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Naver was founded in South Korea in 1999 by former Samsung SDS employees led by Lee Hae-jin. The company developed a Korean-language search and portal service tailored to local internet users.
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Jeremy Allaire and Sean Neville founded Circle in 2013 as a digital-currency company focused on making blockchain-based money easier to use. The company experimented with consumer payments and Bitcoin before shifting more heavily towards regulated infrastructure for digital dollars.
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Anthony Wood founded Roku in 2002 after earlier work in digital video recording and internet television. Roku initially developed technology around streaming media, and Wood later joined Netflix to work on a dedicated player before the project was spun back out rather than compete with Netflix’s hardware partners.
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Bending Spoons was founded in 2013 by a group of engineers and entrepreneurs including Luca Ferrari after members of an earlier start-up decided to stay together and build a new company in Italy. The company developed and operated mobile applications, concentrating on product optimisation, subscription economics and consumer software at scale.
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Sanjit Biswas and John Bicket founded Samsara in 2015 after previously founding Meraki, the cloud-managed networking company acquired by Cisco. They wanted to apply sensors, cloud software and connected hardware to trucks, industrial equipment and physical operations rather than office IT.
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Nan Ya PCB began as a printed-circuit-board division of Nan Ya Plastics in 1985 and was established as a separate subsidiary in Taiwan in 1997. The company produced printed circuit boards before moving into higher-density interconnection and semiconductor substrate technologies.
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Bandai Namco was created in 2005 through the management integration of toy company Bandai and video-game company Namco. The merger combined two distinct Japanese entertainment histories: Bandai’s character toys and model kits, and Namco’s arcade and video-game development.
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Entegris traces its roots to Fluoroware, founded in 1966 to make specialised fluid- and wafer-handling products for the emerging semiconductor industry. The company developed contamination-control products designed to keep chemicals, wafers and production environments extremely clean.
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Fidelity National Information Services, or FIS, was assembled from banking and payment-processing businesses with roots in financial-software providers dating back decades. The company built core processing, card and technology services for banks and other financial institutions.
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ASUS was founded in Taipei in 1989 by T.H. Tung, Ted Hsu, Wayne Hsieh and M.T. Liao, engineers who had previously worked at Acer. The company first specialised in motherboards, a technically demanding PC component whose quality could establish credibility with system builders.
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