CYBERA Funding, Investors & Competitors

S&P Global provides data and benchmarks to capital and commodity market participants. Its ratings business is the largest credit rating agency in the world and S&P's largest segment by profitability. S&P's largest segment by revenue is market intelligence, which provides desktop, data and advisory solutions, enterprise solutions, and credit/risk solutions mostly in the financial-services industry. S&P's other segments include energy (formerly commodity insights, this segment includes Platts and other data), mobility (Carfax), and indexes. S&P plans to spin off mobility in 2026.

Intercontinental Exchange is a vertically integrated operator of financial exchanges and provides ancillary data products. Though the company is probably best known for its ownership of the New York Stock Exchange, which it acquired in 2013, ICE operates a large derivatives exchange, too. The company's largest commodity futures product is the ICE Brent crude futures contract. In addition to the exchanges business, which is about 54% of net revenue, Intercontinental Exchange has used a series of acquisitions to create its mortgage technology business (22% of net revenue) and fixed-income and data-services segment (24% of net revenue).

Moody’s, along with S&P Ratings, is a leading provider of credit ratings on fixed-income securities. The ratings segment, Moody’s Investors Service, includes corporates, structured finance, financial institutions, and public finance ratings. MIS represents a majority of the firm’s profit and often (depending on bond issuance levels) a majority of the firm's revenue. The other segment, Moody’s Analytics, consists of decision solutions, research and insights, and data and information.

London Stock Exchange Group is a financial-markets infrastructure and information group operating exchanges, clearing, index, data, and workflow businesses. The organization serves B2B, B2G customers and counterparties through the operating assets, products, or financial capabilities described in the cited transaction materials. Its principal economics are Services, Subscription, Licensing, while its competitive position depends on sector expertise, asset quality, customer relationships, execution, and disciplined capital allocation. The business was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in London. The 2007 investment concerned the newly formed listed group around the London Stock Exchange and gave Qatar Holding a strategic blocking-scale position. The profile reflects the legal or operating business at the transaction date, including its historical identity where a subsequent listing, merger, privatization, disposal, or reorganization changed its name or ownership.

Nasdaq is an American financial technology and exchange operator headquartered at One Liberty Plaza in New York City and listed on its own Nasdaq Stock Market (NDAQ) as an S&P 500 member. It was founded on February 8, 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers as the world's first electronic stock market and became a public company in 2000. It runs the Nasdaq Stock Market, the Philadelphia and Boston stock exchanges and seven Nordic and Baltic exchanges in Copenhagen, Helsinki, Iceland, Riga, Stockholm, Tallinn and Vilnius, which came from its 2008 combination with OMX. The company earns listing and trading fees, sells market data, indexes and analytics, and licenses capital-markets, risk, regulatory and anti-financial-crime software to banks, brokers, asset managers, corporates and other exchanges. Its financial technology business was built largely through acquisitions of fraud-detection provider Verafin in 2020 and risk and regulatory software maker Adenza in 2023. In 2025 Nasdaq reported revenue of $8.26 billion and net income of $1.79 billion, and it had 9,162 employees in 2024. Adena Friedman is chair and chief executive.

Thomson Reuters is a leading global provider of business information services, delivering trusted data, technology, and expertise to professionals across legal, tax, accounting, risk, compliance, and the news and media sectors. Headquartered in Toronto, Canada, the company combines deep domain knowledge with data and software solutions to help clients make informed decisions, manage complexity, and drive efficiency. Thomson Reuters serves legal and accounting/tax professionals, corporations, and governments worldwide, but around 75% of revenue is generated in the US. The company is known for flagship products such as Westlaw, UltraTax CS, and Reuters News.

MSCI has described its mission as enabling investors to build better portfolios for a better world. MSCI's largest and most profitable segment is its index segment, where it provides benchmarking to asset managers and asset owners. MSCI boasts over $18 trillion in benchmarked assets, including over $2.3 trillion in ETF assets linked to MSCI indexes. The MSCI analytics segment provides portfolio management and risk management analytics software to asset managers and asset owners. In its sustainability and climate segment, MSCI provides ESG data to the investment industry. In private assets, MSCI provides real restate reporting, market data, benchmarking, and analytics to investors and real estate managers.

East Money Information Co Ltd is engaged in securities business, financial e-commerce service business, financial data service business, and Internet advertising service business. It mainly provides paid financial data services, financial e-commerce services, and Internet advertisement services through its Website, eastmoney.com. It generates majority of ots revenue from the securities business.

Experian is one of the leading credit bureaus in North America and the United Kingdom, providing the consumer information that is the basis for making lending decisions. The company also provides decision analytics, marketing data, and direct-to-consumer credit products and services. Roughly one quarter of the company's revenue is generated outside of North America and the United Kingdom, primarily in Latin America and Asia.

Founded in 1998 and headquartered in New York City, Tradeweb Markets is a leading fixed-income trading platform. While it does offer electronic processing for some voice-negotiated trades, the company focuses primarily on providing electronic trading networks that connect broker/dealers, institutional clients, and retail customers. While the company offers trading in a wide variety of products, the bulk of its business is in US and European government debt, mortgage-backed securities, interest-rate swaps, and US and international corporate bonds. The firm also sells fixed-income trading and price data, primarily through a deal with Refinitiv’s Eikon service.

Hithink RoyalFlush Information Network Co Ltd is engaged in providing Internet financial information services and online financial software. The company's business includes an online market trading system, mobile financial information service, fund sales, financial big data processing, and cloud services. It serves individuals, brokers, funds, private placements, banks, insurance, government, and research Institutional clients.

Wolters Kluwer is a global provider of professional information, software solutions, and services in health; tax and accounting; environmental, social, and governance; finance; compliance; and legal. More than 60% of revenue is generated in North America and around 30% is from Europe.

Along with Experian and TransUnion, Equifax is one of the leading credit bureaus in the United States. Equifax’s credit reports provide credit histories on millions of consumers, and the firm's services are critical to lenders’ credit decisions. In addition, about 40% of the firm’s revenue comes from Workforce Solutions, which provides income verification and employer human resources services. Equifax generates about 25% of its revenue from outside the United States.

Broadridge Financial Solutions, which was spun off from Automatic Data Processing in 2007, is a leading provider of investor communication and technology-driven solutions to banks, broker/dealers, traditional and alternative-asset managers, wealth managers, and corporate issuers. Broadridge is composed of two operating segments: investor communication solutions and global technology and operations.

Plaid is a San Francisco-based financial technology company that operates a data network connecting consumers' bank accounts to financial applications. Its products include Link for account connections to more than 12,000 institutions, Auth, Identity and Balance for account verification, Transfer and Signal for ACH and real-time payments and payment risk, Identity Verification, Monitor and Beacon for KYC, AML and fraud prevention, and Plaid Check products such as LendScore for credit underwriting. Customers range from fintech applications such as Venmo, Robinhood and Coinbase to banks, lenders, payroll providers and AI companies, and Plaid says more than one in two Americans have used its network. The company reported revenue growth above 25% in 2024 and a return to positive operating margins. Visa agreed to buy Plaid for $5.3 billion in January 2020, but the deal was abandoned after a Department of Justice antitrust challenge. Plaid was valued at $13.4 billion in its 2021 Series D, $6.1 billion in an April 2025 common-stock sale led by Franklin Templeton, and $8 billion in a February 2026 employee share sale. It was founded by Zach Perret and William Hockey.

AlphaSense is an artificial intelligence platform for market intelligence and research, founded in 2011 by Jack Kokko and Raj Neervannan and headquartered in New York City. The concept grew out of Kokko's experience as a Morgan Stanley analyst manually searching through large volumes of financial documents, and the company built a search engine that applies natural language processing and machine learning to surface insights across a vast content universe spanning company filings, earnings call and expert call transcripts, broker and equity research, news, trade journals, and private company data, indexed across many languages. Its tools include generative search, document summarisation, sentiment analysis, real-time monitoring and alerts, and AI-driven deep research that returns sourced, citable answers. The platform serves asset managers, investment banks, consultancies, corporations, life sciences firms, and private equity, counting thousands of enterprise customers including a large share of the S&P 100 and major global banks. It expanded its capabilities through acquisitions of Sentieo and expert-research provider Tegus, and has raised well over a billion dollars across multiple financing rounds from investors such as Viking Global Investors, Goldman Sachs, BDT & MSD Partners, SoftBank Vision Fund 2, Alphabet's CapitalG, and BOND, reaching a valuation in the region of four billion dollars.

Carta is a San Francisco-based software company that provides equity management and fund administration tools for private companies and their investors. Its core product maintains capitalization tables, digitising stock certificates, options, warrants and other securities so that companies, employees, investors and their law firms can track ownership, and it also offers 409A valuations and fund administration services for venture capital firms. It operated CartaX, a private stock exchange launched in 2021, until shutting it in 2024. In August 2022 Carta reported tracking more than USD 2.5 trillion of company equity and having facilitated USD 13 billion of secondary sales; it had 1,618 employees in 2022, and customers have included Slack, Calendly and Affirm. The company earns subscription and service fees from companies and investment firms. Carta has raised about USD 1.2 billion of venture capital, most recently a USD 500 million Series G led by Silver Lake in 2021 at a USD 7.4 billion valuation, and in May 2026 it acquired Avantia and launched Carta Law. It was founded as eShares in 2012 by Henry Ward and Manu Kumar.

Pipe is a financial services platform that enables subscription-based businesses to access capital by trading future recurring revenue streams with institutional investors through real-time auctions. Headquartered in San Francisco, California, the company processes transactions for SaaS firms, media publishers, and e-commerce operators seeking non-dilutive funding based on annual contract values. Launched in 2020, Pipe integrates with billing systems like Stripe and Zuora to automate revenue verification and payouts, serving over 5,000 companies globally with a marketplace exceeding $3 billion in tradable revenue by 2023.