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Progress Software Corp provides software operate in one operating segment: software products for the development, deployment, and management of responsible, AI-powered applications and digital experiences. The following are products: Chef, Corticon, Data Direct, Developer Tools, Flowmon, Kemp LoadMaster, MarkLogic, MOVEit, OpenEdge, Semaphore, ShareFile, Sitefinity, WhatsUp Gold. Geographical regions include the United States, Canada, EMEA, Latin America, and Asia Pacific.

A10 Networks Inc is a provider of secure application and network infrastructure solutions for enterprises and service providers across on-premises, hybrid cloud, and distributed environments. The company's offerings include application delivery and traffic management, distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) protection, application and API security, and centralized management. It serves customers across multiple industries, including telecommunications, technology, financial services, public sector, industrial, retail, gaming, and education. The majority of the company's revenue is derived from the sale of secure networking and cybersecurity solutions and related maintenance and support services.

NetScout Systems Inc is a provider of service assurance and cybersecurity solutions to enterprise and government networks. It bases its solutions on proprietary adaptive service intelligence technology, which helps customers monitor and identify performance issues and provides insight into network-based security threats. These solutions also deliver real-time and historical information, which provides insight to restore service and understand the quality of user experience. The company derives revenue from the sale of network management tools and security solutions. Its geographical regions include USA, which derives maximum revenue, Europe, Asia, and Rest of the World.

Tailscale is a Toronto-headquartered software-defined networking service that creates secure private networks via the WireGuard protocol for teams and enterprises. Launched in 2019, it enables peer-to-peer mesh connections across devices on Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, Android, and supports Kubernetes clusters on AWS, GCP, and Azure. The platform authenticates users through providers like Okta, Google Workspace, and integrates zero-trust access controls without VPN gateways. Tailscale serves over 100,000 organizations, including GitLab and Stripe, reducing setup time to minutes and latency by bypassing centralized servers.

Hangzhou DPtech Technologies Co Ltd focuses on network security and application delivery products and solutions. The security and application delivery products portfolio includes Application Firewall, IPS, Bandwidth Management, Deep Packet Inspection, Web Application Firewall, Anti-DDoS, Appliction Delivery and others.

Cato Networks is a Tel Aviv company that sells a cloud-native secure access service edge platform combining wide-area networking and network security in one subscription service. It was founded in 2015 by Shlomo Kramer, a co-founder of Check Point Software and Imperva, and Gur Shatz, a co-founder of Incapsula. The platform runs on a private global backbone of points of presence and replaces branch firewalls, routers, proxies and private circuits for enterprise customers, which it reaches through channel partners and managed service providers. Kramer serves as chief executive. The company has raised more than 1 billion dollars from investors including Lightspeed, Vitruvian Partners, ION Crossover Partners, Adams Street, Greylock and Coatue, and was valued at more than 4.8 billion dollars in June 2025. In September 2025 it made its first acquisition, the AI security company Aim Security. Cato reported annual recurring revenue of 250 million dollars at the end of 2024.

Solo.io is a Boston-headquartered leader in API management and service mesh platforms including Gloo Gateway, Gloo Mesh, and Gloo AI Gateway. The company secures and observes APIs across Kubernetes, VMs, multi-cloud, and hybrid setups using Envoy Proxy and Istio. Trusted by T-Mobile, Chick-fil-A, and Capital One, Solo.io contributes to CNCF projects. Founded in 2017, it enables zero-trust architectures for platform teams worldwide via solo.io.

Asiainfo Security Technologies Co Ltd is a leader in China's network security software field, and a network security company that knows the Internet and the cloud in the industry.

Allot Ltd. is an Israeli public network-intelligence and security company founded in 1996. It provides technology to mobile, fixed and cloud service providers and to enterprises that need visibility and control over network traffic. Allot's products cover application and traffic analytics, policy control, network optimization and network-based security services. The company sells deployed network platforms and software while also generating recurring subscription revenue from security and service offerings. Its customers use the technology to manage bandwidth, protect subscribers and monetize broadband services. Allot acquired Oversi Networks in 2012 to add video caching and acceleration to its service-gateway portfolio and integrate those functions with analytics, charging and traffic-management capabilities.

F5 is a market leader in the application delivery controller market. The company sells products for security, application performance, and automation. Its three customer verticals are enterprises, service providers, and government entities. Revenue is evenly split between its services business and products business with revenue trending toward products due to software adoption. The Seattle-based firm was incorporated in 1996, and went public in 1999.

IBM (International Business Machines) is an American technology company headquartered in Armonk, New York, and operating in more than 175 countries. It sells hybrid-cloud and AI software, including Red Hat and the watsonx portfolio, IT consulting services, and infrastructure hardware such as IBM Z mainframes. Its customers are mainly large enterprises and governments, and it earns revenue from software subscriptions and licences, consulting and managed-services contracts, and hardware sales and financing. In 2025 IBM reported revenue of $67.5 billion, up 8%, with software up 11%, consulting up 2% and infrastructure up 12%, and free cash flow of $14.7 billion. The company was founded in 1911 as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company and renamed International Business Machines in 1924; it dominated mainframe computing with the System/360 and launched the IBM Personal Computer in 1981 before selling its PC division to Lenovo in 2005. More recently it bought Red Hat for $34 billion in 2019, spun off its managed infrastructure services unit as Kyndryl in 2021, and in December 2025 agreed to acquire data-streaming company Confluent for about $11 billion. Arvind Krishna is chairman and chief executive.

Calix Inc develops, markets and sells its appliance-based platform, cloud and managed services that enable service providers of all types and sizes to innovate and transform their businesses. The company's customers utilize the real-time data and insights from Calix platforms to simplify their business and deliver experiences that excite their subscribers. The resulting growth in subscriber acquisition, loyalty and revenue creates more value for their businesses and communities. The Company's revenue is principally derived in the United States and it also has its presence in Europe, Americas excluding U.S., and Rest of World.

Adeia Inc is a consumer and entertainment product/solutions licensing company. Its only operating segment being Intellectual Property (IP) Licensing. In the IP segment, the company licenses innovations to companies in the broader entertainment industry, and those developing new technologies that will help drive this industry forward. It includes Pay-TV, Consumer Electronics, Connected Car, and Media Platform.

BitSight is a Boston cybersecurity data and analytics company founded in 2011. It supplies security ratings and risk intelligence used by enterprises, insurers, investors and public-sector organizations. The platform measures observable security events and configurations to support vendor-risk management, performance benchmarking, cyber underwriting and portfolio monitoring. Customers buy recurring access to data, analytics and workflow products delivered through software and application programming interfaces. BitSight has expanded its underlying data and analytical capabilities through acquisitions. Its ratings are designed to give customers an external, continuously updated view of security performance across companies and supplier networks. Acquiring AnubisNetworks added real-time threat feeds, email intelligence, a global sensor network and a Porto engineering operation that became part of BitSight's core ratings data infrastructure.

Exabeam is a cybersecurity company that delivers security analytics and automation platforms for threat detection, investigation, and response. Headquartered in Foster City, California, the company pioneered user and entity behavior analytics alongside next-generation security information and event management systems. Its Fusion platform integrates AI-driven behavioral models with security orchestration to handle massive data volumes from endpoints, networks, and cloud environments across enterprises worldwide. Exabeam serves sectors including finance, healthcare, and government, with deployments in over 50 countries. Founded in 2012, it expanded through acquisitions like Silverfort for identity security and was acquired by Proofpoint in 2021, enhancing its position in extended detection and response capabilities.

Aviatrix is a Santa Clara-headquartered cloud networking company that secures multi-cloud environments. Its Cloud Native Security Fabric provides visibility, microsegmentation, and firewalling for workloads on AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. Networking teams deploy virtual routers and transit networks for encrypted traffic.

CertiK is a New York-based blockchain security auditor founded in 2018 by Yale and Columbia professors. The firm has secured over $200 billion in DeFi value through AI-driven smart contract audits and formal verification for protocols like Binance Smart Chain and Polygon. With 300 employees, it monitors 10,000 projects via Skynet platform, detecting exploits in real-time.

Devo is a cloud-native logging and security analytics platform processing petabyte-scale data. Cambridge, Massachusetts-headquartered and founded in 2011, it ingests logs from AWS, Azure, and on-premises sources for real-time querying with SQL-like language. Devo supports SIEM, SOAR, and UEBA workflows, serving enterprises in finance and telecom. Backed by investors including TCV and Bessemer, the platform handles billions of events per day.