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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.

Based in Dallas, Copart operates an online salvage vehicle auction with operations in 11 countries across North America, Europe, and the Middle East, facilitating over 4 million transactions annually. The company utilizes its virtual bidding platform, VB3, to connect vehicle sellers with over 750,000 registered buyers around the world. Buyers primarily consist of vehicle dismantlers, rebuilders, individuals and used vehicle retailers. About 80% of Copart’s vehicle volume is supplied by auto insurance companies holding vehicles deemed a total loss. Copart also offers services such as vehicle transportation, storage, title transfer, and salvage value estimation. The company primarily operates on a consignment basis and collects fees based on the vehicle’s final selling price.

Founded in 1987 by four major European airline carriers (Air France, Lufthansa, Iberia, and SAS), Amadeus became the world’s second global distribution system operator, or GDS, after Sabre’s development in the 1960s and 1970s. Today, among the top three GDS operators that control nearly 100% of industry sales, Amadeus' 40%-plus market share ranks as the largest. Overall, Amadeus’ GDS segment represented 48% of total in 2024. Moreover, the company has an expanding IT solutions division (52% of 2024 revenue) that addresses the airline, airport, rail, hotel, and travel agency markets. Transaction fees, which are tied to volume and not price, account for the bulk of consolidated sales and profits.

RB Global has evolved into a leading global marketplace that connects buyers and sellers of commercial assets and vehicles. It is the result of the 2023 combination of Ritchie Bros. and IAA. Ritchie Bros.' roots were as an auctioneer facilitating transactions of commercial, construction, and transportation equipment (excavators, bulldozers, forklifts, and commercial trucks and trailers). However, it has evolved into an omnichannel marketplace. IAA has similar roots, though primarily focused on the salvage auction segment for consumer automobiles. The group provides ancillary services including title processing, transportation/towing, financing, data and appraisal, and so on. Its activities are international, though skewing approximately two-thirds to North America.

MonotaRO Co is a Japanese e-commerce company selling industrial supply products.

Global E Online Ltd provides e-commerce solutions. The company offers a platform to enable and accelerate direct-to-consumer cross-border e-commerce. The platform was purpose-built for international shoppers to buy seamlessly online and for merchants to sell from and anywhere in the world. The company localizes the shopper experience to make international transactions as seamless as domestic ones. The platform increases the conversion of international traffic into sales by removing much of the complexity associated with international e-commerce. The company derives maximum revenue from the United States.

Beijing United Information Technology Co Ltd operates business to business e-commerce platform. The company provides online commodity trading, commercial information services, and Internet technology for industrial products and raw materials for related industries. It also provides online commodity trading services for upstream and downstream industries such as coating chemicals, sanitary products, and glass, including self-operated e-commerce, third-party e-commerce, and SaaS services.

HBX Group International PLC is a travel-technology marketplace. The company is engaged in the intermediation of hotel accommodations and complementary travel products between travel suppliers and travel distributors. With the help of its subsidiaries, the Group also assists hotels in optimising their direct online channel, creating booking engines, and supporting digital marketing. The company's maximum revenue is derived from hotel bookings. The company connect between supply and demand, empowering businesses and their travellers, with choice and confidence.

Focus Technology Co Ltd is an Internet carrier in China. By introducing the Internet respectively into foreign trade, insurance, corporate procurement, medical, and other fields, Focus Tech successfully developed the following products: Made-in-China.com, Abiz.com, xyz.cn, StudyFun, Jiankang51.cn, and others.

TBO Tek Ltd is a travel distribution platform. It is engaged in the business of operating an online technology platform (TBO Portal) providing its customers access to book international travel inventory aggregated through travel suppliers like airlines, hotels, cruises, car rentals, transfers, and rail services among others. Its customers include retail and API buyers such as travel agencies, independent travel advisors, and enterprise buyers including tour operators, travel management companies, online travel companies, super-apps, and loyalty apps. The company's business activities fall within two primary business segments; Air ticketing which generates maximum revenue, and Hotels and packages. Geographically, it derives maximum revenue from India and also has its presence outside India.

IndiaMART InterMESH Ltd operates as an online B2B marketplace for business products and services. It serves as a platform for Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs), Large Enterprises as well as individuals. Geographically, it derives a majority of its revenue from India. It earns revenue primarily through the sale of subscription packages.

Upwork Inc is a United States-based company that operates an online marketplace that enables businesses to find and work with skilled independent professionals. The company develops platform for hiring and freelancing purposes and connects businesses with AI-enabled talent across every on-demand work type, including freelance, agency, fractional, and payrolled. The business generates revenue from Talent and Clients across the USA, India, Pakistan, the Philippines and the rest of the world. Maximum revenue of the company is derived from Talent segment.

Hangzhou Onechance Tech Crop is a Fast-Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) vertical marketing e-commerce operator. The major business of the company is providing e-commerce operating service which is covering all channels of the network for well-known FMCG brands at home and abroad. It offers one package service which contains image-building of brand, design and planning of product, integrated marketing planning, visual design, big data analysis, online brand operation, precise advertising, CRM management, pre-sales and after-sales service, warehousing and logistics, which will assist brands to improve their popularity and market share.

Gold.com Inc is an integrated alternative assets platform that offers an extensive range of precious metals, numismatic coins, and collectibles to consumers, collectors, and institutional clients of various countries.

Liquidity Services Inc is an online auction marketplace. It manages and sells inventory and equipment for business and government clients by operating a network of e-commerce marketplaces that enable buyers and sellers to transact in an efficient, automated environment offering across different product categories. The company has four reportable segments: GovDeals, Retail Supply Chain Group (RSCG), and Machinio & Software Solutions. It generates majority of its revenue from Retail Supply Chain Group (RSCG) segment which consists of marketplaces that enable corporations located in the United States and Canada to sell excess, returned, and overstocked consumer goods. Geographically, a substantial portion the company's revenue is generated from its business in United States.

SFC Holdings Co Ltd focuses on cross-border e-commerce export business, insists on using software and data technology as its basis, and is committed to improving the efficiency of cross-border trade by establishing an e-commerce ecosystem. The company's e-commerce business covers most countries and regions worldwide, providing local consumers with various product consumption options. It bridges more than 30 overseas third-party e-commerce shopping platforms, including Amazon, eBay, AliExpress, etc., and China's manufacturing supply chain as the world's factory. It uses technology and innovation to allow overseas consumers to enjoy the benefits of globalization.

AUCNET Inc is a Japanese based auction services provider. It provides new information distribution services using media, including LaserDisc, satellite communications, and the internet. It operates in the used cars auction business, motorcycle business, the flower business, the digital products business, the brand items business, and the medical equipment business.

ASKUL Corp is a Japanese company mainly offering office products and accessories. The business has two main segments: the office-related products and other delivery. The office-related product segment consists of personal computer and accessories, office supplies, and furniture. The other delivery segment provides cargo transportation services for corporations.

Shutterstock Inc is a U.S.-based company that is engaged in the provision of digital content. The content segment, whose offerings include licenses for Images, Footage, Music, 3 Dimensional, and Generative AI content. Data, Distribution, and Service offerings address customer demand for products and services that are beyond its Content licenses. The company generates the majority of its revenue from Content offerings. Geographically the company generates the majority of its revenue from the Domestic market, but also has its presence in Europe and Rest of the Countries.

MediaAlpha Inc provides a platform that enables insurance carriers and distributors to target and acquire customers. The company's technology platform brings insurance carriers and consumers together through a real-time, transparent, and results-driven ecosystem. It serves as a customer acquisition channel in property and casualty insurance, health insurance, and life insurance. The company operates in the United States and generates revenue by earning a fee for each consumer referral sold on its platform.

ZKH Group Ltd engages in providing MRO procurement service platform in China. It provides one-stop MRO procurement and management services for its customers, and offers digital and fulfillment solutions for participants along the industry value chain. It offers a broad range of MRO product offerings covering all MRO product lines on its platform, including spare parts, chemicals, manufacturing parts, general consumables, and office supplies. All of the Group’s revenues are derived from the PRC.

TechTarget Inc is engaged in the business-to-business (B2B) accelerator, informing and influencing technology buyers and sellers. Through its B2B first-party data and an end-to-end portfolio of data-driven solutions, it services the full B2B product lifecycle for customers from, messaging, and content development to in-market activation via brand, demand generation, purchase intent data, and sales enablement from R&D to ROI.

Fiverr International Ltd is involved in buying and selling digital services in the same fashion as physical goods on an e-commerce platform. It is set out to design a digital marketplace that is built with a comprehensive SKU-like services catalog and a search, finds, and order process that mirrors a typical e-commerce transaction. The service offerings of the company include Graphics and Design, Digital Marketing, Wiring and Translation, and Video and Animation among others.

Getty Images Holdings Inc. is a visual content creator and marketplace that offers a full range of content solutions. Through its Getty Images, Stock, and Unsplash brands, websites, and APIs, it serves customers around the world by allowing them to discover, purchase, and share visual content from photographers, illustrators, image partners, and videographers. The company generates a majority of its revenue through subscriptions, offering various subscription products on the Getty Images, iStock, and Unsplash websites. It operates and manages one operating segment, which is the business of developing and commercializing visual content. Geographically, the company generates maximum revenue from the Americas, followed by Europe, the Middle East and Africa, and the Asia-Pacific region.

Port Inc is involved in the internet media business. It is developing technology in the three social task areas of career (employment), finance (finance) and medical (medical). The objective of the group is to solve the social issues with technologies.

MarkLines Co Ltd engages in the provision of an automotive industrial portal. The company's Information Platform offers online information services, including information about suppliers, such as who supplies whom, plant data, and market trends; sales and production statistics; reports on technology and market trends; and model plan data comprising forecasts. It also provides B2B promotional support and advertisement services that include promotional emails and banner ads under the LINES name to its Information Platform members. The company serves OEMs, parts suppliers, and material suppliers.

Raccoon Holdings Inc operates as an online discount wholesaler. It primarily offers apparel goods.

CrowdWorks Inc is engaged in the crowdsourcing business. The group has two reporting segments: Matching Business and Business SaaS Business.

RedCloud Holdings PLC developed and operates the RedCloud Platform, which facilitates the trading of everyday consumer supplies of fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) products across business supply chains. The Platform solves old problem of how to unlock and enable access of key purchase and sales data between brands, distributors and retailers in growth consumer markets. Its Platform has AI and machine learning capabilities that provide brands, distributors and retailers with trading and product insights and data to help make commercial decisions regarding their business operations. Geographically, Key revenue is generated from Nigeria.

MeatBox Global Inc operates as a livestock product sold through a direct transaction platform and conducts an e-commerce business selling livestock products and food materials within the platform.

Yimutian Inc is the largest agricultural B2B platform in mainland China. It provide a comprehensive set of digital solutions to facilitate agricultural product transactions, ranging from searching, matching, to transaction facilitation and settlement. The company pride itself as the go-to platform for merchants by leveraging its inventive technology and industry know-how. Its platform had over 38 million merchants. It has also established approximately 12 offline stores in mainland China to trade agricultural products at cultivation and production sites with sellers and buyers.