Highly desirable Nigerian brand, Flutterwave has just bagged a TIME’s 100 Most Influential Companies List
TIME revealed the first-ever TIME100 Most Influential Companies , a new list—and an expansion of the annual TIME100 franchise—that highlights 100 businesses making an extraordinary impact around the world.
The co-founder and CEO of Nigeria’s Flutterwave, Olugbenga Agboola, compares the infrastructure of digital transactions across nations and platforms (think credit cards, debit payments and digital wallets) to plumbing: you don’t want to think about it, you just want it to work.
When pandemic lockdowns hit brick-and-mortar businesses in Africa, the digital-payment service was able to rapidly set up digital storefronts for 20,000 customers, throwing them a lifeline.
Agboola called the free campaign “keeping the lights on.” The inaugural list features 64 companies headquartered in the United States: Home Depot, Mastercard, Nike, Mattel, Twitter, Johnson & Johnson, Epic Games, Rothy’s, AT&T, FedEx, Clubhouse, Airbnb, GoFundMe, Lime, Robinhood, Tesla and more.
18 companies on the list are headquartered in Europe : English Premier League , Equinor , Maersk , Volkswagen , Adidas , Lego, Farfet more. Pfizer , BioNTech , Moderna , Johnson & Johnson, CVS , Walgreens , and Illumina are among the companies on the list that are playing a critical role in COVID-19 prevention, vaccine creation and the vaccine rollout process.
Major tech companies— including Microsoft , Samsung , Huawei , Apple, Tencent, Nint Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation, Zoom and more —are included on the list. Several companies are in the financial technology industry, including Nubank , Alibaba , Mastercard , Robinhood, Stripe, F more. Some—such as Digital Currency Group and Coinbase —specialize in digital currency.
