11 Sandboxaq TARRYTOWN, NY
The Alphabet AI/ quantum computing spin-off reimburses employees at all levels to work with a certified coach.
12 Spring Health NEW YORK
The digital healthbenefits company created a new records management platform that enables real-time collaboration among health providers.
13 DHI Group CENTENNIAL, CO
The parent company of talent acquisition platforms Dice and Clearancejobs offers professional development training across the organization.
14 AES ARLINGTON, VA
The power utility’s internal program, APEX, collects employee ideas, yielding more than 4,500 completed projects and adding $1.2 billion in value.
15 Bold Penguin COLUMBUS, OH
The Penguin Tank is a four-day pitch and code competition open to all employees at the commercial insurance digitalproducts company.
16 Holcim ZUG, SWITZERLAND
The giant cement manufacturer operates an innovation center in Lyon, France, and collaborates with more than 80 universities around the world.
17 Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory LAUREL, MD
Last year, its Project Catalyst program awarded more than 400 grants to enable staff members to develop potentially transformational ideas.
18 BAL RICHARDSON, TX
The law firm’s Explorer Program allows employees to do six-month job rotations in other positions.
19 Bishop Fox TEMPE, AZ
The security firm regularly publishes advisories and shares new opensource security tools with the broader community.
20 Genentech SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO
Last year, the biotech company opened a new $250 million, LEED gold– certified facility that focuses on investigational medicines for clinical trials.
21 Alida TORONTO
Employees at the customer experience consultancy vote on the best ideas and collaborations to recognize colleagues with the Thunderbolt award.
22 Aisera PALO ALTO
The generative
AI and automation company operates an internal think tank to incubate and develop big ideas.
23 Etsy BROOKLYN
The company’s search-by-image feature moved from last year’s annual Codemosaic hackathon to the market in less than six months.
24 Ironclad SAN FRANCISCO
A group from the product and engineering teams collaborated with Openai to create AI Assist, which streamlines contract negotiations.
25 Roivant NEW YORK
Recent graduates who join the biotech company enter a two-year rotational program where they spend six months with different teams in various functions.
26 BMO Financial Group TORONTO
The Wmnfintech accelerator, created with Chicago’s 1871 innovation hub, is North America’s largest nonprofit fintech incubator for women entrepreneurs.
27 Bluehalo ARLINGTON, VA
The space tech company is partnering with New Mexico State University to create a local college-to-career pipeline at its new Sandia facility.
28 Softrams LEESBURG, VA
The IT company held 80 brownbag lunch sessions in 2022, allowing individuals or teams to share a project and solicit suggestions.
29 Whalar LONDON
The influencer agency launched its 10-week Creator Academy to provide training for emerging creators from underrepresented communities.
30 Spotify STOCKHOLM
The music streamer’s Heart & Soul initiative trains employee ambassadors to recognize signs of mental health issues and guide colleagues to support.
31 Sourcebooks NAPERVILLE, IL
A three-month Summer Sprints program allows all employees of the independent book publisher to gain insights from various corners of the company.
32 Disability:in ALEXANDRIA, VA
The nonprofit’s Nextgen Leaders program provides mentoring and recruiting opportunities to students with disabilities.
33 Cargill WAYZATA, MN
The 158-year-old multinational conglomerate operates 15 innovation centers, enabling the company to respond to local trends on a global scale.
34 Gainwell Technologies RESTON, VA
The health and HR tech company conducts five build-a-thons annually, allowing employees to collaborate with industry partners.
35 Rapidops CHARLOTTE, NC
The software development company invests about $1 million a year in R&D to develop new products.
36 Akadeum Life Sciences ANN ARBOR, MI
The biotech research firm boasts an admirable gender balance for a STEM company: Nearly 60% of its employees are women.
37 Valimail BOULDER, CO
The cybersecurity company’s “Perks to Performance” is designed to encourage teamwork and has doubled productivity and increased retention.
38 Comcast PHILADELPHIA
The cabler’s thriceyearly Lab Week allows employees to develop new projects, explore new technologies, and collaborate with peers.
39 ADP ROSELAND, NJ
The 74-year-old HR software and services company averages more than $1 billion of annual investments in systems development and programming.
40 DPR Construction REDWOOD CITY, CA
DPR’S innovation team works with 30 to 40 startups per quarter, leading to 50 to 60 pilot efforts a year.
41 Formlabs SOMERVILLE, MA
The annual Formlabs hackathon has produced such new ideas and products as the Automation Ecosystem, which
enables printers to run for three days straight.
42 Alnylam Pharmaceuticals CAMBRIDGE, MA
Athena is a 10-month program designed to enhance leadership skills of Alnylam’s women employees, delivered in partnership with UC Berkeley.
43 Air Co. NEW YORK
Air Co.’s Air Scholars summer program provides high school students with environmental justice research internships, guided by experts in the field.
44 Jazwares SUNRISE, FL
The toy company launched its own internal online learning tool with more than 1,000 on-demand courses available in a variety of languages.
45 TXI CHICAGO
To normalize and destigmatize “failure,” leaders at the product and strategy innovation firm regularly share their own unsuccessful initiatives.
46 Manhattan Associates ATLANTA
The software company recruits college students for internships that offer college credit as the interns rotate through different departments.
47 Ringcentral BELMONT, CA
The cloud-based collaboration platform runs Transition N2 Tech, a fourmonth paid fellowship that champions underrepresented talent in tech.
48 Troutman Pepper ATLANTA
To facilitate collaboration for hybrid workers, the law firm developed Mobile
One, an app that includes employee bios and wellness resources.
49 Nvidia SANTA CLARA, CA
The AI computing company invested more than $5 billion in R&D in 2022; its annual internal conference, Ntech, showcases its latest developments.
50 Sonatype FULTON, MD
Two Sonatype employees were literally fishing when they came up with an idea that won the company’s hackathon and is now a free, Githubhosted tool.
51 Tau Motors REDWOOD CITY, CA
The EV motor systems startup has a partnership with Columbia University that supports graduate students and has led to published papers in peerreviewed journals.
52 IBM ARMONK, NY
Last September, IBM announced a collaboration with 20 historically Black colleges and universities across 11 states to train cybersecurity experts.
53 Hackerone SAN FRANCISCO
At the cybersecurity firm’s annual hack week, engineers devised a new code-review workflow that opened the door to outside ethical hackers.
54 Protiviti MENLO PARK, CA
Through the global consultancy’s INN program, 97 participants logged more than 50,000 hours focusing on innovation projects in 2022.
55 Roblox SAN MATEO, CA
The ninth annual Hack Week at the online gaming platform involved more than 225 teams and 400 participants.
56 Doconomy STOCKHOLM
An internal innovation sprint at the Swedish fintech company yielded Re-store, a digital tool that recommends products and services that can mitigate climate impact.
57 Waystar LOUISVILLE, KY
The healthcare software company connects earlycareer employees with underrepresented talent through its Waystar Scholars and Inroads programs.
58 Morgan Stanley NEW YORK
Morgan Stanley’s Global Innovation Labs provide its technologists with access to secure and compliant environments for tech development and experiential learning.
59 Genpact NEW YORK
The global consultancy’s Genome project, a learning framework that features more than 600 granular skills in 80 domains, is being used by more than 50,000 learners each month.
60 Zoetis PARSIPPANY, NJ
The Pfizer spinoff invests more than half a billion dollars a year into R&D around animal health.
61 SAS CARY, NC
Its Big Ideas program is an open incubator for employees to share their knowledge and skills and showcase proposals through short, high-energy presentations.
62 Autodesk SAN FRANCISCO
Last year, the Autodesk Foundation awarded $140,000 in grants to nine organizations serving the communities that the company’s ERGS represent, and ERG global leaders received a $10,000 appreciation bonus.
63 Milwaukee Tool BROOKFIELD, WI
In 2022, the company opened a new 95,000-squarefoot facility in West Bend, Wisconsin, to manufacture innovative hand tools.
64 Soundcloud NEW YORK
Soundcloud’s mentorship program matches diversity resource group members with senior leaders across the company to provide career development and networking.
65 Boston Globe Media Partners BOSTON
The B-side, a new brand aimed at attracting a younger demographic, emerged from the Boston Globe parent company’s twice-yearly Innovation Week.
66 Gardner Builders MINNEAPOLIS
The commercial construction company offers wellness pods at construction sites that provide quiet and safe spaces for employees to take medicine, pump breast milk, or decompress.
67 L’oréal CLICHY, FRANCE
A handheld, computerized makeup applicator that enables people with limited mobility to apply makeup, L’oréal’s Hapta began as an idea submitted to the internal innovation competition, the Beauty Shaker Awards.
68 Nestlé USA ARLINGTON, VA
The food and beverage giant’s internal crowdsourcing initiative, Open Channel, has generated more than 8,000 employee ideas since 2018, resulting in the launch of 37 initiatives that have delivered $56 million in sales and over $3 million in savings.
69 Cisco Systems SAN JOSE
The multinational tech company’s WIN++ Patent Membership Program focuses
on mentoring women and people from diverse backgrounds to develop their innovations, resulting in a nearly 30% increase in unique women inventors listed on patent filings.
70 Bristol Myers Squibb NEW YORK
The global biopharmaceutical company assists entrepreneurs and startups in its ecosystem; its Golden Ticket program provides companies a year of support through established incubator facilities in BMS’S key regions.
71 American Family Insurance Group MADISON, WI
Created by a team from within the
American Family Insurance Group, Fabric automates and streamlines claims processes and integrates with existing management systems.
72 Droplette BOSTON
A product marketer’s idea for a new lip-plumping product went from idea to market in just five months.
73 Walmart BENTONVILLE, AR
Since its launch last year, Myideas (a self-service digital platform that allows more than a million associates to submit suggestions) has collected more than 12,000 ideas.
74 Relativity CHICAGO
In the wake of the George Floyd murder, a team at the legal tech firm launched Justice for Change, providing access to the company’s proprietary data analysis platform for pro bono projects in North America, Europe, and Australia.
75 Invision Communications WALNUT CREEK, CA
The global events company created the Innovation Playground to showcase its capabilities in augmented reality, haptics, and holographic technology.
76 First American Financial Corp. SANTA ANA, CA
To help identify discriminatory legacy covenants, the company adapted its patented dataextraction technologies to create Covenantguard, a tool now being applied to more than 26 million county land records.
77 Tribalscale MARKHAM, ONTARIO
Each month, the design team at the digital innovation firm is allotted time to work on a design challenge, shares results at a monthly Design Jam, and presents outcomes at a companywide demo.
78 Marriott International BETHESDA, MD
The travel and hospitality company’s new 21-story headquarters in downtown Bethesda features an 8,400-squarefoot design lab to foster R&D and product testing.
79 Wernerco ITASCA, IL
Much of the R&D at the 70-year-old light construction product manufacturer is focused on fall protection. The company also deploys more than 100 trainers to provide safety instruction for about 40,000 jobsite workers.
80 Solsten BERLIN
Employees at the five-year-old AI tech firm receive an annual $2,000 stipend for personal development, education, wellness, or experiences.
81 Planet DDS NEWPORT BEACH, CA
The cloud-based dental practice management
software company enables employees to earn valuable industry certifications.
82 Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator LOS ANGELES
The nonprofit supports clean technology startups with funding, business development, incubation, and other services. Of the founders it works with, 59% are Black, Indigenous, and people of color, and 49% are women.
83 Mattel EL SEGUNDO, CA
The toy manufacturer has expanded internal training on inclusive design to make its products usable for more people.
84 Trane Technologies SWORDS, IRELAND
Trane’s Sustainable Futures initiative aims to provide access to STEM education and green career paths to underrepresented students.
85 Verkada SAN MATEO, CA
The securitycamera company commits 25% of annual revenue to R&D and last year opened nine new offices, including one in Kraków, Poland, and another in Taipei City, Taiwan.
86 Enerplus CALGARY, ALBERTA
Twenty-three hackathon teams with 100 participants worked on innovation challenges during the oil and gas producer’s twoweek innovation event in December.
87 Tetra Pak PULLY, SWITZERLAND
An employee initiative at the multinational food packaging and processing company led to Dallas schools serving milk in shelf-stable cartons, reducing food waste and lowering logistics costs.
88 Canyon State Electric PHOENIX
The electrical contracting company created the 4x5 Suicide Prevention Program and established a 501(c)(3) nonprofit to certify employees in mental health first aid.
89 Spin Master TORONTO
The toy company sponsors a Women in Toys Empowerment Day where women entrepreneurs pitch their concepts to a panel of experts.
90 Fractal Analytics NEW YORK
The advanced analytics and AI firm’s homegrown virtual assistant, Dexter, automates processes that have saved more than 3,500 full days of drudgery.
91 Hormel Foods AUSTIN, MN
The century-old food company launched Inspired Pathways to offer community college scholarships to students.
92 Samsara SAN FRANCISCO
The tech company’s user-experience team conducts “non-manager retro” assessments to discuss project outcomes without leadership present.
93 Tadiem TORONTO
The creative agency collective created the Combine, a community-focused space with a retail store, gallery, café, bar, and monthly programming.
94 Tokopedia SOUTH JAKARTA, INDONESIA
Employees at the small-business e-commerce platform recognize one another by issuing kudos badges and customized messages.
95 DigitalOcean NEW YORK
The cloud computing company hosts a thriceyearly two-day hackathon called Shark-a-hack.
96 Tradeweb NEW YORK
The electronic trading platform’s Spotlight Dealer Diversity Program promotes firms owned by women, veterans, and individuals with disabilities.
97 Columbia Care NEW YORK
On Earth Day 2022, Seed & Stain became the cannabis company’s first brand to be sold nationally in sustainable packaging—a 100% compostable tube.
98 Designit COPENHAGEN, DENMARK
The design firm offers a rotating creative residency where employees can pursue a topic for one day per week for six months.
99 Intellihot VERNON HILLS, IL
Employees at the HVAC technology company are encouraged to propose at least three potential solutions for any problem they identify.
100 Oxylabs VILNIUS, LITHUANIA
The data company implemented an Inventor’s Bonus Policy in 2022 to encourage employees to create inventions and patents.