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Roper Technologies is a holding company focused on acquiring, managing, and developing niche market-leading technology businesses. The company operates a decentralized business model whereby each portfolio company operates independently from the others. Roper positions itself as a free cash flow compounder, whereby excess free cash flow generated by its portfolio businesses is repatriated to the parent company, which is then utilized to acquire additional businesses. Presently, the company operates 30 distinct businesses with over three-fourths of the revenue coming from software products and over two-thirds of the revenue coming from recurring and recurring sources.

Dassault Systèmes is a leading provider of computer-assisted design and product lifecycle management software, serving customers like Boeing and Volkswagen throughout the production process. The company’s flagship product, Catia, primarily serves the transportation, industrial equipment, and aerospace and defense industries. In life sciences, Dassault’s Medidata cloud platform optimizes clinical trial efficiency and is the leader in electronic data capture.

WiseTech is a founder-led, global leader in logistics software for international freight forwarding. WiseTech’s core product, CargoWise, is used by the majority of the top 25 global freight forwarders and has world-leading annual customer retention rates of over 99%. CargoWise’s main competition consists of inhouse software solutions and analogue processes, providing a large and highly winnable market opportunity for WiseTech’s current and future products.

Full Truck Alliance Co Ltd, through its subsidiaries, provides comprehensive services for shippers and truckers through its mobile and website platforms. Its principal operations are in the People's Republic of China. The group derives its revenues principally from shippers and trucker's use of its platforms in connection with freight matching services and value-added services.

Zhuzhou CRRC Times Electric Co Ltd is in the R&D, design, manufacturing, and sales of rail transit equipment products and the provision of related services, and has an industrial structure of components, systems, and complete machines. Its products mainly include rail transit electrical equipment, railway engineering machinery, communication signal systems, and others. Meanwhile, the Company actively expands to industries other than rail transit, and conducts business in the fields of power semiconductor devices, industrial converter products, electric drive systems for new energy vehicles, sensor devices, and marine equipment, The Company operates in the domestic market and overseas markets.

Manhattan Associates provides software that helps users manage their supply chains, inventory, and omnichannel operations. Customers are generally retailers, wholesalers, manufacturers, and logistics providers. The company was founded in 1990 and serves more than 1,200 customers worldwide.

EquipmentShare.com Inc is a construction technology solutions and equipment rental company. It operates business through reportable segments: Equipment Rental and Services Operations, comprises of recurring activity performed at full-service branch locations, such as equipment rentals and related services (including allocated telematics revenue related to rental customer access to the T3 platform), and sales of parts, supplies and maintenance services to construction contractors and others; and Equipment Sales, comprises of sales of new or used equipment made at any of branch locations and dealership sites, equipment sales to participants in the OWN Program. Its activities also include telematics subscriptions, software applications, building materials and hardware supplies, and others.

Descartes Systems Group provides a software solution that allows users in the shipping industry to communicate with one another. Its core product is the Global Logistics Network, which is best understood as transaction-driven. Descartes charges clients to send/receive messages, data, and documents on the GLN. Customers typically contract for a monthly minimum over a multiyear period. The GLN platform allows Descartes to upsell additional software modules as well, typically provided via a software-as-a-service model.

ServiceTitan Inc is an end-to-end technology platform built for contractors to transform the performance of their businesses. The Company’s platform provides business owners, technicians, customer service representatives and other key office staff with technology tools designed to help customers grow revenue, drive operational efficiencies, deliver a superior end-customer experience and monitor key business drivers in real-time. The Company also has subsidiaries in Yerevan, Armenia and British Columbia, Canada that primarily serve as research and development and support centers.

WEX Inc is a commerce platform that provides seamlessly embedded, personalized payments solutions. The company operates three business segments: Mobility, Benefits, and Corporate Payments. Mobility segment, the top segment by revenue, provides fleet vehicle payment solutions, transaction processing, and information management services for commercial and government fleets. The Corporate Payments segment offers business-to-business payment processing and transaction monitoring services. The Benefits segment generates revenue from healthcare payment products and its consumer-directed software platform. Its prime end market is the United States of America.

TravelSky Technology Ltd provides information technology solutions for aviation and travel companies in China. The company develops commercial airlines, airports, air travel products, and is a services supplier to travel agencies, corporate clients, travelers, and cargo shippers--to conduct electronic transactions and manage travel-related information. The core businesses of the company include aviation information technology services, distribution of information technology services, and clearing & accounting & settlement services for the aviation industry. Aviation information technology service revenue contributes approximately half the company's total revenue.

Delhivery Ltd is engaged in providing a full range of logistics services, including delivery of express parcels and heavy goods, PTL freight, TL freight, warehousing, supply chain solutions, cross-border Express freight services, and supply chain software. The company also offers value-added services such as e-commerce return services, payment collection and processing, installation and assembly services, and fraud detection. It has one segment, which is Logistics Services. The company generates the majority of its revenue from India.

NextNav Inc provides GPS service. The company NextNav TerraPoiNT system keeps critical infrastructure resilient with reliable Position, Navigation, and Timing services in the absence of GPS.

Transfar Zhilian Co Ltd is engaged in the production and sale of specialty chemicals used in textile printing and dyeing, leather, building materials and water treatment.

China TransInfo Technology Co Ltd operates as an intelligent transportation operator and traffic data service provider. The company offers its solutions for the urban transportation, highway transportation, rail transportation, civil aviation, water transportation, and other fields.

GuoChuang Software Co Ltd provides data intelligence products and services. It mainly operates three business segments: digital applications, digital products, and digital operations. The Digital applications segment provides data intelligence industry software products and IT solutions and services to customers in industries such as operators, energy, transportation, government, and enterprises. The Digital products segment is engaged in developing and applying Battery Management Systems, energy storage BEMS, smart energy storage systems, assisted driving and autonomous driving domain controllers, and other integrated hardware and software data intelligent products; and the Digital operations segment builds and operates a smart logistics cloud platform.

Karooooo Ltd is a provider of real-time mobility data analytics solutions for smart transportation. It offers a comprehensive, cloud-based smart mobility platform for connected vehicles and other assets. The company's software-as-a-service platform provides customers with differentiated insights and analytics to optimize business and workforce, increase efficiency and decrease costs, improve safety, monitor environmental impact, assist with regularity compliance, and manage risk. The segments of the group are Cartrack; Carzuka; and Karooooo Logistics, of which key revenue is derived from the Cartrack segment.

GigaCloud Technology Inc provides end-to-end and B2B e-commerce solutions for large parcel merchandise. Its B2B e-commerce platform, which is referred to as the GigaCloud Marketplace, integrates everything from discovery, payments, and logistics tools into one easy-to-use platform. It offers online and offline integrated cross-border transaction and delivery services for furniture and large merchandise. Its marketplace seamlessly connects manufacturers in Asia, with resellers in the U.S., Asia, and Europe, to execute cross-border transactions with confidence, speed, and efficiency. It offers a truly comprehensive solution that transports products from the manufacturer’s warehouse to end customers, all at one fixed price.

Beijing eGova Co Ltd is a high-tech software company. It provides solutions in the digital city management, innovation and social management, intelligent transportation, and safe city fields in China. The company offers digital city management software and a grid of social service management systems; digital law enforcement management software and systems; three-dimensional imaging and mobile road measurement systems.

JSTI Group is a global engineering consulting firm. The company's services include planning consultation, survey and design, test and inspection, project and construction management and urban management optimization, engineering and architecture, risk management of natural disasters, design, supervision, and maintenance of hydraulic infrastructures. The company offers its services for highway, rail, maritime, aviation, water, environment, architecture, industry, and government fields, as well as smart cities.

Jiangsu Tongxingbao Intelligent Transportation Technology Co Ltd is engaged in providing intelligent transportation platform solutions for expressways, arterial roads and urban transportation.

Guotai Epoint Sofware Co Ltd provides software-centric smart overall solutions for the three sub-fields of smart recruitment, smart government and digital construction in smart cities.

Duolun Technology Corp Ltd develops motor vehicle driving training and examination system, vehicle driving simulation training systems, intelligent traffic management application platform, traffic signal control systems and electronic police systems.

New Trend International Logis-tech Co Ltd provides logistics system integration services. It provides warehousing, distribution and logistics automation systems and services. It offers logistics software, including warehouse control system, warehouse management system, data acquisition, and monitoring system, logistics management integration platform, transportation management system, and picking management system. It provides production planning, design, system integration, software development, equipment customization; and after-sales service, and a series of services. Its automatic logistics systems are mainly used in tobacco, cold chain, new energy vehicles, medicine, machinery manufacturing, airports, retail chains, e-commerce and food and beverage industries.

TomTom NV is a software company specializing in developing and selling navigation and location-based products and services, including maps, traffic, navigation software, and portable navigation devices. The company operates in two reporting segments: Location Technology and Consumer. The Location Technology Segment is engaged in developing and selling location-based application components such as maps, services, and navigation software to customers in different market segments. The Consumer segment generates revenue mainly from the sale of portable navigation devices and mobile applications. The majority of revenue is derived from the Location Technology Segment.

Beijing E-hualu Information Technology Co Ltd is engaged in building a data lake, a digital economic infrastructure with Chinese characteristics. It provide ecological operation services for building an intelligent economic model that is data-driven, human-machine collaborative, cross-border integrated, and co-created and shared.

Merlin Inc is focused on developing autonomous flight software for legacy and next-generation airborne systems. Its aircraft-agnostic, AI-based software supports takeoff-to-landing autonomous operations for military and civil aviation programs. The company aims to build an AI-based operating software platform intended to support autonomous flight operations across a range of aircraft types.

init innovation in traffic systems SE is an international system supplier of transportation telematics. The company develops and supplies integrated planning, dispatching, telematics and ticketing systems for buses and trains. The firm develops, produces, integrates, installs, and maintains software and hardware products for the planning, management, and optimization of transport companies. It offers research and development, planning and dispatching, analyzing and optimizing, ticketing and fare management, operations control and real-time passenger information, and service and maintenance solutions. Geographical presence of the company is in Germany, North America, Europe, Australia and UAE.

PowerFleet Inc is engaged in Internet-of-Things (IoT) solutions providing valuable business intelligence for managing high-value enterprise assets that improve operational efficiencies. It provide critical information that powers unified operations throughout organizations. It is solving the challenge of inefficient data collection, real-time visibility, and analysis that leads to transformative business operations. Its SaaS cloud-based applications take data from IoT devices and ecosystem of third-party and partner applications to present actionable information for customer.

IVU Traffic Technologies AG is a Germany-based software company. It is engaged in the development, manufacturing, and marketing of software and hardware. It provides installation and maintenance of IT solutions for the operational tasks of public passenger and freight transport. Its product consists of IVU. suite, IVU.rail, IVU.cloud, and many more. The company's business area of operations includes countries like Germany, Europe, and others in which it generates the majority of its revenue from Germany.

Tecsys Inc is engaged in the development and sale of enterprise supply chain management software for distribution, warehousing, transportation logistics, point-of-use, and order management. It also provides related consulting, education, and support services. The company serves healthcare systems, services parts, third-party logistics, retail, and general wholesale distribution industries. Geographically, it derives a majority of its revenue from the United States and also has a presence in Canada, Europe, and other regions.

Duos Technologies Group Inc operating under its brand name duostech, designs, develops, deploys and operates intelligent technology solutions supporting rail, logistics and intermodal businesses that streamline operations, improve safety and reduce costs. The company's main offering, the Railcar Inspection Portal (RIP), provides both freight and transit railroad customers and select government agencies the ability to conduct fully automated railcar inspections of trains that are moving at full speed. It has also developed the Automated Logistics Information System (ALIS) which automates gatehouse operations where transport trucks enter and exit large logistics and intermodal facilities. Its segments are Rail, Commercial, Governments, Banking and AI.

Kernex Microsystems (India) Ltd is an India based company engaged in the manufacture and sale of Safety Systems and Software services for Railways. The company is in the business of designing, developing, and deployment of Train Collision Avoidance Systems in Indian Railways, and successfully completing the installation of automatic and semi-automatic Railway Gates. It offers products which include LxGuard, TrainSHIELD, SAFELx, SENTINEX, CASRY, KMDAX, ATRW, KTPIS, and BCPS2440. Geographically, it generates the majority of its revenue within India.

Dimerco Data System Corp is mainly engaged in the design, development, and sales of various computer software, the agency and sales of computer hardware equipment, computer data processing services, computer information consulting business and computer leasing, etc. The company has three reporting segments, namely the hardware department, the software department, and other departments. The hardware department which generates key revenue, provides services for trading computer hardware equipment. The software department offers services such as enterprise software design and system maintenance.

Daea Ti Co Ltd develops and provides softwares with an expertise in the area of railway signaling and communication. Important products are CTC, ATC/ATO, ATP, CBTC, and Driverless Operation System.

Acusensus Ltd is involved in developing and commercializing intelligent traffic solutions technology. Its 'Heads-Up' solution has been designed to give authorities a tool to address distraction and other illegal driver behavior, to drive behavioral change on the road network. It also provides Data security solutions. The company's main objective is to Pioneer intelligent solutions to tackle difficult societal challenges, reduce road trauma and save lives. Geographically the company generates the majority of its revenue from Australia.

Tracsis PLC is engaged in the business of software development and consultancy for the rail industry. It is organized into two main business segments: Rail Technology and Services and Data, Analytics, Consultancy & Events. The Rail Technology and Services division includes software, consultancy, and remote condition monitoring technology, and also includes Ontrac. The Data, Analytics, Consultancy & Events division which derives majority revenue, focuses on data capture and analytics, geographic information systems, earth observation, consultancy and event traffic management within a range of transport and pedestrian rich environments. The company currently operates in three geographical markets: the United Kingdom, Ireland, Rest of Europe, North America, and Rest of the world.

EROAD Ltd is a New Zealand Based company which is a fully integrated technology, tolling and services provider. It designs and manufactures in-vehicle hardware operates secure payment and merchant gateways and offers web-based value-added services. The company provides electronic on-board units and software as a service to the transport industry. Its products are categorized in RUC Compliance, Health & Safety, and Fleet Management. It operates through four segments: Corporate & Development, North America, Australia, and New Zealand.

Rekor Systems Inc is a United States-based company. The company is engaged in providing real-time roadway intelligence through AI-driven decisions. The firm uses artificial intelligence to analyze video streams and transform them into AI-driven decisions. The company's technology and machine learning models power all solutions, including Rekor Command for transportation management, Rekor Discover for urban mobility, and Rekor Scout for public safety, and commercial use. Its geographical segments are the United States and Others, of which a majority of its revenue comes from the United States.

Logory Logistics Technology Co Ltd is a full-link digital freight service provider in China. The company provides a series of digital freight services and solutions for all participants in the freight industry such as logistics companies and cargo owners, as well as truckers in both inter-city and intra-city road freight transportation.

Kingwaytek Technology Co Ltd develops digital map databases. The Company offers Aerial Survey Offices, geographic information, satellite images, aerial photogrammetry, and field drive test surveys. It focuses on electronic map production and GIS system development. Its products are mainly used in transportation and power telecommunications.

Microlise Group PLC is a provider of transportation management solutions to enterprise customers. It supports organizations to run their business more sustainably, cost-effectively, compliantly, and efficiently with telematics, real-time journey management, planning, and proof of delivery solutions. It delivers integrated location, performance, utilization, safety, and compliance information through award-winning solutions.

Yojee Ltd is focused on developing a sharing-economy-based logistics technology through the creation of the Yojee delivery network and secure blockchain technology platform, initially targeting the Asia-Pacific region. The Platform will be an international collaborative economy technology platform aiming to provide seamless and efficient, on-demand movement of goods and services where and when it is needed.

SmartDrive inc is engaged in the development and provision of hardware, applications, telematics services, etc., and data collection and analysis for the mobility sector. It is promoting mobility data, GPS data (latitude and longitude, GPS speed, GPS accuracy), acceleration, and other technologies both in Japan and overseas. The group mainly operates the following businesses: Domestic Fleet Operator (DX) for companies that utilize cars, Domestic AO (DX) in the automotive industry, and Overseas Mobility DX Business. It offers cloud-based vehicle management systems, digital transformation (DX) services for vehicle-related operations, and a mobile data platform to analyze the data obtained from various devices such as dashcams and GPS trackers, and use it for various mobility services.

Argo Corp is a new technology venture focused on transforming public transportation and improving mobility within and across Canadian cities. The company is using Canadian technology to remove barriers to transportation services. The company operates in Two segments: Canada and USA.

CreateAI Holdings Inc is an applied artificial intelligence (AI) company that leverages research and integrates cutting-edge solutions with end-market applications to deliver tangible commercial value. It has developed AI solutions for autonomous trucking expertise to develop digital entertainment content for an audience. The Company has developed and launched its proprietary image-to-video model, Ruyi. This model continues to be developed and optimized for anime, comics, and gaming content development. It is also developing other generative AI tools that support its video games and anime projects.

Opter AB is a modern transport management system for the entire process from orders and transport planning to invoicing and settlement.

Ebusco Holding NV is a developer, manufacturer, and distributor of zero-emission buses and charging systems as well as a supplier of ancillary products and services to the electric vehicle ecosystem. It also is a manufacturer and supplier of Energy Storage Systems, and Mobile Energy Containers.