Recognition highlights Cognite’s rapid growth, industrial AI innovation, and ability to deliver quantifiable business value to its customers
Phoenix — May 19, 2026 — Cognite, the global leader in Industrial AI, today announced it has been named to the CNBC Disruptor 50 list, which recognizes the world’s most innovative private companies transforming major industries through breakthrough technology. Cognite is ranked 15th on this year's list.
Against the backdrop of widespread AI hype, Cognite is on track to achieve its Moonshot mission of delivering $100 billion in measurable customer value by 2035. Many of the world’s largest and most asset-intensive organizations rely on Cognite to help them improve safety, efficiency, sustainability, and–ultimately–profitability by leveraging its secure, scalable industrial AI and data platform. By focusing on the data infrastructure and AI-enabled user experiences that reflect how assets and processes actually function, Cognite ensures decision makers and frontline workers alike can easily access, understand, and collaborate around complex industrial workflows in real time.
In Q1 2026, Cognite customers’ knowledge graph exceeded 85 trillion time series data points in context–up 30% year over year. In that same timeframe, the number of data modeling instances doubled, and AI token usage increased more than 900%. The number of monthly active users also climbed, growing at 54%.
"In a world where manufacturing is reshoring, there is high demand for affordable energy, and countries and companies are seeking sovereignty, Cognite's Industrial Data and AI platform is driving innovation and impact where it matters the most--in production, risk mitigation, and assisting in the continuity of supply,” said Girish Rishi, CEO of Cognite. "From energy to process manufacturing to life sciences and on to discrete manufacturing, Cognite's Moonshot of delivering $100 billion in value to customers by 2035 is our true north. The Cognite team celebrates the recognition by CNBC."
The recognition follows strong growth, customer momentum, and market recognition for Cognite, including:
- Q1 new annual recurring revenue (ARR) grew 57% year over year
- Roughly 72% of overall customers as measured by ARR have operationalized Atlas AI, Cognite’s low-code industrial agent workbench that helps customers move from pilot projects to full production in weeks, rather than months
- IDC named Cognite a Leader in its MarketScape for Worldwide Industrial DataOps Platforms
- LNS Research positioned Cognite as a Front Runner in its Research Solution Selection Matrix for Industrial AI Platforms
The annual CNBC Disruptor 50 list recognizes private companies that are reshaping industries through innovation, scalability, and market impact. CNBC uses a qualitative and quantitative judging process that evaluates core business models, scalability, and customer growth, among other key metrics.
About Cognite
Cognite makes AI work for industry. Leading energy, manufacturing, and power and renewables enterprises choose Cognite to deliver secure, trustworthy, and real-time data to transform their asset-heavy operations to be safer, more sustainable, and profitable. Cognite provides a user-friendly, secure, and scalable industrial AI & platform that makes it easy for all decision-makers, from the field to remote operations centers, to access and understand complex industrial data, collaborate in real time, and build a better tomorrow. Visit us at www.cognite.com, and follow us on LinkedIn.
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