CNBC is now accepting nominations for the 2019 CNBC Disruptor 50, our annual list of private companies transforming the economy and altering industry. Submit your nomination for the 2019 CNBC Disruptor 50 by clicking here.

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The deadline to submit the 2019 CNBC Disruptor 50 Nominee Submission Form is Monday, Feb. 4, at 12 p.m. Eastern time. All private, independently owned companies founded after Jan. 1, 2004, are eligible, and any company founder or executive, investor in the company, or any of their communications representatives are welcome to submit the nomination form. For the first time, CNBC is limiting the age of Disruptor 50 companies to 15 years. This decision is based on an editorial review of venture-backed public companies and past Disruptor 50 companies and nominee companies. Imposing an age limit keeps the list aligned with its ongoing mission to identify the next generation of innovative public companies. In 2018 more than three-quarters of venture-backed companies to go public were 15 years old or younger. Most Disruptor 50 companies are on a much faster track to an IPO. Since the list began in 2013, 32 Disruptor 50 companies have gone public. The median age of those companies at their IPO was just seven years. For most of that group, the IPO was just the next step on the way to bigger successes.