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Brian Halligan and Dharmesh Shah met as graduate students at MIT and founded HubSpot in 2006 after observing that internet users increasingly researched products themselves rather than responding to interruptive marketing. They called the alternative ‘inbound marketing’: attract customers with useful content and make it easier for them to discover a business voluntarily.
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Jack Henry and Jerry Hall founded Jack Henry & Associates on 2 June 1976 in Monett, Missouri, after sketching the business plan on a napkin. The founders rented space in an engine-repair shop for US$40 a month and began developing core-processing software for community financial institutions.
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Zia Chishti and Kelsey Wirth founded Align Technology in 1997 around the idea that a sequence of clear removable aligners could straighten teeth without conventional metal braces. The concept depended on digital modelling and manufacturing: scan a patient’s teeth, plan movement in software and fabricate a series of slightly different plastic aligners.
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Bentley Systems was founded in 1984 by brothers Keith and Barry Bentley and soon grew into a family-led engineering-software company involving all five Bentley brothers. The business developed around MicroStation, software for computer-aided design used by engineers and infrastructure organisations.
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JFrog was founded in 2008 by Shlomi Ben Haim, Yoav Landman and Fred Simon, who saw software teams struggling to manage the growing number of binary packages produced during development. The company began with Artifactory, a repository manager designed to store and distribute software packages reliably across development and deployment pipelines.
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Dayforce’s corporate lineage runs through Ceridian, a human-resources and payroll company formed in the early 1990s, while the Dayforce cloud platform was founded separately by David Ossip. The two histories joined in 2012 when Ceridian acquired Dayforce and later made Ossip chief executive.
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Charles ‘Charlie’ Trimble and two partners founded Trimble in 1978, betting that satellite-based positioning could become useful far beyond the military and scientific applications of the era. The early company developed navigation and positioning equipment while the Global Positioning System itself was still being deployed.
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Mark McClain and Kevin Cunningham founded SailPoint in 2005 after recognising that large organisations were accumulating too many user accounts, applications and access rights to manage manually. The initial focus was identity governance: help enterprises understand who has access to what, why they have it and whether they should keep it.
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Daniel Borel, Pierluigi Zappacosta and Giacomo Marini founded Logitech in 1981 in Apples, Switzerland, working from a farm building after backgrounds in software and engineering. The founders experimented with several computer projects before recognising that the mouse could become a mass-market interface as graphical personal computing expanded.
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BitMine Immersion Technologies emerged as a US digital-asset infrastructure company focused on Bitcoin mining and immersion-cooling technology. The early business used liquid immersion to cool specialised mining computers, aiming to improve thermal efficiency and equipment density.
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