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Global Payments became an independent company in 2001 when National Data Corporation separated its merchant-services and payment-processing operations. The company provided card acquiring and transaction-processing services to merchants and financial institutions.
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Toast was founded in 2011 by Steve Fredette, Aman Narang and Jonathan Grimm, former Endeca colleagues with MIT backgrounds. The team initially explored consumer applications before focusing on restaurant point-of-sale software and payments.
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SoFi was founded in 2011 by Stanford Graduate School of Business alumni including Mike Cagney, Dan Macklin, James Finnigan and Ian Brady. The company began by refinancing student loans, using alumni and institutional capital to offer some graduates lower borrowing costs.
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Giuseppe Crippa began experimenting with semiconductor probe technology with his son Cristiano in the late 1980s, and the family business took shape in the garage and attic of their home near Milan in 1993 before formal establishment in the mid-1990s. Technoprobe focused on probe cards and probe heads that make temporary electrical contact with semiconductor wafers during testing.
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Canon traces its roots to Precision Optical Instruments Laboratory, founded in Tokyo in 1937 after earlier work by Japanese engineers developing a domestic 35mm camera. The company initially focused on cameras and optical technology before broadening into office and imaging equipment.
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David Helgason, Nicholas Francis and Joachim Ante founded the company behind Unity in Denmark in 2004 after working on a game called GooBall. The game itself did not become a major commercial success, but the tools the team built to create it showed greater potential as a reusable game engine.
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Charles Liang and Sara Liu founded Super Micro Computer in Silicon Valley in 1993. The company built motherboards, chassis and server components designed to let customers assemble systems quickly around new processor generations.
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Rubrik was founded in 2014 by Bipul Sinha, Arvind Nithrakashyap, Soham Mazumdar and Arvind Jain. The company set out to simplify enterprise backup and recovery by combining software and scale-out infrastructure rather than relying on complex legacy backup architectures.
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David Hitz, James Lau and Michael Malcolm founded Network Appliance in 1992 in California. They built network-attached storage appliances designed to make shared file storage simpler than general-purpose servers running complex storage software.
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DCI Indonesia was established in 2011 by Indonesian technology and infrastructure entrepreneurs including Otto Toto Sugiri, with a focus on carrier-neutral data-centre services. The company set out to provide highly available local infrastructure as Indonesian businesses, banks and internet companies increased their dependence on digital systems.
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