$1,371$214$6,513765----View More details about Celsius Holdings
41Kuaishou Technology101.0$17,226$2,079$29,12124,564----View More details about Kuaishou Technology
42Xero100.9$1,162$131$17,2604,356----View More details about Xero
43DocuSign100.2$2,859$988$15,9966,612942---View More details about DocuSign
44Wayve Technologies99.4--------View More details about Wayve Technologies
45Commonwealth Fusion Systems99.2--------View More details about Commonwealth Fusion Systems
46Anthropic PBC98.8--------View More details about Anthropic PBC
47Eli Lilly98.6$40,863$8,370$715,22443,000127---View More details about Eli Lilly
48Reddit98.3$1,122$-537$23,9262,013----View More details about Reddit
49Ionis Pharmaceuticals98.3$803$-359$5,590927----View More details about Ionis Pharmaceuticals
50BioNTech97.8$3,296$-506$24,3246,133----View More details about BioNTech
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Methodology for The Future 50

To identify the Future 50, Boston Consulting Group examined more than 2,800 publicly traded companies with at least $5 billion in market value as well as more than 175 privately held firms with at least $1 billion in funding since inception. A score of 100 means a firm is one standard deviation better, on average, than others in all of our four dimensions.

The ranking is based on a vitality score for each company. The vitality score comprises 24 factors, selected for their ability to predict long-term sales growth. The factors are grouped into four main dimensions: