Cloudflare, Inc. (NYSE: NET), a leading connectivity cloud company, has been named a TIME100 Most Influential Company of 2025 for its critical role in safeguarding the 2024 U.S. elections from cyber attacks. Announced on June 26, 2025, this recognition highlights Cloudflare’s efforts in protecting political candidates, election officials, and over half of U.S. state government websites through its Athenian Project, ensuring secure and reliable access to voter information.
TIME100 Recognition: Cloudflare debuts on TIME100 Most Influential Companies 2025 list.
Election Security: Blocked 1M daily cyber threats during 2024 U.S. elections.
Athenian Project: Provides free enterprise-level cybersecurity to 400+ state and local government websites.
Stock Performance: See the finance card above for NET’s current price of $190.735, up 130% from June 2024 ($82.83).
Client Base: Serves 36% of Fortune 500 and 250,000+ paying customers.
Market Growth: Total addressable market to grow from $181B (2025) to $231B (2028).
Cloudflare’s Athenian Project delivered free, enterprise-level cybersecurity to over 400 state and local government websites across 32 U.S. states, mitigating 1 million daily online threats from January to November 2024. “I’m proud that Cloudflare helped ensure cyber attacks did not play a role in impacting the U.S. 2024 elections,” said Matthew Prince, Co-founder and CEO. The company also protected high-profile campaigns, including those of Kamala Harris, Donald Trump, and Joe Biden, blocking 6 billion election-related threats the week of November 5 alone.
Operating one of the world’s largest networks, Cloudflare secures 20% of the web, blocking 247 billion daily threats for millions of customers. Its services span DDoS mitigation, content delivery, and Zero Trust solutions, with innovations like the March 2025 Cloudforce One threat events platform and Firewall for AI (March 2024). In Q1 2025, Cloudflare blocked 20.5 million DDoS attacks, a 358% year-over-year increase, including a record 7.3 Tbps attack.
Cloudflare’s recognition aligns with its $62.1B market cap and 130% stock growth over the past year (see finance card above). The $2.3B application security market, growing 15% annually, underscores demand for Cloudflare’s solutions. Posts on X celebrate the TIME100 honor, though some note challenges from a February 2025 Spanish IP block affecting legitimate sites. Cloudflare’s partnerships with CISA and global election bodies further amplify its impact, protecting democracy across 60+ countries in 2024.
Cloudflare’s TIME100 accolade and robust cybersecurity innovations position it as a leader in building a safer, faster Internet for critical democratic processes and beyond.
Cloudflare, Inc. 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.
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