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Alchemy is a blockchain developer platform powering over 70 percent of top web3 applications with APIs for Ethereum, Polygon, Arbitrum, and Optimism. Services include node infrastructure, enhanced APIs, and analytics dashboards used by OpenSea, Uniswap, and Dapper Labs. San Francisco-headquartered since 2020, the company processes 10 billion compute units monthly across 1 million daily active app chains.

Fireblocks is a New York-headquartered digital asset security platform safeguarding cryptocurrency transfers between exchanges, wallets, and custodians. Its MPC-CMP technology eliminates single points of failure in private key management, supporting over 1,800 tokens across Bitcoin, Ethereum, and layer-2 networks. The Fireblocks Network connects more than 1,800 institutional clients including BNY Mellon, Galaxy Digital, and Kraken for seamless, insured transfers. Founded in 2018, the platform processes over $10 trillion in transactions annually and integrates with custody providers worldwide.

Celestia is a modular blockchain network that supplies data availability sampling for rollups and sidechains. Developers deploy sovereign chains using its lightweight clients and pay for data posting via TIA tokens. The mainnet launched in 2023 supports blocks up to 1 GB in size through Namespaced Merkle Trees. Celestia operates validators across 40 countries and integrates with Ethereum, Cosmos, and Polygon ecosystems. Incorporated in 2019, it bases headquarters in Vaduz, Liechtenstein.

Blockdaemon provides enterprise-grade blockchain infrastructure, managing nodes and payment rails across networks. Los Angeles-headquartered since 2017, it enables seamless chain switching, portability, and DevOps support for the developer ecosystem.

Thought Machine is a London-headquartered fintech founded in 2017, delivering the Vault Core cloud-native banking platform to replace legacy systems. Adopted by JPMorgan Chase for its digital bank, Lloyds Banking Group, and Standard Chartered across retail, corporate, and investment banking, Vault supports real-time processing via microservices on AWS and Google Cloud. The platform handles mortgages, deposits, and payments compliant with PSD2 regulations. Thought Machine serves 20+ financial institutions globally with headquarters in the UK and offices in Singapore and New York.

CertiK is a New York-based blockchain security auditor founded in 2018 by Yale and Columbia professors. The firm has secured over $200 billion in DeFi value through AI-driven smart contract audits and formal verification for protocols like Binance Smart Chain and Polygon. With 300 employees, it monitors 10,000 projects via Skynet platform, detecting exploits in real-time.

Alphabet is a holding company that wholly owns internet giant Google. The California-based company derives slightly less than 90% of its revenue from Google services, the vast majority of which is advertising sales. Alongside online ads, Google services houses sales stemming from Google’s subscription services (YouTube TV and YouTube Music, among others), platforms (sales and in-app purchases on Play Store), and devices (Chromebooks, Pixel smartphones, and smart home products such as Chromecast). Google’s cloud computing platform accounts for roughly 10% of Alphabet’s revenue. The firm’s investments in up-and-coming technologies such as self-driving cars (Waymo), health (Verily), and internet access (Google Fiber) make up the rest.

Microsoft develops and licenses consumer and enterprise software. It is known for its Windows operating systems and Office productivity suite. The company is organized into three equally sized broad segments: productivity and business processes (legacy Microsoft Office, cloud-based Office 365, Exchange, SharePoint, Skype, LinkedIn, Dynamics), intelligence cloud (infrastructure- and platform-as-a-service offerings Azure, Windows Server OS, SQL Server), and more personal computing (Windows Client, Xbox, Bing search, display advertising, and Surface laptops, tablets, and desktops).

Oracle provides enterprise applications and infrastructure offerings through a variety of flexible IT deployment models, including on-premises, cloud-based, and hybrid. Founded in 1977, Oracle pioneered the first commercial SQL-based relational database management system, which is commonly used by the world’s largest companies for high-volume online transaction processing workloads. Besides databases, Oracle also sells enterprise resource planning platforms and cloud infrastructure that play an increasingly important role in large language model training and inferencing.

Cisco Systems is the largest provider of networking equipment in the world and one of the largest software companies in the world. Its largest businesses are selling networking hardware and software (where it has leading market shares) and cybersecurity software such as firewalls. It also has collaboration products, like its Webex suite, and observability tools. It primarily outsources its manufacturing to third parties and has a large sales and marketing staff—25,000 strong across 90 countries. Overall, Cisco employs 80,000 people and sells its products globally.

Dell Technologies is a broad information technology vendor, primarily supplying hardware to enterprises. It focuses on premium and commercial personal computers, as well as enterprise on-premises data center hardware. It holds top-three market shares in its core markets of personal computers, peripheral displays, mainstream servers, and external storage. Dell has a robust ecosystem of component and assembly partners, and also relies heavily on channel partners to fulfill its sales.

Alibaba is the world's largest online and mobile commerce company as measured by gross merchandise volume. It operates China's online marketplaces, including Taobao (consumer-to-consumer) and Tmall (business-to-consumer). The China retail e-commerce platform is the most valuable cash flow-generating business at Alibaba. Additional revenue sources include China wholesale e-commerce, international retail and wholesale e-commerce, local consumer services, travel services, cloud computing, digital media and entertainment, Cainiao logistics services, and other businesses.

Incorporated in 1911, International Business Machines, or IBM, is one of the oldest technology companies in the world. It provides software, IT consulting services, and hardware to help business customers modernize their technology workflows. IBM operates in 175 countries and employs approximately 300,000 people. The company has a robust roster of business partners to service its clients, which includes 95% of all Fortune 500 companies. IBM’s products, including Red Hat, watsonx, and mainframes, handle some of the world’s most important data workloads in areas like finance and retail.

Databricks is a San Francisco-headquartered cloud platform unifying data engineering, analytics, and AI on a lakehouse architecture. Founded in 2013, it supports Delta Lake for reliable data lakes, MLflow for machine learning lifecycle management, and Unity Catalog for governance across workspaces. The platform powers ETL pipelines, serverless SQL warehouses, and generative AI model deployment for enterprises worldwide, including integrations with AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud.

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.

Cloudflare is a software company based in San Francisco, California, that offers security and web performance offerings by utilizing a distributed, serverless content delivery network, or CDN. The firm’s edge computing platform, Workers, leverages this network by providing clients the ability to deploy and execute code without maintaining servers.

Tata Consultancy Services is a leading global IT services provider based in Mumbai, India. Founded in 1968, it is one of the first companies to leverage a global delivery model that helps clients outsource their IT needs to offshore labor. The company boasts a wide range of offerings, including IT consulting, managed services, and business process outsourcing.

Nebius is a vertically integrated cloud provider focusing on AI and high-performance computing. It is a carve-out of the previous Russian tech firm Yandex, following the Russian sanctions since the Ukraine-Russia war. Nebius designs and operates its own data centers and servers across Europe and the US, with a total capacity of several hundred megawatts. In September 2025, Microsoft became a major Nebius client under a multiyear $17 billion revenue agreement to provide computing capacity.