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Pro Medicus was founded in Australia in 1983 by Dr Sam Hupert and Dr Anthony Hall to develop software for medical practices and diagnostic imaging. The early business focused on managing the administrative and information workflows surrounding radiology rather than manufacturing imaging hardware.
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Bernd Greifeneder and Sok-Kheng Taing founded Dynatrace in Linz, Austria, in 2005 with a developer-led focus on understanding the performance of complex software applications. The company began around application performance monitoring at a time when enterprise software was moving towards distributed web architectures.
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IREN, originally known as Iris Energy, was founded in Australia in 2018 by brothers Daniel and Will Roberts with a strategy of building data-centre infrastructure near renewable and low-cost energy. The first major workload was Bitcoin mining, where electricity cost and data-centre efficiency directly determine economics.
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HANMI Semiconductor was founded in South Korea in 1980 by Kwak Noh-kwon and developed equipment used in semiconductor assembly and packaging. The company built expertise around machines that handle, cut, inspect and connect packaged chips rather than fabricating transistor structures themselves.
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Topicus.com Inc. took its current public-company form in January 2021 when Constellation Software combined its Total Specific Solutions operating group with Netherlands-based Topicus.com B.V. and spun the enlarged business out to shareholders. The operating businesses behind Topicus predate the 2021 corporate structure and were built around vertical-market software for public-sector and commercial niches.
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Lattice Semiconductor was founded in Oregon in 1983 and entered the programmable-logic market during the expansion of custom digital electronics. The company developed programmable devices that customers could configure after manufacturing rather than commission a fully custom ASIC.
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Inspur traces its roots to electronics and computer operations established in Shandong, China, during the 1940s and 1950s, later developing into a major domestic computing group. The company became associated with servers, enterprise computing and business software as China’s information-technology industry expanded.
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Samuel Geisberg founded Parametric Technology Corporation in 1985 with the aim of making computer-aided mechanical design more intelligent through parametric modelling. Its Pro/ENGINEER software linked dimensions and relationships so design changes could automatically propagate through a model.
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Cheng Wei founded Didi Dache in Beijing in 2012 after working at Alibaba, launching a mobile taxi-hailing service as smartphones were rapidly changing urban transport. The app matched passengers with licensed taxi drivers before expanding into private ride-hailing and other mobility services.
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Leaf Hua Li founded Futu in Hong Kong in 2012 after a long career at Tencent, where he had worked on QQ and other major internet products. Futu built a digital brokerage aimed at giving technology-oriented investors a more integrated trading, market-data and community experience.
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