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Marex Group PLC offers a diversified financial services platform providing essential liquidity, market access, and infrastructure services to clients across energy, commodities, and financial markets. It provides critical services to the clients by connecting them to exchanges and providing various execution and hedging services across its assets and products. The group operates in a large and fragmented market with infrastructure requirements and regulatory and technological complexity. It has five segments Clearing, Agency and Execution, Market Making, Hedging and Investment Solutions, and The Corporate. The group generates revenue from Agency and Execution that matches buyers and sellers by facilitating price discovery across the energy and financial securities markets.

CYBERA is a London-based fintech security platform launched in 2023 helping banks combat scams through real-time transaction monitoring. The service recovers assets for victims via blockchain tracing and reimburses via insurance pools, partnering with HSBC and NatWest in UK. CYBERA processes 1 million daily alerts using ML models trained on £2 billion fraud data.

Mobility Global Inc provides mobility data, analytics, and related technology solutions across the vehicle lifecycle. Its portfolio includes CARFAX, automotiveMastermind, Polk Automotive Solutions, and Market Scan, which provide data, forecasting, insights, and technology solutions to automakers, suppliers, dealer groups, media companies, financial institutions, and consumers.

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.

Beijing Compass Technology Development Co Ltd is the provider of professional financial data analysis and securities investment advisory services. The company is a securities analysis software developer and securities information service provider in China.

Shenzhen Fortune Trend Technology Co Ltd is engaged in research and development of securities analysis systems and computer communication systems. It provides securities investment analysis system for securities institutions and investors under the brand Tongdaxin. Tongdaxin's well-known online trading products are: China Merchants Securities Zhiyuan One Account, Guoxin Securities Golden Sun Edition, CITIC Securities Zhixin All-rounder, GF Securities Financial Terminal, Galaxy Securities Neptune, Guotai Junan Securities Fuyi, among others.

Carta is a San Francisco-headquartered transfer agent and equity management platform for private companies from seed to pre-IPO stages. The service digitizes stock certificates, options, warrants, and derivatives, providing real-time cap table visibility to shareholders, employees, auditors, and legal teams.

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.

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.

Morningstar Inc is a provider of independent investment insights to financial advisers, asset managers, and investors. It provides data and research insights on various investment offerings, including managed investment products, publicly listed companies, private capital markets, debt securities, and real-time market data. The company has five reportable segments: Morningstar Direct Platform, PitchBook, Morningstar Credit, Morningstar Wealth, and Morningstar Retirement. Maximum revenue is derived from the Morningstar Direct Platform, which provides investors with comprehensive data, research, insights, and investment analysis through product areas such as Morningstar Data, Morningstar Direct, and Morningstar Advisor Workstation. Geographically, it generates maximum revenue from the USA.

San Francisco-headquartered Plaid is a financial technology provider offering APIs for secure connections to bank accounts, investments, and credit data across 12,000 U.S. institutions. Founded in 2013, its infrastructure powers personal finance apps, payment processors, lending platforms, and identity verification services like those from Venmo and Coinbase.

Kpler is a London-headquartered data and analytics platform launched in 2014, tracking commodities transportation including LNG, crude oil, dry bulk, freight, and inventories across 40 markets. With over 500 employees globally, it expanded through acquisitions of ClipperData in 2021, JBC Energy and Core-e in 2022, and MarineTraffic with FleetMon in 2023, serving traders, producers, and governments.

CRISIL Ltd provides research and analytics solutions for clients of all sizes. It operates through segments of Ratings services, and Research, Analytics & Solutions. The Ratings services segment includes credit ratings for corporates, banks, bank loans, credit analysis services, grading services and global analytical services. The Research, Analytics and solutions segment which generates key revenue, includes global research and risk solutions, industry reports, customized research assignments, subscription to data services, independent equity research (IER), IPO gradings, training, credit ratings for small and medium enterprises, advisory services and a comprehensive range of risk management tools, analytics and solutions to financial institutions, banks and corporates in India.

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.

Addepar is a wealth management platform aggregating data for over four trillion dollars in assets across more than 800 firms in 30 countries. Used by advisors for portfolio analysis, reporting, and Marketplace access to alternative investments, it integrates with over 100 partners. Offices span Silicon Valley, New York City, Salt Lake City, Chicago, London, and Edinburgh.

TP ICAP GROUP PLC provides broking professional intermediary services to match buyers and sellers of different financial, energy, and commodities products. Its role includes creating liquidity and price discovery in markets and providing insight and context to the clients. The company provides proprietary over-the-counter ('OTC') pricing information in the world with the data on financial, energy, and commodities products. Its clients include banks, insurance companies, pension funds, asset managers, hedge funds, central banks, energy producers and refiners, risk and compliance managers, and charities. The company's segments include Global Broking which generates key revenue, Energy & Commodities, Liquidnet, Parameta Solutions, and Corporate.

FactSet provides financial data and portfolio analytics to the global investment community. The company aggregates data from third-party data suppliers, news sources, exchanges, brokerages, and contributors into its workstations. In addition, it provides essential portfolio analytics that companies use to monitor portfolios and address reporting requirements. Buy-side clients (including wealth and corporate clients) account for over 80% of FactSet's annual subscription value. In 2015, the company acquired Portware, a provider of trade execution software. In 2017, it acquired BISAM, a risk management and performance measurement provider. In 2022, it completed its purchase of CUSIP Global Services.

TradingView is a web-based platform delivering advanced charting tools, real-time market data, and social networking features for traders and investors worldwide. New York-headquartered with engineering teams in Vilnius, Lithuania, it supports 50 million monthly active users through web, desktop, and mobile applications. The platform integrates with over 50 brokerages including Interactive Brokers, OANDA, and IG, allowing seamless trade execution from interactive charts. TradingView equips more than 40,000 publishers, brokerages, and fintech companies with embeddable widgets and APIs. Founded in 2011, the company completed a $37 million Series B funding round led by Insight Partners in 2018 and acquired TradeIT in 2019 to bolster brokerage connectivity.