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Meiwei Buyongdeng is a provider of smart food service solutions in China. It delivers B2B SaaS tools and consumer apps addressing restaurant efficiency, management, marketing, costs, and dining experiences. The company connects restaurants with consumers via a nationwide sales network, headquartered in China with operations spanning major cities.

Founded in Germany in 1972 by former IBM employees, SAP is the world’s largest provider of enterprise application software. Known as the leader in enterprise resource planning software, SAP’s portfolio also includes software for supply chain management, procurement, travel and expense management, and customer relationship management, among others. The company operates in more than 180 countries and has more than 400,000 customers, approximately 80% of which are small to medium-size enterprises.

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.

Founded in 2013 within the confines of the San Francisco application renaissance, 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. Following the 2022 acquisition of Wolt, the firm also provides this service in Europe and Asia. DoorDash creates a marketplace for merchants to establish 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 the largest food delivery platform in China, with a 60%-70% share of the market in 2024, according to Morningstar estimates. In the third quarter of 2024, the firm generated 74% of its revenue from the core local commerce segment, which includes on-demand food delivery and retail, in-store services (such as visiting beauty and entertainment stores after purchasing deals on Meituan), and hotel and travel booking. The remaining 26% of revenue came from the new initiatives segment, such as the community group purchase business Meituan Select and the overseas food delivery business.

Scale AI is a San Francisco-headquartered data platform supplying high-quality training and validation datasets for AI models in computer vision, NLP, and sensor fusion. The company's APIs enable annotation of LiDAR, images, video, and text for autonomous vehicles, drones, and robotics. Clients including General Motors, OpenAI, Meta, and U.S. Department of Defense rely on Scale AI's workforce and automation to label petabytes of data annually.

Helsing is a Berlin-headquartered defense technology firm founded in 2021 that supplies AI software platforms for land, air, naval, and subsurface operations. The company integrates its systems with military hardware from partners like Rheinmetall for autonomous target detection, strike coordination, and reconnaissance. Key products include AI-enabled strike drones resistant to electronic warfare, underwater surveillance vehicles, and wingman pilots for fighter jets, deployed by European armed forces.

DiDi Global Inc is a mobility technology platform that provides a range of mobility services as well as other services. It is building four key components of its platform that work together to improve the consumer experience: shared mobility; energy and vehicle services; electric mobility; and autonomous driving. It is a go-to brand in China for shared mobility, providing consumers with a range of safe, affordable, and convenient mobility services, including ride-hailing, taxi-hailing, chauffeur, hitch, and other forms of shared mobility. The company operates in three segments: China Mobility, which mainly includes ride-hailing services to riders, and also acts as an agent by connecting end-users to service providers who provide taxi hailing; International; and Other Initiatives.

Range Intelligent Computing Technology Group Co Ltd is catering to the application needs of big data, cloud computing, Internet of Things, 5G technology, and other industries, based on computing power, digital technology as a means, and intelligent applications as a demonstration, providing a new generation of digital economy industry technology, products, services and system solutions for various industries.

Genesys is a Daly City, California-headquartered provider of AI-powered experience orchestration platforms. Genesys Cloud integrates customer data, voice, and digital channels for 8,000 global organizations including American Express and PayPal. It supports agentic AI for routing and analytics across contact centers.

Tempus AI Inc is a technology company. It has built the Tempus Platform, which comprises both a technology platform to free healthcare data from silos and an operating system to make the resulting data useful. Its Intelligent Diagnostics use AI, including generative AI, to make laboratory tests more accurate, tailored, and personal.

Iflytek Co Ltd is a China-based company, principally engaged in the software and information technology (IT) service businesses. The company’s business includes intelligent application systems, software for voice and speech recognition and conversion, computer software design services, and computer programming services. The company's main products include AI language learning products, AI learning machines, AI diagnosis and treatment assistant products, smart medical devices, the iFLYTEK Hearing Smart Conference System, the iFLYTEK Spark App, the iFLYTEK Smart Office Book, the iFLYTEK Translator, and others.

Founded in 2011, Delivery Hero is an online delivery demand aggregator. The company is headquartered in Germany and operates in over 70 countries across Latin America, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. Delivery Hero creates a marketplace for merchants to establish an online presence, market their offerings, and meet demand through delivery. Nearly half of Delivery Hero’s revenue is commission fees from merchants. Through its applications, which vary by region, customers can order meals, grocery items, pharmacy products, and retail goods. In addition, Delivery Hero operates Dmarts.

Founded in 2012, Grab provides ride-sharing services, food and grocery delivery, and financial services (payments, consumer loans, and enterprise offerings) in eight Southeast-Asian countries through its mobile platform. The company partners with merchants and riders, connecting them with consumers while charging commission to both sides. Grab has a leading market share in and derives 89% of its revenue from its core businesses, ride-sharing and food delivery. Singapore, Indonesia, and Malaysia contributed more than 70% of revenue in 2024. Grab’s main competitors in Southeast Asia are Line Man and Goto. Its financial services business is still in its nascent stage and provides minimal revenue currently. The company now also generates advertising revenue.

Maplebear (Instacart) is a grocery-focused delivery marketplace that connects national and regional grocers with consumers and couriers, and consumers with their favorite stores. Its app provides on-demand convenience for consumers, allows couriers to earn income, and helps grocers to scale their business through digital channels. The marketplace gathers valuable consumer behavior data, attracting consumer-packaged-goods advertisers that seek to reach consumers at the point of purchase. With approximately 600,000 shoppers and 1,800 retail partners, Instacart delivers to about 98% of households in the United States and Canada.

Philadelphia-headquartered Gopuff fulfills instant deliveries of convenience goods from neighborhood warehouses, stocking items like Ben & Jerry's ice cream, Doritos chips, Red Bull drinks, diapers, condoms, and alcohol where licensed. App users browse digital shelves for orders dispatched by driver-partners in minutes across major US metros and UK cities. The service launched in 2013.

Talabat Holding PLC is engaged in the on-demand online food ordering, delivery, takeaway and groceries and convenience retail marketplace in the MENA region, with operations in the UAE, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, Egypt, Oman, Jordan, and Iraq.