--- title: Watershed: 2024 TIME100 Most Influential Companies description: Watershed: 2024 TIME100 Most Influential Companies canonical: https://time.com/collections/time100-companies-2024/6979594/watershed/ article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2024-05-30T11:37:23.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-03-31T05:12:28.188Z article:section: Business og:title: TIME100 Most Influential Companies 2024: Watershed og:description: Find out why Watershed is on the list og:url: https://time.com/collections/time100-companies-2024/6979594/watershed/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt929ccb4d9563f58e/698a5759929fad7671bfc959/time100-companies-watershed-2024-01.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME100 Most Influential Companies 2024: Watershed og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: TIME100 Most Influential Companies 2024: Watershed twitter:description: Find out why Watershed is on the list twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt929ccb4d9563f58e/698a5759929fad7671bfc959/time100-companies-watershed-2024-01.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 --- May 30, 2024 # Watershed by [Alison Van Houten](https://time.com/author/alison-van-houten/) ## Alison Van Houten  The Watershed interface shown on a laptop. The Watershed interface shown on a laptop.Courtesy of Watershed After raising an additional $100 million this February, Watershed became the most valuable climate-software company on the planet. The subscription-based digital dashboard helps corporations easily measure emissions to not only report but also, critically, to act. Guided by an advisory board of global climate-policy experts, Watershed facilitates peer comparison, effectively nudging clients forward in a race to slash emissions. With big names like Walmart and FedEx among its 300 clients, 1% of the world's carbon dioxide emissions is now being tracked by Watershed. The five-year-old startup says it's ahead of schedule on its longstanding goal of eliminating 500 metric megatons of CO2 equivalent by 2030\. Co-founder Taylor Francis says the company’s formula is working: "Now we just need to keep applying it as more and more of the world's carbon runs through the X-ray that is the Watershed software." ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Article","@id":"https://time.com/collections/time100-companies-2024/6979594/watershed/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/collections/time100-companies-2024/6979594/watershed/"},"headline":"Watershed","datePublished":"2024-05-30T11:37:23.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-31T05:12:28.188Z","description":"","url":"https://time.com/collections/time100-companies-2024/6979594/watershed/","keywords":["Companies","franchise","Magazine","Special Project","sponsorshipblock","Accolades"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt929ccb4d9563f58e/698a5759929fad7671bfc959/time100-companies-watershed-2024-01.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Alison Van Houten","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/alison-van-houten/"}],"creator":"Alison Van Houten","articleSection":"Business","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt929ccb4d9563f58e/698a5759929fad7671bfc959/time100-companies-watershed-2024-01.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/business/","name":"Business"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/companies/","name":"Companies"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/collections/time100-companies-2024/6979594/watershed/","name":"Watershed"}}]}] ```