Island Named to CNBC Disruptor 50 List for Accelerating AI Adoption in the Enterprise Workplace

Island unifies productivity, IT, and security across browsers and desktops, enabling organizations to scale any AI model, agent, and application across the organization

DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Island, the platform for enterprise AI work, has been named to the CNBC Disruptor 50 list for 2026, earning the #28 spot. The annual list recognizes “the most promising venture-backed companies innovating across industries, experimenting with AI and, increasingly, making it work at scale.”

Island is redefining how work gets done in the agentic AI era by uniting productivity, IT, and security across its Enterprise Browser, consumer browsers, and desktops. Island replaces legacy cybersecurity architectures to deliver an AI-centric approach to application and data usage for both users and agents.

Organizations gain precise control and deep visibility into the broad range of work activity while empowering the organization to embrace any AI provider within the user’s workspace. This unique architecture allows organizations to embrace the appropriate AI resources in their journey.

“Being named to the CNBC Disruptor 50 is a tremendous honor,” said Mike Fey, CEO and Co-founder of Island. “Organizations everywhere are rethinking how work gets done, embracing a model where security, productivity, and simplicity are built directly into the workspace itself. We’re privileged to support an impressive and rapidly growing base among the largest Fortune 500 customers, alongside fast-growing companies of all sizes, as they modernize work for the AI era.”

By embedding security and AI governance everywhere users work, CIOs and CISOs can confidently scale AI chats and agents. Island enables organizations to leverage sensitive data within sanctioned generative and agentic workflows across a user’s application footprint. This helps prevent both malicious and accidental data leakage, freeing users to move faster and work smarter.

Island’s high-growth customer base includes several of the largest U.S. banks and dozens of Fortune 500 companies in healthcare, manufacturing, retail, telecommunications, and travel. Island’s annual recurring revenue has more than doubled year over year since launching.

Island’s inclusion on the CNBC Disruptor 50 builds on a series of recent recognition. Honors in the last year include Fast Company’s Next Big Things in Tech (2025), the Forbes Cloud 100 (2024 and 2025), the Fortune Cyber 60 (2023, 2024, and 2025), and LinkedIn Top Startups 2025: Dallas, where Island placed #1.

The CNBC Disruptor 50 uses a combination of qualitative and quantitative criteria, including the strength of core business models, scalability, and customer growth. CNBC’s editorial team curates the list with input from data partners PitchBook and IBISWorld, as well as the Disruptor 50 Advisory Council, a group of 50 leading thinkers in innovation and entrepreneurship.

About the Island Enterprise Platform

The Island Enterprise Platform supports modern work at scale by embedding data protection, productivity, and AI enablement across applications, devices, and workflows. IT and security teams have consistent policy enforcement, visibility, and auditing across all work activities, unlocking new capabilities and efficiencies for end users.

The Platform consolidates traditional network and security layers into a single environment, including the:

• Island Enterprise Browser for last-mile security and control
• Island Extension to extend security, compliance, and AI governance across consumer browsers
• Island Desktop to extend protections to thick apps and AI-powered tools.

About Island

Island is the enterprise work platform, built for a world where people, AI, and agents operate side by side. Island enables organizations to eliminate the trade-off between security and productivity, giving IT and security teams full control while removing the friction that has slowed productivity. Millions of users rely on Island to securely adopt AI, support modern work, and simplify infrastructure. Island’s backers include world-class investors such as Coatue Management, Insight Partners, Sequoia Capital, and Cyberstarts. Island can be reached at [e-mail] or [phone].