Which businesses and corporate leaders are shaping our future? This is the question at the heart of the TIME100 Most Influential Companies.
TIME's annual list of the 100 most influential companies highlights the businesses making an extraordinary impact on our world and are selected through nominations from industry experts as well as editors and correspondents across multiple sectors, including health care, entertainment, technology.
TIME evaluates each company based on several key factors (relevance, impact, innovation, leadership, ambition, and success) that results in a final list then organized into categories: Pioneers, Titans, Leaders, Innovators, and Disruptors.
Below are the companies selected in each category, and in the magazine's special edition, each business is accompanied by a brief explanation of their unique influence.
PIONEERS: Kaling International, Green Mountain Power, Bicycle Health, OpenSea, Rec Room, Together Labs, Astroscale, Biobot Analytics, Oxford Nanopore Technologies, IonQ, The Sandbox, Redwood Materials, Trek Bicycle, BlocPower, FOLX Health, OpenAI, Be Rooted, Wonderschool, and Axiom Space.
TITANS: Amazon, Pfizer, UPS, Alphabet, Capital One, United Airlines, Maersk, Nubank, Ford, IBM, Meta, Microsoft, Apple, Walmart, NVIDIA, BYD Co. Ltd., Disney, Netflix, and the National Football League.
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