These are the 61 most innovative startups in the world

Agrosmart is a Brazilian company that uses sensors, meteorological data, and image processing to provide real-time crop monitoring that helps farmers to better manage their agribusiness.

Apeel Sciences is a food-tech startup that has created an edible coating that makes produce and fresh food last longer. Backed by Bill Gates and famed Silicon Valley venture firm Andreeseen Horowitz, the company recently introduced its longer-lasting avocados at Costco and Harps Food Stores locations throughout the Midwest.

Applied Brain Research is an artificial intelligence company working in the field of so-called neuromorphic computing, which uses artificial neurons to compute in a way similiar to the human brain, but using less power than traditional machine learning algorithms.

Aqua Security (formerly known as Scalock) is an Israeli cybersecurity company helping its customers secure their modern software infrastructure. The company counts Microsoft as an investor, and Hewlett Packard Enterprise as a partner.

Armis is an enterprise security company founded by Yevgeny Dibrov and Nadir Izrael, two former Google employees. Its solutions help companies secure their smart devices.

BenevolentAI is an artificial intelligence platform that helps developers build software that can take advantage of unstructured information in scientific papers, patents, clinical trial information, and from a large number of structured data sets.

Focusing on biotechnology, the UK-based startup is focused on helingp discover new drugs to treat conditions like Parkinson's disease and rare cancers.

Bestmile is an online platform, helping companies manage and maintain their current and future fleets of autonomous cars, buses, and trucks.

Blue Vision Labs is a UK-based startup making technology that allows several people to use augmented reality (AR) at the same time.

BitPesa is an online payment platform that uses blockchain to allow users in sub-Saharan Africa to trade bitcoin.

Founded in 2012 by Swedish chemist Christina Lampe-önnerud, Cadenza Innovations uses patented technology to make lithium-ion batteries safer, cheaper, and able to hold more energy.

CarePay is a Kenyan company that has developed ‘mHealth Wallet’, a mobile wallet that lets users save, insure, and pay for healthcare services.

Casetext is a legal-tech startup that lets lawyers and their staff upload legal briefs, and then uses artificial inteligence to identify other relevant cases and documents.

Code.org is a nonprofit dedicated to expanding access to computer science in for K-12 students in schools, focusing on increasing participation by women and underrepresented minorities.

CognitiveScale makes software that uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to organize big data sets for companies.

Color Genomics offers affordable genetic testing to help customers understand their risk for common hereditary cancers and heart conditions.

Founded by Mohit Aron, an early Google employee and the co-founder of Nutanix, storage company Cohesity was only the second enterprise software company ever to earn an investment from Japanese venture firm Softbank.

CUJO AI uses artificial intelligence to provide cybersecurity for home devices, including a feature for parental controls.

Delair uses long-range drones to gather aerial imagery, giving customers an eagle-eye view of a work site or facility.

Drive.ai, which was started by researchers in Stanford University's artificial intelligence lab, are making the "brains" — or the software — that powers self-driving cars.

Everledger is putting diamonds on the blockchain. The Everledger blockchain provides a secure ledger that tracks and stores information about the color, carat and certificate number of each diamond. The company hopes to reduce and completely eliminate theft, illicit trafficking and fraud in the diamond and jewelry industry.

EVRYTHNG is a platform that allows users to easily manage and track physical objects digitally. It can, for example, let a customer track a product as it moves through their supply clain.

Fetch Robotics builds autonomous robots that can work on factory floors. These robots, the company says, can be particularly helpful to those in the e-commerce business who are struggling to keep up with the likes of Amazon in order fulfillment.

Gamalon uses artificial intelligence to understand text conversations, to help software make sense of normal human interactions.

Grid Singularity is bringing blockchain to the energy sector by creating an open source decentralized energy data exchange platform that can host applications.

Founded by Swiss pilot André Borschberg, H55 produces electric propulsion systems for existing airplanes as well as for flying taxis and drones. Borschberg has experience in the aviation industry, as he was behind Solar Impulse 2, the experimental aircraft that successfully ran entirely on solar power.

Horizon State is an Australian company that is looking to use blockchain to make voting more secure.

Hyperloop Transportation Technologies is working on making the hyperloop concept — the idea of super fast travel through underground low-pressure tubes, first envisioned by Elon Musk— a reality.

Juvo is a fintech company that allows users in developing markets to borrow small amounts money in exchange for more talk time or data on their phones, allowing users to build credit.

Malong is a Chinese artificial intelligence startup that allow machines to recognize physical objects, like consumer products, and identify them.

SOLshare has developed the world’s first peer-to-peer solar electricity trading platform. The company aims to bring power to low-income rural parts of Bangladesh.

Melonport has created Melon, a platform for crypto token asset management.

Modern Meadow makes animal-free leather using a process called biofabrication, which allows the company to grow collagen, a protein found in animal skin, without an actual animal.

My Crop is an India-based agriculture platform that uses machine learning to help farmers plan their crops and planting.

Narrativ allows retailers to bid for publishers to link to their stores via affiliate link.

Narrative Science is a Chicago-based company that has created Quill, a platform for turning data into easy-to-understand recommendations.

OnlinePajak is an easy-to-use platform that lets Indonesians prepare, pay, and file taxes online.

Ovamba is a mobile app that connects small business owners in Africa with investment capital.

Peloton Technology connects two trucks, allowing one truck driver to control the acceleration and braking of both trucks simultaneously. The process saves both time and fuel, allowing one trucker to do the work of two.

Petuum provides an platform that allows companies to build their own artificially intelligent software without the need for AI engineering expertise.

Plataforma Verde is a waste management platform on the blockchain.

Precognize makes software that predicts — using artificial intelligence — which machines might need maintenance. The company focuses on heavy industry.

Pymetrics uses neuroscience games and AI to reduce bias and save time in the hiring process.

QuintessenceLabs is a quantum cybersecurity company.

Raycatch uses artificial intelligence to provide suggestions about operations and maintenance to operators and owners of solar plants.

Seismic is creating "wearable robotics," which it calls Powered Clothing, for senior citizens. It' SuperFlex suit would add strength to muscles and joints for those who have trouble with mobility.

SocialCops is a data intelligence company that specializes in cleaning up unorganized data.

Soft Robotics builds a proprietary "soft" gripper on the end of a robotic arm. The grasper can handle a range of objects, regardless of shape, size, or weight, with no tool or software changes between cycles.

Soul Machines creates life-like, emotionally responsive digital assistants with personality and character.

Suade is a fintech startup that makes software for banks to help them adapt their balance sheets to changes in financial regulation.

ThoughtSpot is a search and artificial intelligence-driven analytics platform. The company recently scored a $145 million Series D funding round valuing the startup at $1 billion. It plans to IPO in the near future.

Tulip lets workers without any coding experience build apps that can monitor heavy equipment like you might find on a factory floor.

uBiome is a home-testing company that lets customers analyzes their microbiome. The company offers a SmartGut test, which gives people insight into what's going on in their digestive tract, and its SmartJane test, which tests for HPV and STIs.

Utilis uses remote sensing and satellite data to detect drinking water leaks from underground pipes.

Vayyar claims to make the world's most advanced 3D imaging sensor, which can be used in applications ranging from breast cancer screening to detecting water leakage.

Watergen has built a small water-from-air generator that provides renewable source of clean and fresh drinking water.

Founded by the former Director of Mossad, XM Cyber says it has the first fully automated APT (Advanced Persistent Threat) simulation platform. It automatically and persistently tests the security of software by simulating an attempted attack from a hacker.