Two Dallas Companies Land on TIME100 Most Influential—Alongside the World’s Biggest Brands

Two Dallas companies just landed on TIME’s 2025 list of the 100 most influential companies—and a third, now a $2 billion brand, started here. They join the likes of Waymo, OpenAI, and Amazon on the global list.

Dallas-based LTK, a global force in influencer commerce, and Colossal Biosciences, the biotech company working to restore extinct species and protect endangered ones, were both named to the list. Poppi, the prebiotic soda brand that launched in Dallas before relocating to Austin, also earned a spot after its recent acquisition by PepsiCo.

Now in its fifth year, TIME’s Most Influential Companies list spotlights 100 businesses shaping the future across six categories: Leaders, Innovators, Disrupters, Titans, Pioneers, and Impact Award recipients. Nominees were sourced from TIME’s global network of correspondents, editors, and outside experts, then evaluated for impact, ambition, innovation, and success.

Dallas-based TIME100 ‘Pioneers’

LTK’s creator commerce machine

LTK Co-Founder Amber Venz Box [Photo: More to Say podcast/LTK]

Named a Pioneer on the 2025 list, LTK was launched in a Dallas living room in 2011 and now fuels a major share of influencer-driven retail. The platform lets creators monetize content while offering brands a direct, data-driven connection to engaged shoppers.

TIME called LTK the “largest influencer marketing platform by revenue.” The company connects more than 40 million shoppers each month—including 38% of U.S. Gen Z and millennial women—to over 8,000 retailers. That traffic has driven more than $5 billion in annual sales. Its app, redesigned this year with a video-first focus, complements integrations with platforms like TikTok.

LTK’s creator network is “overwhelmingly” female, and hundreds have earned $1 million or more through the platform, according to Time. With generative content and deepfakes on the rise, co-founder and president Amber Venz Box told the publication, “you rely even more on a trusted human.”

Colossal’s bet on biotech

Colossal Co-Founder and CEO Ben Lamm holding a “de-extincted” dire wolf pup. [Photo: Colossal Biosciences]

Also named as a TIME100 Pioneer in 2025, Dallas’ Colossal Biosciences is aiming to do what no company has done before: “de-extinct” species while using the same science to help save those that remain.

Best known for its moonshot mission to bring back the woolly mammoth, Colossal has spent the past year turning science fiction headlines into real-world breakthroughs.

In 2025 alone, Colossal announced the creation of gene-edited mice with woolly, mammoth-like coats and gave birth to three engineered dire wolves using ancient DNA. The company is still working toward reviving the woolly mammoth by 2028 and also collaborating with the University of Melbourne to reintroduce the Tasmanian tiger.

At the same time, Colossal is applying its tools to living species—working to protect red wolves, Asian elephants, and other animals at risk of extinction. “As I’ve gotten into the conservation community and…the biotech community, it became abundantly clear that we need new tools and technologies for conservation,” co-founder and CEO Ben Lamm told TIME.

The company has raised $200 million to date, backed by investors ranging from the CIA to celebrities like Tom Brady and Paris Hilton to tech billionaire Thomas Tull. In 2025, Colossal hit a $10.2 billion valuation, becoming Texas’ first decacorn.

More Texas companies on the list

A disrupter with Dallas roots

[Photo: Poppi]

Recognized as a Disrupter, Poppi began in a Dallas kitchen as a home-brewed apple cider vinegar tonic. Following a 2020 rebrand, the low-sugar prebiotic soda gained national traction, capitalizing on the wave of wellness trends and securing shelf space across the country.

In 2024, Poppi reported $500 million in revenue. A few months later, PepsiCo acquired the brand in a deal reportedly worth nearly $2 billion. Though the company moved its headquarters to Austin in 2021, its original product and early momentum were born in North Texas.

Elsewhere in Texas, Houston’s Fervo Energy also made the list. But the broader lineup includes many companies with a footprint in Dallas-Fort Worth, from logistics giants to leading tech and retail firms.

See the full list of 2025 TIME100 companies here.