Buser Funding, Investors & Competitors

Recruit is a holding company for various technology and employment-related businesses. Recruit’s primary business is its HR technology segment, in which it owns two out of three globally scaled employment-related platforms: www.indeed.com, an online marketplace for employment; and www.glassdoor.com, an online review site for employers. Recruit also owns various marketing businesses operating in Japan for life events and lifestyle, a software solutions business for small and medium-size enterprises, or SMEs, in Japan, and various staffing businesses operating throughout the developed world.

Uber Technologies is a technology provider that matches riders with drivers, hungry people with restaurants and food couriers, and shippers with carriers. The firm's on-demand technology platform is currently utilized by traditional cars as well as autonomous vehicles, but could eventually be used for additional products and services, such as delivery via drones or electronic vehicle take-off and landing (eVTOL) technology. Uber operates in over 70 countries, with over 202 million users who order rides or food at least once a month.

Prosus is a consumer internet group with listed and unlisted platforms across 100 countries. Around 80% of Prosus’ net asset value is derived from its Tencent holdings, the world’s largest game publisher and operator of WeChat, China’s super app with 1.3 billion users. Prosus has approximately a 23% stake in Tencent. The rest of the group’s businesses and investments are organized into classifieds, food delivery, payments and fintech, and edtech. This includes ownership of iFood, Brazil’s largest food delivery app, and a 25% stake in Swiggy, the second-largest delivery platform in India.In 2019, Prosus was spun out of South Africa-based parent company Naspers Ltd and listed on the Euronext exchange. Naspers holds approximately 75% of Prosus’ shares.

Carvana Co is an e-commerce platform for buying and selling used cars. The company derives revenue from used vehicle sales, wholesale vehicle sales and other sales and revenues. The other sales and revenues include sales of loans originated and sold in securitization transactions or to financing partners, commissions received on VSCs and sales of GAP waiver coverage. The foundation of the business is retail vehicle unit sales. This drives the majority of the revenue and allows the company to capture additional revenue streams associated with financing, VSCs, auto insurance and GAP waiver coverage, as well as trade-in vehicles.

DoorDash is an online delivery demand aggregator. Consumers can use its app to order food on demand for delivery or in-store pickup from participating merchants. After acquiring Wolt in 2022, the firm expanded beyond the US to offer this service in Europe and Asia. DoorDash creates a marketplace that lets merchants build an online presence, market their offerings, and meet demand through delivery. The firm provides similar services to non-restaurant businesses, such as grocery, retail, and pet supplies. DoorDash is also rolling out emerging technologies, such as drone delivery, to continually innovate and deliver the best possible service to both supply-side and demand-side participants in its marketplace.

Meituan is a Beijing-based technology platform company founded in 2010 by Wang Xing and listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange since September 2018, when its shares debuted at HK$69. Its core services are food delivery, the Dianping consumer-review platform, hotel and travel booking and instant retail, and its Keeta brand has taken the delivery model abroad since May 2023, starting in Hong Kong and later reaching the Middle East and Brazil. In 2025 it reported revenue of about CN¥364.9 billion (US$53.8 billion) and employed about 110,000 people. By the end of 2024 it had over 770 million annual transacting users and more than 14.5 million annual active merchants, and it holds a majority share of more than 65% of China's food-delivery market. Meituan also invests through a strategic investment department, which took part in Meicai's Series C round in 2015.

Rocket Companies is a financial services company that was originally founded as Rock Financial in 1985 and is currently based in Detroit. Rocket Companies offers a wide array of services and products but is best known for its Rocket Mortgage business. The company’s mortgage lending operations are split between its direct-to-consumer lending, which sees borrowers accessing the company’s lending arm directly through either its mobile app or website, and its partner network where mortgage brokers and other firms use Rocket’s origination process to offer loans to their customers. The company has rapidly gained market share in recent years and will also be the largest mortgage servicer in the US following its acquisition of the Mr. Cooper Group.

Zomato (legal name Eternal Ltd) is an online food service platform. The customers use the platform to search and discover restaurants, read and write customer-generated reviews and view and upload photos, order food delivery, book a table, and make payments while dining out at restaurants. It also provides a platform for Restaurant partners and Brands to advertise themselves to the target audience in India and abroad and supplies high-quality ingredients to Restaurant partners. Its reportable segments include India food ordering and delivery; Hyperpure supplies, Quick commerce business, Going Out, and All other segments. The company generates maximum revenue from the India food ordering and delivery segment.

Naspers Ltd is an Internet and entertainment group and technology investor in the world. Operating in more than 120 countries and markets with long-term growth potential, Naspers builds companies that empower people and enrich communities. It runs some of the platforms in the internet, video entertainment, and media. Naspers operates in various sectors including online classifieds, food delivery, payments, travel, education, health, and social and internet platforms. People use products and services of companies that Naspers has invested in, acquired, or built, including Azos, PharmEasy, ElasticRun, Alwans, and Vegrow among others. Geographically, the company derives maximum revenue from Europe and the rest from Asia, Africa, Latin America, North America, and other regions.

Expedia Group is an American travel technology company headquartered in Seattle, Washington, that runs online travel booking sites and supplies travel inventory and technology to other businesses. It was founded in October 1996 as a division of Microsoft, spun off as a public company in 1999, came under the control of IAC in 2001 and was spun off by IAC in August 2005. Its three core consumer brands are Expedia, Hotels.com and Vrbo, alongside Orbitz, Travelocity, Hotwire, ebookers, Wotif and the Trivago hotel metasearch site, while its B2B segment powers travel sales for airlines, travel agents, retailers, corporate travel managers and financial institutions. At the end of 2025 it offered about 3.6 million lodging properties, including 2.4 million Vrbo alternative accommodations, plus more than 500 airlines, rental cars, cruises and activities. It earns mainly commissions and margins on bookings, plus advertising revenue; in 2025 gross bookings were $119.6 billion and revenue $14.7 billion, of which lodging contributed $11.8 billion. The company had about 16,000 employees in nearly 50 countries at the end of 2025. Its shares trade on Nasdaq; Barry Diller is chairman and Ariane Gorin chief executive.

Trip.com is the largest online travel agent in China and is positioned to benefit from the country's rising demand for higher-margin outbound travel, as passport penetration is only 12% in China. The company generated about 79% of sales from accommodation reservations and transportation ticketing in 2024. The rest of the revenue comes from package tours and corporate travel. Before the pandemic in 2019, the firm generated 25% of revenue from international travel, which is important to its margin expansion.Most of its sales come from its domestic platform, but the company is expanding its overseas business. It competes in a crowded OTA industry in China, including Meituan, Alibaba-backed Fliggy, Tongcheng, and Qunar. The company was founded in 1999 and listed on the Nasdaq in December 2003.

KE Holdings, or Beike, is a large residential real estate sales and rental brokerage company in China. Founded in 2001, the company operates through self-owned Lianjia stores in Beijing and Shanghai and connected third-party agencies, including franchise brand Deyou in other cities, with commissions charged on existing-home and new-home transactions. Leveraging an online-offline hybrid model, Beike also attract clients through its namesake online marketplace. The company tapped into home renovation services by acquiring Shengdu Home Decoration in 2022. As of the end of 2025, Beike’s co-founders collectively control the company, while Tencent and its affiliates share 8% of voting power.

Xiaohongshu is a Shanghai-headquartered content-sharing platform founded in 2013. Community members post lifestyle experiences in fashion, beauty, travel, and shopping via text, images, and videos in a note-based format. Evolved from a guide for overseas shopping assistance into a comprehensive hub for product insights and recommendations with integrated e-commerce capabilities.

REA Group is a technology company operating in the real estate sector. REA Group’s primary business is an online listings platform for residential real estate, www.realestate.com.au, which is the largest residential real estate listings platform in Australia, at around four times the size of the number two, www.domain.com.au. REA Group is majority-owned by News Corp. REA Group’s other businesses include adjacent services.

News Corporation is a diversified media and information services conglomerate with significant presence in the US, the UK, and Australia. Key mastheads include The Wall Street Journal, Barron's, New York Post, The Times, The Sun, The Australian, Herald Sun, and The Daily Telegraph. Its 61%-owned REA Group is the dominant property listings platform in Australia. In addition, it owns Harper Collins, one of the largest book publishers in the world, and has a sizable US digital property advertising business, Move. The 65% interest in Foxtel, the Australian pay-TV and streaming provider, was sold in April 2025. The sale to global sports streaming platform, DAZN, was struck at more than 7 times Foxtel's EBITDA.

Xingsheng Youxuan is a Changsha-based community shopping platform in China, founded in 2018. It operates through offline convenience stores offering online ordering and pickup for fresh vegetables, fruits, meat, poultry, seafood, staples, seasonings, and daily merchandise, fulfilling household needs via a hybrid retail model. Access the platform at www.xsyxsc.com.

Chehaoduo is a Beijing-headquartered used car trading platform operating as Guazi.com, facilitating direct sales between individual sellers and buyers across 400+ cities in China. Founded in 2015, it inspects vehicles at 1,300 detection centers, offering warranties up to five years and financing options. The company transacts over 500,000 vehicles annually, with branches in Hangzhou, Chongqing, and Chengdu.

Lalamove is a logistics platform operating in 21 markets across Asia and Latin America since its 2013 launch in Hong Kong as EasyVan. The service connects customers with driver-partners for deliveries completed in 55 minutes on average, matching in 12 seconds.