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Spotlight FactSet: Moving Financial Data From the Bike Messenger to the Cloud September 15, 2022

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Headquartered in Norwalk, Connecticut, FactSet is a global financial data analytics company. Using a cloud-based subscription model, the firm delivers intelligence to inform investment decisions to more than 160,000 asset managers, bankers, wealth managers, and corporations. Its financial tools connect and contextualize data from 800+…

Spotlight Shopify: Funding a New Generation of Merchants September 09, 2022

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Shopify is a leader in commerce solutions that allow merchants to set up online stores and sell their products. The firm’s tools power millions of entrepreneurs in more than 175 countries including brands as large as Netflix, Allbirds, and Tupperware. The firm was founded in…

Spotlight Salesforce: No. 1 in CRM September 07, 2022

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Salesforce is the No. 1 provider of customer relationship management (CRM) software in the world. Its flagship Customer 360 platform is designed to help businesses identify prospects, close deals, service customers and drive future growth. The firm was founded in 1999 in a small San…

Spotlight Liberty Media: Driving to Survive August 26, 2022

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Liberty Media owns interests in a variety of media, communications, and entertainment companies. Rather than tracking the whole firm’s performance as one, three separate tracking stocks follow the individual performance of the firm’s three separate groups. These include, first, Liberty SiriusXM Group, consisting of interests…

Spotlight Pinterest: What Should I Cook for Dinner? August 17, 2022

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Pinterest is a virtual bulletin board for finding and sharing ideas for food, home, style, inspiration, and more. The firm calls users, “Pinners,” for the ability to log in and “pin” favorite aspirational images and collections of images to personalized “boards” that may be organized…

Spotlight Take-Two Interactive Software: Riding the Gaming Tailwinds August 11, 2022

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Take-Two Interactive Software makes games for consoles, computers, and phones. With a mission to be the most creative, innovative, and efficient entertainment company in the world, the firm attributes its success to captivating players with experiences that transcend geographies and generations. Headquartered in New York…

Spotlight Spotify: The Music Machine of the Future August 04, 2022

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Spotify is one of the largest music streaming services in the world. Founded in 2006 by current CEO Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon in Stockholm, Sweden, today’s Spotify is home to 80 million music tracks and four million podcasts. The firm calls itself the world’s…

Spotlight OneSpan: Cybersecurity in its DNA July 27, 2022

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OneSpan makes digital authentication software for corporate cybersecurity. With technologies including multi-factor and passwordless authentication, transaction authorization, and e-signatures, its products have helped prevent billions of dollars in fraud. Founded in 1984, in Chicago, Illinois, as Vasco, the fledgling cybersecurity consulting company soon acquired ThumbScan,…

Spotlight Netscout: Guardians of the Connected World July 21, 2022

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Netscout delivers cybersecurity software and services that protect large corporate networks from attacks, optimize performance, and navigate near-constant upgrades to adapt to the latest technology trends. In addition, Netscout is a tier 1 operator of 5G, assisting carriers to launch new 5G networks and protect…

Spotlight Photronics: Etching Intellectual Property into Every Wafer July 11, 2022

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Headquartered in Brookfield, Connecticut, Photronics is a world leader in the critical photomasks used to manufacture semiconductor wafers. Photomasks are those glass or quartz plates that contain microscopic images of electronic circuits. They are unique to each customer’s design, confidential, and manufactured in layers of…

Spotlight Mercado Libre: Democratizing eCommerce in Latin America June 23, 2022

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Mercado Libre is the largest online marketplace in Latin America. Headquartered in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and available in 18 countries, the firm’s offerings span from the popular, namesake digital marketplace, “Mercado Libre,” to its digital payment and credit platform, “Mercado Pago,” shipping and logistics arm,…

Spotlight Incitec Pivot: Zero Harm Farming and Mining June 17, 2022

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Headquartered in Melbourne, Australia, Incitec Pivot is a global leader in the materials sector with an unrelenting focus on Zero Harm, the expectation that its operations should never expose staff to harm or cause environmental incidents. The company’s origins began in the 1800s with the…

Spotlight Norsk Hydro: Metals of the Future June 07, 2022

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Headquartered in Oslo, Norway, Norsk Hydro is one of the largest aluminum companies in the world. It aims to convert natural resources into sustainable products for people and business. Since its founding in 1905, this Knowledge Leader has worked for over a century to develop…

Spotlight Steris: Keeping It Clean June 03, 2022

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Steris Corporation aims to prevent infection in operating rooms, labs, dental offices, and manufacturing plants around the world. A leader in sterilization technologies, this Knowledge Leader was founded in 1985 with a mission to create a healthier and safer world through innovation of sterile equipment…

Spotlight Linde: Enabling the Transition to Clean Energy May 26, 2022

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Linde is the largest industrial gas company worldwide and an innovator in the highly engineered technologies used to deliver gas to customers. With a mission to enable the transition to clean energy, Linde completed its merger with Praxis in 2018, and today supplies oxygen to…

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