Jerry Chih-Yuan Yang is a Taiwanese-American billionaire computer programmer, internet entrepreneur, and venture capitalist. He is the co-founder and former CEO of Yahoo! Inc., which he started with classmate David Filo in 1994.
SAP SE is a German multinational software company based in Walldorf, Baden-Württemberg. It develops enterprise software to manage business operations and customer relations. The company is the world's leading enterprise resource planning (ERP) software vendor. Apart from ERP software, the company also sells database software and technology, cloud-engineered systems, and other ERP software products, such as human capital management (HCM) software, customer relationship management (CRM) software, enterprise performance management (EPM) software, product lifecycle management (PLM) software, supplier relationship management (SRM) software, supply chain management (SCM) software, business technology platform (BTP) software and programming environment SAP AppGyver for business.
Jefferies Group LLC is an American multinational independent investment bank and financial services company that is headquartered in New York City. The firm provides clients with capital markets and financial advisory services, institutional brokerage, securities research, and asset management. This includes mergers and acquisitions, restructuring, and other financial advisory services. The Capital Markets segment also includes its securities trading and investment banking activities.
DataArt is a New York City-based IT consultancy company. The firm designs, develops, and supports software for the financial industry. DataArt operates from 20+ locations in the US, Europe, the UK and the UAE.
Bank of Georgia Group PLC is a UK incorporated financial services holding company with its registered office in London, England, and its corporate headquarters in Tbilisi, Georgia.
Zambia National Commercial Bank, commonly referred to by the name "Zanaco", is a commercial bank in Zambia. It is licensed by Bank of Zambia, the central bank and national banking regulator. In 2021, Zanaco became the first bank in Zambia to register ZMW1bn in profit after tax.
Türk Ekonomi Bankası is one of Turkey’s oldest financial institutions. In addition to providing its customers with corporate, SME, commercial, treasury & capital market, retail, and private banking products and services, TEB also supplies investment, leasing, factoring, and portfolio management financial services and products through its subsidiaries and group companies. TEB is a bank that provides consumer loans, vehicle loans, housing loans and commercial loans.
Postini, Inc. was an e-mail, Web security, and archiving service owned by Google since 2007. It provided cloud computing services for filtering e-mail spam and malware, offered optional e-mail archiving, and protected client networks from web-borne malware.
Insight Partners is a global venture capital and private equity firm that invests in high-growth technology, software, and Internet businesses. The company is headquartered in New York City, with offices in London, Tel Aviv, and Palo Alto.
IQMS was a privately held, global software company based in Paso Robles, California. The company developed and marketed manufacturing ERP and real time manufacturing execution systems to the automotive, medical, packaging, consumer goods, aerospace, defense and other manufacturing industries. IQMS has been included on Inc. Magazine’s list of the 5000 fastest growing privately held U.S. companies from 2011 through 2016. Gary Nemmers became the CEO of IQMS in 2015, and was succeeded by Cheri Williams in 2020.
AppExtremes, Inc. dba Conga, founded in 2006, provides document generation, presentation, and reporting tools for Salesforce.com. Its first product, Conga Composer, was launched as the Salesforce.com Apex Day in January, 2007. Conga Composer allows automated creation of Microsoft Word documents from multiple Salesforce.com data sources. Based on customer feedback, support was added for HTML email, as well as multiple document types including: Microsoft Excel, Adobe PDF, and Microsoft PowerPoint.
Dropsuite Limited is a software platform founded in 2011 that provides cloud backup, archiving and recovery services based in Singapore. They are a public company listed on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX:DSE).
Global Relay is a technology services company providing software-as-a-service electronic message archiving, instant messaging, compliance and supervision services with a focus on highly regulated industries. Global Relay is privately held and employee controlled, with no outside or venture funding.
Tresorit offers functions for the secure administration, storage, synchronization, and transfer of data using end-to-end encryption. More than 13,000 companies use Tresorit to protect confidential data and share information securely. It is also used widely by Government organizations and NGOs as well as privacy-conscious individuals to protect sensitive data from unauthorized access and data-breaches. As of today, the encryption of Tresorit has never been hacked.
Snakk Media is a mobile advertising company, established in 2010 by Derek Handley, Geoffrey Handley, and Andrew Jacobs. Snakk Media is headquartered in Auckland, New Zealand.
ECI Partners is a growth focused private equity group based in the UK and the US, first established by the Bank of England in 1976.
AlphaSights is an information services company, specializing in connecting clients with experts, sometimes referred to as an expert network. The company's clients include professionals operating in management & strategy consulting, investment management, private equity, corporate and professional services firms with interests in a range of markets including technology, industrials, consumer goods, telecommunications, utilities, financial services, healthcare, consumer services, basic materials, and oil and gas.
The European Innovation Council (EIC) was introduced by the European Commission to support the commercialization of high-risk, high-impact technologies in the European Union. The fully-fledged EIC was launched March 2021 under Horizon Europe and is incorporated within the European Innovation Council and SMEs Executive Agency (EISMEA). Its goal is to aid researchers, start-ups and SMEs bring their innovations to market by providing funding, networking and partnership opportunities, and business acceleration services. In its latest form, the concept has been put forth by the EU Research Commissioner Carlos Moedas in mid-2015. The EIC has a budget of €10.1 billion to support innovations throughout the lifecycle from early stage research, to proof of concept, technology transfer, and the financing and scale up of start-ups and SMEs.
CallMiner is a Massachusetts-based software company that develops speech analytics and interaction analytics software. It was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Waltham, MA with offices in Fort Myers, FL, Boston, MA, and the United Kingdom. The company uses Artificial Intelligence to extract insight from the conversations that occur between businesses and their customers, typically through the contact center. These conversations can be voice-based and occur over the phone, or text-based and occur over digital mediums such as online, chat, email, social media messaging, and more. As of December 2019, CallMiner has raised six rounds of venture funding. Its largest and latest investment was 2019’s funding from GS Growth, an investment unit of Goldman Sachs.
ActivTrak is an American company that produces workforce analytics and productivity software. The company was founded in 2009 by Birch Grove Software and is headquartered in Austin, Texas.
