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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.

SMS Co Ltd is a Japanese company involved in providing various services targeting information infrastructure for the aging society. The company divides its search service by the following segments: nursing care, medical care, career, healthcare/senior life, and global.

Clarivate is a data, information, and software workflow solutions company serving customers primarily in academia, government, law, life sciences, and healthcare. The company was formerly part of Thomson Reuters before being sold to private equity as an independent company in 2016. In 2019, Clarivate went public on the New York Stock Exchange. Around half of the company’s revenue is generated in the Americas, while Europe, Middle East, and Africa account for around a quarter.

MegazoneCloud is a South Korean cloud computing company and the first Korean partner of Amazon Web Services, offering managed cloud services, AI platforms such as AIR Studio, and consulting spanning cloud migration through AI-native transformation. Founded as a spin-off from Megazone Corporation in 2018, it serves thousands of corporate clients across South Korea, the United States, China, Japan, and other markets, with the US as a priority growth market. The company also provides cloud security services under its HALO brand.

EcoVadis is a sustainability assessment platform rating business practices for global supply chains. Paris-headquartered since 2007, it evaluates suppliers on environment, labor, ethics, and sustainable procurement using standardized scorecards. EcoVadis serves clients like Google, Apple, and Renault, covering 200,000 companies across 175 countries with sector-specific benchmarks.

Pigment is a Paris-headquartered business planning platform processing real-time data from ERP, CRM, and HR systems for dynamic forecasting. Launched in 2019, it enables scenario modeling, financial consolidation, and workforce planning through gopigment.com for enterprises like Unilever and Merck.

Cardinal Operations is a Beijing-based analytics firm utilizing big data for decision optimization in complex environments. Through its platform at shanshu.ai, the company delivers end-to-end solutions from data ingestion via APIs to predictive modeling with machine learning algorithms, targeting e-commerce, finance, and manufacturing sectors. Cardinal Operations employs proprietary models for scenario simulation and action recommendations, processing petabytes of structured and unstructured data. Founded in 2016, it serves Chinese enterprises like Alibaba affiliates with tools for inventory forecasting and pricing strategies.

Happiest Minds Technologies Ltd is an information technology (IT) company intended to deliver seamless customer experiences, business efficiency, and actionable insights to users. The company leverages a spectrum of disruptive technologies like artificial intelligence, blockchain, cloud, digital process automation, internet of things, robotics/drones, security, virtual/augmented reality, and more, enabling users in industry sectors like automotive, banking, financial services and insurance (BFSI), consumer packaged goods, e-commerce, edutech, engineering research and development (R&D), hi-tech, manufacturing, retail, and travel/transportation/hospitality to undergo digital transformation. Geographically, the company generates its key revenue from the United States of America.

Softcreate Holdings Corp is engaged in the provision of comprehensive information technology related services. The company is focusing on the system integration business and cloud integration business. System Integration Business offers comprehensive solutions from system proposal to design and development, infrastructure environment construction. Cloud Integration Business offers various cloud services of IaaS/PaaS/SaaS based on its cloud service SCCloud. In addition, the company also dealing with servers, client PCs, various software from the customer's IT assets to peripheral supplies and supplies.

Aera Technology is a Decision Intelligence provider with its Aera Decision Cloud platform integrating enterprise data sources for real-time decision-making at scale. Mountain View-headquartered, the company serves global brands in retail, manufacturing, and logistics to optimize operations.

Ardoq is an Oslo-headquartered enterprise architecture platform enabling organizations to model IT landscapes, strategies, and capabilities. The software integrates live data from surveys, APIs, and spreadsheets to visualize interdependencies across applications, infrastructure, and business processes. Used by firms like Volkswagen and Telia, Ardoq supports agile transformation with dashboards and scenario planning tools, headquartered in Norway with offices in the US and UK.

Polaris Holdings Co Ltd is a Japan-based company. It has two business segments. The Real Estate segment is involved in the leasing, buying, selling, and development of real estate; The Hotel segment deals with hotel management, consulting, and franchising. Some of its hotels include Best Western Hotels, Value The Hotel, Kinuura Grand Hotel, and KOKO Hotels.

Avant Group Corp Develops, sells, and maintains software to help customers make timely and appropriate management decisions and promote management reforms based on a variety of information, both financial and non-financial, and provides software-based consulting and BPO services, thereby contributing to DX of Management.