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Jay Kreps, Neha Narkhede and Jun Rao founded Confluent in 2014 after creating the Apache Kafka streaming platform while working at LinkedIn. Kafka had been designed to move large volumes of events between systems in real time, replacing brittle point-to-point data pipelines with durable streams.
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Dr Wayne Dai founded VeriSilicon in August 2001 in Shanghai after earlier building electronic-design-automation businesses in the United States. VeriSilicon was created around a fabless service model: help customers design complex system-on-chip products and license reusable semiconductor intellectual property without owning leading-edge fabrication plants.
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Gil Shwed, Marius Nacht and Shlomo Kramer founded Check Point Software in Israel in 1993. The company’s breakthrough was stateful inspection, a firewall approach that tracked the context of network connections rather than evaluating each packet in isolation.
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DigitalOcean was founded in 2011 by Ben and Moisey Uretsky with a team that included Mitch Wainer, Jeff Carr and Alec Hartman. The founders believed the major public clouds were powerful but unnecessarily complicated for individual developers and small software teams.
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Manhattan Associates began in 1990 when five technology specialists working on an ERP project for clothing company Jockey saw gaps in how manufacturers complied with large retailers’ shipping and labelling requirements. They created a packaged warehouse-management product in Manhattan Beach, California, and named the company after that original location.
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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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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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World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee challenged MIT researchers in 1995 to find a better way to handle growing web congestion. Applied-mathematics professor Tom Leighton and graduate student Danny Lewin developed algorithms for distributed content delivery and incorporated Akamai in August 1998 with Jonathan Seelig and Randall Kaplan. Rather than build a larger central server, the early Akamai idea distributed copies of content across many servers and routed users to nearby capacity.
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Guidewire was founded in 2001 by six entrepreneurs who believed property-and-casualty insurers needed modern core systems that could replace ageing policy, claims and billing software. The company began by focusing on claims, a mission-critical process where insurers needed configurable systems able to handle complex rules without relying on decades-old mainframe code.
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