GS Growth

Data Infrastructure & Analytics

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 Striim is the only supplier of unified, real-time data streaming and integration for enterprise analytics and operations. Striim offers a self-managed or fully-managed (SaaS) platform that makes it easy to set up smart data pipelines to continuously ingest, process, and deliver high volumes of data from enterprise databases such as Oracle (using non-intrusive change data capture), log files, messaging systems, and sensors, to virtually any target such as Google BigQuery, Azure Synapse or Snowflake with sub-second latency enabling real-time operations and analytics and unleashing innovation.
 
 The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.
 
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DataStax is a data management company focused on allowing enterprises to build GenAI applications. Its flagship offering, Astra DB, is a multi-cloud NoSQL database service based on Apache Cassandra, providing vector search capabilities for retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) applications. Astra DB supports simultaneous search-and-update tasks on distributed data and streaming workloads.DataStax also provides DataStax Vector Search, an API that supports vector and structured data for RAG applications. This API enables the development of GenAI applications with real-time data and streaming capabilities. Astra Streaming enhances the accuracy and relevance of LLMs, chatbots, and AI agents through live data ingestion and user feedback loops.In May 2024, DataStax introduced its Hyper-Converged Data Platform (HCDP), enabling enterprises to deploy on-premises vector databases and GenAI platforms.&nbsp;DataStax operates under a volume-based pricing model based on data volume and operations processed.Key customers and partnershipsIn April 2024, DataStax announced a strategic partnership with Google Cloud, integrating Astra DB with Vertex AI Extensions and Vertex AI Search. This collaboration aimed to simplify the creation of enterprise-ready GenAI applications by connecting models to existing data sources and APIs.&nbsp;DataStax also partnered with Unstructured to facilitate data extraction and transformation for AI initiatives.

Nasuni is a hybrid cloud storage solution that provides a scalable file data platform designed to meet demands of modern enterprises operating in hybrid cloud environments. Its cloud-native architecture enables scalability, built-in security, and fast Edge performance. The Nasuni File Data Platform consolidates Network Attached Storage (NAS) and backup systems, eliminates data silos, and streamlines management without requiring changes to existing applications or workflows.&nbsp;In addition, its continuous file versioning technology captures file changes as frequently as every few minutes and stores them as immutable versions in the cloud object storage, which enables rapid ransomware recovery by allowing organizations to restore individual files, entire file shares, or complete volumes to a point in time just before a ransomware attack occurred, minimizing data loss and avoiding costly ransom payments.In March 2024, Nasuni launched Nasuni Edge for Amazon S3, a cloud-native, distributed solution that allows enterprises to accelerate data access and delivery times while ensuring low-latency access crucial for Edge workloads, including cloud-based AI/ML applications.&nbsp;Additionally, in February 2024, Nasuni <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/26938">introduced Nasuni IQ</a>, a data intelligence capability that helps enterprises manage, assess, and prepare their unstructured data environment for AI. Nasuni IQ provides enhanced visibility and insights, proactive data management, and data curation for AI initiatives.Key customers and partnershipsNasuni's customer base spans various industries, including manufacturing, construction, energy, consumer goods, and the public sector. As of January 2024, Nasuni catered to 800 enterprise customers, including numerous Fortune 500 companies, across over 70 countries. Key customers include Tommy Bahama, Patagonia, Aedas, Oshkosh Corporation, the State of Vermont, and Autodesk.

Crux is a cloud-based data integration and operations platform that streamlines the process of integrating external data into organizations' analytics environments. The platform operates over 60,000 pre-engineered pipelines to deliver public and third-party datasets to clients' preferred destinations, with embedded data monitoring, validations, and transformations supported by a 24/7 global operations team. Crux has partnerships with over 265 data providers including MSCI, Moody's, S&P, SIX, FactSet, and Morningstar. In May 2023, Crux launched its External Data Platform (EDP), a self-service SaaS offering that enables enterprises to automate the onboarding of external datasets directly from vendors into their organizations. The platform allows data teams to onboard and transform external data for analytics use up to ten times faster than traditional manual methods through automation and pattern recognition. As of January 2023, Crux achieved annual recurring revenue growth of over 260% during an 18-month period and secured USD 75 million in contractual sales commitments. The company differentiated itself by focusing on automating external data integration while providing enterprise-grade security features and customizable operations for data products, connections, notification policies, users, and system-wide settings.
Key customers and partnerships
Crux serves major financial institutions and investment managers including AllianceBernstein, Capital Group, Goldman Sachs Asset Management, and Two Sigma. The company established partnerships with leading cloud platforms like Google Cloud and AWS. In August 2022, Crux became available on the Google Cloud Marketplace, enabling Google Cloud customers to standardize external data ingestion into Analytics Hub and accelerate the onboarding of new data sources. As of January 2023, Crux had developed over 260 partnerships with data providers and cloud marketplaces.

Using AI to automate, enhance and optimize marketing activities

Marketing Automation

GumGum is a context analysis intelligence firm, and its proprietary AI system “Verity” can carry out visual and natural language processing on content published on the web, social media, and television. The system can scan content and discern its context to identify suitable ad placements while avoiding risky, unsuitable content. In March 2021, GumGum launched a video ad unit for overlaying ad placements in streaming TV and in June 2022, the firm was granted <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/11062">two patents</a> for automating the ad-insertion process.GumGum’s Verity system considers a variety of mediums (text, video, image, and audio information) in determining the context of published content and, therefore, is believed to be more comprehensive, giving it an edge over its peers. This is reflected in GumGum becoming the first independent ad tech firm to receive accreditation for its system by the Media Ratings Council (MRC), a media accreditation institute, in July 2021. In February 2023, GumGum also received MRC accreditation for <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/16348">brand safety and contextual targeting for CTV.</a> In November 2022, in partnership with Playground xyz, GumGum planned to integrate <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/14339">attention measurement</a> across all its contextual ad campaign solutions beginning in early 2023, which would result in a complete contextual advertising solution which it claims to be the first-of-its-kind. In April 2024, GumGum<a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/28841"> integrated Playground xyz's ad media</a> into its business operations in the APAC region. In March 2023, the company integrated its Verity system into <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/17134">all impressions running on its ad exchange,</a>providing enhanced brand safety protection to its clients. In November 2023, the firm launched <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/24563">Mindset Index,</a> which is designed to help brands understand audience engagement with specific content. In April 2024, GumGum launched a mobile ad format called<a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/28104"> "Hang Time"</a> in Germany, Belgium, and the Netherlands. In September 2024, the company launched a <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/34639">sports marketing solution</a> combining its platform and subsidiary Relo Metrics. GumGum launched the GumGum Platform in&nbsp;<a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/35335">October 2024,</a> integrating contextual, attention, and creative solutions for digital advertising. It also introduced the Mindset Graph, a tool that aligns consumer interests with advertising objectives.According to a study by GumGum &amp; Dentsu Aegis Network (in September 2020), GumGum’s system is 1.7x more accurate than other contextual intelligence providers, while a study done by Forrester (in March 2020) found that GumGum’s clients experienced on average a 279% Return on Advertising Spend (ROAS).&nbsp;Key customers and partnershipsGumGum partners with close to 1,200 leading publishers with a global viewership reach of 550 million to deliver contextual ads across a variety of mediums and formats. By March 2022, the firm had 700 brands using its service including Vodafone, Canon, Nasdaq, and TIME.&nbsp;&nbsp;GumGum has entered into a number of partnerships to broaden the use case of its Verity system including with<a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/10172"> Xandr</a>, a demand-side ad platform owned by Microsoft as well as with <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/10771">Invincible Entertainment</a>, an over-the-top (OTT) and connected TV (CTV) streaming service provider to expand its presence in the CTV space. In June 2022, GumGum also partnered with the social microblogging site <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/10975">Tumblr</a> as well as with in-game advertising (IGA) platform <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/11072">Frameplay</a>, to bring contextual analysis to social media and video games respectively. In June 2024, the company partnered with <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/30564">ShowHeroes,</a> a leader in online video advertising, to further strengthen its presence in the US market.

Cuebiq is a location-based technology providing first-party location data and analytics tools for marketers and agencies to provide targeted ads and performance measurement of ad campaigns. The firm offers several solutions including 1) Workbench, a customer data platform (CDP) providing access to first-party location data, 2) real-time analytics tools to measure and attribute ad spend, and 3) audience segmentation tools that can be activated on demand-side ad platforms (DSP) or directly through Cubeiq.&nbsp;The firm has a privacy-first approach to data gathering, providing access to 100+ online and offline customer data points while being compliant with key privacy regulations including CCPA and GDPR.&nbsp;The firm has also entered into ~40 technology partnerships, including MediaMath, The Trade Desk, Yahoo, Kochava, and LiveRamp. In November 2021, the firm joined the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Accelerate Program making Cuebiq’s Workbench available on the AWS marketplace.&nbsp;In response to the Covid-19 pandemic, the firm provided free access to location-based dashboards to provide insights on mobility flows, traveler analytics, and social inequality.&nbsp;&nbsp;Key customers and partnerships&nbsp;As of its last equity funding round in May 2018, the firm had 1,300+ users across a variety of sectors and a 2.4x YoY growth in its user base.

Innovid started off as an independent AdTech firm providing ad serving solutions for traditional linear TV. Since then, the firm has expanded its capabilities to specialize in digital TV advertising, in particular, connected TV (CTV). The firm’s ad serving platform provides a range of solutions, including, 1) an omnichannel ad serving platform that works across 25+ devices including mobile, desktop, and video game consoles, 2) ad personalization tools, and 3) an ad measurement and analytics platform. The firm has also developed a proprietary identity resolution system, “Innovid key”, which maps consumer data gathered from 95 million CTV homes and other first-party data on a privacy-compliant basis.&nbsp;The firm claims to be the only purpose-built ad server for CTV advertising, with more than 60% of the firm’s revenue accounted for by CTV. The firm has positioned itself as an independent source for advertising analytics, where it receives no revenue from media publishers and hence competes with legacy systems such as Nielsen (focused on broadcast TV).&nbsp;The firm has extended its capabilities through a series of acquisitions, the most recent being in February 2022 when it <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/8323">acquired TVSquared</a>, a TV ad measurement and attribution platform for USD 160 million. In addition, in June 2022, the firm launched InnovidXP,&nbsp; unified cross-platform ad server solution to enable cross platform measurement capabilities. In July 2023, the firm introduced a <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/20457">cross-device solution</a> designed to match multiple devices to user interactions to improve the accuracy of conversion rate measurement.&nbsp;Key customers and partnershipsThe firm’s solutions are targeted at brands and ad agencies, which, as of June 2022, included 100+ core clients, including Honda, Whirlpool, General Motors, and Anheuser-Busch.Innovid has also entered into a number of multi-year strategic partnerships including with AdImpact (ad intelligence data provider), FreeWheel (international audience measurement platform by ComCast)&nbsp; and Tubi (streaming service owned by Fox) to broaden its CTV analytics capabilities. In June 2022, the firm was also recognized as certified partner of <a href="https://sp-edge.com/companies/1267626">Magnite’s</a> (a supply-side ad platform) measurement and attribution program to addcurrency optionality to its programmatic CTV offerings. In June 2023, the firm <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/19220">partnered with Infillion,</a> an advanced media buying platform to streamline the workflow and expand publisher reach for choice-based interactive ads on connected TV (CTV).

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

Capital Markets Tech

Axoni specializes in developing data synchronization solutions and financial market infrastructure for the global capital markets. The company offers its proprietary AxCore software that synchronizes data across enterprises. AxCore addresses decades-old coordination problems between large companies by guaranteeing real-time and accurate replication of data, reducing cost, risk, and errors when moving trade data and other critical information between financial institutions.AxCore has facilitated cleared stock loan transactions at Options Clearing Corporation (OCC), global credit derivatives in partnership with The Depository Trust &amp; Clearing Corporation (DTCC), a global communications platform for primary issuance of corporate bonds in partnership with DirectBooks, and global equity swaps in collaboration with a consortium of leading market participants.Key customers and partnershipsAxoni claims that its client base has grown to include many of the world's leading market infrastructure companies, asset managers, hedge funds, and global banks in the US, Europe, and Asia. The company has established strategic partnerships with organizations like DTCC, Fidelity, and SBI Group, in addition to global investment banks such as JPMorgan, Citi, and Goldman Sachs.

AccessFintech operates a cloud-based data collaboration network called Synergy that facilitates the sharing of transaction data between financial institutions involved in processing transactions such as stock trades, derivatives, and syndicated loans. The platform aggregates data from multiple sources, normalizes it, and provides tools for collaboration and workflow automation to streamline processes like settlement, pre-matching, and exception management. As such, AccessFintech's solutions help manage operational risk and ensure regulatory compliance.&nbsp;AccessFinTech supports regulatory compliance by providing tools for tracking and managing compliance-related tasks and enabling the automation of compliance workflows. This includes ensuring institutions adhere to evolving regulatory standards and maintain robust internal controls.Key customers and partnerships&nbsp;As of September 2022, the Synergy Network had over 100 participants, including major global banks, broker-dealers, custodians, and asset managers.&nbsp;The company expanded its partnership with Cappitech, a provider of regulatory reporting and business intelligence solutions, in March 2020. Through the partnership, AccessFintech expects to strengthen its offerings in governance and risk controls for market participants.&nbsp;AccessFintech partners with leading consulting firms like Deloitte and KPMG to support digital transformation efforts at major financial institutions. It has also formed strategic alliances with BNY Mellon, Bank of America, BNP Paribas, and other global banks to integrate its technology into their operations and offer Synergy's capabilities to clients. In June 2023, AccessFintech expanded its alliance with BNY Mellon to digitize loan data management through its platform.

Droit is a regulatory compliance platform that serves financial institutions by integrating regulatory knowledge into their trading and investment decision-making processes. The company's core offering, Adept, is designed to help banks, wealth managers, and other financial entities navigate the complex web of regulations across different markets and jurisdictions. Adept analyzes incoming transactions and investment opportunities to determine their compliance with relevant regulations and internal policies before execution. This pre-trade compliance check ensures that all obligations are met, reducing the risk of non-compliance.In the post-trade phase, Droit's platform provides reporting and tracking mechanisms, enabling stakeholders to validate their decisions by tracing them back to the source information that guided their actions. This digital audit trail enhances transparency and auditability within financial institutions.Key customers and partnerships&nbsp;Droit's regulatory automation solutions cater to capital markets, wealth management, and other regulated industries. As of March 2023, the company's client base included prominent financial heavyweights such as Wells Fargo, Goldman Sachs, and UBS.&nbsp;In May 2024, Droit announced a partnership with FINBOURNE, a cloud-based investment data management software. The collaboration between Droit and FINBOURNE would enable Droit to enhance its Position Reporting product by integrating it with FINBOURNE's LUSID platform. This partnership aimed to streamline and simplify the complex and costly process of meeting position reporting obligations, helping Droit provide more accurate and efficient regulatory compliance solutions for its clients.

Deriving insights from uncommon data streams

Alternative Data

Visible Alpha is a financial technology provider that offers deep industry and segment consensus data, sell-side analyst models, and analytics from high-quality, exclusive sources. The company was founded in 2015 and provides consensus estimates and analytics from in-depth sell-side analyst models, research reports, and corporate access events. Visible Alpha enhances the investment research process by extracting valuable insights from key sell-side data and analytics, including full working models from partnerships with approximately two hundred of the world's premier investment research organizations.In February 2024, S&amp;P Global announced an agreement to acquire Visible Alpha, with the intention to create a premium offering of fundamental investment research capabilities on S&amp;P Global Market Intelligence's Capital IQ Pro platform. The acquisition reflects S&amp;P Global's commitment to being a leading provider in the investment research space.

Crux is a cloud-based data integration, transformation, and operations platform that helps organizations efficiently ingest, transform, and analyze external data from various sources. The company's core offering is the Crux External Data Platform (EDP), a SaaS solution launched in May 2023 that enables enterprises to automate the onboarding of external datasets directly from vendors into their systems.
Crux builds data pipelines at scale, allowing enterprises to ingest any custom data source. It operates over 60,000 pre-engineered pipelines to deliver external datasets in a data science and analytics-ready format. The EDP platform ensures reliable data delivery with protected, role-based access and customizable operations applicable to data products, connections, policies, users, and system settings.
External data from governments, non-profits, and commercial vendors is critical for sectors like finance, supply chain, retail, healthcare, and insurance. Crux has partnerships with over 265 leading data providers, including MSCI, Moody's, S&P, SIX, FactSet, and Morningstar. The platform reduces the need for expensive infrastructure and accelerates data engineering teams' velocity.
Crux leverages AI and ML capabilities to automate and streamline data workflows, decreasing manual intervention and improving accuracy. The company holds a Google Cloud Customer Award in the Cross-Industry category for 2021 and works with enterprise clients backed by investors like Two Sigma, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and Citi.

Cuebiq is a next-generation location intelligence company that offers a powerful suite of data and tools to help businesses gain actionable insights into real-world consumer behaviors and trends. Its platform enables marketers to leverage consumer mobile location data via offerings like AudienceQ for geo-behavioral audience segmentation and enrichment, VisitQ for analyzing advertising campaigns' impact on in-store visits and foot traffic, and InsightQ for informing strategic business decisions outside the advertising industry.
Cuebiq collects and processes device-identified location data from users who consent to sharing it via partner apps. This data includes GPS-level lat/long coordinates, WiFi data, mobile advertising IDs, and other identifiers associated with consumer devices and their movements. The company then uses AI-driven analytics to map and measure the consumer journey, helping businesses answer strategic questions and make informed decisions across use cases like competitive intelligence, market share analysis, consumer preferences and mobility patterns, path-to-purchase analysis, and footfall analysis.
In June 2024, Cuebiq acquired Spectus, operating its PaaS (platform-as-a-service) to provide customers an open, secure environment to analyze data from various sources, including Cuebiq's location data. The company also offers a SaaS called Clara that provides pre-computed reports for customers. Cuebiq's methodologies adhere to privacy policies, including restrictions on using data for sensitive locations.

Building future-ready applications in the cloud

Cloud-native Tech

LeanIX is a German company specializing in Enterprise Architecture Management (EAM) solutions. LeanIX’s products include Enterprise Architecture Management, which allows users to manage the risk and transformation of their IT landscape; SaaS Management Platform (SMP), which is a fully automated SaaS management solution that optimizes cost and productivity; and Value Stream Management (VSM), which helps software engineers achieve transparency across their supply chain and identify vulnerabilities. LeanIX allows customers to gain control and transparency over SaaS, enterprise architecture, and microservices landscapes. LeanIX follows a direct sales model. In March 2021, LeanIX acquired Cleanshelf, a SaaS management provider, which was absorbed into the company. In September 2023, SAP announced it had agreed to acquire LeanIX with the deal expected to close in Q4 2023. Key customers and partnerships LeanIX counts around 1,000 enterprise customers who operate in industries and sectors such as healthcare/pharma, automotive, public sector/education, industrial/manufacturing, energy/utilities, tech/media/telecom, consumer/retail, and logistics/travel/transportation. Some notable customers are DHL, Volkswagen, Dropbox, Bosch, Audi, Bentley, Decathlon, Discover, Ducati, Hermes, Lamborghini, Swarovski, and Vodafone. LeanIX’s technology partners include Apptio, Collibra, Atlassian, Lucidchart, CAST, SAP Signavio, and MuleSoft. Funding and financials LeanIX’s latest funding was in July 2020 from a USD 80 million Series D round led by GS Growth.

Redis is a leading player in the real-time data processing and management space.Redis offers a suite of real-time data processing and management solutions, centered around Redis Enterprise and Open-Source Redis. Redis Enterprise enhances the capabilities of Open-Source Redis by providing an enterprise-grade data platform that supports modern data models, management, automation, and scalability for deploying and running applications at any scale. It provides high availability, with features like active-active geo-distribution and instant failover.Redis's offerings also include a rich set of data structures, in-memory caching, search, real-time analytics, and support for multiple programming languages, making it versatile for various use cases across industries.​ It also offers a tool named Redis Data Integration (RDI) that allows customers to move the contents of external databases into Redis for caching, automatically copying records, and syncing changes. Redis Copilot, an AI assistant, provides guidance on database usage, generates queries from natural language prompts, and performs related tasks.Redis provides a Cloud and Software version of its Enterprise product. The pricing follows a subscription-based model.The company has acquired three companies: RESP.app (November 2022), RDBTools (April 2019), and Redis Weekly (April 2017).Key customers and partnershipsRedis Enterprise is used by notable companies like AngelOne, Microsoft, Tiffany &amp; Co, BNP Paribas, British Airways, Telus, and SiriusXM.Redis’s cloud partners include AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, and VMware. Additionally, the company has technology partnerships with leading technology companies like Suse, Red Hat, Hashicorp, databricks, and Intel.

Infinidat is an Israeli data storage company that offers high-performance, scalable, and reliable storage solutions for enterprise organizations.Infinidat’s main product is the InfiniBox storage system, which combines flash and disk storage technologies with advanced data management features—such as automated tiering and data compression—to deliver high-performance storage with a lower total cost of ownership. It enables organizations to store and access data, ensuring high availability, reliability, and scalability.Infinidat's competitive advantage is its unique architecture and innovative use of algorithms. The InfiniBox system employs machine-learning algorithms to optimize data placement, ensuring that the most frequently accessed data resides in the fastest storage tier while less accessed data is moved to more cost-effective storage.Infinidat follows a direct sales model.Key customers and partnershipsInifinidat’s partnerships include technology alliances with AWS, BMC, Cisco, Epic, IBM, and Google Cloud Platform.Funding and financialsAs of June 2023, Infinidat’s latest fundraising was in 2020 from a Series D round led by Goldman Sachs and TPG Growth, raining an undisclosed sum.

Distributed workforces require new solutions for office operations, HR, payment, and more.

Remote Work Infrastructure

LumApps is a social intranet platform that provides a digital workplace to streamline internal communication amongst employees. Its platform provides employees with a centralized space to access an organization's content, enterprise applications, and communication across departments and projects. The platform is fully integrated with enterprise software tools such as G Suite and Microsoft 365. In November 2023, the company launched Companion, a GenAI-powered digital assistant to streamline access to an enterprises knowledge base, a personalized employee dashboard.Notable M&amp;A activities include the company’s acquisition of Vizir (December 2022), a French no-code digital assistant technology company, for an undisclosed amount. Through the acquisition, LumApps planned to expand its platform's functionality and allow its clients to include intelligent bot software into their employee experience platforms. The company previously acquired HeyAxel (<a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/8283">February 2022</a>), a French no-code HR automation and onboarding solutions provider, for an undisclosed amount. As per the deal, HeyAxel’s products and its team were fully integrated into LumApps. The combined team continued to work on improving LumApps’ employee journey features, to provide each employee with a personalized experience.In <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/29816">May 2024</a>, Bridgepoint acquired majority stake in LumApps for USD 650 million to expand AI solutions and pursue more M&amp;A activitiesKey customers and partnershipsNotable enterprises using the platform include Airbus, Logitech and Electronic Arts, among others, having over 4 million users on its platform as of April 2024.Funding and financialsThe company’s latest funding round took place in January 2020, raising USD 70 million in a Series C round led by Goldman Sachs. Funds were earmarked to increase its headcount significantly across its engineering, product, and sales teams. In terms of geographical expansion, the company looked to move into Canada and APAC.

Established in 2009 by former SAP employees Fabio Ronga, Tanya Jansen, and Stephan Pohl, beqom is a Switzerland-based company that specializes in providing cloud-based compensation and performance management solutions. Its software assists organizations in effectively managing compensation processes, encompassing salary and incentive management, performance management, and total compensation management. The platform leverages generative AI and ML, enabling HR professionals and managers to make data-driven decisions.Platform features include:1) Platform Total Compensation Management (TCM): Allows organizations to manage various compensation-related aspects.2) Continuous Performance Management (CPM): Provides a continuous performance assessment and management system for employees.3) Sales Performance Management (SPM): Offers specific tools for managing and optimizing sales-related compensation and performance.Key features of beqom's software include automated recommendations that provide insights on crucial compensation components. These insights help in various areas such as salary benchmarking, performance-based compensation, equity awards, and regulatory compliance. Compensation packages can be personalized based on unique requirements and preferences, such as tenure, skillset, and career aspirations. Through beqom Studio, HR leaders, managers, and employees can gain visibility and control over the compensation and performance process.The platform incorporates bidirectional built-in connectors, including SAP, Oracle, Workday, and Microsoft Viva, facilitating the integration of employee data into the beqom platform.Key customers and partnershipsAs of April 2024, beqom assisted over 120 global enterprises, including DHL, Total Energies, PICTET, PepsiCo, and Mercedes Benz, in managing their employee compensation processes.To expand its reach and offerings, beqom collaborates with strategic partners that can help customers with continuous performance and compensation management strategies, handle large-scale implementations, and integrate beqom into their daily workflow. Notable partners in this regard include KPMG, Modulus Data, Microsoft Dynamics 365, and Deloitte.Funding and financials&nbsp;In April 2022, the company secured a strategic investment of USD 300 million from Sumeru Equity Partners (Sumeru). Funds were earmarked to grow its product offerings to better support compensation and human capital management (HCM) leaders. Further, the company noted that it recorded 100% year-on-year (YoY) bookings growth in 2021.

New data privacy regulations have opened up space for a new wave of compliance-focused startups.

Digital Privacy Tools

Fortanix provides confidential computing and cryptographic solutions to secure data throughout its life cycle — at rest, in motion, and in use (on premises and the cloud). The platform enables organizations to comply with privacy regulations such as the GDPR and HIPAA. Fortanix’s target market comprises companies with more than 1,000 employees. The company was backed by over 100 patents globally as of September 2024.In June 2023, the company launched <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/19735">a new search function for encrypted databases</a>, utilizing a method involving the duplication of standard encrypted databases within secure enclaves for the search process. Fortanix said its confidential data search would require less computing power and run much quicker than standard homomorphic methods while maintaining data privacy and compliance.&nbsp;Key customers and partnershipsThe company says it serves customers across various verticals, including dozens of the Fortune 500. These include Valeo, Vmware, GE Healthcare, Wex, IBM, Equinix, Google, and OC Tanner.

Very Good Security (VGS) enables companies to offload the sensitive data they collect from consumers to VGS’s secure storage infrastructure. This liberates organizations from storing data on their own or setting up their own processes, thereby saving them from the repercussions of potential data breaches and making them compliant with relevant privacy regulations such as GDPR, CCPA, etc. This makes VGS the only disruptor that acts as a custodian for sensitive data.&nbsp;The solution also aids in designing consent-gathering mechanisms, communicating with users concerning data collection, and allowing them to exercise their data subject rights.VGS’s platform enables organizations to securely take advantage of their sensitive data while residing on VGS servers. It achieves this by aliasing the data and making it unreadable by humans in the event of a data breach.Key customers and partnershipsThe company provides its solutions predominantly to the financial services sector and is backed by giants such as Visa and Goldman Sachs.&nbsp;

Giving creators the power of content monetization and audience engagement.

Creator Economy

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 Splice offers a music production and collaboration platform where creators can download royalty-free samples from producers, artists, and sound designers to mix with their own music content. The platform is supported by music software and rent-to-own plugins. Additionally, creators can add other artists to collaborate on their tracks with options such as artists&rsquo; changes on the tracks being viewable by all parties involved in the collaboration while being able to recover earlier versions of the track. The company pays out royalties for the samples to the creators, producers, artists, and sound designers. As of October 2020, the company claimed its sound downloads have grown by 50% since March 2020 to 1.1 million per day.
 
 
 The company&rsquo;s most recent funding round was Series D funding worth USD 55 million in February 2021, valuing Splice at nearly USD 500 million. The company has not revealed specific plans for the cash beyond community growth. As of February 2021, the company claimed that its user count had reached 4 million&mdash;up from 3 million in October 2020, and its royalty payouts reached USD 15 million in 2020 and USD 40 million in total&mdash;compared with the USD 36 million sum reported as of September 2020.
 
 
 In June 2021, Splice introduced two new plugins: a drum pattern sampler called Beatmaker, and a versatile software synthesizer plugin called Astra. These new features are available within Splice&rsquo;s existing Sounds+ subscription plan and the new Creator and Creator+ subscription plans. Splice also introduced Splice Bridge which connects Splice Sounds with the creator&rsquo;s digital audio workstation (DAW). Splice Bridge enables the creator to match their samples&rsquo; key and tempo to their tracks before committing to buying them. This tool is included with Sounds+, Creator, and Creator+ plans. The Creator and Creator+ subscription fees are USD 19.99 and USD 29.99 respectively per month. A free 14-day trial is available for the new Astra synthesizer and Beatmaker plugins.
 
 
 Splice partnered with streaming platform Soundcloud (October 2021) to introduce a new program, &ldquo;Nova,&rdquo; designed to elevate emerging music creators. Splice will release 12 Nova Artist Packs (collections of signature sounds, loops, and samples) starting January 2022. Splice sound pack creation opportunities were previously only available to established sample labels and creators. Four winners will receive SoundCloud&rsquo;s marketing and distribution services (inclusive of dedicated account management, professional marketing and promotion, distribution to major streaming services, and support from SoundCloud for their next project, with USD 20,000 in marketing spend).
 
 
 
 
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Lightricks develops video and image editing apps such as Facetune, Beatleap, Filtertune, and Videoleap for content creators. As of March 2022, Lightricks’ apps have been installed over 600 million times worldwide and it has a monthly active user base of ~24 million, which includes ~ 5.2 million paying subscribers.In February 2024, Lightricks launched an AI-based filmmaking tool called<a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/27090">&nbsp;"LTX Studio"</a> to help creators visualize and develop short AI-generated clips for their story ideas.&nbsp;In&nbsp;<a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/36465">November 2024</a>, Lightricks released open-source AI video model LTX Video 0.9.The company acquired Popular Plays ( <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/9488">March 2022 </a>), a platform that enables brands to use its network of 60,000+ content creators for influencer marketing and content creation. As of March 2022, Popular Plays has facilitated the creation of over 100,000 pieces of sponsored content and over 40,000 creator-brand partnerships. The acquisition is expected to enable creators to use Lightricks to monetize their audience by engaging with brands such as Kraft-Heinz for content collaborations.Funding and financials&nbsp;In its latest funding round, Lightricks raised USD 130 million in Series D funding co-led by Insight Partners and Hanaco Venture Capital. New investors Migdal Insurance, Altshuler Shaham, Shavit Capital, and existing investors Goldman Sachs Asset Management, Claltech, Harel Insurance and Finance, and Greycroft also participated. The round valued the company at USD 1.8 billion. The fresh funds will be used to expand headcount and invest in M&amp;A activity.

AI-based solutions for evolving digital threats

Next-gen Cybersecurity

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 Aryaka is a company that provides software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) and secure access service edge (SASE) solutions including secure web gateways (SWG), cloud access security brokers (CASB), next-gen firewalls (NGFW), and zero-trust network access (ZTNA). The company&rsquo;s services aim to consolidate networking and security in an all-in-one solution, simplifying operations for CIOs, CISOs, and IT teams. Aryaka claims that its platform provides reliable connectivity for applications, devices, and public cloud infrastructure and facilitates long-distance connections within an enterprise&rsquo;s network.
 
 
 Aryaka caters to SMEs with managed services that include application optimization, network security, multicloud connectivity, and cloud-based observability and control. Moreover, the company&rsquo;s managed service experience is tailored to smaller enterprises. In October 2022, the company introduced secure web gateway and firewall-as-a-service to its zero trust WAN offering to enable enterprises to enforce security policies across offices and remote users more easily. Zero trust WAN ensures customers have flexible perimeter security for distributed users, devices, and applications.
 
 
 Key customers and partnerships&nbsp;
 
 
 In April 2023, the company extended its partnership with Check Point Software Technologies to deliver a global managed SASE (Secure Access Service Edge) offering. The partnership aims to provide customers with a unified threat and access management platform that has the flexibility to deploy branch offices and remote users securely and efficiently.&nbsp;
 
 
 Fundings and financials&nbsp;
 
 
 In May 2019, the company raised USD 50 million in a Series F funding round led by Goldman Sachs Private Capital Investing. The company planned to use the fresh funds to scale business operations, grow revenues, and hire employees.
 
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 iboss offers cloud security services under the secure access service edge (SASE) architecture that enables companies to deliver web gateway proxies, network firewalls, and zero-trust network access solutions through the cloud. iboss serves organizations operating in industries including healthcare, financial services, education, and government. As of January 2021 iboss employed 230 staff.
 
 
 
 
 And as of March 2021, the company was backed by more than 220 issued and pending patents, over 100 points of presence (PoP) across the world, and a client base of over 4,000 organizations globally. The company also claims that its platform secures more than 100 billion requests a day.
 
 
 
 
 Its most recent funding event was a USD 145 million Series B in January 2021 led by NightDragon and Francisco Partners. The company expects to use the funds to accelerate the growth of its SASE platform.
 
 
 
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Buy Now, Pay Later

Amount is a white-label digital banking provider assisting traditional banks in their digital transformation. It is a spin-off from the digital consumer lending platform Avant (since February 2020) and offers retail banking solutions such as account openings, loans, and credit cards. Additionally, the offering includes compliance solutions comprising fraud prevention, verification, credit decision-making engines, and account management solutions, and its point-of-sale financing provides infrastructure for flexible installment financing.Amount generates revenue through implementation fees, averaging around USD 1 million, and a percentage fee on transactions that use its technology. Its top 10 banking clients include Banco Popular, HSBC, Regions Bank, and TD Bank.Amount acquired SMB lending and account origination platform Linear Financial Technologies (Linear) for USD 175 million <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/8223?industryIds=58">in February 2022 </a>. As part of the deal, Linear is expected to rebrand to “Amount Small Business” in 2022 and allows Amount to solidify its retail banking suite, B2C and B2B point of sale, fraud detection, and embedded finance solutions. In June 2022, Amount laid off almost 20% of its workforce.Key customers and partnershipsIn April 2021, Amount struck a partnership with Barclays to provide its point-of-sale financing infrastructure to create one of the first installment financing options offered to merchants by a major US bank. It also partnered with card issuer Marqeta in October 2021 to launch a virtual card and loan origination solution directed at banks who want to offer BNPL solutions.Funding and financialsIn its most recent funding round (May 2021), Amount raised USD 99 million in a Series D round, implying an approximate USD 1 billion valuation. The round was led by WestCap and represents a significant jump from its previous valuation of USD 681 million (Series C) in December 2020. The fresh capital was to be used for accelerating its R&amp;D function and for potential M&amp;A opportunities. Prior to this, Amount held both Series B and Series C rounds in 2020, raising USD 58 million and USD 86 million, respectively.

Toronto-based Financeit offers consumer lending operations including managing loan origination, credit adjudication, regulatory reporting, loan servicing, and collections. It also provides a flexible, mobile-friendly way to boost sales for businesses. Financeit’s approach to consumer financing allows businesses to offer their customers financing for projects and purchases of up to USD 100,000. This service is particularly beneficial for businesses in the home improvement sector. As part of its services, Financeit also offers a buy now, pay later (BNPL) solution that provides flexible financing for customers undertaking large home improvement projects.New York-based specialty finance investment firm Wafra Capital Partners acquired Financeit in February 2022 for an undisclosed sum. Financeit aimed to accelerate its market penetration and service expansion, leveraging Wafra Capital's expertise in loan origination platforms.Financeit acquired the <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/19689">Simply Group loan </a>business for an undisclosed sum in June 2023. The company planned on leveraging the expertise of the Simply Group, launching innovative projects, and growing its platform users.As of 2021, the company successfully processed over 115,000 loan applications and funded a record-setting CAD 534 million (USD 386 million) in loan originations. The company also reached a milestone of CAD 2 billion (USD 1.45 million) in lifetime loan originations.Key customers and partnershipsFinanceit partnered with many finance businesses including Recreation Vehicle Dealers Association of Canada (RVDA) (September 2022) to bolster financial programs and technological access for its RV dealer members; Lennox International (July 2022) to offer BNPL financing, and Carrier Enterprise Canada (May 2019) to streamline the sales process with an effective financing solution.

The on-demand economy has finally reached white collar work.

Online Freelancing Platforms

Malt (previously known as Hopwork) is a French startup platform connecting businesses of all sizes to freelancers specializing in areas such as tech, design, marketing, communications, and business consulting. Additionally, the company also offers Malt Strategy, a community of 20,000 vetted management consultants and interim executives (as of October 2024).The company acquired Comatch (<a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/9385">March 2022</a>), a German freelancer marketplace offering management consultancy and industry-specific expertise, with ~15,000 freelancers across 9 markets. The acquisition aimed to expand Malt’s presence in Germany and expand its scope to serve the business consultancy vertical. Following the acquisition, Malt expects to hire 150 new employees by the end of 2022 and reach EUR 1 billion (approx. USD 1.1 billion) in revenue by 2024.Malt generates revenue via commissions (ranging from 15%-20%) based on total project cost.&nbsp;Key customers and partnershipsAs of October 2024 the platform had more than 550,000 freelancers alongside a 70,000+ client base. Overall ~255,000 projects were completed on the platform as of October 2024. Notable clients included Unilever, L’OReal and Allianz.&nbsp;In&nbsp;<a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/21396">August 2023,</a> Malt partnered with Dynamic Freelancer to enhance the freelance talent acquisition landscape by simplifying the process of connecting freelancers with businesses. Additionally, the company partners with consulting firms like McKinsey to source freelancers for its platform.

The tools that power remote work are define the next generation of enterprise software.

Remote Work Tools

Limble offers Computerized Maintenance Management Systems (CMMS) for businesses to monitor and manage their non-connected physical assets. The platform includes a work order system that organizes work orders, preventive maintenance (PM) tasks, and other tasks for the entire team. It streamlines workflows, manages priorities, and provides detailed instructions with pictures, files, checklists, and more. The platform is accessible via a mobile app, which includes a work order request system and provides instant access to information about work orders, assets, parts inventory, and more.Limble's platform also features a preventive maintenance program that automates PM scheduling based on time, usage, or condition. Additionally, the platform offers asset and inventory management features that allow the creation of custom asset hierarchies, real-time viewing of detailed asset maintenance logs, and printing of QR codes for quick asset lookup or work initiation.Further, Limble provides an inventory control system that organizes spare parts, tracks unused parts, and conducts inventory cycle counts to keep physical inventories accurate. According to the company, using Limble's platform can increase team productivity by 49%, reduce part-spend by 37%, and reduce labor cost by 29%.Key customers and partnershipsAs of June 2024, 50,000+ organizations used Limble’s solutions, with key customers including DHL Global Forwarding, Holiday Inn, L'Oréal, McDonald's, Nike, Pepsi, RiteAide, and Unilever.Funding and financialsIn <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/19627">June 2023</a>, Limble raised USD 58 million in a Series B funding round led solely by Goldman Sachs Growth Equity, bringing Limble's post-money valuation to USD 450 million.The funds raised were used to continue the expansion of Limble's business. The company plans to enhance its no-code platform, potentially integrating technologies like generative AI to help customers build workflows and scripts around their inventories and maintenance databases.Competitors: None under coverage. (Limble offers Computerized Maintenance Management Systems (CMMS) for businesses to monitor and manage their non-connected physical assets).

Now anyone can become a software developer.

No-code Software

<div>
 
 Unqork offers a patented cloud-based application platform that allows enterprises to build complex software applications in a visual environment without coding. The company specializes in financial services and insurance industries in an end-to-end digitalization and fulfillment platform. It aims to eliminate paper processing bottlenecks (such as policy issuance, servicing, and account opening).&nbsp;
 
 
 Unqork allows corporations to create forms for products such as insurance policies, annuities, retirement, bank accounts, asset management accounts, mortgages, and loans. The platform is capable of data collection through forms and analysis/processing based on user-defined rules. Unqork also uses technologies like machine learning and optical character recognition to extract handwritten and typed data. It also manages the infrastructure, security, scalability, hosting, and maintenance of user applications.&nbsp;
 
 
 The company has a global operational presence with offices in New York and London. It expanded its presence in Japan in February 2022 by adding to its sales and marketing teams to focus on growth in the region.
 
 
 In July 2022, Unqork 
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 Key customers and partnerships
 
 
 Unqork has also entered into solution partnerships with leading consultancy firms such as KPMG, EY, Deloitte, and CAPCO to jointly offer solutions.&nbsp; It also announced the availability of its platform on the AWS Marketplace in January 2022, enabling it to tap into a large network of over 310,000 global customers. It also expanded to Azure marketplace in March 2023, and Google marketplace in August 2023.
 
 
 Unqork partnered with Avo Automation, an intelligent no-code process discovery and test automation solutions provider, in 
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 January 2022
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 , to accelerate the software delivery and growth for both companies. In March 2023, the company partnered with Rhino.ai, an AI-driven software migration platform,&nbsp; to launch a new software migration solution. Users can automatically extract workflows, schemas, data, and APIs, from legacy environments and platforms and migrate them onto Unqork&rsquo;s platform.
 
 
 The company went on to collaborate with Quantiphi, a digital engineering company, in August 2023, to launch an AI-powered underwriting platform (AiUP). The solution would combine technology from Dociphi, Quantiphi's intelligent document processing platform, Unqork&rsquo;s no-code platform, and Google Cloud's services and infrastructure to enable users to digitize and automate the insurance underwriting process.&nbsp;
 
 
 The company has a global customer base ranging from companies in the US to the Asia-Pacific region as well as Europe. This includes large global enterprises like&nbsp; John Hancock, Goldman Sachs, CareerWise, SMBC, and Liberty Mutual.&nbsp;&nbsp;
 
 
 
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From fast food to fine dining, everything but the kitchen sink is suddenly just a tap away.

Online Food Delivery

Wolt is a Finland-based online food delivery platform founded by CEO Miki Kuusi (former CEO of Slush, an annual startup and tech conference) that delivers a variety of food from restaurants to homes and offices. Wolt initially focused on being a mobile-first app and only later optimized its web approach to create an online platform for customers. The company’s proprietary algorithm optimizes customer experience continuously as well as logistics (calculating routes in real-time) to increase delivery efficiency.As of January 2021, the company operated in 129 cities in 23 countries, most of which are Nordic and Eastern European, with Germany the latest nation to join the fray (August 2020). Further, it has connected with more than 30,000 restaurants and over 60,000 couriers. Wolt’s revenue exceeded EUR 30 million (approximately USD 34.2 million) in 2018, and was recognized as the second-fastest growing company in Europe in 2020 by the Financial Times.In&nbsp;<a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/35653">October 2024</a>, Wolt announced plans to acquire Tazz, a Romanian local commerce platform, from eMAG for an undisclosed sum. As of October 2024, Tazz had operations in over 35 Romanian cities, offering restaurant, grocery, and retail delivery services.&nbsp;In June 2022, Wolt was acquired by the online food delivery operator DoorDash.&nbsp;

Quantum information processing is slowly becoming a reality, ushering in a new technological era.

Quantum Computing

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 D-Wave, a manufacturer of quantum annealers, is the world&rsquo;s first commercial supplier of quantum computers, as well as a frontrunner in quantum annealing technology. The company unveiled plans to build a 
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 gate-model system
 </a>
 in October 2021, making it the first and only quantum computing company to offer both annealing and gate-model systems. However, the company has not revealed much about its progress on the gate-based systems yet.&nbsp;
 
 
 D-Wave introduced the world&rsquo;s first commercially available 128-qubit quantum computer using annealing technology in 2011. Over the years, the company has focused on increasing the qubits, with its latest annealer system launched in 
 <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/11170">
 June 2022
 </a>
 comprising 500 qubits. It also announced plans to launch a 7,000-qubit annealer by 2023&ndash;2024. D-Wave claims its quantum annealers can be used for accelerating and enabling new methods for solving complex optimization problems, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and simulation problems.&nbsp;
 
 
 The company&rsquo;s main competitive advantage comes from being the only player that offers commercially available annealing quantum computer systems, which can be installed on premises. However, D-Wave has yet to demonstrate the advantages of its annealing technology over classical computers despite being in operation for more than 20 years.&nbsp;
 
 
 Key customers and partnerships
 
 
 The company operates its own quantum cloud service to build and deploy quantum computing applications, also offering access to its hardware via cloud solutions from other companies like Amazon Web Services (AWS) and 1Qbit. Its quantum annealers are in commercial use by companies such as Volkswagen and Lockheed Martin.
 
 
 The company partnered with many quantum software and hardware companies including: 
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 Aramco Europe
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 (expanded in June 2024) to manage complex geophysical optimization problems using quantum technologies; 
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 NEC
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 (February 2024; initially entered in 
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 December 2021
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 ), to introduce two new quantum services in Australia to provide advanced computing solutions for commercial sectors, governments, and academic institutions; 
 <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/26472">
 Zapata AI 
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 (February 2024), to combine generative AI and quantum computing technologies to develop commercial applications; 
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 Deloitte
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 (January 2024), to advance quantum computing applications within the Canadian government and local businesses as a part of the Canadian national quantum strategy; 
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 QuantumBasel
 </a>
 (October 2023- initially entered in December 2022), to accelerate quantum and quantum-hybrid application development in Europe; and 
 <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/22644">
 Satispay
 </a>
 (October 2023), to build a quantum-hybrid application for optimizing customer rewards programs.
 
 
 Funding and financials
 
 
 D-Wave went public on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in August 2022 via a
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 special-purpose acquisition company 
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 (SPAC) merger. 
 
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Artificial intelligence is helping sales teams manage relationships and optimize the customer lifecycle.

Sales Engagement Platforms

Revenue.io (formerly RingDNA) is an AI-powered sales execution platform designed to increase sales team productivity and efficiency. The platform leverages GenAI and integrates <a href="https://sp-edge.com/companies/2055">Salesforce</a> to centralize and streamline sales workflows, automate key tasks, and deliver real-time guidance and insights. Key products includeRingDNA: An AI-powered dialer that improves sales workflows with features like click-to-call, voicemail drop, and call recording while automating tasks and providing real-time call guidanceConversation AI: This solution provides real-time coaching, transcribes and analyzes calls, automates follow-up emails, and builds libraries of best practices to improve sales performanceGuided Selling: Provides real-time guidance through the sales process, automates cadences, prioritizes leads, and delivers personalized playbooks to ensure best practices are followedCallerDNA: Tracks the source of inbound calls, captures data, and routes calls to the appropriate repsMoments: Delivers real-time agent assistance for sales and customer support, providing on-the-spot guidance, objection handling, and automated follow-up tasks.Revenue.io integrates with a range of popular solutions, including D&amp;B, Microsoft Teams, Google Workspace, and HubSpot. Key customers and partnerships&nbsp;As of August 2024, its customers include Hewlett Packard, Amazon Web Services, Autodesk, SAP Concur, Lyft, and Twilio.

More important now than ever, telehealth will long outlast the pandemic that drove its growth.

Telehealth

Arizona-based eVisit allows brick and mortar healthcare providers and health systems to offer virtual care services via its platform, covering a range of services including urgent, primary, and specialty care. The platform facilitates patient visits, scheduling, intake, waiting room management, and analytics tools.&nbsp;In <a href="https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/health-tech/evisit-acquires-bluestream-health-add-digital-front-door-tools">April 2023</a>, the company acquired Bluestream Health for an undisclosed sum. The acquisition was carried out to include Bluestream’s digital front door capabilities, integrated language services, and other digital tools to eVisit’s offerings. Additionally, eVisit also acquired Bluestream’s partners, which include over 50,000 providers and 500 health systems. These partners were added to eVisit’s current partner list of 100 healthcare delivery organizations. Through the acquisition, eVisit planned to add 200 additional language options, including American Sign Language, to its telehealth solution.In <a href="https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/evisit-acquires-upmcs-inpatient-teleconsult-technology-and-secures-investments-from-upmc-enterprises-and-medstar-health-to-expand-innovative-partnerships-and-capabilities-302178307.html">June 2024</a>, the company acquired the inpatient teleconsult technology platform of UPMC for an undisclosed sum. The acquisition expanded eVisit's telehealth capabilities to serve health systems across ambulatory and inpatient care settings. Developed by UPMC in 2020 during the Covid-19 pandemic, the teleconsult technology facilitates quick virtual consultations between specialists and clinicians at the patient's bedside across various services like stroke, neurology, critical care, psychology, and toxicology. According to UPMC, the technology resulted in a 92% decrease in wait times since its inception, with over 40,000 consultations delivered.Key customers and partnershipsIn <a href="https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/evisit-acquires-upmcs-inpatient-teleconsult-technology-and-secures-investments-from-upmc-enterprises-and-medstar-health-to-expand-innovative-partnerships-and-capabilities-302178307.html">June 2024</a>, as part of the acquisition announcement of UPMC, the company also expanded its partnership with MedStar Health for further innovation and capabilities. Previously, MedStar Health had been using eVisit’s platform since 2018, while MedStar provided eVisit with clinical expertise, product development support, and go-to-market advisory services. Through the expanded partnership, the two entities would continue to support each other’s technology and innovation initiatives. Additionally, Ethan Booker, the chief medical officer for telehealth at MedStar Health, joined eVisit’s Clinical Advisory Board.

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

InsurTech: Personal Lines

Polly (formerly known as DealerPolicy) is a licensed insurance agency that offers a digital insurance marketplace catering to automotive retailers and owners, offering access to over 40 carriers. Polly’s proprietary mobile technology platform enables car buyers to view multiple insurance quotes or connect with licensed insurance agents to purchase insurance. The company claims to hold a carrier network and access to licensed agents and also industry partnerships among automotive retailers and data providers. As of June 2022, the company operated in 48 states in the US.In June 2022, the company acquired Driven Data Technology, an automotive marketing and analytics company for an undisclosed amount. Through the acquisition, the company aims to provide solutions for its dealers to support growth.Funding and financialsIn August 2021, Polly raised USD 110 million in Series C funding led by Goldman Sachs Asset Management with participation from existing investors 3L Capital and Hudson Structured Capital Management. It aimed to use the fresh funds for product development and recruitment.

Democratizing financial technology with a suite of API-based solutions

FinTech Infrastructure

Amount, a spinoff from digital consumer lending platform Avant, offers a lending-as-a-service (LaaS), retail banking, and point-of-sale (POS) financing/buy-now-pay-later (BNPL) platform to help financial institutions digitize their operations. Amount’s platform is complemented by fraud prevention, verification, decision engines, and account management solutions. The company charges its users an up-front implementation fee as well as a percentage of any loans which are processed using Amount’s infrastructure.Key customers and partnerships Amount’s customers include leading financial institutions such as HSBC, Regions Bank, and TD Bank, among others, which collectively serviced more than 50 million customers and managed nearly USD 2 trillion in assets in the US. In April 2021, Barclays partnered with Amount to enable merchants to offer point-of-sale (POS) financing. Moreover, Amount also partnered with <a href="https://sp-edge.com/companies/64287">Marqeta </a>in October 2021, to enable banks to offer BNPL solutions to end customers. The companies claimed that banks can launch BNPL offerings together with virtual cards, in months. Funding and financialsIn May 2021, the company raised USD 99 million in a Series D funding round led by WestCap that valued Amount at USD 1 billion. The additional funds went towards accelerating research and development and exploring potential acquisitions. Accordingly, in February 2022, <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/8187?industryIds=53">Amount acquired Linear Financial Technologies </a>(Linear), an SMB loan and account origination infrastructure platform for financial institutions, for USD 175 million. The acquisition also increased Amount’s workforce to nearly 600 employees; however, in June 2022, Amount reportedly laid off nearly 20% of their workforce, citing macroeconomic challenges.

Disrupting the traditional financial system using blockchain

Decentralized Finance (DeFi)

BitGo is a multi-signature wallet and digital asset custody solutions provider that exclusively focuses on serving institutional clients. The company's products range from regulated custody and wallet solutions (such as hot wallets, custodial wallets, self-managed cold wallets, and NFT Wallets) to trading, staking, lending, and borrowing solutions. As of August 2023, the company supported over 700 assets on its platform and secured ~20% of all on-chain Bitcoin transactions by value. Moreover, in November 2023, the company was granted a crypto custody license by the German Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin).&nbsp;The company’s BitGo Prime solution lets users lend and borrow from the company as a single counterparty. Lenders can earn returns, while borrowers can take out tailored collateralized loans with transparent re-rates and agreed-upon conditions. Users can also earn yields by staking funds directly from their BitGo wallets (either hot wallets or insured custody wallets) or interacting with external DeFi staking protocols via the platform’s Metamask Institutional (MMI) integration.&nbsp;&nbsp;Furthermore, the company provides infrastructure for users to create and manage their own wallets, access liquidity, and build trading solutions via software development kits (SDK) and application programming interfaces (API).&nbsp;&nbsp;BitGo has also made a number of acquisitions to strengthen its position in the DeFi space. These include 1) Hedge (October 2019), a staking infrastructure provider, to support the launch of BitGo staking; 2) Harbor (February 2020), an asset tokenization platform, to extend its capabilities to a wider class of digital assets and acquire hold broker-dealer, transfer agent, and qualified custodian licenses; and 3) <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/22801">HeightZero</a> (October 2023), a crypto asset management platform, to offer secure and regulated custody products to HeightZero’s client base of asset managers and regulated investment advisors (RIAs).&nbsp;In February 2024, It went on to <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/26414">acquire Brassica</a>, a FinTech infrastructure solutions provider, for an undisclosed amount. The acquisition enabled BitGo to integrate Brassica's products across its platform and provide support services such as multi-asset custody, capital formation solutions, record-keeping, and transfer agent services.Key customers and partnerships&nbsp;As of April 2024, the company served 1,500 institutional clients in 50 countries, including Fortune 100 clients such as Nike as well as digital asset and Web3 companies such as Swan, Mysten, Bitbuy, Coinjar, and Rain.&nbsp;&nbsp;

Embedding environmental, social, and corporate governance factors into investments

Sustainable Finance

Circle is a leading financial technology company focused on developing digital currency solutions and blockchain-based infrastructure for the internet. Its flagship product, USD Coin (USDC), is a fully-reserved stablecoin pegged 1:1 to the US dollar. As of March 2023, USDC had over USD 43 billion in circulation, making it one of the most widely held and liquid digital currencies globally.
USDC is built on an open-source protocol and designed to facilitate fast, low-cost transactions on various blockchain networks. It serves as a digital dollar API, enabling seamless integration into financial services, digital wallets, and commerce platforms. Circle has made USDC available on nine blockchain networks, with plans for further expansion to enhance interoperability across different blockchains.
In addition to USDC, Circle offers developer tools like programmable wallets, allowing businesses to embed digital asset capabilities into their existing applications. The company has also introduced the Cross-Chain Transfer Protocol (CCTP), a solution for seamless USDC transfers between supported blockchains, simplifying cross-chain transactions.
Circle's vision is to create a new global operating system for money, leveraging the programmability of digital currencies to facilitate innovative financial services and streamline cross-border transactions. The company aims to democratize access to financial services by enabling seamless integration of digital currencies into existing infrastructures and platforms.
Key customers and partnerships
Circle has established partnerships with various companies to drive the adoption of USDC and blockchain-based financial services. Notable collaborations include:
- MoneyGram and Stellar: Enabling MoneyGram customers to instantly send money globally using USDC, with collection in local currencies.
- Mastercard: Exploring opportunities for USDC integration into Mastercard's products and services.
- Plaid: Integrating USDC into Plaid's financial data network, enabling developers to build applications with digital currency capabilities.

Empowering the digital revolution in retail

Digital Retail Enhancement Platforms

Stackline is a retail intelligence and software company that offers ecommerce tools, data, and services. The company's platform utilizes artificial intelligence (AI) to increase forecasting accuracy by 2.3 times compared to Amazon. Stackline provides market intelligence tools to measure category trends and shopper activities, along with market and inventory insights, consumer and retail trends, and advertising automation and benchmarking.
In June 2021, Stackline raised USD 130 million in funding from TA Associates, with plans to introduce new product innovations to help brands connect with shoppers, build awareness, inspire loyalty, and drive competitive advantages in the retail industry. The company expanded into eight additional countries in 2020 and grew its employee base by 75%, expecting to employ over 150 by the end of 2021.
Stackline has released integrated advertising partnerships with Walmart Connect and Instacart, in addition to scaling existing programs with Amazon. In 2023, the company launched Universal Stores, a multi-retail storefront technology that allows brands to maximize conversions and generate sales across major retailers like Amazon, Target, and Walmart, while integrating with direct-to-consumer platforms like Shopify. This solution enables brands to collect first-party data, measure attribution, and leverage a multi-retailer buy box feature.
In October 2023, Stackline introduced Shopper Analytics, a platform that provides brands with unprecedented insights covering online marketplaces and brick-and-mortar retailers. It introduces new metrics like Customer Lifetime Value, Brand Retention Rate, and Share of Wallet, enabling brands to benchmark and act on these data points across digital and physical retail channels.
As of 2024, Stackline employed over 250 professionals and worked with 7,000 global brands, aiming to fuel the future of commerce by bringing brands and customers closer together.

Cryptocurrencies

Circle is a leading fintech company specializing in stablecoins and blockchain-based financial services. Its flagship product, USD Coin (USDC), is a fully-reserved digital currency backed 1:1 by cash and cash equivalents, allowing users to convert money into a format for faster, cheaper, and more secure transactions in digital environments. As of June 2022, USDC had over USD 55 billion in circulation, and Circle projects this figure to reach USD 110 billion by the end of 2022.
USDC is designed to be blockchain-agnostic and currently operates natively on nine blockchain networks, with plans for further expansion. Circle recently introduced the Cross-Chain Transfer Protocol (CCTP) in April 2023, enabling seamless transfer of USDC across supported blockchains. The company also offers Circle Accounts, which function as digital currency business bank accounts, allowing businesses to manage, store, and earn yield on their USDC holdings.
In addition to its stablecoin offerings, Circle provides programmable wallets and developer tools, enabling businesses to embed digital asset capabilities into their existing applications. The company aims to create an internet-native financial infrastructure, positioning USDC as a "dollar API" for innovative financial services built on open blockchains.
Circle has formed partnerships with various companies, including MoneyGram, Mastercard, and Plaid, to facilitate the adoption of USDC in remittances, ecommerce, and other use cases. In May 2024, Circle officially launched its services in Brazil, partnering with BTG Pactual, Latin America's largest investment bank, to distribute USDC and provide local banking rail capabilities.

Travel Tech

Hopper is a travel booking startup that allows users to book flights, hotels, and cars. In January 2022, it additionally launched short-term home rentals, similar to Airbnb and VRBO. The platform was initially established as a free app that predicts the best time to purchase a flight. It has since expanded its offerings to provide additional services, which it dubs “travel FinTech,” that includes a unique program where customers can pay a fee (usually 10–20% of the ticket price) to lock a flight's price for a week. If the fare increases and the customer buys the ticket, Hopper covers the difference. Hopper Cloud—the company's effort to expand its business by creating a larger B2B platform for companies already utilizing its B2C platform—was launched in March 2021, enabling travel companies to integrate Hopper's travel services and FinTech offerings.Hopper generates revenue through commissions on bookings and licensing its proprietary travel FinTech software to businesses. As of February 2022, travel FinTech products accounted for ~70% of Hopper's air travel sales, while Hopper Cloud contributed 15% to total sales. As of November 2022, Hopper reported around 80 million downloads of its free app, supporting its claims of being the third-largest online travel agent in the US.Hopper acquired the Paris-based airline merchandising and customer care platform, Smooss, in February 2022. Hopper intended to expand HopperCloud’s adoption among airlines through the acquisition. Other acquisitions include of PlacePass (October 2021) to build a new division focused on traveller experiences, Journy (May 2021) and GDX Travel (November 2019) to expand to Latin America, and the dynamic restaurant-pricing app, Gravy (September 2019).In <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/20054">July 2023 </a>, Hopper ended its supply relationship with Expedia having been accused by the latter of exploiting consumer anxiety and confusing customers, leading them to purchase services they neither need nor fully understand. Hopper refuted these claims, stating that Expedia Group views Hopper as a significant competitive threat.Key customers and partnershipsIn&nbsp;<a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/36368">November 2024</a>, Hopper partnered with Acai Travel to improve efficiency in customer service operations. Previously in&nbsp;<a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates?industryIds=101">August 2024,</a> the company partnered with Tripadvisor to launch an in-app hotel booking feature on the Tripadvisor app.Previously in August 2023, Hopper entered into a partnership with Air Canada, to introduce "Cancel for Any Reason" policies, allowing customers to cancel non-refundable fares up to 24 hours before departure.Older partnerships included that with:1) CommBank to integrate travel features via Hopper Cloud into the bank’s app (<a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/18833">May 2023</a>)2) RateGain Travel Technologies to link Hopper to hotels and hospitality companies worldwide, allowing reservations made through selected Hopper Cloud partners to be processed through RateGain's Connectivity Switch platform (February 2022)3) Capital One to launch Capital One Travel, a travel reservation platform powered by Hopper Cloud, to offer perks and FinTech features such as price lock, price decline coverage, and flexible cancellation insurance for Capital One cardholders (December 2021)Key competitors: None (Hopper is a leading player in the US, providing additional services, which it dubs “travel FinTech")

Promises increased productivity, cost-efficiency, and competitiveness in the legal industry

LegalTech

Eigen Technologies is an intelligent document processing (IDP) company that provides a no-code, AI-powered platform to automate the extraction of data from documents. Its technology utilizes machine learning to comprehend context and extract relevant information with high accuracy, even with a limited number of training documents. Eigen's platform is customizable and can be applied across various use cases, especially in industries dealing with large volumes of unstructured data trapped in documents.
One of Eigen's key offerings is Underwriter Assistant, launched in September 2022, which tackles the challenges faced by insurance underwriters in processing submission documents. This suite of solutions automates tasks such as submission triage, ingestion, sanctions checks, loss run extraction, and pricing integration, enabling underwriters to focus on core underwriting activities and write more business faster.
Eigen's IDP solution has garnered recognition, including being named on the Forbes AI 50 list in 2022, which highlights the most impactful AI companies in North America. In June 2024, Eigen Technologies was acquired by Sirion, an AI-native contract lifecycle management company, to integrate its document AI capabilities with Sirion's contract intelligence platform.

Automation to improve business efficiency

Workflow Automation Platforms

Automation Anywhere offers a cloud-based platform that enables citizen and professional developers to orchestrate processes and create end-to-end automations across the finance, HR, and customer service business functions. Named the “Automation Success Platform,” it provides a suite of solutions including: 1) A GenAI-powered co-pilot solution that converts natural language prompts to automations; 2) A no-code process composing interface; 3) A document processing solution that enables users to extract and embed document data into workflows; and 4) Robotic process automation (RPA) bot-building tools.The platform’s function-specific solutions include procure-to-pay, order-to-cash, and tax automation solutions for accounting teams, order management, and complaint resolution solutions for sales teams, and vendor onboarding and procurement solutions for operations teams.The platform also offers an API-as-a-service solution that offers low-latency APIs as pre-built packages to enable developers to integrate automations across multiple third-party applications. Users can also transform APIs into no-code automation building blocks to build automations at scale and reuse assets when required. As of October 2023, the company also offered over 1,200 of pre-built connectors to enterprise workflow apps, such as MuleSoft, Salesforce, Workato, ServiceNow, Boomi, Alteryx, and Pipefy.Automation Anywhere leverages custom GenAI automation models trained on anonymized metadata from millions of automations as a foundation for many of its products. Named the “Responsible AI Layer,” the company integrates this layer into its tools to add a range of use cases, such as email triage and routing for customer service teams, anti-money laundering alerts and reporting for banks, and after-visit summaries for patients in healthcare. In June 2024, it <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/30479">launched the “AI + Automation Enterprise System,”</a> which aimed to infuse GenAI technology across a range of its workflow automation products. It includes a low-code development studio, which enables users to create and manage custom AI Agents that can make informed decisions and perform automated actions across enterprise systems. The system is powered by the company’s new GenAI process models that are trained on metadata from over 300 million process automations running on the platform.Moreover, the company has also expanded its offerings through acquisitions. The company acquired Cathyos Labs, an Indian product engineering company, and KlevOps, a French RPA startup, in 2019. Automation Anywhere leveraged the acquisition of Cathyos to add to its engineering team, increase product development, and support its expansion in Asia, and KlevOps to expand its RPA solutions. The company went on to acquire FortressIQ, a process mining company, in December 2021, to offer process discovery, intelligence, and optimization solutions to its customers. &nbsp;Key customers and partnershipsAutomation Anywhere has an extensive partner ecosystem with a range of companies that include Google, Oracle, Salesforce, and Microsoft, among many others. In June 2023, the company expanded its partnership with Google to use Google Cloud's large language models (LLMs) via Vertex AI to support the development and launch of new GenAI features on the Automation Success Platform. In December 2023, It <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/24821">entered with a multi-year strategic partnership with AWS</a> to enhance its capabilities in AI applications and intelligent automation and develop industry-specific automation solutions. It went on to <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/30347">expand its partnerships with AWS and Microsoft</a> in June 2024 to integrate Q, Amazon’s GenAI assistant, and Microsoft’s Azure OpenAI service into its platform. The integrations enabled the company to enhance the capabilities of virtual AI agents created via the Automation Anywhere platform, enabling users to automate more complex tasks. Users can leverage Amazon Q to program agents to answer queries, provide summaries, generate content, and complete tasks based on enterprise data. Moreover, the integration of OpenAI enables the company to leverage Azure AI Document Intelligence, enabling customers to process unstructured documents. In November 2024,&nbsp;<a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/36090">the company partnered with PwC India</a> to deliver AI-driven automation solutions to Indian businesses across the financial services, retail, manufacturing, telecom, media, and healthcare industries.As of October 2023, the company served a range of enterprise customers across more than 90 countries in the healthcare, financial services, insurance, and manufacturing sectors. These include the NHS, Dell, Merck, Granite, Eastman, and Tata/Sky.&nbsp;&nbsp;

Sterilize with ease: The future of hygiene technology

Hygiene Tech

BURST Oral Care is a healthcare company dedicated to providing innovative oral hygiene products. Their flagship offerings include the Pro Sonic Toothbrush and the Curve Sonic Toothbrush, both designed in collaboration with a network of over 35,000 dental professionals. The Pro Sonic Toothbrush features cutting-edge technology such as a high-end color LED screen, smart responsive software, and an impressive 9-month rechargeable battery life. It also offers five custom brushing modes, including Whitening, Clean, Sensitivity, Freshen, and Massage. The brush's tapered bristles are soft and help remove up to 10 times more plaque than a manual brush.
The Curve Sonic Toothbrush is a compact, curved powerhouse designed to target neglected back molars with precision. It boasts super soft tapered bristles, cleansing sonic vibrations, whitening and sensitive modes, and a two-minute timer. With a 75-day battery life and a sanitary travel top, the Curve is an ideal on-the-go option.

Giving firms greater control over their SaaS stack

B2B SaaS Management Platforms

LeanIX is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform that provides Enterprise Architecture Management (EAM) solutions. Its flagship product, the Continuous Transformation Platform, enables organizations to gain comprehensive visibility and superior governance over their IT landscapes. Through an automated and data-driven approach, LeanIX helps companies organize, plan, and manage their application portfolios, SaaS contracts, and DevOps projects. The platform's core offerings include Enterprise Architecture Management, SaaS Management, and Value Stream Management.
LeanIX's EAM solution empowers organizations to visualize their entire IT application landscape, identify obsolete applications, design target architectures, and plan architectural roadmaps. The solution leverages a flexible, best-practice data model that serves as a foundation for addressing future business challenges. It provides real-time overviews of IT landscapes and business capabilities, enabling organizations to transform productivity and accelerate business transformation while reducing costs and risks.
In September 2023, LeanIX was acquired by SAP to expand its business transformation portfolio and facilitate AI-enabled process optimization. The acquisition aimed to provide customers with a comprehensive suite of tools for continuous business transformation, leveraging LeanIX's EAM capabilities in conjunction with SAP's offerings.

Tools that streamline software development

DevOps Toolchain

Diffblue is a UK-based AI startup that offers tools to write code for software development. Spun out from the Oxford University AI research group in 2016, Diffblue is automating coding tasks like unit testing, allowing developers to focus on creativity and software functionality.The firm’s flagship product, Diffblue Cover, uses proprietary AI software and accelerates software delivery by writing Java unit tests (tests for individual software components) in a fraction of the time required by a human developer, as claimed by the company. Unit tests are used to validate application behavior, such as when reviewing code changes, enabling developers to identify bugs or regressions when an unexpected change in application behavior is encountered. Cover automatically maintains its test coverage as code is updated, supporting continuous integration (CI) and DevOps.Cover is available as a standalone command line interface (CLI) tool or a plug-in for the Java IntelliJ IDE and offers the following features:1) Cover Core: Autonomously compiles and runs unit tests to validate Java application behavior2) Cover Report: Generates actionable insights on codebases, including unit test coverage reports and information on code quality, testability, and complexity3) Cover Optimize: Minimizes the time required to test changes by running only unit tests required to validate the code change4) Cover Refactor: Rewrites code to optimize observability and testability, expands coverage by writing tests for newly testable codeCompared to other AI-powered coding tools, which generally offer code suggestions or auto-complete functionality and require human input to write finished code, Diffblue’s solution writes new test code autonomously, leveraging unsupervised reinforcement learning instead of pre-trained transformers. Cover runs entirely within an organization’s local environment and does not pull code from external repositories, utilizing only the codebase of the applications within its coverage.In September 2020, Diffblue launched a free community version of its Cover product, offering limited access to its IntellJ plug-in. In 2024, it was made available on GitHub and GitLab platforms.Key customers and partnershipsAs of May 2024, Diffblue’s customers included Goldman Sachs, Citi, JP Morgan, S&amp;P Global, OPERS, Raytheon, and Cisco.

Using autonomous, green, IoT, and digital technologies to shape the future of ocean-based transportation

Shipping Tech

NYSHEX (New York Shipping Exchange) is a technology company founded in 2014 that provides an integrated platform to improve contract performance and reliability in the ocean freight shipping industry. The company offers a digital infrastructure that serves as a shared system of record for shippers, carriers, and non-vessel operating common carriers (NVOCCs). NYSHEX's platform harmonizes contract and performance data, providing real-time visibility into ocean freight contracts and enabling users to monitor performance, receive automated alerts on booking patterns, and adapt to changing market dynamics.
The company's core product, the NYSHEX Forward Contract, is a standardized, enforceable agreement that locks in rates for specific weeks up to six months in advance, including all mandatory charges. This contract is designed to work alongside existing long-term and spot market contracts, offering space and equipment guarantees with fixed rates. NYSHEX's technology monitors contract compliance, and if a party fails to honor their commitment, the exchange collects and distributes liquidated damages.
In March 2022, NYSHEX reported a 340% revenue growth for 2021, with shipping volumes more than tripling. The company handled USD 1 billion in gross freight volume in 2021 and anticipated increasing that to USD 4 billion by the end of 2022. As of September 2022, NYSHEX's platform was being used by over 190 BCOs, 130 NVOs, and seven carriers globally, including major companies such as PVH, Serena & Lily, and Staples. In June 2024, MSC, the world's largest fleet operator, announced an agreement to use NYSHEX's platform for digitalizing the performance monitoring of its ocean freight contracts.

A decentralized version of the web powered by the blockchain

Web3 Ecosystem

Circle specializes in digital currency infrastructure and services. Its Web3 developer tools include a comprehensive platform with APIs and SDKs for building dApps, along with its Smart Contract Platform for blockchain integration.&nbsp;In addition, it offers Programmable Wallets, a wallet-as-a-service platform that uses multi-party computation (MPC) technology to enable developers to embed secure cryptocurrency wallets into its applications. This service supports various digital assets, including stablecoins, NFTs, and other token standards across multiple blockchain networks.

Empowering efficiency, visibility and collaboration throughout supply networks

Supply Chain Tech

TraceLink offers a digital network platform that provides end-to-end supply chain orchestration solutions for the healthcare and life sciences industry. The platform enables the seamless exchange of information among partners related to supply chain planning, external manufacturing, logistics, clinical supply, and more, enabling rapid onboarding, management, and integration of partners' systems and business processes. This approach enhances supply chain visibility and prevents counterfeit products from entering the market. As of September 2024, the platform connected over 291,000+ authenticated network members across the healthcare and life sciences supply chain.The company also uses its Opus platform to provide users with advanced data-sharing capabilities, application development tools, and an open ecosystem for supply chain partners to build custom applications. It focuses on transforming supply chain operations by enabling greater agility and efficiency. In addition, it offers serialized product intelligence (SPI) and compliance and serialization solutions to help pharmaceutical companies comply with regulatory requirements, including the US Drug Supply Chain Security Act (DSCSA) and the European Falsified Medicines Directive (FMD). In September 2024, the company&nbsp;<a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/33223">announced</a> the Magnum release of its Opus platform, which had several key features, including the Opus Solution Environment (OSE) for no-code configuration of multi-enterprise supply chain solutions, a Universal Integration Platform for interoperable integration formats, and the Multienterprise Information Network Tower (MINT) to orchestrate various supply chain processes. It also includes integrated supply chain reports, dashboards, and an AI copilot called "Amadeus”. In September 2024, the company also&nbsp;<a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/33925">launched</a> Opus Reports and Dashboards as part of its Opus Platform Magnum release. This new feature allows users to monitor supply chain performance metrics in real-time and is accessible through a Microsoft or Azure Active Directory account. In addition it introduced Amadeus, an AI assistant designed to help users configure and optimize supply networks.&nbsp;In August 2009, TraceLink acquired SupplyScape Corporation. This acquisition bolstered TraceLink's track-and-trace offerings, enabling better security and compliance in the pharmaceutical supply chain. In August 2017, the company also acquired ROC IT Solutions. This acquisition allowed TraceLink to integrate ROC IT's EdgeTRAC solution into its existing serialization software, enhancing its capabilities for managing warehouse product inventory and serialized product data.&nbsp;&nbsp;Key customers and partnerships&nbsp;TraceLink serves a wide range of customers across the healthcare and life sciences supply chain, including manufacturers, wholesalers, distributors, and pharmacies. Notable customers included Boston Medical Center, Merz Therapeutics, and Sentara Health. As of September 2024, TraceLink had processed over 454 million transactions and had 1,600+ customers across the supply chain.In May 2024, TraceLink partnered with RSM to accelerate the digital transformation of the global healthcare and life sciences industries.&nbsp;In June 2023, TraceLink announced a partnership with Value Drug Company to provide a comprehensive commercial solution and services program for independent pharmacies to meet the Drug Supply Chain Security Act (DSCSA) regulatory requirements.&nbsp;

Harnessing tech to provide exceptional customer experiences

Customer Service Platforms

CallMiner is a leading provider of conversation intelligence and speech analytics solutions for contact centers and customer experience improvement. The company's AI-powered platform analyzes 100% of customer interactions across multiple communication channels, including voice calls, emails, chats, and social media. CallMiner's technology transcribes and analyzes these interactions to provide insights into customer sentiment, emotion, and behavior. The platform offers features such as automated performance scoring, real-time and post-interaction analytics, and omnichannel capabilities. CallMiner's solution helps organizations optimize customer experiences, improve agent performance, and drive operational efficiency. The company's platform integrates with existing business systems and supports a range of industries, including banking, telecommunications, healthcare, and retail. In March 2024, CallMiner was named a leader in the SPARK Matrix for Speech Analytics by Quadrant Knowledge Solutions, highlighting its technology excellence and customer impact.

Creating safer digital communities with AI vigilance

Automated Content Moderation

Cogito is a company that develops artificial intelligence (AI) software designed to enhance customer service interactions in contact centers. Founded in 2007 as a spinout from the MIT Media Lab, Cogito's core technology uses voice analysis algorithms to provide real-time coaching and guidance to call center agents. The software analyzes over 200 acoustic and lexical signals during phone conversations, extracting data on tone, pitch, word frequency, and other factors to gauge customer sentiment and agent performance. This enables Cogito to offer live behavioral cues to agents, helping them adjust their communication style and improve customer satisfaction.
Cogito's AI platform provides features like automated call transcription, personalized coaching plans for agents, and post-call smart summaries powered by generative AI. The software aims to increase first-call resolution rates, reduce average handle times, and enhance overall interaction quality. Cogito's technology was initially developed to help healthcare providers detect mental health issues in soldiers, but has since been adapted for enterprise customer service applications. The company's software is used across industries including healthcare, insurance, financial services, telecommunications, and travel.

Empowering Tomorrow's Innovations with Generative AI Infrastructure

Generative AI Infrastructure

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 DataStax offers technologies that enable organizations to develop AI-powered applications leveraging real-time data. Its product offerings include Astra DB, Vector Search, Astra Streaming, RAGStack, and DataStax Enterprise.&nbsp;
 
 
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 DataStax Vector Search offers an API that supports vector and structured data for Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) applications and enables the building of GenAI and RAG apps with features like real-time data and streaming capabilities.
 
 
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 RAGStack streamlines RAG in GenAI apps, leveraging LangChain and LLamaIndex to boost developer productivity, system performance, and accuracy with continuous updates, enterprise-level governance, scalability, and cost-effectiveness, while DataStax Enterprise is a cloud-native NoSQL database platform built on Apache Cassandra.
 
 
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 Key partnerships include a collaboration with Google to integrate vector search capabilities into its AstraDB NoSQL database-as-a-service (June 2023), a strategic partnership with AWS to provide customers developing GenAI applications access to the Astra DB Vector Database (November 2023), and a partnership with LlamaIndex to launch RAGStack to develop GenAI applications with fewer hallucinations (
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BitGo is an institutional digital asset financial services company that provides clients with security, custody, and liquidity solutions. BitGo supports over 200 coins and tokens and has over $2 billion in assets in its wallet. The company's customer base includes cryptocurrency exchanges and spans more than 50 countries. In 2018, the company introduced BitGo Custody and launched BitGo Trust Company, a qualified custodian purpose-built for storing digital assets.

Tradeshift is a cloud-based business network connecting buyers and suppliers. Its platform enables its clients to connect with all their suppliers digitally in order to seize early payment discounts and minimize risks, eliminating paper and manual processes across procure-to-pay, thereby allowing businesses to simplify supply chain payments in a secure manner.

Limble CMMS develops computerized maintenance management software to track, manage, schedule, and report maintenance activities. The company includes asset management, work orders, preventive maintenance, predictive maintenance, inventory, and vendor management. By leveraging technology, Limble helps businesses streamline their maintenance operations, reduce downtime, and extend the lifespan of their assets.

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.

Bud Financial (“Bud”) enriches financial data, identifying the likes of merchant, category, location and regularity of transactions, to provide actionable insights and readable inputs for LLMs in the financial services industry. Scaling rapidly, Bud has been a trailblazer in its use of AI since 2015. The company has enabled banks and fintechs worldwide to get customer context from their transaction data so they can personalize the banking experience, proactively manage risk and optimize their business operations. With tens of billions of transactions processed, Bud’s market-leading transactional enrichment, categorization and analysis helps financial institutions to become intelligent enterprises, fully harnessing their customer data and finding new, data-driven opportunities to grow.

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.

Securing the Future. AvePoint is the global leader in data management and data governance, and over 21,000 customers worldwide rely on our solutions to secure the digital workplace across Microsoft, Google, Salesforce and other cloud environments. AvePoint's global partner program includes over 3,500 managed service providers, value added resellers and systems integrators, with our solutions available in more than 100 cloud marketplaces. To learn more, visit www.avepoint.com. For more information, visit https://www.avepoint.com.

Fortanix is building a new security category with its Runtime Encryption(R) technology using Intel SGX. Just like encryption today protects data at rest and data during motion, Runtime Encryption(R) keeps keys, data, and applications completely protected even when infrastructure has been compromised and even root users are malicious.  Fortanix's Self-Defending Key Management Service (SDKMS) is a next-generation cloud-native solution for your enterprise encryption needs. It offers key generation, management, distribution, encryption-as-a-service, HSM, KMIP, and tokenization all rolled in as a single product with the highest possible level of security and cloud scale. Available as both FIPS certified appliance and a globally available SaaS (with Equinix's strong SLA), SDKMS offers incredible simple central management, server-side load balancing, central tamper-proof logging, RESTful APIs, and Runtime Encryption(R) plugin to run custom code. Fortanix's Runtime Encryption(R) Platform allows customers to bring any docker container and run them securely inside Intel SGX without any modification. It allows customers to share data with each other without losing control of the data, run analytics on sensitive data, run applications securely in the remote cloud, move PII-heavy sensitive data to the public cloud, etc.  Fortanix's Enclave Development Platform (EDP) allows customers to write Rust code to run natively as SGX enclaves. Supported by the mainline Rust compiler, developers find EDP as the easiest and the most secure way of developing new applications. In a short time, Fortanix has developed a strategic partnership with Equinix and IBM cloud and counts multiple F50 companies as its customers. Fortanix is a Gartner Cool Vendor and also was runner-up in RSA Innovation Sandbox among 500+ security companies where judges called it the ''holy grail of security''. Fortanix has more than ten patents pending its innovation.

D-Wave provides development and delivery of quantum computing systems, software and services, and is the world’s first commercial supplier of quantum computers—and the only company building both annealing quantum computers and gate-model quantum computers. Our mission is to unlock the power of quantum computing today to benefit business and society.

Malt is connecting available freelancers and customers with an easy-to-use search engine. Freelancers display their experience, work, and previous customer comments on a profile page, which let customers contact them. Malt then provides services to both parties to make it easy to pay, accept contracts, leave a comment, and be automatically insured (with AXA) while the work is being done. Malt is available in France and Spain and will expand its operations to other European countries in 2018. Already, customers are replacing IT staffing companies or agencies with Malt to find developers, designers, and other freelancers.

Acronis unifies data protection and cybersecurity to deliver integrated, automated cyber protection that solves the safety, accessibility, privacy, authenticity, and security (SAPAS) challenges of the modern digital world. With flexible deployment models that fit the demands of service providers and IT professionals, Acronis provides superior cyber protection for data, applications, and systems with innovative next-generation antivirus, backup, disaster recovery, and endpoint protection management solutions powered by AI. With advanced anti-malware powered by cutting-edge machine intelligence and blockchain based data authentication technologies, Acronis protects any environment - from cloud to hybrid to on premises - at a predictable cost. Acronis is a Swiss company, founded in Singapore. Celebrating two decades of innovation, Acronis has more than 2,000 employees in 45 locations. Acronis Cyber Protect solution is available in 26 languages in over 150 countries and is used by 16,000 service providers to protect over 750,000 businesses.

CallMiner is a company specializing in speech and voice analytics technology. It provides solutions for analyzing and extracting insights from customer interactions, particularly in call centers. CallMiner's software uses artificial intelligence and natural language processing to transcribe and analyze spoken conversations, enabling organizations to gain valuable information about customer interactions, employee performance, and other relevant data. The company's technology is often used for improving customer service, compliance monitoring, and overall business intelligence.

DataStax is the company that powers generative AI applications with real-time, scalable data and production-ready vector data tools that generative AI applications need, and seamless integration with developers’ stacks of choice. The Astra DB vector database provides developers with elegant APIs, powerful real-time data pipelines, and complete ecosystem integrations to quickly build and deploy production-level AI applications.

unico IDtech is a developer of facial recognition and identification technology created to solve document and process management. The company's solutions operate on biometric authentication, digital onboarding and paperless verticals with a focus to transform relevant business processes, making the workflow between the company, government, and the client to be simple and controlled.

Happiness is the best driver for success. Their mission is to make the workforce of their customers happy. beqom drives happiness by allowing business managers to lead, align and motivate employees and partners. The beqom Total Compensation platform is used globally across all industry sectors by over 100 large companies such as Microsoft and Vodafone. It addresses all Performance and Compensation aspects such as Salary Review, Bonus, Long-Term Incentives, Commissions, Benefits, Non-cash rewards and all key drivers towards Employee Performance and Sales Performance. HR, Sales and Finance organizations leverage their platform to drive performance, retention, cost optimization and... happiness among their people. beqom – to make your people happy.

Evisit is a web application that connects primary care providers with their patients by webcam or phone for the remote diagnosis and treatment of most minor medical conditions. The company is changing the healthcare delivery model and disrupting the $135 billion dollars primary care market by allowing physicians to recapture patient visits from the Urgent Care and Emergency Room. Physicians reclaim lost revenue from missed appointments, and patients receive high-quality care from work, home, or on the road from the doctor that knows them best. The eVisit platform allows providers to collect patient co-pays, electronically prescribe prescriptions to the pharmacy of the patients' choice, and submit medical charts for reimbursement to 3rd party payers. Unlike other telemedicine companies, eVisit circumvents many of the regulatory issues by maintaining the doctor-patient relationship and keeping patients in their PCMH (Patient-Centered Medical Home).

Jiangsu Kangzhong Shiye Investment operates a retail chain, Carzone, that deals in and retails automotive post-market parts. The company was founded in 1995 and is based in Nanjing, China.

We want patients to find the perfect doctor and book an appointment in the most easy way. The patient journey should be enjoyable, and that's why we are always next to them: to help them find the best possible care. Anytime, anywhere. We also help doctors to better manage their practice and build their online reputation. With our integrated end-to-end solution, doctors are able not only to improve their online presence, but also to devote their time to what really matters: their patients.

Polly is a licensed car insurance dealer. Buyers who shop with Polly at the company's dealership can use their savings to get a better car package or lower their overall monthly payments.

Hopper is a travel app that uses predictive analytics to make travel recommendations. The mobile application uses big data to predict and analyze airfare and accommodations. Hopper provides travelers with the information they need to get the best deals on flights and hotels and notifies them when prices are at their predicted lowest points. In 2007, Frederic Lalonde and Joost Ouwerkerk co-founded Hopper in Montréal, Quebec.

Carta is a transfer agent for private companies that enables seed-stage to pre-IPO companies to manage equity electronically with the participation of their shareholders, employees, auditors, and legal counsel. It digitizes paper stock certificates along with stock options, warrants, and derivatives to create a real-time image of who owns what at a startup.

Back Market is an online marketplace for refurbished electronics. The company brings refurbished electronic devices and appliances to customers in 13 countries (including the United States, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, Italy, Spain, Belgium, Austria, the Netherlands, and more recently, Portugal, Japan, Finland, and Ireland). It employs a team of 480 employees and counting across its 4 offices located in New York, Berlin, Paris, and Bordeaux. Launched in 2014 by Thibaud Hug de Larauze, Quentin Le Brouster, and Vianney Vaute, Back Market is headquartered in Paris, France.

Bitkey is a company provides its own key technology.

Aras is a suite of open source product life cycle management (PLM) software solutions that run on a model-based SOA application framework. Aras functionality includes Bill of Materials (BOM), engineering change workflows, document management, CAD / EDA integrations, product costing, new product development & introduction (NPDI), phase-gate project management, supplier collaboration, quality compliance, manufacturing process management, tooling management, and more. It was founded in 2000 and headquartered in Andover, Massachusetts.

GumGum is an artificial intelligence company focusing on computer vision and natural language processing. The company's mission is to unlock the value of images and videos produced everyday across the web, social media, and broadcast television. It teaches machines to solve hard problems across the media industry. The company serves contextual marketing in line with content users, helps marketers and right holders understand the media value of their sponsorship investments, and introduces the content safety analysis engine that finds what is relevant or what is dangerous. GumGum was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in Santa Monica, California.

Better.com democratized the home-financing ecosystem, replacing it with a digitized process that eliminates commissions, fees, unnecessary steps, and time-wasting branch appointments. In addition to providing mortgage rates in seconds, Better.com’s platform offers a digital marketplace featuring competitive quotes from an array of insurance providers for the seamless purchase of a homeowner's insurance policy and instant access to leading real estate agents across the country. To date, Better.com has done $7.9B in home loans and $1B in insurance.

Striim is the only supplier of unified, real-time data streaming and integration for enterprise analytics and operations. Striim offers a self-managed or fully-managed (SaaS) platform that makes it easy to set up smart data pipelines to continuously ingest, process, and deliver high volumes of data from enterprise databases such as Oracle (using non-intrusive change data capture), log files, messaging systems, and sensors, to virtually any target such as Google BigQuery, Azure Synapse or Snowflake with sub-second latency enabling real-time operations and analytics and unleashing innovation. The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

Billie is a wellness company that offers shaving supplies and body products.  Billie is committed to designing products that are uniquely built to provide women everyday TLC from top to toe. Billie believes that women shouldn't be an afterthought in the shaving category and that they deserve to have a great shave without having to pay more for it. Billie was founded in 2017 and is based in New York.

Splice helps music creators bring their ideas to life. Through a vast, industry-leading catalog of high-quality licensed samples, paired with powerful AI, the platform accelerates deep sound discovery and inspiration. Committed every day to empowering music creators everywhere, Splice also provides affordable access to plugins and DAWs through a rent-to-own gear marketplace. The New York based startup (Co-founded by Steve Martocci and Matt Aimonetti) closed a Series D round in November 2020 and is led by CEO Kakul Srivastava.

Shanghai ANE Logistics is a less than truckload(LTL) operator with a franchise model in China. ANE pioneers the franchise model in China’s LTL industry and has established a robust national delivery network through self-operated sorting centers, contracted line-haul trucks and franchised pick-up-and-delivery stores.The company currently has about 5,000 franchised stores nationwide.

Slync.io is the innovator behind the first purpose-built orchestration platform for global shippers and logistics service providers that delivers higher productivity and process efficiency through intelligent automation. Logistics Orchestration by Slync.io makes teams more productive, companies more profitable, and customers more successful. Slync’s platform connects disparate systems, ingests structured and unstructured datasets, orchestrates teams, and automates processes seamlessly to advance the global freight industry.

Tuhu offers same-day or next-day automobile after-sales product delivery and installation services in more than 260 cities across mainland China. The company provides its services via its website, mobile app, call center, and third-party e-commerce platforms.

Sumscope is dedicated to building the world’s leading financial information service platform for RMB market.

Wolt is a food delivery company specializing in real-time logistics optimization.The technology company is known for its food delivery platform which enables its users to easily discover and get the food that they want by just selecting a restaurant, placing the order, and hitting send.

Elinvar enables asset and wealth managers to digitalize their business models by providing the required Platform as a Service. This includes applications for core processes like client relationship management, online onboarding, onsite advisory support, portfolio management, reporting, invoicing, online client access and communication as well as third party connections, e.g. to custodian banks, market data or KYC providers. Elinvar’s partners profit from the combination of leading technology and the optimal regulatory setup as Elinvar holds all necessary BaFin licenses. With this comprehensive approach, Elinvar creates the unique opportunity for its partners to go digital in one step and to utilize state of the art analytics to create individualized solutions to the benefit of their clients.

Very Good Security provides a secure payment environment, tracks PCI, and optimizes payment services. They decouple and insulate customer systems and applications from sensitive data. Their security protects data in formats including pdfs, images, emails, and voice calls. They also provide card payment data security solutions in the markets. They design a solution that helps card payment issuers protect payment card industry data.

Amount is a digital technology company that accelerates digital transformation for financial institutions. Amount partners can optimize performance across product categories by tapping into various service offerings including customer acquisition, funnel and performance assessments, and risk consulting and analytics. Amount clients include financial institutions collectively managing close to $1T in US assets and servicing more than 25 million U.S. customers.

On a mission to fuel the future of commerce by bringing brands and customers closer together, Stackline is the first full-funnel connected commerce platform for the world’s most innovative brands. Stackline's proprietary neural networks and deep learning systems surface and visualize transformational omnichannel insights, power market-leading advertising performance, and activate every step of the shopper journey. Brand leaders, product innovators, and performance marketers trust Stackline to power profitable growth in an increasingly complex retail ecosystem.

Cogito is a computer service company that enhances the emotional intelligence of phone professionals by applying behavioral science through artificial intelligence and machine learning. Its software evaluates hundreds of behavioral signals through voice to provide live conversation coaching for agents and a real-time measure of customer experience for every call.

Redis is the world’s fastest in-memory database. We provide cloud and on-prem solutions for caching, vector search, and more that seamlessly fit into any tech stack. With fast setup and fast support, we make it simple for digital customers to build, scale, and deploy the fast apps our world runs on.

Moonbug is a global entertainment company that creates and distributes inspiring and engaging stories to expand kids’ worlds and minds. Founded in 2018, with offices in London and Los Angeles, Moonbug creates, produces and publishes thousands of minutes of video and audio content every month with the goal of teaching compassion, empathy and resilience to kids around the world.

LeanIX offers a SaaS for enterprise architecture (EA) that enables organizations to take faster, data-driven decisions in their IT.

Even offers an affordable on-demand pay product that allows employees to access their paychecks when they need it most—without confusing, hidden, or predatory fees. With a proven track record of reducing employee turnover and increasing retention and productivity, Even is the highest-rated on-demand pay app and has helped employees save more than $82 million to date.

JSonar is a database security startup that helps to protect comprehensive database security and compliance platform. It transforms this raw activity data into the key insights needed to satisfy diverse compliance requirements and to achieve a comprehensive data security program. The company provides next-generation security and compliance solutions for On-Premise and Cloud implementations based upon its advanced SonarC2 technology. The Data-Centric Audit & Protection (DCAP) and security data lake solutions can be deployed and delivering value within days and weeks rather than the years needed to develop an in-house platform. These solutions can be implemented either on-premise or via a Software as a Service (SaaS) capability. Ron Bennatan and Ury Segal founded JSonar in 2013 and is headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts.

Best Logistics (百世物流) is a Chinese comprehensive logistics supply chain service provider. The company provides comprehensive supply chain design and logistics services for domestic and foreign enterprises through its complete and systematic partner authentication management system, professional supply chain design solution, advanced information technologies, and comprehensive self-developed operation platform GeniMax system.  Founded in 2007, Best Logistics combines internet, information technology, and traditional logisctics services to create a new subversive commercial model to integrate the large logistics industry in China. The company has established multilevel operation centers nationwide, with a distribution network that covers the whole country.

Burst Oral Care is a subscription oral care company developing and selling a sonic toothbrush in collaboration with a community of dental professionals.

LumApps is a social, mobile, and smart intranet to connect and engage all employees in a central hub. It opens enterprise communications with a social and corporate intranet that employees love and use, to create a great digital workplace. Fully integrated with major collaborative suites like Google G Suite and Microsoft Office 365, LumApps gives access to all enterprise resources in one place: corporate news, personalized news feed, work applications and social communities.  and trust. LumApps works with organizations of all sizes and sectors to ensure business success through innovative digital cloud-based solutions. LumApps solutions support companies in their digital transformation and help build value through healthy work relationships. LumApps providing a single access point for personalized content, work applications and social communities and helps employees to work more efficiently, collaborate smarter and connect with coworkers.  LumApps was founded in 2012 and is based in Tassin, France with offices in San Francisco, New York, London, Paris, Tokyo and historical headquarters in Lyon.

Automation Anywhere is a global company that specialises in Robotic Process Automation, offering AI-powered software bots that automate repetitive tasks. The company's cloud-native platform integrates RPA, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and analytics to enhance productivity, customer experience, and employee engagement.

Trulioo operates a digital identity network that provides instant online identity, document, and business verification services.

Nestaway is a Bangalore-based home rental network attempting to provide better rental solutions via design and technology. They help their customers to find, book, and move-in to a rental home of choice across Indian cities - all from within an application. Moreover, they help them move-in, ask for services from tap leakage to door lock broken, rental payment, and finally move-out - again all within an app. NestAway was founded in January 2015.

Brocc (formerly Sparlån) is a Swedish-owned company launched in 2016. We are a digital marketplace where consumers can meet directly and exchange financial services without expensive intermediaries. Brocc is a simple, safe and smart solution that creates better and more fair terms. Brocc is registered as Payment Institution authorized by Finansinspektionen to transfer credits and payments.

DataX Co., Ltd. is the company behind an integrated digital marketing platform called B->Dash.

Lightricks develops creativity tools that enable its users to craft and share visual content on mobile devices. Lightricks integrates advanced technologies from computer vision, computer graphics, and image processing into mobile products. Lightricks' products include Facetune, Facetune 2, Enlight, Enlight Photofox, Enlight Videoleap, and Enlight Quickshot. Lightricks was founded in January 2013 by five entrepreneurs with comprehensive knowledge in the fields of computer graphics, image processing, machine learning, and artificial intelligence, who left promising careers in order to realize their dream.

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.

Lendable is a lending platform. When you borrow money, it comes straight from an investor. Unlike banks, who hand out loans from piles of cash they look after on behalf of savers. Their platform is super-fast (you’ll see in a moment), and makes lending as hassle- free as possible. It’s a matter of a few clicks and you get your quote. Unlike banks, who require paperwork and run expensive branch networks.

Optimizely develops web content management and digital experience software. Their application combines content, commerce, multi-channel marketing, and predictive analytics in a single platform to work full circle for businesses, providing capabilities such as intelligent optimization, lead generation, web product recommendations, conversion, and repeat business with unprecedented ease of use for clients.

Aryaka Networks, headquartered in Santa Clara, California, is a leader in cloud-first networking and security solutions. The company's Aryaka Unified SASE as a Service combines all networking and security functions. This makes the global WAN work better and safer for businesses in over 100 countries.

Unqork is a no-code enterprise application platform that helps companies build, deploy, and manage complex applications. Its platform allows users to manage complex applications without writing a single line of code and streamlines the product sales process to improve customer experience that enables large companies to build complex custom software faster with higher quality and lower costs than conventional approaches. It offers solutions for insurance, financial services, and state and local government sectors. The company was founded by Gary Hoberman in 2017 and is headquartered in New York, New York.

Kantata takes professional services technology to a new level, giving people-powered businesses the clarity, control, and confidence they need to optimize resource planning and elevate business performance. In an industry that’s long been underserved by technology, Kantata leaves point solutions, legacy automation strategies, and force-fit ERP and CRM approaches behind. Only Kantata can offer the breadth of purpose-built solutions and domain expertise needed to work alongside professional services organizations of all shapes and sizes. Kantata’s purpose-built software is helping over 2,500 professional services organizations in more than 100 countries across the globe to focus and optimize their most important asset: their people. By leveraging the Kantata Professional Services Cloud, professionals gain access to the information and tools they need to win more business, ensure the right people are always available at the right time, and delight clients with project delivery and outcomes.

Vestwell develops a digital savings platform to create a retirement plan for employees. It offers automated retirement investing options for RIAs depending on the rules and regulations and other defined contributions to companies and their employees to help advisers engage with their clients with compliance and automation.

Nav is a free site and app that gives business owners the fastest, easiest and most trusted path to financing. The leading Business Financial Management app, Nav gives free access to personal and business credit reports from major consumer and commercial credit bureaus including Experian, Dun & Bradstreet, Equifax and TransUnion, and hosts a robust marketplace with more than 100 business financing products including loans and credit cards. The marketplace uses a unique, lender-neutral approach to help business owners find the best financing options for their needs. Nav's solution is also leveraged by other business service providers to enhance their customer experience.

Nutmeg is changing the way people manage their money. Specializing in investments, ISAs and pensions, Nutmeg's online investment management service is intelligent, straightforward and fair. It is the first wealth manager with a 6 year performance track record in the UK. Founded in 2011, the company is based in London, UK.

Zipwhip features software that helps people businesses have more effective conversations by text-enabling existing phone numbers. Zipwhip pairs direct network connectivity with easy out-of-the-box software, so businesses of any size can give customers the choice to “text or call” and handle two-way text conversations at scale.  It was founded in 2007 and headquartered in Seattle, Washington.

Innovid is the only independent omni-channel advertising and analytics platform built for television. Innovid empowers advertisers to personalize, deliver and measure the most innovative advertising experiences on any device and media outlet through a single platform.

Revenue.io powers high-performing teams with real-time guidance. By surfacing and recommending what works best, Revenue.io enables hundreds of customers like HPE, Nutanix, and AWS to deliver predictable results and optimize their entire revenue operation. Founded in 2013, Revenue.io is headquartered in Los Angeles and backed by venture funding from Goldman Sachs, Bryant Stibel, and Palisades Capital.

Coople operates as a staffing platform that connects companies and workers. It is available on iOS and Android that features an algorithm to connect candidates whilst on the go with the most suitable jobs available. Through the app and platform, users and companies can rate each other, providing a clear and open network of trusted, skilled staff and dependable businesses.  The company was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland.

We created Tastemade with one goal in mind: to connect the world through food. A generation ago the cable industry launched category defining brands in food and lifestyle and we believe the same opportunity exists for today’s global, social and mobile digital platforms. Tastemade was founded by Steven Kydd, Larry Fitzgibbon, and Joe Perez and is funded by Redpoint Ventures.

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Prima.it distributes online insurance policies for cars, motorcycles, and vans. Through its online services, It enables its users to save time and manage all aspects of their insurance policies.

Egnyte provides a unified content security and governance solution for collaboration, data security, compliance, and threat detection for multicloud businesses. More than 16,000 organizations trust Egnyte to reduce risks and IT complexity, prevent ransomware and IP theft, and boost employee productivity on any app, any cloud, anywhere. Investors include GV (formerly Google Ventures), Kleiner Perkins, Caufield & Byers and Goldman Sachs.

Crux is an external data automation platform focused on the integration, transformation, and observability of third-party data. Companies use Crux for the delivery and operations bridging the data engineering gap between data suppliers and data consumers. Crux's state-of-the-art platform automates the development of data pipelines, ongoing validation of data quality, and management of operations between suppliers, consumers, and cloud platforms at scale. Backed by state of the art tech and a team of seasoned data engineers, the sky Is the limit when It comes to accelerating your external data Integration workflows. Crux was founded in 2017 by financial technology veterans and is backed by Citi, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and Two Sigma, among others.

Sonatype is a developer-friendly, full-spectrum software supply chain management providing organizations total control of their cloud-native development lifecycles, including third-party open-source code, first-party source code, infrastructure as code, and containerized code. The company supports 70% of the Fortune 100 and its commercial and open source tools are trusted by 15 million developers around the world. With a vision to transform the way the world innovates, Sonatype helps organizations of all sizes build higher quality software that's more aligned with business needs, more maintainable, and more secure.  Sonatype has been recognized by Fast Company as one of the Best Workplaces for Innovators in the world, two years in a row, and has been named to the Deloitte Technology Fast 500 and Inc. 5000 list for the past five years. Sonatype was established in 2008 and is based in Fulton, Maryland with offices in McLean, London, and Sydney.

Agari is the Trusted Email Identity Company™, protecting brands and people from devastating phishing and socially-engineered attacks. Using applied data science and a diverse set of signals, Agari protects the workforce from inbound business email compromise, supply chain fraud, spear phishing, and account takeover-based attacks, reducing business risk and restoring trust to the inbox.  Agari also prevents spoofing of outbound email from the enterprise to customers, increasing deliverability and preserving brand integrity.

Eigen is a Intelligent Document Processing company that enables its clients to quickly and precisely extract answers from their documents, so they can better manage risk, scale operations, automate processes and navigate dynamic regulatory environments.   Eigen’s customizable natural language processing platform uses machine learning to automate the extraction of answers from documents and can be applied to a wide variety of use cases. It understands context and delivers better accuracy on far fewer training documents, while protecting the security of clients’ data.    Founded in 2015, our clients include some of the most well-known and respected names in finance, law and professional services, including Goldman Sachs, ING, BlackRock and Allen & Overy. One-third of all G-SIBs use Eigen to overcome their document or data challenges. To date, Eigen has raised over $60m across two funding rounds from Goldman Sachs, Temasek, Lakestar, Dawn Capital and ING Ventures.

OutSystems is a low-code platform that enables businesses to develop, deploy, and manage enterprise-grade apps. The modern application platform's high productivity, connected, and AI-assisted tools help developers to innovate through software. It enables organizations to build applications that transform the customer experiences, delivers workplace innovation, automates processes, or modernizes core systems faster. OutSystems makes this possible by combining the power of low-code tools with advanced development capabilities, enabling visual development of entire applications that easily integrate with existing systems. The company is backed by investors such as Abdiel Capital, Tiger Global Management, Goldman Sachs, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, North Bridge Venture Partners & Growth Equity, and Armilar Venture Partners. Paulo Rosado and Rui Pereira co-founded the Boston, Massachusett-based company in 2001.

Voodoo is a tech company that creates mobile games and apps. With 7 billion downloads and over 150 million monthly active users, Voodoo is the #3 mobile publisher worldwide in terms of downloads after Google and Meta. The company is one of the most impressive examples of hypergrowth in the ecosystem, having raised over $1B and backed by Goldman Sachs, Tencent, and GBL. Voodoo is now a team of over 750 employees worldwide, we’re looking for talented individuals from across the globe to join.

Cubeiq is a business intelligence company that provides its clients with consumer behavior and trend insights.The company offers its clients with marketing, retail, research, and publisher services. Its marketing platform offers audience targeting, offline campaign attribution, performance analytics, and location insights. Its retail platform offers footfall analysis, site selection, and audience and geo-behavioral consumer insights. Its publisher platform offers audience segmentation, campaign attribution, and data monetization services.

Better.co.uk is a free online mortgage broker that's making mortgages fairer for everyone. Better.co.uk has taken the mortgage process online, removing the time, hassle and costs involved in securing a mortgage. Trussle is completely free for customers and receives a fee from the lender once the mortgage was completed. Better.co.uk is an appointed representative of Mortgage Advice Bureau Limited and Mortgage Advice Bureau (Derby) Limited which is authorized and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority.

PFL offers software solutions that help brands use digital intent signals to inform the content and timing of their tactile marketing, improving the ROI of their marketing spend. Their marketing automation and CRM platforms include printing, mailing, and fulfillment services.

Digital Reasoning is a developer of an artificial intelligence cognitive computing platform intended for businesses. It is an Artificial Intelligence company that understands the nuances of human intention and behavior found in communications providing global enterprises with critical intelligence and insights. It was founded by Tim Estes in 2000 and is headquartered in Franklin, Tennessee.

As part of the Merchant Banking Division of Goldman Sachs, GS Growth is the firm’s investment platform dedicated to providing preferred equity and mezzanine capital to high-growth companies. As of June 2019, Goldman Sachs' investing groups (Goldman Sachs Growth Equity, Principal Strategic Investments, and Private Capital Investing) have combined to form the GS Growth team. The team targets investments of $20-250 million.

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