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Providing AI-driven market intelligence and workflow automation to give firms an edge

Capital Markets Tech

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 Axoni is a technology firm that works with multiparty workflows and infrastructure that can automate synchronization of information and processes across capital markets. It provides core data infrastructure application creation and automation tools. The company&rsquo;s platform is an underlying framework that can connect with enterprise systems. It contains AxCore, a distributed ledger technology that regulates data between institutions. Axoni offers services such as high throughput, perpetual reconciliation, data privacy, lifecycle management, full-stack software solutions, modular architecture, and regulatory reporting.
 
 
 
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 R3 is a financial innovation firm that focuses on designing and deploying DLT to build a new operating system for financial services. The firm provides the three requirements needed for direct digital collaboration: trust technology for multi-party applications, connected networks and ecosystems, and regulated markets expertise. This is said to deliver trust and secure exchange between parties. R3&rsquo;s enterprise technology and services enable direct digital collaboration in regulated industries where trust is critical. The platform is centered around leveraging the company&rsquo;s multi-party app development platforms, Corda and Conclave.
 
 
 
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 CloudMargin was formed in 2014 by a team of professionals with several decades’ combined experience in collateral management, OTC derivatives, technology and capital markets. Inspired by the power of new technology and driven by the belief that existing collateral management solutions were over-priced, inefficient, and inaccessible, they decided to change things for the better. CloudMargin exists to bring effective collateral management to all market participants, regardless of size or status. They’re trusted by clients for our industry knowledge, honesty and unwavering commitment to innovation.
 
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 AccessFintech offers risk management services for banks and buy-side firms and tracks the trade lifecycle. It helps firms track the trade lifecycle and get a true sense of prioritized risk, across an increasing number of systems. Access FinTech brings together fintech providers and in-house technology, orchestrating the interaction of the distributed providers and creating a single visual display of the risk of financial transactions in a global sharable view.
 
 
 
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Travel Tech

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 Blueground is a vacation rental company that provides a selection of premium homes in popular neighborhoods globally, available for stays of one month or longer. Its tech-enabled platform offers a fully digital experience, complete with customer support and various services such as apartment cleanings, grocery delivery, and wellness offerings. The company caters to both short- and long-term rentals, and its apartments can serve as alternatives to traditional student housing, with options available for foreigners and expats in some countries.
 
 
 The company has a portfolio of thousands of apartments across 31 cities worldwide, including major cities in the US, UK, France, Italy, Greece, and Dubai. All Blueground listings are fully furnished by the company's design team, eliminating the need for renters to purchase, transport, or sell furniture. Each apartment is equipped with digital and connected infrastructure, enabling tenants to manage their apartment and arrange services through Blueground&rsquo;s mobile app.
 
 
 Blueground collaborates with major property owners to secure long-term leases for units, which it then furnishes and rents out on more flexible terms. Rental periods can range from one month to five years, with rates set on a monthly basis, often resulting in more favorable prices for medium- to long-term stays compared to short-term pricing structures. The company's streamlined booking process allows renters to secure an apartment without the hassles associated with traditional rental procedures. Furthermore, tenants have the flexibility to switch to any other Blueground listing during their rental period, allowing them to adjust their preferences or explore different locations.
 
 
 The company generates revenue through rental income; a majority of the company&rsquo;s monthly rentals in the US are priced between ~USD 47,000&ndash;122,000.
 
 
 Blueground has expanded its global presence and offerings through three strategic acquisitions. In June 2023, it acquired Nestpick to build a network of third-party furnished apartment providers, aiming to add 50,000 units by 2024. The acquisition of US-based Travelers Haven in February 2023 bolstered its workforce and was projected to increase its 2023 revenue to USD 600 million, enhancing its corporate service, Blueground for Business. The 2022 acquisition of Brazilian startup Tabas enabled Blueground's entry into the Latin American market, meeting the region's growing demand for furnished, flexible rentals. These acquisitions align with Blueground's goal to expand its presence to 50 cities by 2025.
 
 
 Key customers and partnerships
 
 
 For 2022, the company recorded 33,500 guest stays and a 93% global occupancy rate across its rentals. Overall, the company had over 5,500 apartments under its portfolio as of January 2022.
 
 
 In August 2022, Blueground partnered with Laundryheap to provide laundry and dry-cleaning services for guests residing in Blueground apartments in select cities. In March 2020, the company partnered with luggage storage startup Stasher to use its global network to provide executives with an option to leave their luggage in a safe place before checking in.
 
 
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 In September 2021, Blueground raised USD 180 million in a Series C funding round led by WestCap. In addition, Blueground raised a USD 40 million debt facility from Silicon Valley Bank. 
 
 
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 GetYourGuide is a German online booking platform that connects customers with leisure operators to book tours, activities, and attractions globally. It also provides personalized recommendations before and during trips, the ability to read reviews, compare prices, and book activities in one go, making it an all-in-one solution for travellers. GetYourGuide offers 65,000+ experiences (January 2023), which include adventure activities and cultural experiences offered through a network of global suppliers that are available across 7,500 destinations (May 2019). As of October 2020, the firm claimed to cross 45 million aggregate ticket sales. Additionally, the company provides GetYourGuide Originals, launched in 2018, and consists of tours of major destinations developed by GetYourGuide in collaboration with local operating partners. In June 2023, GetYourGuide expanded its 'Originals by GetYourGuide' collection with a new sports category which features motorsport, basketball, sailing and other sports-related tours. 
 
 
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 Previously, in November 2022, GetYourGuide announced that it was winding down its operations of Originals, its private-labeled travel offering that was launched in 2018.
 
 
 GetYourGuide generates revenue by charging commissions from its supplier network, which can range between 20% and 30%. GetYourGuide also has an affiliate program, paying a base commission of 8% from each booking to its partners.&nbsp;
 
 
 GetYourGuide&rsquo;s M&amp;A history outlines a strategy of vertically integrating its booking platform. In April 2021, the company acquired Versailles-based tour operator, Guidatours. Other acquisitions included that of peer-to-peer activity portal, iGottaGuide, (July 2013) and the booking platform, Gidsy (April 2013).&nbsp;
 
 
 Key customers and partnerships
 
 
 GetYourGuide&rsquo;s key customers and partners include Accor Hotels, Booking.com, Emirates, Ethiopian Airlines, and Kiwi.com.
 
 
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 GetYourGuide raised USD 85 million in Series F funding led by Blue Pool Capital, with participation from KKR and Temasek. Additionally, the company raised USD 109 million through a revolving credit facility led by UniCredit, with participation from BNP Paribas, Citibank, and KfW. This funding round valued GetYourGuide at USD 2 billion, with total funding from the round being USD 194 million.
 
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Facial recognition delivers incredible convenience to consumers, as well as serious risks.

Facial Recognition

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 Founded in Spain, FacePhi offers a wide range of facial recognition identity authentication solutions for transaction approval and digital onboarding. FacePhi&rsquo;s Selphi software allows the user to conduct ID authentication by using a selfie. The selfie is encrypted and sent to the bank&rsquo;s database to be used in payee authentication. The encryptions ensure the user's privacy as the full image is not sent to the bank. The company&rsquo;s revenue increased by around 143% during the first half of 2020 (compared to the same period in 2019) on account of agreements with 10 new clients, compared to 13 new customers during 2019 (full year), indicating the growth potential of the company.
 
 
 In May 2021, FacePhi partnered with Revelock, a Spanish fraud detection company, to provide comprehensive identity verification and fraud prevention solutions for financial institutions. In February 2022, the company partnered with software company Oracle Cloud Marketplace, for the latter to work as a distributor for FacePhi's digital onboarding and facial recognition solutions. In November 2021, the company also partnered with airport operator Aena to offer identity verification for passengers and employees at a price of USD 1.7 million for four years. With the aim of expanding presence in the LATAM region, FacePhi established a regional office in Uruguay in March 2022, followed by an agreement with 
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 During the fiscal year 2022, FacePhi recorded net revenues of EUR 2.2 million ( ~USD 2.3 million), growing 69% YoY, and an adjusted EBITDA of EUR 4.3 million ( ~USD 4.6 million), unchanged from the previous year.
 
 
 
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Providing a seamless consumer experience is one hope for bringing back brick and mortar retail, automated stores are being built to do just that.

Automated Stores

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 Headquartered in Singapore, Trax (which reportedly reached unicorn status in 2019) offers an AI-powered computer vision technology for retail inventory monitoring and management. Trax gathers images via its mobile apps, shelf cameras, dome cameras, and the roving robots and uses computer vision powered software to provide a range of inventory insight solutions for retailers. Trax generates inventory and shelf management related insights related to out-of-stock inventory and shelf stocking discrepancies, planogram compliance, category management, customer engagement, and price and promotion compliance.&nbsp;
 
 
 The technology also monitors the stores and provides real-time insights related to out of stock, pricing errors and display anomalies (e.g. if a product price doesn&rsquo;t match a shelf label) and alerts staff in real time. It also generates alerts for instances where employee intervention is required. ​The company also offers online ordering fulfillment features, showing live inventory online to customers, and providing retail staff optimized picking paths in the store to gather and pack items more efficiently. As of March 2024, Trax&rsquo;s systems were processing 260 million products images monthly. The company held 23 patents for its technology solutions.&nbsp;
 
 
 In February 2020, Trax acquired Qopius, a Europe-based company that uses AI and computer vision to create real-time store monitoring and autonomous inventory management solutions. Qopius&rsquo;s hardware-agnostic computer vision platforms are designed to monitor on-shelf inventory in real time to identify out-of-stock items, compliance, inventory levels, and price integrity at scale. The platform uses advanced retail data integration and analytics to allow retailers to track shelf activity and take necessary corrective action in real time.&nbsp;
 
 
 The company claims that on average, it reduces out-of-stock situations by 30% and gains back 250 labor hours per store.
 
 
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 As of April 2022, Trax&rsquo;s clientele included over 373 consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies and retailers. In January 2021, Trax partnered with Blue Yonder, a provider of digital supply chain and omni-channel commerce fulfillment solutions, to launch a dynamic retail workforce management solution.&nbsp;
 
 
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 Trax&rsquo;s recent funding was series E funding worth USD 640 million in April 2021, led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2 and return investor BlackRock. The funds will be used to accelerate further product development, enter new markets internationally, and expand product use cases both organically and via potential acquisitions. In November 2023, the company secured USD 50 million in venture debt investment from Deutsche Bank Private Credit &amp; Infrastructure to invest in the company&rsquo;s signal-based merchandising solution.&nbsp;
 
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Remote learning is driving an education technology revolution.

EdTech: K-12

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 Founded in 2016 by Felix Ohswald and Gregor Mueller, GoStudent operates an online tutoring platform offering live, individual, and group sessions. It uses artificial intelligence (AI) to match tutors with students and offers a free social homework chat for students to discuss their questions with others.
 
 
 GoStudent focuses on building infrastructure that allows educators to focus on teaching. As of September 2021, the platform had about 5,500 tutors, a customer base of about 15,000, and around 420,000 monthly sessions booked.
 
 
 Since early Summer 2020, it has expanded beyond the DACH region (comprising Austria, Germany, and Switzerland) to other European countries including France, Belgium, Luxembourg, and Spain. In January 2021, GoStudent announced its plans to expand to England, Ireland, Italy, Greece, and the Netherlands in Q1 2021 as part of its ongoing European expansion. The company also plans to open its third international office in Madrid (in addition to Vienna and Lyon) in the near future. In May 2021, the platform launched in Russia in what was its first expansion beyond Western Europe ahead of a debut in Mexico, Canada, and Poland during the summer of 2021. With a presence in 18&nbsp; countries as of June 2021, GoStudent plans to expand its services to 20 countries and expand its tutor base to more than 10,000 by the end of 2021.
 
 
 In September 2021, GoStudent acquired FoxEducation Services, the company behind the SchoolFox app, a communication platform that connects teachers with students and parents, which it will add to its range of services. The platform provides a range of tools such as messenger services, a learning management system (LMS), cloud storage, video lessons, and class chats for over 5,000 schools in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and Luxembourg. In February 2022, the company acquired 
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Generating, collecting, and analyzing enterprise data will never be the same.

Edge Computing

DC Blox offers edge colocation centers, including disaster recovery services, mainly targeting the underserved markets in the southeastern region of the US. Its clients range from enterprises, cloud providers, government entities, and educational institutions, among others. DC Blox connects users to any destination globally through its private network and ecosystem of global communication partners.DC BLOX’s data centers are located in Birmingham, AL; Huntsville, AL; Chattanooga, TN; Greenville, SC, and Myrtle Beach, SC, with others in development near Atlanta and Berkeley County, SC as of March 2024.In 2023, DC Blox embarked on an <a href="https://finance.yahoo.com/news/dc-blox-set-build-hyperscale-133500449.html">expansion strategy</a>, with the development of a hyperscale-ready data center campus in Rockdale County, Georgia, being one of the latest and most significant projects. This new campus was set to feature a sprawling 750,000 sq ft space with a total power capacity of 216MW, supplied by Georgia Power. The project was designed to include a dark fiber ring around the Atlanta metropolitan area, enhancing the connectivity for its tenants and bolstering the company's network infrastructure.Funding and financialsDC Blox raised USD 187 million in funding from Post Road Group and Bain Capital Credit, in March 2021. It aims to use the funds to refinance existing credit facilities, add liquidity to its balance sheet, and expand data center capacity in new and existing locations.

New insurance models are disrupting a centuries-old industry with a focus on personalization and convenience.

Neo Insurance

Berlin-based wefox offers digital automobile and home insurance via a mobile app. It also operates a <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/18304">global affinity business</a> that connects insurance companies with distribution partners to expand their distribution network and improve sales. The company operated in six European markets as of May 2023 including Austria, Germany, Italy, Poland, Netherlands and Switzerland.&nbsp;The company sells its insurance policies via agents, and also partners with associate brokers to sell its policies. As such, wefox offers personalized advice on its insurance policies, which it claims saves up to 5% on users’ current premium. It also guarantees matching or better conditions on insurance, with advisors helping to source suitable coverage if an appropriate wefox policy is unavailable. Through its mobile app, users can access their insurance policy documents, update their personal details, and file and track progress on claims. As of February 2024, wefox had over 1,300 employees and had plans to further expand its headcount as of the same date.Additionally, wefox had plans to release its technology stack through the use of APIs in 2023 that would allow other insurance companies to develop their own insurance products, along with monitoring and claims handling capabilities.Key customers and partnershipsThe company served nearly 2.5 million customers as of May 2022, and claimed it offers distribution capabilities to over 300 insurers through 4,000 distribution partners.In June 2022, wefox partnered with <a href="https://sp-edge.com/companies/762246">Akur8</a>, a Paris-based InsurTech that develops AI solutions to automate the insurance pricing process. Through the partnership, wefox planned to leverage Akur8’s proprietary solution that automates risk and demand modeling to improve the pricing of its insurance products.Funding and financialsThe company’s latest funding round was <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/18630">in May 2023</a>, when it raised USD 55 million in Series D extension from existing investors, and obtained a USD 55 million revolving credit facility from JP Morgan and Barclays. The funds were raised at a valuation of USD 4.5 billion, similar to its <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/11546">Series D funding round</a> of USD 400 million, which it closed in July 2022. Wefox had planned to utilize the fresh funds to strengthen its insurance and distribution business, which includes its global affinity business, and to develop its technology platform. Furthermore, it intends to expand into new markets such as France, Spain, and the UK through acquisitions. In addition, the company raised an additional USD 55 million in <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/23509">convertible debt</a> funding from Deutsche Bank and Unicredit in November 2023.During FY2021, the company recorded a revenue of USD 350 million (~EUR 296 million) compared to USD 140 million (~EUR 115 million) in 2020. The company also claimed to have generated more than USD 200 million (~EUR 191 million) during the first four months of FY2022 and was on target to reach its annual target of USD 600 million.

Modern tools to train and motivate staff, and bridge emerging skill gaps.

EdTech: Corporate Learning

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 Founded in 2017 by Sean Hinton, SkyHive is a Canadian company that offers a proprietary Quantum Labor Analysis (QLA) platform to optimize corporate reskilling and upskilling by using economic theory, workforce modeling, human analytics, and data science. SkyHive identifies high-value emerging skill sets by using resumes, profiles, and skills assessments uploaded by employees and matching them with learning resources. The company currently provides support to enterprises such as EdX and Accenture to reskill their employees. Additionally, the platform gathers data through HR systems and other data points to create a database of jobs, skills, and training, which can be used to automate extraction from existing employee data. As of October 2021, the company was active in 200 countries and reportedly maintained over 700 million profiles and 1.5 billion jobs. 
 
 
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New technology allows individuals and organizations to become carbon intelligent

Carbon Management Software

Germany-based Plan A offers SaaS-based instant carbon offsetting solutions for businesses. Plan A estimates the carbon footprint of a business based on three categories namely, energy consumption, transport behavior, and office maintenance. Plan A uses the national emission factor for each category as a basis for calculation along with user-generated data about the level or scale of business activities. After estimating the carbon footprint of a business, Plan A provides action plans along with certified carbon offsetting opportunities. Carbon offsetting projects funded by Plan A include reforestation, waste to energy, and clean water filters.Key customers and partnershipsIn May 2021, Plan A partnered with Societe Generale, a French financial services provider, to minimize the climate impact of the banker. In July 2023, the company entered into a long-term partnership with <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/20045">Alphabet</a>, the leasing and mobility provider of the BMW Group, to provide fleet managers with software tools to measure and report their CO2 emissions.As of March 2024, Plan A’s geographical footprint spanned across Germany, France and the UK, and its clients included Chloé, BMW, Deutsche Bank, Visa, GANNI, N26, HomeToGo, trivago, Personio, Sorare, KFC, and DFB among its customers.Funding and financialsThe company’s most recent funding round was in <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/22011">September 2023,</a> when it raised USD 27 million to conclude the Series A round led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, to expand its employee base and reach new markets in France, UK, and Scandinavia. Prior to that, in November 2021, the company raised USD 10 million in a Series A funding round led by HV Capital and Keen Venture Partners.

Democratizing financial technology with a suite of API-based solutions

FinTech Infrastructure

Ohpen is a Dutch company that offers a cloud-based banking FinTech infrastructure platform for financial institutions (FIs). Its application programming interface (API) based platform covers several modular banking services, including savings, investment, mortgage, loans, and pension products. Ohpen can also be integrated with a range of third party apps and technologies, including Plaid, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Zendesk, and Office 365, among others. As of September 2021, the platform had USD 92 billion in assets under management (AUM) and was used by large enterprises including Aegon, Knab, Robeco, Volksbank, and LeasePlan Bank, among others. Ohpen has expanded its presence and client base through acquisitions and partnerships. The company acquired mortgage Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) provider, Davinci, in September 2020 to offer mortgage infrastructure by leveraging Davinci’s machine learning and AI tech. In 2021, the company partnered with Yellowtail in August (a front-end platform to develop banking services) to offer a holistic front- and back-end platform for financial institutions, and Aspire Systems in May (an IT service management company) to expand their offering in the UK and Europe. Ohpen raised EUR 30 million (USD 35 million) in growth capital from Deutsche Bank, in September 2021. The funds were earmarked to be invested in continuing Ohpen’s expansion in the UK, accelerating innovation, and strengthening its functionality.

Technologies that automate and optimize building operations using data-driven insights.

Smart Building Technology

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 Redaptive is an energy-as-a-service provider, funding and installing energy-saving and generating equipment. It assists in reducing energy waste, saving money, lowering carbon emissions, and meeting sustainability goals. The company’s solutions include data and energy solutions, offering benefits including fully-funded projects, program management, verified performance, and bottom-line results. It serves customers such as McKesson, Berry, Iron Mountain, Saint-Gobain, Trinchero, and Bentley across the higher education, agriculture, food and beverage, technology and services, logistics, healthcare, retail, and manufacturing industries. The privately held company operates across the US and India.
 
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Alternative Living

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 Blueground offers short-term and long-term apartment rentals in several cities across the US, Europe, and the Middle East. It's portfolio consists of 9,500 apartments across 27 cities in 15 countries.The company also enables guests to search, book and request for ancillary services such as home clearing via its app.
 
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Data Infrastructure & Analytics

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 Celonis is an execution management company headquartered in Germany with operations in three continents including North America. It offers its clients execution management systems and process mining solutions, which helps them analyze processing data and identify inefficiencies. The company also has task mining solutions, which is a technology that analyzes desktop data and how it can be improved. It also offers a Celonis Free Plan and Celonis for Consulting (C4C+). Clients that have incorporated Celonis' systems into their organizations include Johnson &amp; Johnson, GE Healthcare, and Dell.
 
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Smart Homes: Energy & Water Solutions

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 1Komma5° offers green energy solutions to reduce carbon footprints. It provides options such as Photovoltaik, a system with solar panels, inverters, and intelligent technology that is a CO2 neutral energy producer. It also offers energy storage, with systems that will contribute to the public power grid and store excess energy, and an intelligent heat pump that can be combined with current energy systems at low cost without fossil fuel usage. Additionally, it provides charging infrastructure for electric cars with its intelligent charging stations. Headquartered in Germany, it offers EV users free electricity for driving up to 5,000 km annually.
 
 
 
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Riding together toward a sustainable future

Shared Mobility

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 Cooltra is the leading company in sustainable mobility solutions on two wheels in Europe. Born in Barcelona 15 years ago and co-founded by the entrepreneur Timo Buetefisch, it is currently present in 6 European countries (Austria, Spain, France, Italy, Portugal and the Czech Republic), and has a workforce of close to 400 employees. Cooltra has a fleet of more than 16,000 vehicles, of which 64% are electric scooters that operate with a zero-emissions footprint. The company offers sharing services, such as the rental of scooters and electric bicycles by the minute, as well as renting services for both individuals and for companies and public administrations.
 
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Bringing the benefits of blockchain to the enterprise

Enterprise Blockchain Solutions

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 R3 is a blockchain-as-a-service (BaaS) company that offers a permissioned, distributed application platform (Corda) that can be used across traditional financial services applications. The platform is able to integrate with existing enterprise solutions and offers features such as digital identity management, digital notarization, and network mapping with use cases across digital asset marketplaces, cross-border transaction solutions, tokenized loans and security solutions, and digital smart bonds.&nbsp;
 
 
 R3 offers digital applications to corporations to improve traceability, digitize assets, and improve how payments are made. Companies also have access to various business networks and existing payment systems on Corda. Additionally, corporates are able to build their own solutions on the platform, with support from R3 in terms of the development and management of corporate applications.
 
 
 Key customers and partnerships
 
 
 R3 was initially formed by a consortium of nine banks, which increased to over 60 partners in the first year since inception. As a result, the company is able to collaborate and work together with financial services companies to support the adoption of Corda across the ecosystem. Some key partners that have worked with R3 on potential use cases include HSBC, Nasdaq, MUFG, and Vodafone.&nbsp;
 
 
 Additionally, the company offers multiple partnership programs for startups and disruptors that seek to use the Corda network, including the Partner Program and the R3 Development Fund.
 
 
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Tools that streamline software development

DevOps Toolchain

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 The SeaLights Software Quality Governance platform revolutionizes the way software teams deliver software changes. It protects the integrity of production and ensures that quality risks are mitigated as early as possible in the process. With SeaLights, software and QA teams can focus their testing efforts where it matters, and deliver quality software at scale.
 
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The toolkit to build machine learning applications at scale

Machine Learning Infrastructure

Based in the UK, Synthesized offers a synthetic data generation and provisioning platform. It allows ML practitioners to create high-quality synthetic data for software testing, model training, and analysis without requiring complex code or configurations. The company offers two products—the Scientific Data Kit (SDK) and Test Data Kit (TDK).&nbsp;The SDK generates high-quality, privacy-preserving datasets for ML and data science use cases. It supports tabular, time-series, and event data and can be integrated with existing workflows for ETL, data preparation, and model training. In addition, ML developers can codify complex compliance requirements through the “Data as Code” feature to generate compliant synthetic data.&nbsp;The TDK is used to create right-sized test databases for application development and testing. It supports any relational database including PostgreSQL, Oracle, MySQL, and MSSQL.&nbsp;Key customers and partnershipsIts notable customers include some of the world's leading organizations, such as Accenture, Clarity AI, Google Cloud, Deutsche Bank, UBS, and the European Commission.Synthesized partnered with data intelligence company BigID to develop a new solution that allows teams to generate, mask, subset, and repopulate sensitive data, eliminating the risks of data leakage.Funding and financialsIn February 2024, the company received <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/26784">undisclosed funding</a> from UBS Next, UBS Group's venture and innovation wing, to support the next phase of its growth plans.

Bolt is the first European super-app with a mission to make cities for people, not cars Bolt has 100 million customers in 45 countries across Europe and Africa. The company challenges personal car ownership, offering better alternatives for every use case, including ride-hailing, shared cars and scooters, and food and grocery delivery. Bolt was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Tallinn, Estonia.

SumUp is a financial technology company that enables businesses to accept card payments at the point of sale or on the go in a simple, secure, and cost-effective way.  It offers an end-to-end EMV card acceptance solution built on proprietary hardware and mobile apps. The company has gone on to develop a full suite of SDKs and APIs for third parties to integrate card payments into its mobile apps.

Rémy Cointreau Group is a leading operator in the global Wine & Spirits market with sales of €1,050.7 million for the year ended 31 March 2016 and approximately 1,800 employees. The Rémy Cointreau Group, whose origins in the Charente region date back to 1724, is the result of the merger in 1990 of the holding companies of the Hériard Dubreuil and Cointreau families, which controlled E. Rémy Martin & Cie SA and Cointreau & Cie SA respectively. Rémy Cointreau has a portfolio of global, upmarket brands, including the Rémy Martin and Louis XIII cognacs, the Cointreau liqueur as well as the Metaxa, Mount Gay, St-Rémy, The Botanist, Bruichladdich, Port Charlotte, Octomore and The Domaine des Hautes Glaces spirits.

Blueground is a proptech company that is reinventing the way people live by making apartments available where they want, when they want, and on the terms they want. They offer fully-furnished homes with on-the-ground support for business travel needs.

Capital Southwest is a publiclyâ€“owned business development company with total assets of $496 million as of June 30, 2010. We provide patient capital to exceptional businesses with significant growth potential. As a public company, we have the flexibility to hold investments indefinitely, which has provided the management teams of our holdings a stable ownership platform since we were founded in 1961.  We are not a private equity firm or a venture capital firm or a fund. Capital Southwest is a business development company with a refreshingly different investment mindset.

Elis is a multi-services group in Europe and Brazil, specialized in the rental and maintenance of professional clothing and textile articles, as well as hygiene appliance and well-being services. With more than 19,000 employees spread across 13 countries, Elis consolidated turnover in 2014 was €1.331 billion and consolidated EBITDA reached €429 million. Benefiting from more than a century of experience, Elis today services more than 240 000 businesses of all sizes in the hotel, catering, healthcare, industry, retail and services sectors, thanks to its network of nearly 300 production and distribution centers and 13 clean rooms, which guarantees it an unrivalled proximity to its clients.

Kao Data creates and manages high-performance data centers for advanced computing. We give enterprise, cloud, HPC, and AI customers with a world-class home for their computation with hyperscale-inspired facilities east and west of London.

KOMMA5 ° offers all owners of electric vehicles free electricity, which they refinance through trading with so-called GHG quotas. 1KOMMA5 ° encourages a self-determined and CO2-neutral lifestyle.

Amergin Asset Management is a Registered Investment Advisor and specialized private fund manager that focus on providing tailor-made financing solutions, and  investing in transportation and other equipment assets.

Trax provides offers in-store execution tools, market measurement services, and data science solutions for retail. Its mission is to enable brands and retailers to harness digital technologies' power to produce the best shopping experiences imaginable. Trax’s retail platform allows customers to understand what is happening on a shelf, in every store, all the time so they can focus on what they do best – delighting shoppers. Many of the world’s top CPG companies and retailers use Trax’s dynamic merchandising, in-store execution, shopper engagement, market measurement, analytics, and shelf monitoring solutions at scale to drive positive shopper experiences and unlock revenue opportunities at all points of sale. As a pioneer in computer vision, Trax continues to lead the industry in innovation and excellence through the development of advanced technologies and autonomous data collection methods. Trax is a global company with hubs in the United States, Singapore, and Israel, serving customers in more than 90 countries worldwide.

MPOWER is a US-based lender offering student loans to international students studying in the US or Canada without requiring a co-signer, collateral, or US credit history because our proprietary credit algorithm focuses on future potential. MPOWER disburses payments directly to the university on behalf of the students to pay for tuition or university-sponsored services like housing, meal plans, or health insurance. Students start paying back the loan within 6 months after graduation. The loan comes with interest discounts, free personal finance education courses, credit-building, and a job placement service for the students.

wefox was founded in 2015 by Julian Teicke, Fabian Wesemann, and Dario Fazlic. wefox is a category-defining insurtech platform that connects insurance companies, brokers, businesses and customers to give the world simple access to digital insurance solutions. We make insurance 10x better by enabling people to be safe through an all-encompassing platform which empowers the entire insurance ecosystem. We empower insurance companies to easily launch new insurance products in any distribution channel. We empower brokers to focus on their advisor capabilities and scale their business with experience and trust. We empower businesses with embedded services that enable them to provide insurance solutions to their clients. We empower customers to be safe and pursue their dreams.

Established in 1980, privately held Lodha Group is India's No 1 real estate developer and amongst the world's select multinational real estate developers with presence in India and the United Kingdom.  The company is one of the most profitable players in India and the largest by sales for three consecutive years. It achieved net sales of INR 7,790 Cr for FY 14-15 and INR 7,520 Cr for FY 13-14 with INR 8,092 Cr in FY 12-13 and INR 3,911 Cr in FY 11-12.  The Group is currently developing an estimated 43 million sq ft of prime real estate with the largest land reserves in MMR, and has 28 ongoing projects across London, Mumbai, Pune and Hyderabad and expanding in Bangalore. The group has the largest land bank of over 6,200 acres with an estimated saleable area of ~553 million sq ft. In FY 14-15 alone the company delivered 5.7 million square feet and 5,500 units across projects. The group plans to deliver more than 11.8 million sq ft in FY 15-16.  Lodha’s vision of ‘Building a Better Life’ extends across markets with several landmark developments to its credit including World One – the world's tallest residential tower, and Palava City – the first Greenfield smart city in the country. The group has brought some of the top global names including Armani/Casa, Trump, Philippe Starck, Jade Jagger, Kelly Hoppen, Greg Norman and Pei Cobb Freed to India. The Group has recorded the biggest land deal in India till date, buying a plot for INR 4,053 Cr from the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) in 2010, where it is developing New Cuffe Parade, a world-class mixed use development set to become the new city centre of Mumbai. The group has acquired other notable land parcels in Mumbai such as the 88-acre land parcel in the Thane region; the 17 acres Mumbai Textile Mills parcel for ~INR 2,727 Cr from DLF, and the famous Washington House property on Altamount Road from the American government.

BB Energy expertise in trading, operations, chartering, logistics, storage, refining, and financing with energy trading services.

Azora is an investment management firm that specializes in managing real estate assets.

Kodex AI offers AI risk management software enabling businesses to assess and control their AI risk quickly. The company is based in Berlin, Germany.

Fincantieri is one of the shipbuilding groups and number one by diversification and innovation. It is  leader in cruise ship design and construction and a reference player in all high-tech shipbuilding industry’s sectors, from naval to offshore vessels, from high-complexity special vessels and ferries to mega-yachts, ship repairs and conversions, systems and components production and after-sales services.

Plan A is Europe’s leading corporate carbon accounting, decarbonization, and ESG reporting software provider. The Greentech has developed a SaaS platform that combines cutting-edge technologies with the latest scientific standards and methodologies. The end-to-end software solution enables businesses to self-manage their entire net-zero journey – from data collection over emissions calculation, target setting, and decarbonization planning to non-financial reporting – in one central hub.

IGNIS Energía is a company specialized in the management and representation of cogeneration plants.

Binalyze develops digital forensic tools for enterprises that help in understanding the full extent of a cyber breach.

Redaptive is an Energy-as-a-Service provider that funds and installs energy-saving and energy-generating equipment. Redaptive’s programs help many of the world’s most sophisticated organizations reduce energy waste, save money, lower their carbon emissions, and meet their sustainability goals across their entire real estate portfolios. With Redaptive, customers can overcome capital and contractual barriers to achieve energy-saving benefits quickly, all with real-time data powered by Redaptive’s proprietary Data-as-a-Service metering platform. Redaptive was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

GoStudent is a platform for online teaching and is the future of tutoring. Via its platform, GoStudent provides paid, one-to-one, video-based tuition to primary, secondary, and college-aged students in 20+ subjects, using a membership model. Lessons are booked via the GoStudent platform and accessed using a computer or a mobile device. During each tutoring session, students and tutors interact live in a virtual classroom. Integrated features, such as a whiteboard and the option to share a screen and edit documents together, are included.  GoStudent employs more than 600 people and has opened 12 international offices. Over 400,000 tutoring units are booked each month. Currently, GoStudent has around 15,000 customers and works with 5,500 international tutors. To date, GoStudent has raised more than €291m. Investors include Left Lane Capital, DN Capital, Coatue, and DST Global.

VARO Energy is an integrated oil refiner and supplier serving North West Europe, safely and efficiently. Varo Energy is investing in this market by building a network of refineries, storage tanks and distribution channels to secure the reliable supply of oil products for heating, transportation, construction and the petrochemical industry in North West Europe.

Adani New Industries specializes in green hydrogen initiatives and the production of wind turbines and solar modules. ANIL's scope of operations extends to the production of solar modules, batteries, and electrolyzers, along with related upstream manufacturing and supporting industries. The filing further states that the company will engage in all necessary activities related to these ventures. The company is a subsidiary of Adani Enterprises.

Cooltra is the leading company in sustainable mobility solutions on two wheels in Europe. Born in Barcelona 15 years ago and co-founded by the entrepreneur Timo Buetefisch, it is currently present in 6 European countries (Austria, Spain, France, Italy, Portugal and the Czech Republic), and has a workforce of close to 400 employees. Cooltra has a fleet of more than 16,000 vehicles, of which 64% are electric scooters that operate with a zero-emissions footprint. The company offers sharing services, such as the rental of scooters and electric bicycles by the minute, as well as renting services for both individuals and for companies and public administrations.

Iberdrola together with its subsidiaries engages in the production, switching, and distribution of electricity and gas worldwide. It generates electricity primarily through nuclear, fossil-fuel, and hydroelectric power. The company also engages in the retail of electricity under the tariff systems. In addition, IBERDROLA generates electricity from renewable energy sources, as well as engages in gas storage, and electricity and gas supply activities. Iberdrola is committed to the energy transition and has developed a sustainable business model based on renewable energy, smart grids, large-scale energy storage, and digital transformation to provide customers with advanced products and services.

Axoni is a real-time data replication technology company serving the world’s largest financial institutions. Axoni’s platform enables rapid, reliable deployment of critical financial networks and automated, real-time data replication across market participants. Founded in 2017, the company serves banks, asset managers, hedge funds, and financial market infrastructure firms across the globe from offices in New York and London.

IIFL Finance offers financial services such as home loans, small ticket-sized home loans, secured MSME Loans, and project loans. Their diversified business model includes credit and finance, wealth management, financial product distribution, asset management, capital market advisory, and investment banking.

Finanzguru is an AI-powered financial assistant that assists users in managing their accounts and contracts. Finanzguru determines a user's disposable income in real time based on their income and expenses. It even considers its contractual partners' upcoming bookings. This provides users with a single number that contains all of the information they require. Finanzguru gives users complete control over their finances and safely and reliably guides them.

Versana provides unprecedented transparency and real-time insight into loan-level details. They also provide loan syndication, corporate credit, debt, capital markets, leveraged finance, investment grade loans, high-yield loans, bank loans, financial technology, and data management.

NBN Co provides broadband services through fiber, wireless, and satellite technologies. They design and operate Australia's wholesale broadband access network. The network is Australia's digital backbone, and it is continually evolving to keep communities and companies connected and the country productive.  NBN Co is a wholly-owned Commonwealth company - a Government Business Enterprise - and is represented by Shareholder Ministers; the Minister for Communications and the Minister of Finance.

DataMesh Group delivers integrated payment capabilities and valuable customer insights through bespoke payment and data processing solutions. The company offers financial payment systems software, infrastructure, and data analytics products. It enables retailers to design the customer experience they want to provide by providing the technology they want to deploy and creating a commerce and data hub that merchants, acquirers, card schemes, and third parties can use to achieve better business outcomes.

Taurus SA is a Swiss FinTech, founded in April 2018, that provides enterprise-grade digital asset infrastructure to issue, custody, and trade any digital assets, including cryptocurrencies, tokenized assets, NFTs, and digital currencies. Taurus is a global leader in the banking segment, entrusted by the full spectrum of financial institutions: systemic banks, universal banks, online banks, crypto-banks, private banks, and broker-dealers. Taurus also operates a marketplace for private assets and tokenized securities. Taurus SA is a securities firm supervised and regulated by FINMA. TDX is an organized trading facility operated by Taurus.

eStruxture provides network and cloud neutral data center solutions designed with the capacity, performance and flexibility to run modern, demanding enterprise applications, and the control to rapidly scale in response to unpredictable changes in business  processes.  eStruxture offers colocation, private cloud, managed services, interconnections, security and support services to customers.

Beontag is a manufacturer of self-adhesive labels and radio frequency identification (RFID) related products intended to serve the retail, industrial, and services sectors. The company offers products that are used for managing radio frequency conversion and identification with RFID technology to improve and optimize information reading processes of items, equipment, and packaging, ensuring its clients promote brands, manage information, and share fundamental data-generating value for society.

Revolutionize the way you manage FATCA and CRS compliance with TAINA's fully automated FATCA and CRS Validation Platform. TAINA's lightweight and flexible platform validates FATCA and CRS forms in all formats, saving our clients costs, reducing their risk and radically improving their customer and investor experience. Seamlessly integrate our Online Customer and Investor Portal into your digital experience, to allow your customers to complete and submit tax forms from any device, through simple and intuitive journeys with IRS guidance and instant validation checks. Streamline your validation and remediation process whilst achieving significant cost savings by implementing out Tax Operations Validation Portal. Allow your tax operations' teams to efficiently perform multi level review and other complex tasks with a built in workflow, OCR, change in circumstance monitoring, withholding tax calculator, intermediary tool and robust audit trail. At TAINA we provide our clients with a competitive edge by delivering the highest return on investment and highest degree of automation for any commercially available or in-house tax validation platform. TAINA, Regulatory Technology as a Competitive Advantage. To request a demo or find out more information, visit our www.taina.tech

Quassar Capital is a firm with a broad presence in the US, founded in 2012, which manages $23.6 billion in assets. Our people have extensive experience in various fields such as applied mathematics, statistical methods, financial markets, as well as advanced programming with a quantitative approach, which has allowed a sustained growth in recent years always betting on the most innovative technology and which is reflected in the excellent results towards our investors. Delivering high-quality returns requires unwavering focus, continuous adaptation to dynamic conditions, and the active pursuit of market opportunities. To achieve this, we invest significantly in technology and infrastructure and bring together diverse perspectives and approaches.

Synthesized is on a mission to make the creation and access of high-quality data fast and easy. We pioneered the first API-driven data generation platform that creates data, better than production data — in minutes. ML and QA teams can now easily create, validate, and safely share high-quality data for data analysis, model training, and software testing without extensive manual configurations. Data is automated using simple YAML configurations and easily integrates into CI/CD pipelines — eliminating the need to task software or data engineers. For more information, please visit www.synthesized.io.

Be Group is a transportation firm that specializes in logistics delivery and transportation. The company offers a loyalty program that is available to all customers who use Be apps such as BeBike, BeCar, and BeDelivery. Be Group's services also include car and motorcycle rentals. Be Group was founded in 2018 and headquartered in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam by Minh T Nguyen.

Celonis believes that every company can unlock its full execution capacity. Powered by its market-leading process mining core, the Celonis Execution Management System provides a set of instruments and applications, the Celonis Studio as well as platform capabilities for business executives and users. The Celonis EMS offerings help companies manage every facet of execution management from analytics to strategy and planning, management, actions and automation. Celonis has thousands of customers, including ABB, AstraZeneca, Bosch, Coca-Cola, Citibank, Dell, GSK, John Deere, L'Oréal, Siemens, Uber, Vodafone and Whirlpool. Celonis is headquartered in Munich, Germany and New York City, USA and has 15 offices worldwide.

Home Credit offers to finance their customers' purchases so that they can meet their financial needs. It is a finance company that provides financing services. For inquiries, email, telephone numbers, and physical addresses are available on their website.

As the custodian of ports, rail and pipelines, Transnet’s objective is to ensure a globally competitive freight system that enables sustained growth and diversification of the country’s economy.  Transnet is currently transitioning from its Market Demand Strategy, characterised by accelerated capital investment, towards the Transnet 4.0 Strategy, which is focused on repositioning Transnet, and the country’s freight system, for competitiveness within the fast changing, technology- driven context of the 4th industrial revolution. The strategy’s main growth thrusts includes; geographic expansion, product and service innovation and diversification and expansion of the scope of Transnet’s manufacturing business. The key objectives of Transnet’s effort is directed towards increasing the connectivity, density and capacity of the integrated port, rail and pipeline network. Transnet 4.0 Strategy aims to grow Transnet to a R100 billion business by 2020. Organic growth of the current freight transport and handling divisions will account for the bulk of this growth and Transnet will continue to focus on improving operational efficiency and reliability in order to grow its market share. Consequently, capital investment to modernize and expand the port, rail and pipeline network and operations will continue to be a key priority, as will continued development of our people. Significant growth is being targeted from new markets, particularly in integrated logistics, the development of logistics hubs and clusters, natural gas midstream infrastructure, manufactured products and new digital businesses. Transnet will increasingly make use of strategic partnerships to drive these new ventures. Transnet has a critical role to play in furthering South Africa’s strategic and economic objectives and is actively refreshing its brand as it moves into new markets, expands and diversifies its service offering, and redefines its market position. Transnet operates as an integrated freight transport company, formed around a core of six operating divisions that complement each other. These are supported by a number of company-wide specialist units - Transnet Group Capital and Transnet Foundation- which underpin our company.

Kriya is the new name for MarketFinance. The company is a fintech platform that provides access to payments, credit, and working capital through seamless integrations and instant credit decisions. Founded in 2011, Kriya has helped businesses collect over £20 billion in B2B payments, and advanced over £3 billion worth of credit through working capital and business loans.   Kriya is backed by Barclays, Santander InnoVentures, European venture capital fund Northzone (invested in Klarna, iZettle, and Trustpilot), private equity group MCI Capital (also invested in iZettle, Azimo, and Gett), and Viola Credit.

Origis Energy is a solar development and construction firm that brings clean solar and energy storage solutions to utility, commercial, and industrial sectors. The company provides solar and energy storage development, financing, engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC), as well as operations and asset management. Origis Energy was established in 2008 in Miami, Florida by Guy Vanderhaegen.

Proxymity is a digital investor communications platform. Proxymity connect issuers, intermediaries and investors in real time via our unique digital pathway, which creates more efficient, more accurate and more transparent solutions.

SkyHive is the developer of a SaaS platform that enables workforce reskilling and labor market intelligence. They provide quantum labour analytics services. They also optimizes human economies in real-time and provide customized workforce solutions.

Azrieli Group is a real estate company involved in the initiation, construction, development, and management of malls and offices.

Cizeta Automobili SRL is a car manufacturing firm.

FirstDigital Telecom is a leading fiber-based carrier in the Western United States providing a full suite of Business services including Local Voice, Long Distance, Internet, VOIP, CO-Location, Managed Services and Fiber-to-the-Tower/Premise.

Clicpiso is a proptech platform that buys and sells flats, offering a quick, simple and transparent proposal. Founded by Francisco A. Moreno in September 2017, Clipiso was born with the mission of getting its customers to sell their homes immediately and buy the floor of their dreams with all the guarantees. or that, it puts the customer at the center of attention of its business model and relies on state-of-the-art technology to guarantee immediacy and transparency in a process that until now was opaque and complex. Clicpiso eliminates cost overruns and commissions based on its own algorithm based on big data technology and a multidisciplinary work team aimed at allowing its clients to sell and buy real estate at competitive prices.

Everphone provides solutions for the configuration, distribution, and management of mobile devices in organizations. The company focuses on device procurement, logistics, mobile device management, and hardware advisory services that allow organizations to choose mobile phones and tablets on a rental basis. The company also provides smartphones, tablets, accessories, and laptops.

Digital Nasional Berhad is a 5G network operator.

Mirae Asset Global Investments is a global asset manager providing innovative investment solutions to clients worldwide. The company originally established in Asia in 1997 has since expanded its presence in 12 countries from Australia to Hong Kong to the United States. Their goal is to provide their clients with insightful financial strategies for all of their investing and financial needs. Their scope of services includes traditional equity & fixed income products, ETFs, and other alternative strategies like hedge funds. They strive to maintain a diversified platform that will benefit their clients and allow us to offer an insightful and research-driven approach to managing their assets.

The SeaLights Software Quality Governance platform revolutionizes the way software teams deliver software changes. It protects the integrity of production and ensures that quality risks are mitigated as early as possible in the process. With SeaLights, software and QA teams can focus their testing efforts where it matters, and deliver quality software at scale.

It is the only way forward for the financial industry and the driving principle behind Ohpen: a ruthlessly effective, cloud-native core banking platform. Built from the ground up by former bankers with one simple goal: the efficient administration of savings, investments, loans and mortgages. The core of the Ohpen Platform consists of accounts and transactions - totally independent from product, country and currency. It is optimised to handle high loads and offers lightning-fast performance. the Ohpen Platform allows configuration of a wide range of core modules, add-on services and x-as-a-service solutions. The core modules include everything banks need for a state-of-the-art administration of loans, mortgages, investments or savings products, while the wide range of add-on services further enhances the core implementation.

The Berlin Brands Group - part of Chal-Tec GmbH - is a globally active vertical commerce company with brands from Home & Living, Consumer Electronics, Sound & Light and Sports, united under one roof. Since its foundation in 2005 by Peter Chaljawski it is one of Germany's top-selling digital companies.  The Berlin Brands Group (BBG) encompasses its portfolio’s entire value chain: from product development, conception and design to production, marketing and customer service. From its headquarters in Berlin, the vertical commerce company manages the brand development and multi-channel distribution of more than 3,700 products for consumers in 28 countries worldwide. More than 900 employees currently work at the six locations in Berlin (headquarters), Kamp-Lintfort (logistics centre), Bratislava, Istanbul, Hong Kong and San Francisco. OUR BRANDS Klarstein - https://www.klarstein.de/ Capital Sports - https://www.capitalsports.de/ auna - https://www.auna.de/ blumfeldt - https://www.blumfeldt.de/ Numan - https://www.numanaudio.com/

Greenko Group is one of India's fastest growing Independent Power Producers, focusing on developing clean energy assets in India to meet Indian's ever-increasing demand for power. The Group is building a de-risked portfolio of wind, solar, hydropower, natural gas, and biomass assets within India and intends to increase the installed capacity it operates by developing new greenfield assets. The group is listed on the London Stock Exchange's Alternative Investment Market (AIM), having its asset base in India. Currently has over 120 MW of contracted capacity including 6 hydro & 6 biomass plants and nearly 350 MW of licenses under development. It was founded in 2006 and is headquartered in Hyderabad, India.

GetYourGuide operates an online platform for booking tours, attractions, and activities worldwide. It offers tourist services online via the Internet and mobile applications. The platform sells tours and excursions, activities including cooking classes, and tickets to many tourist attractions. GetYourGuide runs a thriving and viral business curating, and selling tickets for running walks and other exploration experiences for people touring different parts of the world. The business model for GetYourGuide stipulates that it does not offer its tours or activities, but rather, acts as a mediator between customers and providers. The service is free for customers, but the provider of the tour has to pay GetYourGuide a percentage of its revenue. GetYourGuide, an online customer review system, enables potential customers to assess the quality of tour providers. Additionally, the platform removes providers who consistently get bad reviews from its inventory. Jochen Mattes, Johannes Reck, Martin Sieber, Pascal Mathis, Tao Tao, and Tobias Rein founded GetYourGuide on June 1, 2009.

Reby is a European multinational company involved in the design, construction, financing, operation (DBFO), and maintenance of public sharing transport infrastructure. It manufactures its own vehicles, eschewing Chinese-made scooters.

FacePhi is the leading Spanish company in biometric solutions for identity verification, specialized in facial recognition systems, digital onboarding and safe work environments. Based in Alicante and operating worldwide, the company has a presence in more than 25 countries, has performed more than 1 trillion authentications, 21 million access programs and has a strong presence in the banking sector. The drive of biometrics to improve customer experience and protect data from citizens and entities is the hallmark of the firm.

Advantage Solutions (Advantage) is a premier sales and marketing solutions company committed to building brand value for our clients and customers. Advantage’s customized sales and marketing solutions include headquarter sales, retail merchandising, and marketing services such as shopper, experiential, digital/social, and multicultural marketing, for the grocery, drugstore, club, convenience, natural/specialty, consumer electronics, home center, and foodservice industries. Headquartered in Irvine, Calif., Advantage has more than 50,000 associates and offices throughout the United States, Canada, and Europe.

AccessFintech offers risk management services for banks and buyside firms and tracks the trade lifecycle. It helps firms track the trade lifecycle and get a true sense of prioritized risk, across an increasing number of systems. Access FinTech brings together fintech providers and in-house technology, orchestrating the interaction of the distributed providers and creating a single visual display of the risk of financial transactions in a global sharable view.

CloudMargin was formed in 2014 by a team of professionals with several decades’ combined experience in collateral management, OTC derivatives, technology and capital markets. Inspired by the power of new technology and driven by the belief that existing collateral management solutions were over-priced, inefficient, and inaccessible, they  decided to change things for the better. CloudMargin exists to bring effective collateral management to all market participants, regardless of size or status. They’re trusted by clients for our industry knowledge, honesty and unwavering commitment to innovation.

Ellucian provide the higher education software, services, and analytics you need to manage your day-to-day campus business faster, easier, and more effectively. It’s been our total focus for more than 40 years. That passion speaks for itself: today Ellucian serve 2,400 institutions in 40 countries across the globe.

Cycle Pharmaceuticals is a pioneering pharmaceutical company, reimagining how drugs can benefit patients, to improve the efficacy of their treatments and their quality of life at every stage. They’re not bound by precedent. Instead, they target overlooked areas of medicine, and market imbalance, where they can make an immediate, tangible difference to patients. By addressing treatment issues with cutting-edge expertise and a fresh, bold approach, they make a difference to patients’ lives.Because their investors are long-term thinkers, they can put patients first. They speak to patients, parents, caregivers, healthcare practitioners and patient associations, to ensure that their needs are central to their work. Whether it’s improving under-developed drugs, or supplying markets where demand is increasing prices and restricting access, they're here to get patients the treatment they need.

Traxpay is a fast-growing Supply Chain Finance platform that operates globally from Europe with a multi-bank approach. With the mission to become the ''Platform of Choice'' for buyers, suppliers and banks, Traxpay enables companies to manage their working capital in a simple, secure and sustainable way using all standard Supply Chain Finance tools.  Established financial institutions such as Deutsche Bank, DZ Bank, Nord/LB, LBBW or KfW IPEX-Bank trust Traxpay's financing solution and maintain strategic partnerships with the company. Through a new Sustainable Supply Chain Finance program, platform users can financially incentivize the sustainability of their supply chains

Zeitgold provices an app which combines human expertise with artificial intelligence to allow small companies such as owners of cafes, restaurants, small retailers or craft businesses (who ususally have 3 to 20 employees), to manage preparatory accounting and other administrative tasks and run their business easily. The app app covers all areas of a business’s finance processes. In details, the system features: – a digital, real-time and compliant cash journal, – a tool to automate preparatory bookkeeping, – a document archive, – payments tools to manage open invoices, – tools to manage personnel master data and pay employees,

Adidas strives to be the leading sports brand in the world an ambitious yet realistic goal. One major lever to achieve this is the brand broad and unique product portfolio spanning from apparel and footwear for professional athletes to premium fashion. It allows adidas to address multiple consumer needs, tackle market opportunities from various angles as well as be less affected by one-dimensional market risks. This product portfolio as well as adidas commitment to excel in all relevant segments differentiates the brand from competitors and ensures solid market growth, while staying true to the brand values. Currently, the brand focuses on five global priorities: Football, Running, Training, Basketball and Originals.

FINANCIAL ASSET MANAGEMENT NEEDS A DIGITAL UPGRADE As in consumer banking, where fintechs and neobanks are setting the pace, wealth management is under increasing pressure to innovate. Clients expect easy access to their investment information about at any time, just as they are used to from their apps in everyday life. At the same time, the business is becoming increasingly complex and dynamic. And that’s coupled with increasing cost pressure. There is no way around digitizing wealth management. The wealth management software QPLIX brings family offices, RIAs, foundations, private banks and investment funds an enormous innovation boost. The digital platform covers all liquid as well as illiquid asset classes and supports complex legal entity structures. A high-performance database consolidates data from a wide variety of sources (Multiple bank and custody accounts, stock exchange services, indices and scorings, etc.). Preconfigured processes support all internal and external roles involved in asset management. QPLIX prepares all relevant data for analysis and makes it available via web and app-based dashboards or in reports. Managers as well as clients always have an overview of all investments and can adjust allocation or strategy at any time. Digitizing wealth management with QPLIX brings enormous efficiency gains and maximum transparency.

We build and operate edge connected data centers enabled with speed of light business continuity.  DC BLOX delivers guaranteed business continuity to organizations by empowering them with enterprise-level computing power connected through a high performance optical matrix with synchronous data replication. With locations in Atlanta, GA and Chattanooga, TN, we are designing, building and will operate a network of innovative data centers to bring best-in-class cloud computing to the Southeastern United States.

Connor, Clark & Lunn Infrastructure invests in middle-market infrastructure and infrastructure-like assets and companies with highly attractive risk-return characteristics, long lives and the potential to generate stable cash flow. We target traditional infrastructure (roads, bridges, schools, etc.) and energy infrastructure (power generation, electricity transmission, etc.) projects ranging in size from $50 million - $750 million. We focus on construction and operating stage assets.

Comtravo is a travel and tourism company that specializes in travel management, business travel, and online booking. It features machine learning and software platforms that help SMEs to book, manage, and expense their business travel. The company was founded in 2015 and headquartered in Berlin, Germany.

DirectBooks is the leading communications platform for deal data, documentation and information exchange in primary markets. Starting with investment grade fixed income, the platform delivers industry standardization and automation

Deposit Solutions is a developer of an open banking platform designed to connect banks and depositors across Europe. The company's platform help banks to offer attractive third party deposit products to their own customers through their existing accounts so that the depositors can access best-in-class deposit offers without having to open a new account at another bank, enabling banks looking for funding to gather deposits from new markets and client groups without having to set up and operate their own retail infrastructure.

Zenhomes provides a one-stop shop for private landlords and property managers. The company's digital platform simplifies property and tenant management.

AirTrunk is the technology company powering the companies transforming the world. It develops and operates large scale wholesale data centers that lead the Asia Pacific market with proven reliability, technology innovation, and energy efficiency. AirTrunk combines Asia-Pacific expertise with best-in-class data center design to power the companies that are changing the world. AirTrunk was founded in 2014 and is based in North Sydney, Australia.

Vermietet.de is an association of Berlin entrepreneurs and investors whose vision is to make real estate ownership simple and intelligent. They know from their own experience how complex the management of a property can be - and have therefore founded rented.de.

We are a California-based company founded by idealists and focused on financing and crowdfunding for the development of smart, sustainable real estate projects. We currently have construction projects in Europe and Asia.

CityFibre operates as an independent provider of fiber infrastructure in secondary cities. It develops a digital infrastructure that allows wholesale customers to offer broadband, ethernet, and 5G services to homes and businesses.

Modo Payments is a software company based in Dallas, Texas focused on making payments less expensive, simpler, and more successful for members, so they can get more from their payments. Modo Payments Orchestration Platform (POP) is a simple, safe, SaaS platform that lets our members save on payment fees, add backup payments providers and new payment methods, and improve payments success rates. Modo POP orchestrates payments to multiple providers using the integrations already in place and passes the savings and success on to our members.

Prodigy Finance is an online platform that offers community loans to international postgraduate students. The student borrowers gain access to higher education that they might not otherwise be able to finance, and the investing community earns financial and social return through their investments. Banks examine student loan applications using localized lending templates and historic earnings in order to assess cross-border risk and lend to students from over 150 nationalities. These loans are collectively funded by a community of alumni, institutional investors, and qualified private investors. Founded in 2007, the company is headquartered in London, United Kingdom.

KSE Media Ventures, LLC. is a wholly owned subsidiary of Kroenke Sports & Entertainment and is the corporate management entity for all of KSE’s Media interests, which include Altitude Sports & Entertainment television and radio, a 50 percent interest in World Fishing Network, Outdoor Channel, Winnercom productions, Aerial Cameras and the Network Operations Center located in Centennial.

Founded in 2013 by R. Stephen Hannahs and Two Sigma Private Investments, Wings Capital Partners™ makes targeted, non-passive equity investments in commercial aircraft, related assets, and aviation companies, with a focus on the mid-life narrow body commercial aircraft sector.

Nash Work is a one-stop office solution for office infrastructure and integrated service operators with small enterprises as the main service object, providing office space with complete and immediate presence as the main body, administrative management, enterprise value-added and growth companion service. The program helps companies to conduct business activities more flexibly and efficiently.

AUTO1 Fintech is a digital platform offering instant financing and insurance products to automobile dealerships buying and selling used vehicles via AUTO1.

Grasshopper is a long-time advocate of green energy, with the conviction it will simply make our province a better place for families to live, work and grow. they have provided energy solutions to homeowners, farmers, municipalities, school boards, and large corporations. At Grasshopper, they’re here to address your specific needs. Their team understands a solar project requires the interconnection of key individuals with the ability to materialize the economic, environmental and social advantages of this elegant technology. They’re committed to providing you with a customized solution and exceptional customer service from start to finish.

Deutsche Bank is a global investment bank. Deutsche Bank is the leading German bank with strong European roots and a global network. In a fundamental transformation the bank focuses on its core strengths in a newly created Corporate Bank, a leading Private Bank, a focused investment bank and in asset management. They provide banking services to companies, governments, institutional investors, small and medium-sized businesses and private individuals. Deutsche Bank was founded in 1870 to accompany German businesses into the world. They have worked across borders ever since.

<div> Deutsche Bank is a global investment bank. Deutsche Bank is the leading German bank with strong European roots and a global network. In a fundamental transformation the bank focuses on its core strengths in a newly created Corporate Bank, a leading Private Bank, a focused investment bank and in asset management. They provide banking services to companies, governments, institutional investors, small and medium-sized businesses and private individuals. Deutsche Bank was founded in 1870 to accompany German businesses into the world. They have worked across borders ever since. </div>

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