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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.

Branch is a mobile marketing platform specializing in deep linking, attribution, and user journey analytics. San Francisco-headquartered and founded in 2014, the company tracks cross-platform campaigns for apps on iOS and Android. World-class clients including Instacart, Western Union, NBCUniversal, Zocdoc, and Sephora use Branch to measure ROI on ad spend across Google Ads, Facebook, and Snapchat. The platform processes billions of links monthly, ensuring privacy compliance with App Tracking Transparency.

Qontigo is a financial data and analytics provider under Deutsche Börse Group, specializing in multi-asset risk management, index licensing, and portfolio construction tools. Its platforms cover equity, fixed income, commodities, and ESG factors, serving asset managers, banks, and pension funds globally. Eschborn-headquartered with offices in New York, London, and Zug, Qontigo licenses indices like STOXX Europe 600 and provides Axioma risk models. Formed in 2019 from the merger of Axioma, DAX, and STOXX, it equips clients with cloud-based analytics for investment decisions.

Shanghai DZH Ltd operates as an Internet financial information service provider in China. It offers professional financial data and data analysis services. It also provides non-investment consulting and agency-specific software products. In addition, the company offers financial information integrated services internationally.

Capitolis is a fintech company founded in 2017 by Gil Mandelzis, Tom Glocer, and Igor Teleshevsky that provides a SaaS platform for portfolio optimization in capital markets. Its technology lets banks and other financial institutions compress balance sheets and reduce initial margin, capital, and funding costs across FX, rates, credit, and other asset classes through multilateral netting. Major global banks use Capitolis both as clients and investors, reflecting the platform's role in improving efficiency and liquidity across the market.

9fin is a London-based data and analytics provider for credit markets, serving finance, investment banking, and asset management professionals. The platform delivers tools for financial data analysis, risk assessment, market screening, and team collaboration on bond issuance, loans, and leveraged finance deals.

TalkingData is a Beijing-based mobile big data analytics platform focused on the Chinese internet market. It delivers data management platforms, scalable data mining tools, deep analytics services, and comprehensive reports covering app performance benchmarks, user behavior patterns, industry trends, and market forecasts. The company partners with leading mobile app stores and ad networks in China while expanding collaborations into finance and traditional sectors. Established in September 2011, TalkingData equips top developers with insights into app metrics, user engagement, and monetization strategies.

HCR Co Ltd is a data intelligence solution provider. The company has built an data intelligence system of which the functions include data integration, data insight and data implementation to provide one-stop solution to customer, combined with the accumulated knowledge and means of market research, as well as the artificial intelligence technology.

Verisk is a leading data, analytics, and technology provider for property-casualty insurers. Verisk traces its history to Insurance Services Office, a nonprofit advisory organization founded in 1971 by US P&C insurers. ISO was formed as an association of insurance companies to assist with a variety of insurance use cases, such as reporting to regulators, defining policies, and determining independent premium rates. As the firm expanded its use cases, it became a for-profit company, renamed Verisk, and went public in 2009. Verisk’s single segment (insurance) provides underwriting solutions, including forms, rules, loss costs, and catastrophe modeling. For claims, Verisk’s solutions include property repair estimates and antifraud tools. About 83% of Verisk’s revenue is US-based.

BitSight is a Boston-headquartered provider of security ratings platforms. The company applies algorithms to generate daily ratings from 250 to 900, aiding third-party risk management, cyber insurance underwriting, performance benchmarking, M&A due diligence, and aggregate risk assessment. BitSight serves over 1,000 customers, including seven of the top 10 cyber insurers, 20 percent of Fortune 500 firms, and three of the top five investment banks.

Lusha is a Tel Aviv-headquartered B2B data platform that enriches and verifies contact information for sales, marketing, and recruitment teams. The company integrates with CRM systems like Salesforce and HubSpot to provide accurate phone numbers and emails, serving over 500,000 users globally. Notable clients include Uber, Dropbox, and Microsoft, alongside thousands of SMBs. Founded in 2016, Lusha expanded into candidate sourcing tools and maintains offices in London, New York, and San Francisco.

Moneyview is an Indian fintech app that tracks expenses, manages bills, and analyzes finances by parsing SMS data from banks and merchants. Bengaluru-headquartered since 2014, the company serves over 50 million users with personal loans up to INR 10 lakh, credit cards, and investment options in fixed deposits. It partners with NBFCs like Bajaj Finserv for instant lending decisions using AI credit scoring. Moneyview operates in 30+ cities, offering gold loans and UPI payments, and has raised funding from Tiger Global to expand its digital lending marketplace.

ServiceNow Inc provides software solutions to structure and automate various business processes via a SaaS delivery model. The company primarily focuses on the IT function for enterprise customers. ServiceNow began with IT service management, expanded within the IT function, and more recently directed its workflow automation logic to functional areas beyond IT, notably customer service, HR service delivery, and security operations. ServiceNow also offers an application development platform as a service.

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.

Datadog is a cloud-native company that focuses on analyzing machine data. The firm's product portfolio, delivered via software as a service, enables clients to monitor and analyze their entire information technology infrastructure, from servers to applications and Python scripts. Datadog's platform can ingest and analyze large amounts of machine-generated data in real time, allowing clients to utilize it for a variety of applications throughout their businesses to ensure uptime and latency objectives.

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.

RELX is a global provider of information-based analytics and decision tools for professional and business customers in various industries. The company serves sectors such as science and medical research, risk management, and legal. In addition, RELX organizes large-scale digital and face-to-face events such as industry trade shows. Around 60% of revenue is generated in North America and about 20% in Europe.

Strategy Inc is a bitcoin treasury company and a provider of business intelligence services. It is designed to provide investors varying degrees of economic exposure to Bitcoin by offering a range of securities, including equity and fixed-income instruments. The company also provides industry AI-powered enterprise analytics software. It has one reportable operating segment: the Software Business, which is engaged in the design, development, marketing, and sales of the company's enterprise analytics software platform through cloud subscriptions and licensing arrangements and related services (i.e., product support, consulting, and education). Geographically, the company operates in EMEA, U.S. and Other Regions, of which maximum revenue is derived from U.S..