Cloudflare Named TIME100 Most Influential Company for Election Security

TIME awards Cloudflare for helping protect the nation from cyber attacks during the 2024 United States Election

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Cloudflare, Inc. (NYSE: NET), the leading connectivity cloud company on a mission to help build a better Internet, today announced that it has been named a TIME100 Most Influential Company in 2025—among the 100 companies recognized for making an extraordinary impact around the world. Making its debut on the list, Cloudflare is recognized for helping ensure cyber attacks did not play a role in impacting the outcome of the 2024 United States elections. Throughout the year, Cloudflare played a critical role in securing the nation from cyber attacks, protecting political candidates, and providing its services at no cost to hundreds of government websites for more than half of U.S. states.

The fifth-annual Most Influential Companies distinction by TIME celebrates the visionaries and change-makers shaping the world today, recognizing companies making extraordinary impacts around the world. This past year, Cloudflare played a vital role in upholding the nation’s democratic process. As the entire world watched the United States closely, Cloudflare rose to the occasion, aiding U.S. presidential candidates, election officials, and political campaigns up and down the ballot. The company defended the United States elections from cyber threats, protecting candidates and local governments that were targeted by cyber attacks, and prevented disruption.

“As we all watched the U.S. elections unfold, I’m proud that Cloudflare helped ensure cyber attacks did not play a role in impacting the U.S. 2024 elections. For the last eight years, Cloudflare has been guarding governments, and democracy, with the highest level of protection,” said Matthew Prince, Co-founder and CEO at Cloudflare. “We’re honored to be recognized as a TIME100 Most Influential Company—a testament to our team’s impact and role in keeping campaigns and election officials safeguarded online. Cloudflare’s mission is to help build a better Internet—one that the world increasingly depends on, both in critical moments like these, and in everyday life.”

In addition to political campaigns, ongoing state and local elections and resources—which are critical components of the nation’s democracy—also require protection. Through Cloudflare’s Athenian Project, the company gives its highest Enterprise level of services to state and local governments, for free. From January through November 2024, Cloudflare mitigated approximately 1 million online threats every single day. Over half of the United States rely on the Athenian Project for secure and reliable access to information and voter registration at all times.

Today about 20% of the web runs through Cloudflare’s network, in addition to Internet properties like mobile apps, APIs, AI workflows, and corporate networks. With the company operating one of the world’s largest and most interconnected networks, Cloudflare blocks an average of 247 billion threats online every single day for its millions of customers, of which more than 250,000 are paying customers. Cloudflare is trusted by millions of organizations, from the largest brands like 36 percent of the Fortune 500, to entrepreneurs and small businesses, to nonprofits, humanitarian groups, and governments across the globe¹. Cloudflare’s rapid product expansion has enabled the company to penetrate adjacent markets, fueling its total addressable market growth from $181 billion in 2025 to $231 billion by 2028.

Alongside the company’s TIME100 Most Influential accolade, Cloudflare has received a number of other industry and editorial recognitions for its business, culture, leadership, and innovation in the last year, including:

Forbes Best Midsize Employers 2025
Fast Company Most Innovative Companies in Enterprise 2025
Newsweek Top 100 Global Most Loved Workplaces 2025
Fortune Future 50 2024
Fortune Change the World 2024
CNBC Changemakers 2024
Fast Company Most Innovative Companies in Business Services 2024
Deloitte Technology Fast 500 2024
Newsweek Top 100 Most Loved Workplaces 2024
Reuters Events Sustainable Business Awards Finalist 2024
Inc. Magazine Female Founders 2024
Fortune Future 50 2023
The Webby Awards Top 5 Nominee Apps, Apps and Software - Technical Achievement 2023

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About Cloudflare

Cloudflare, Inc. (NYSE: NET) is the leading connectivity cloud company on a mission to help build a better Internet. It empowers organizations to make their employees, applications and networks faster and more secure everywhere, while reducing complexity and cost. Cloudflare’s connectivity cloud delivers the most full-featured, unified platform of cloud-native products and developer tools, so any organization can gain the control they need to work, develop, and accelerate their business.

Powered by one of the world’s largest and most interconnected networks, Cloudflare blocks billions of threats online for its customers every day. It is trusted by millions of organizations – from the largest brands to entrepreneurs and small businesses to nonprofits, humanitarian groups, and governments across the globe.

Learn more about Cloudflare’s connectivity cloud at cloudflare.com/connectivity-cloud. Learn more about the latest Internet trends and insights at radar.cloudflare.com.

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