Explore the full 2022 list of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies, 528 organizations whose efforts are reshaping their businesses, industries, and the broader culture. We’ve selected the firms making the biggest impact with their initiatives across 52 categories, including the most innovative media, design, and consumer goods companies.
Construction, banking, death (yes, death): those are just three of the notable categories that snagged a winning spot in this year’s list of the most innovative “small and mighty” companies with between 10 and 100 employees.
Two of this year’s winners, HeadLight and ProStar, are B2B companies that help make construction projects more accountable above ground, and safer underground—especially notable given the $1 trillion infrastructure bill signed by President Biden last November. The bill designated $100 million in funding to incentivize modernization in the industry, like the use of advanced digital construction management systems.
Step, another winner, is a digital bank for teens; it was the fourth-most downloaded digital banking app in the first half of 2021. The company aims to serve the 21 million teens in the U.S. whose collective spending power exceeds $145 billion—as well as teach financial skills and offer people under 18 a way to digitally send money, which they can’t do with popular existing payment apps. Investors include a constellation of notable companies and high-profile backers, including payments platform Stripe, Will Smith’s Dreamers VC, Justin Timberlake, EDM duo The Chainsmokers, Eli Manning, and executives from Facebook, Square, and Visa.
Recognize your company's culture of innovation by applying to this year's Best Workplaces for Innovators Awards before the extended deadline, April 12.
