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Feedzai is a Coimbra-headquartered AI platform combating fraud across banking, payments, and e-commerce. It deploys risk scoring for transactions, AML screening, identity verification, and scam detection using behavioral biometrics and generative AI like ScamAlert. Clients include Santander, Citi, and Visa, with operations in US, UK, and APAC for real-time prevention.

Persona is a San Francisco-headquartered identity verification platform serving fintech, gaming, and sharing economy companies worldwide. Its API suite automates KYC, AML checks, age verification, and biometric authentication across 200 countries, supporting documents from 190 nations and 2,400 government-issued IDs. Customizable workflows integrate with Stripe, Shopify, and Okta, handling fraud detection via device intelligence and liveness detection. Persona processes millions of verifications monthly for clients like Robinhood and Airbnb.

Quantexa is a UK-based data and AI software company that pioneers Contextual Decision Intelligence (DI). Its platform unifies messy, siloed data into a single, trusted, and reusable resource. By applying Composite AI, it maps relationships between people, organizations, and places to help organizations mitigate risk, detect fraud, and drive growth.

C3.ai Inc is an enterprise artificial intelligence company. The company provides software-as-a-service applications that enable customers to rapidly develop, deploy, and operate large-scale Enterprise AI applications across any infrastructure. It provides solutions under three divisions namely, The C3 AI Platform, which is an end-to-end application development and runtime environment for designing, developing, and deploying AI applications: C3 AI Applications, which is a portfolio of pre-built, extensible, industry-specific, and application-specific Enterprise AI applications: and C3 Generative AI, which combines the utility of large language models. Geographically the company derives revenue from North America, Europe, the Middle East and Africa, Asia Pacific, and the Rest of the World.

H2O.ai is a Mountain View-headquartered AI cloud platform developer serving over half of the Fortune 500. It delivers the H2O AI Hybrid Cloud for automated machine learning, enabling rapid problem-solving in predictive analytics and business intelligence. Notable clients include AT&T, Capital One, PayPal, GlaxoSmithKline, Unilever, and Kaiser Permanente. Strategic investors such as Goldman Sachs, NVIDIA, and Wells Fargo support the company alongside partnerships in healthcare, finance, and consumer goods sectors. H2O.ai employs top Kaggle Grandmasters and maintains industry-leading Net Promoter Scores through its open-source Driverless AI and open-source tools.

LM Arena is an AI benchmarking platform hosting leaderboards for large language models evaluated on blind human-voted pairwise comparisons. The San Francisco-based service powers LMSYS Chatbot Arena, testing over 100 models from providers like Anthropic and Mistral. It serves researchers worldwide with open-source arenas for coding, math, and vision-language tasks.

TRS Information Technology Co Ltd is a provider of artificial intelligence and big data technology and data services in China. The core business of a company includes software product development, industry application solutions and data analysis and mining cloud services, covering big data management, information security, Internet marketing and artificial intelligence.

Hyperscience is an AI-driven enterprise automation company that processes structured and semi-structured documents using machine learning. Its platform handles data extraction from invoices, compliance reconciliation, and workflow automation to eliminate manual entry. Hyperscience modernizes operations for large organizations and governments in finance, insurance, and public sectors, deploying on-premises and cloud deployments.

Lin Junyang AI Lab is an artificial intelligence company.

Xiaoice is a Beijing-based AI company developing conversational chatbots with emotional intelligence for extended dialogues. Launched by Microsoft in 2014 and spun off in 2020, Xiaoice integrates NLP, speech synthesis, and image generation serving 660 million users in China via WeChat and Douyin.

ASAPP is an artificial-intelligence company that builds an AI-native customer experience platform for contact centers, covering automation, real-time voice transcription, speech analytics, and live-agent coaching for both agent-assisted and agentless interactions. The platform is designed to help enterprises such as JetBlue and DISH Network cut costs and improve digital engagement across the roughly $400 billion contact-center industry. ASAPP operates from offices in New York, Silicon Valley, Buenos Aires, London, and Bozeman.

Axiom Math AI is a startup developing AI systems for mathematical reasoning and self-improving superintelligence. The San Francisco-based company trains models on vast datasets of theorems, proofs, and competition problems from sources like IMO and Putnam exams. Its platform generates step-by-step solutions for algebra, calculus, and geometry while iteratively refining algorithms through reinforcement learning.

Cresta is a Palo Alto-headquartered AI platform coaching contact center agents in real time for sales and customer service interactions. The software analyzes voice calls from platforms like Amazon Connect and provides sentiment-based guidance during conversations with clients such as BT and American Airlines. Cresta processes millions of interactions monthly across North American and European operations.

DataStax is a Santa Clara-headquartered enterprise software company specializing in distributed databases for generative AI applications. Its Astra DB offers serverless vector search, real-time data ingestion, and Kubernetes-native deployment with integrations to LangChain, Apache Cassandra, and NVIDIA AI Enterprise. Founded in 2008, DataStax supports Fortune 500 clients like Netflix, Intuit, and Barclays through Astra Streaming for event-driven architectures and OpsCenter for database management. The platform handles petabyte-scale workloads with built-in security features compliant with GDPR and SOC 2.

WEKA generates AI infrastructure through its cloud and hardware-agnostic data platform at weka.io. The solution powers performance-intensive AI, ML, and GPU workloads on-premises, in clouds, at the edge, and in hybrid environments. Adopted by 11 Fortune 50 companies and research organizations worldwide, it accelerates data pipelines for enterprises.

Beijing Haizhi Technology Group Co Ltd focuses on developing intelligent agent technologies and artificial intelligence solutions based on graph computing and model integration technologies. Its products are used in finance, energy, manufacturing, transportation, healthcare, and public services. The company operates as a high-technology enterprise principally engaged in provision of: (i) Atlas graph solutions, which include a data management and computing platform, a knowledge graph platform, and a graph database based on graph computing and data analysis technologies; and (ii) Atlas AI agent solutions developed using graph and large language model integration technology. The majority of the revenue is derived from the Atlas Graph Solutions.

Emergent is an AI-driven platform that converts natural language prompts into complete web and mobile applications through autonomous agents managing design, logic, integration, and deployment.

Affle 3i Ltd Formerly Affle India Ltd is engaged in the technology business across the globe. The company is engaged in a fragmented advertising and marketing tech ecosystem by providing an end-to-end integrated mobile marketing platform. The company's AI-powered deep learning algorithms and advanced platform solutions transform ads into consumer recommendations delivering enhanced engagement. The company has single segment of ‘business of providing services in advertisement and software development’. Geographically the company operates in India only.