USHOPAL Funding, Investors & Competitors

Vector Inc is a Japanese-based company involved in four main businesses which are public relation (PR), Digital PR, Facebook marketing and Facebook marketing business. The company provides various services as per the requirements of companies and consumers. In addition, it also offers other services covering areas such as management, finance, accounting, human resources, administration, internal controls, and audits.

Accenture is a professional services company that provides management consulting, technology consulting, systems integration and outsourcing services to corporations and governments. It was formed in 1989 as the consulting arm of Arthur Andersen, operated as Andersen Consulting until 2000, and is incorporated in Ireland with its head office in Dublin. The company organises its work around strategy and consulting, technology and operations services, and industry-specific practices spanning banking, insurance, health, public service, communications, energy, retail and software. It earns fees from multi-year managed services and outsourcing contracts as well as project-based consulting and implementation work for large enterprise clients. Accenture is a serial acquirer of small and mid-sized specialist firms in cloud, data and artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, digital engineering, marketing and design, and it adds capability in new geographies the same way. It also invests in early-stage and growth technology companies through its corporate venture arm, Accenture Ventures, and holds majority and minority stakes in joint ventures such as Avanade. Its shares are listed on the New York Stock Exchange.

HCL Technologies Ltd provides enterprises with IT solutions. It focuses on offering Digital, Internet of Things, Cloud, Automation, Cybersecurity, Infrastructure Management, and Engineering services to solve business problems for clients. It offers solutions to a variety of industries, including Financial Services, Public Services, Consumer Services, Healthcare, and Manufacturing. It operates in three segments: IT and Business Services, Engineering and R&D Services, and HCL Software. The firm emphasizes consultation services for firms, intending to offer them digital and design solutions. The majority of the firm's revenue comes from the IT and Business Services segment. Geographically, it derives maximum revenue from the USA, and the rest from Europe, India, and the Rest of the world.

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.

Cognizant Technology Solutions is a multinational IT services provider that offers a range of consulting and business process outsourcing services. Originally founded in India, the company is headquartered in the US and serves enterprise customers spanning the financial services, healthcare, and resources industries. With most of its workforce located in India, Cognizant leverages a global delivery model that helps clients outsource their IT needs to offshore labor.

Publicis Groupe is a French communications group headquartered in Paris and listed on Euronext Paris. Marcel Bleustein-Blanchet founded it in 1926, and it has grown into one of the largest advertising and communications groups in the world. The group provides creative, media planning and buying, digital marketing, data and public relations services to corporate clients through networks such as Publicis, Saatchi & Saatchi, Leo Burnett, Zenith, Starcom and Performics. It operates in more than 100 countries and employs over 100,000 people. In the Czech Republic it ran its agencies through a holding co-owned with local co-founder Martin Stepanek from 1995 until it took full control of that holding in 2016. Revenue comes from fees and commissions on client campaigns and media spend.

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.

Omnicom is a holding company that owns several advertising agencies and related firms. It provides traditional and digital advertising services that include creative design, market research, data analytics, ad placement, and public relations. The firm operates globally, providing services in more than 70 countries; it generates more than one half of its revenue in North America and nearly 30% in Europe.

Capgemini is a French IT services company with a global presence. The firm has over 450 offices globally, with more than half of its employees based in India. Capgemini provides services related to IT consulting, software application and technology services, infrastructure management, engineering research and development, and business process outsourcing.

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.

NRI was formed in 1988 through the merger of the original Nomura Research Institute and Nomura Computer Systems. Its core financial IT solutions segment (roughly half of revenue) acts as a de facto utility for Japan’s capital markets, running shared back-office platforms for major brokerages and banks. The industrial IT solutions segment builds supply chain and enterprise resource planning systems for retailers and manufacturers. These are supported by IT platform services (data centers) and a consulting business that originates digital transformation projects. Nomura Holdings, the parent of Nomura Securities, remains NRI’s largest shareholder with a 20% stake.

Authentic Brands Group is an American brand development, marketing and licensing company headquartered in New York City. It owns more than 50 consumer brands, including Reebok, Brooks Brothers, Champion, Nautica, Nine West, Quiksilver, Billabong, Juicy Couture, Sperry, Dockers and Guess, and the likeness rights or estates of figures such as Muhammad Ali, Elvis Presley and Marilyn Monroe. Authentic licenses these brands to more than 1,700 licensees and partners in over 150 countries, whose products sell through more than 31,000 stores and shop-in-shops and generate over $38 billion in annual systemwide retail sales. It also runs content and live-experience businesses, including Sports Illustrated's intellectual property and Authentic Live, launched in 2025. The company was founded in 2010 by Canadian entrepreneur Jamie Salter with backing from Leonard Green & Partners, and grew through deals such as Reebok from Adidas for at least $2.5 billion and Champion from Hanesbrands for $1.2 billion in 2024. CVC Capital Partners and HPS Investment Partners invested $3.5 billion in 2021 at a $12.7 billion company value, and its owners also include Leonard Green and General Atlantic. Matt Maddox became chief executive in May 2026, with Salter as executive chairman.

Leidos Holdings Inc is a technology, engineering, and science company that provides services and solutions in the defense, intelligence, civil, and health management, both domestically and internationally. The customers of the company includes the U.S. Department of Defense ("DoD"), the U.S. Intelligence Community, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security ("DHS"), the Federal Aviation Administration ("FAA"), the Department of Veterans Affairs ("VA"), and many other U.S. civilian, state and local government agencies, etc. The company is engaged in four reportable segments; National Security & Digital, Health & Civil, Commercial & International and Defense Systems. It provides a wide array of scientific, engineering and technical services and solutions across these reportable segments.

Bureau Veritas is a testing, inspection, and certification company. Its primary activities include testing products and materials, inspecting sites and equipment, and certifying products and systems to maintain global standards. Bureau Veritas is one of a handful of companies in the TIC sector that operate globally across numerous industries, including marine, industry, commodities, construction, and consumer products. Bureau Veritas was listed in 2007; it was previously privately owned by the Wendel Group, which retains a significant holding.

ELM Co is engaged in providing ready-made and customized digital solutions in many areas. Its ready-made solutions serve a broad segment of customers, who can subscribe to different packages of their choosing to meet their needs and suffice business requirements. The services offered by the company include Consulting, Data Analysis and Technical solutions. The segments are Digital Business, Business Process Outsourcing and Professional Services, out of which the majority are from the Digital Business segment.

Ryan is a Dallas, Texas-based tax services and software firm that helps large companies reduce, recover and manage their taxes. Its practice areas include transaction tax, property tax, income and international tax, credits and incentives, value-added tax, employment tax, severance tax and unclaimed property, delivered as recovery, consulting, compliance outsourcing and advocacy work, alongside the affiliated law firm Ryan Legal Services and Ryan Software. Ryan serves about 18,000 clients in more than 60 countries from over 113 offices, including locations in Canada, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, India, the Philippines and Australia, and says it recovered more than $4 billion in tax savings for clients in a single year. It earns fees for recovery and consulting work and licence revenue from software; revenue was about $715 million in 2021, with around 3,600 employees. The firm was founded in 1991 by G. Brint Ryan and Chris F. Collis as the CPA firm Collis & Ryan, became Ryan & Company after Collis was bought out in 1993, gave up its CPA licence in 1998 and took the name Ryan LLC in 2007. In October 2018 Onex acquired a 42% interest that valued the company at $1.1 billion, and Ryan has since bought specialist firms such as Economics Partners and VAT Systems.

CREED is a commercial real estate capital markets technology company that provides a digital platform connecting investors, sponsors, brokers and lenders. The platform holds data on lenders and loan requests, lets sponsors and brokers request financing and compare offers, and includes a marketplace through which limited partners can be matched with sponsors. CREED sells access to the platform to commercial real estate professionals on a subscription basis. The company is led by chief executive Alex Leybov, a long-time commercial real estate investment banker, and is headquartered in New York with a second office in Miami. It launched a mobile app for lenders in 2021, a desktop portal in 2023 and its limited partner marketplace in 2024. Its stated mission is to bring liquidity and efficiency to commercial real estate financing through data and digitisation.

WME is a talent agency headquartered at 9601 Wilshire Boulevard in Beverly Hills, in the Los Angeles area, that represents artists, content creators and talent across film, television, music, theatre, books, digital media, fashion, food, comedy and sports. It negotiates deals for clients, advises them on brand partnerships, production and the use of their intellectual property, and earns commissions on the work it books. Besides its Los Angeles headquarters it has offices in New York, Nashville, Chicago, Washington, Miami, London and Sydney. WME was formed in April 2009 by the merger of the William Morris Agency, whose history the agency dates back more than 125 years, and Endeavor Talent Agency, with Ari Emanuel and Patrick Whitesell as co-chief executives. Silver Lake bought a 31.25% stake for $250 million in 2012, and WME and Silver Lake acquired IMG for $2.4 billion in 2013. In 2017 the parent was renamed Endeavor and WME continued as its talent agency, while agency deals such as Ross Yoon in 2023 extended its literary business. Silver Lake completed its take-private of Endeavor in March 2025, after which the group rebranded as the WME Group.