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Nuix – An Australian Company Founded With The Goal To Extract knowledge From Unstructured Data.

Nuix is a publicly-traded company that was founded in 2000. The company’s main goal is to collect vast quantities of unstructured data to extract useful information from it. Every organization, big or small, needs to study data to understand every aspect of the business from the consumer market to market regulations. So, the solutions of this company are very useful especially to big corporations that have millions of customers across the world meaning more unstructured data. Some of the biggest clients of Nuix are Airbus, Amazon, American Express, Barclays, AIG, etc. Nuix currently serves more than 2,000 customers in 79 countries.

About Nuix

Nuix is a software development company with its headquarters based in Sydney, Australia. The company develops innovative software to harness the power of unstructured data to its full potential. Nuix’s technology is used for various purposes in the digital world including data privacy, data governance, financial crimes, digital forensics, regulatory compliance, etc. Nuix has been the recipient of several prestigious awards because of its innovative technology. The company currently has around 400 employees and the numbers didn’t change much since 2006. Apart from Australia, the company has headquarters in Asia, the Middle East, North America, and Europe.

Truth be told, though organizations keep records of every employee, every customer in an organized way, the amount of unstructured data exceeds the structured data. The data received from social media, online communications, etc are messy but they are important. And, Nuix’s technology helps in visualizing and analyzing this chaotic data into something more meaningful that businesses could use to increase their growth. The six primary products of the company are Nuix Adaptive Security, Nuix Automation, Nuix Discover, Nuix Investigate, Nuix Enterprise Collection Center, and Nuix Workstation.

David Sitsky – Brain Behind the Technology

David Sitsky is the main brain behind founding Nuix. He had immense knowledge in complex operating systems and large-scale parallel computing. He dedicated his career to developing algorithms that could search through search and analyze through the unstructured and messy data from emails and any social platforms. He understood that his idea has good potential when one of the largest employers in Canberra used his algorithm to find some inappropriate image that was attached to an email. After the attempt was successful, it became the first evidence that Sistky’s algorithm is very powerful and it could find things with forensic accuracy. Even today people of the company believe that Sitsky was able to build software like this because he was able to imagine the amount of unstructured data that will generate in the future.

History of Nuix

Nuix has grown beautifully over the last twenty years. From a one-man operation, today fifty software developers and ninety software engineers work in America in sync with employers in Sydney. America is a huge market for Nuix’s technology especially for the tech giants that are dominating the digital market across the world. For the unique and impactful work done by the company, Nuix was offered a contract by the Securities and Exchange Commission in 2010.

In 2012, the company bagged the Australian Export Awards for the Information and Communication Technology category and also won the Premier’s NSW Exporter of the Year Award in 2015. Nuix was also made an Industry Partner of the International Multilateral Partnership Against Cyber Threats. It was only in 2020 that Company decided to go public and filed its IPO. It is currently listed on the Australian Securities Exchange and the largest shareholder of the company is Macquarie Group.

Jonathan Rubinsztein – CEO of Nuix

Jonathan Rubinsztein is the new CEO of Nuix who was appointed in December 2021. Before that, he was the CEO and Managing Director of Informedia Ltd. He is also an entrepreneur who founded DXC Red Rock and served as its CEO for more than sixteen years. Rubinsztein is also the founder of RockSolid SQL, a company that developed a database management product. After his post-graduation, his career started with Accenture where he joined as a consultant.

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Axway Software – An American IT Company That Originally Emerged As A Part Of A French Conglomerate.

Axway Software is an American IT company founded twenty years ago. It is a publicly-traded company with its headquarters based in Phoenix, Arizona, US. There are more than 1,800 employees in the company serving approximately 11,000 customers who are spread across 100 countries. Axway, apart from America, has offices in various parts of Europe (Lyon, Paris, Bulgaria, etc) and support centers in India. Since Axway was originally a part of a French software company, Sopra Steria, the company has another headquarter in Puteaux, Paris. Axway was spun-off from Sopra as a subsidiary in 2000. The company has come a long way from there as once from Europe it built a vast business in the lands of America.

About Axway Software

Axway Software is known for providing software tools for various applications. Some of them are enterprise software, business analytics, and activity monitoring, mobile application development, API management, etc. Last year, Axway Software was recognized as a Leader in the 2021 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Full Life Cycle API Management for the sixth time. Axway, in twenty years, has filed more than 100 patents in technology innovation.

In 2011, the company was listed in the Compartment B of Euronext Paris meaning it had market capitalization between €150 million and €1 billion. The company is also named a leader in the Forrester Wave for API Management Solutions Q3 2020. Though API offers several products, its Amplify API Management Platform is the main product and the company has received several recognitions for the same. Other products are Axway B2B Integration, Axway Managed File Transfer, and Specialized Products for supply chains and other purposes.

Major Events in the History

Axway was officially incorporated as an individual company on December 28, 2000. The company was originally the software infrastructure division of Sopra, a French IT company. But, Sopra decided to spun-off the division as an individual entity (a subsidiary of the company). After the spin-off, Sopra used Axway Software as a means for expanding into the Enterprise Application Integration market. Right after Axway was incorporated it started to make multiple acquisitions from the early 2000s. In 2002, Axway acquired a Swedish company called Viewlocity.

The series of acquisitions continued and in January 2006 Axway acquired US company Cyclone Commerce after which a huge part of the executive management team and the operations moved to Phoenix. Next year in February, Axway acquired Atos’s B2B software business in Germany and Tumbleweed Communications, a US-based company in 2008. In 2011, Axway Software detached itself completed from the Sopra Group and was listed in the Paris Euronext. Some of the companies acquired in the next few years are Vordel, an Irish company, SCI Soluções, a Brazilian company, assets of Information Gateway in Australia, and a French company called Systar. The company went public in 2011 and since then both its annual revenue and profit have increased steadily. But, recently, the company’s growth hasn’t been very impressive and its stock has declined by 22% in the past few months.

In 2015, Christophe Fabre stepped down from the position of CEO of the company which he was holding from 2005. Axway acquired many more companies in the recent year starting with Appcelerator, a US-based mobile technology company whose main product is Titanium, an open-source platform for mobile app development. In 2017, Axway acquired another US company called Syncplicity, a company that develops solutions for sharing and synchronization of files. Though Axway Software operates as an independent entity, Sopra Steria acquired an 8.62% stake in the company in 2006.

Patrick Donovan – CEO of Axway Software

Patrick Donovan is the CEO of the company since 2018 and he replaced Jean-Marc Lazzari for the position. Before becoming the CEO of Axway Software, he served as the CFO of the same company. Donovan being an American citizen has spent several years in France which gave him a good idea about both the American and French scenario of Axway. Donovan mainly oversees the company’s financial and legal functions and has in-depth knowledge about the business model of Axway.

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An IT Company Born In Germany That Even Today Serves Only The German Market.

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Datagroup is a leading IT expert offering customized solutions to a wide range of customers. CORBOX is the main product suite of the company which is more like an all-in-one solution for its customers. It has been more than thirty-five years that Max Schaber has built this huge empire along with Herbert Schwarzkopf. Today, Datagroup is one of the top twenty IT companies in Germany offering various services from outsourcing to SAP services.

Datagroup has a very strong market all over the country with more than 3,000 employees catering to the needs of customers on a daily basis. The company has not stepped into any of the international markets but instead supports the local companies and businesses in every way possible. Datagroup has also started several projects to enhance the social and sports culture in various regions of Germany.

About Datagroup SE

When speaking of Datagroup, CORBOX is the primary product that gets the spotlight. This product is more like a modular kit with multiple services to smoothen the operations of any company. Once a business is buying the CORBOX module it is then up to the team which services they want to use. The various services in the CORBOX module are managed & private cloud services, application management services, communication and collaboration services, security services, network services, etc. Due to the compatible modules and services offering a great amount of flexibility, Datagroup has been able to thrive in the IT market.

Apart from the CORBOX modular kit, the company also offers IT Consulting, Mobile & App Solutions, Robotic Process Automation, and Industry Solutions. Datagroup also offers its solutions to various educational institutes and one of them will be the famous Max Plank Society. Datagroup is a publicly-traded company and it claims that there are several reasons to invest in its shares for it has an average revenue increase of 20% and an EBITDA margin of 12.6%. It has a very impressive track record when it comes to acquisitions and most importantly it is a company born in Germany and even after more than three decades is focused only on the German market.

History of the Company

In 1983, Max Schaber founded Datagroup which was under the name of Datapec back then. After a few years, DATANET was founded which today is a part of Datagroup Stuttgart GmbH. In the early 1990s, several organizations of the structure of the company took place along with the move-in of the Datagroup corporate headquarters. Entering into the 21st century, the company eventually started making strategic acquisitions starting with tec2b AG in October 2003. After a couple of years, Datagroup IT Services Holding AG was founded which today is known as Datagroup SE. In 2006, Datagroup filed its IPO and entered into the stock market and later that year also acquired messerknecht Informationssysteme and ICP. Datagroup acquired several companies in 2007 and 2008 including EGT Informationssysteme, Hamann, and Feil, Corporate Express locations Rostock and Schwerin, Best-Computer Support, etc. In 2009, the company opened a new office in Berlin and in 2010 it was recognized as one of the top 15 German computer companies.

Recent Events

As Company started acquiring more and more companies, its IT-based solutions were strengthened. It acquired several IT service providers and SAP companies to offer better solutions to the customer. In 2016, Datagroup became one of the top three companies in Germany for customer satisfaction. Recently, the company has acquired a 68% stake in Portavis thus strengthening its presence in the financial sector. It has also invested in a few startups and companies that offer IT solutions in the public sector.

About the Founder

Max Schaber is the founder of Datapec, a data processing company that eventually became Datagroup GmbH. He is serving as the CEO of Datagroup SE since 2006. Schaber completed his education at the University of Stuttgart and became a mechanical engineer. Before founding Datapec, he was a system engineer at Friedrich und Co. Company.

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Dubber Corporation – All Three Co-Founders Came Up With The Idea While Working In Call Center.

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Dubber Corporation was founded in 2011 by three friends. It is a publicly-traded company with its headquarters based in Melbourne, Australia. Dubber offers cloud-based solutions mainly called recording software across various industries. Various types of products are developed by the company not only for various industries but also for the government.

It has a customized range of solutions for large as well as small and medium enterprises. Four main sectors where Dubber is a leading provider of recording software are healthcare, education, financial services, and legal department. The solutions provided by the company are also divided into four categories, namely, compliance intelligence, revenue intelligence, people intelligence, and customer intelligence.

About Dubber Corporation

The founders of Dubber Corporation are James Slaney, Steve McGovern, and Adrian Di Piantrantonio. Dubber predominantly sells its products to Telecommunications Service Providers and Enterprise customers. It is one of the world’s leading companies for unified call recording solutions and voice intelligence clouds. Dubber has a SaaS model for selling its cloud-based software and it is incorporated in many networks communication solutions globally. Dubber has formed only a decade ago and today more than 150 service providers are using its software for call recording and many other purposes.

The company has also crossed the mark of recording more than one billion minutes successfully. Some of the biggest clients of Dubber are Verizon, AT&T, Microsoft Teams, Cox, Zoom, Vodafone, etc. Dubber Corporation has five fundamental values to establish an open and inclusive culture and grow in a strong way. They are to
challenge the status quo, leading together to create more opportunities, a champion service provider for the customers, drive extraordinary performance, and grow as a curious group of people.

Idea Behind Dubber

Founded in 2011, the three co-founders came up with the idea of Dubber Corporation over a few glasses of wine. These three friends were already working in the telecommunication sector and hence had better knowledge than inexperienced entrepreneurs. Before co-founding Dubber, all three of them were working with an Australian Service Provider whose main job was to all the in-bound call center traffic for ACCC (an Australian regulator). This was when the trio realized that though it is very inexpensive to record conversations, it is equally a very laborious job to retrieve the data. So, to bridge this technology gap in the telecommunication sector and make it simpler, they grabbed the opportunity at the earliest and started developing a whole new platform. They made the entire platform cloud-native and scalable for the entire globe. This is how Dubber Corporation was formed. All three co-founders are still a very integrated part of the group. James Slaney is the COO, Steve McGovern is the CEO, and Adrian Di Piantrantonio is the EVP, Global Channels of Dubber.

Growth of the Company

Dubber successfully raised $6 million in angel investment in 2013. After a couple of years, it went public and got listed on the Australian Stock Exchange. In the same year, Dubber successfully made it through a series of interoperability tests with BroadSoft’s unified communications software. During this time, Dubber witnessed a very high growth of 141% in terms of the number of users for the first half of the year. In 2016, Dubber established a partnership with Cisco Broadsoft and in the following years’ established partnerships with many other tech giants. It has also made a few acquisitions including CallN, an Australian call recording company, and Speik, a UK-based company.

Steve McGovern – CEO of Dubber Corporation

Steve McGovern is the current CEO of the company and before that worked at the Hotkey Internet Services Pty Ltd as the General Manager and was the Director of Sales at Sky TV. He completed his education at the University of Sheffield. Currently, he is also a board member of Dubber Corporation and Linius Technologies Ltd. McGovern, after co-founding Dubber, served as the Chairman of Firestrike Resources Ltd but for a very short time.

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VSS Mani, Started A Business On “Wedding Planning” But Was Not Satisfied And Founded Justdial.

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Justdial is an Indian start-up founded in 1996 for offering the public a huge database for conducting a local search. The website of Justdial contains information about any particular company or service from contact number, address, etc. to the details of service provided across the country. So, anyone can look up the website or mobile app of Justdial to find information about any local service that we usually don’t get on the internet. Justdial has more than 10,000 employees and has offices all over the country, like in New Delhi, Kolkata, Pune, Chennai, Chandigarh, etc. Its headquarters is based in Mumbai, India, and the majority of its stake is currently owned by Reliance Retail, a subsidiary of Reliance Industries Limited.

About Justdial

VSS Mani is the founder and CEO of Justdial. The company offers local search as its primary service and apart from that it has two other services, “Justdial Social” and “Search Plus Service.” The former is a service that involves aggregating content from various social media websites, news sources, etc and the latter is responsible for managing online transactions through various apps. Justdial has also entered foreign markets and that includes opening international offices in UAE, UK, USA, and Canada. In India, the company has a total of fifteen offices.

Justdial can be accessed from both mobile and computers. Apart from the official website of the company, it has launched individual mobile apps for Android, iOS, and Blackberry. After Justdial was launched it focussed on every aspect of growth, from expanding to new overseas markets to strengthening the company’s SME relationships. Some of the major investors of the company are SAIF Partners, Sequoia Capital, Tiger Global, SAP Ventures, etc.

History

VSS Mani, before founding Justdial, had several other business ideas but none of them survived in the market for a long time. Mani agrees that he has learned from the mistakes of his past business endeavors and finally made Justdial a successful brand. When Mani had the idea to develop a website with a huge database, he was working for a yellow page company. This was during the late 1980s when he thought of replacing the yellow pages with a huge database. The users will have access to the database so that they can call any service provider and receive the necessary information. Today, Justdial has a database of more than 29 million listings and over 500,000 active paid campaigns.

Growth and Expansion

Though Justdial was officially launched in 1996, Mani started working on the idea in 1994 with an investment of 50,000 rupees. He rented a garage and some PCs, borrowed furniture to start the groundwork, and also hired 5-6 employees. Justdial became a popular website within a few years and just a decade later the company launched an internet and mobile version of the database, Justdial.com. In 2011, the company was able to raise $10 million followed by $57 million in the next year. All the fundings were judiciously invested to launch new products, develop the brand, and expand geographically.

Justdial decided to go public in 2013 and out of the total 17.3 million shares, 13.5 million were offered to the public. The rest of the shares were given to the previous investors of the company at a rate of 530 rupees per share. The share price of Justdial saw many ups and downs as it went as high as 1894 rupees in August 2014 and then the next year decreased to a triple-digit number. In July 2021, Reliance Retail acquired a 66.95% stake in the company for 3,497 crore rupees. After these acquisitions, Reliance got access to the 25-year old database of the company and VSS Mani withheld his position as the CEO and MD of Justdial.

About the Founder

VSS Mani was born in Jamshedpur and was raised in Calcutta (now Kolkata). He pursued commerce for higher studies and founded three organizations. Mani’s entrepreneurial journey started with “AskMe” but due to improper timing, the business failed shortly. He also started a business on “Wedding Planning” but was not satisfied with the business model or the profit margin. Later with proper business strategies and thorough research, he founded Justdial and made it a huge success.

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Support.com – A 25-year old Tech Support Company Acquired By Greenidge Generation.

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Support.com was established in 1997 as a technical support company and it was merged with Greenidge Generation, a bitcoin mining company in 2021. Currently, Lance Rosenzweig is operating as the CEO of the company and its headquarters is based in Wilmington, Delaware and its administrative office is based in California, USA. The company is mainly known for providing tech support and related services to various businesses and their consumers. It has also expanded its products and services to security software after acquiring SUPERAntiSpyware. During the pandemic, Support.com has focused more on providing remote tech support, especially for small businesses.

About Support.com

Mark Pincus is the main founder of Support.com who along with his partners, Scott Dale and Cadir Lee founded the company in 1997. It is a technical support company that also provides various software solutions for system security and interaction optimization. The products apart from the tech support are not the original solutions of Support.com. The company offers these solutions to customers through a few subsidiaries it has acquired over the years. A company like Support.com became a great asset especially during the pandemic because of the sudden shift to remote working.

Support.com mainly focuses on two types of customers, namely, small businesses and general customers. The company offers 24/7 technical support which also includes call center services and it is based in the US. It can basically provide tech support for anything from setting up a new device to troubleshooting. The tech support can provide services via voice calls, chats, and also offline calls at home. The company also offers monthly and yearly subscription plans to avail of any tech support around the clock.

History

When Mark Pincus established the company, it was officially launched as Replicase Inc in the Redwood City of California. Mark and his other partners launched Replicase as s software company and after a year it was renamed Tioga Systems and its headquarters were relocated to Palo Alto, California. In the initial days of the company, SoftBank became a major investor and supported the business with $2.5 million. Since the company was launched in the software industry, Tioga put its focus on designing self-healing software such that Windows applications can automatically encounter any problems and fix them by themselves. Again after a year, the company was renamed Support.com and its primary solutions shifted its self-healing focus to developing software for enterprises. In this year the headquarters were also shifted to Redwood City.

Journey of Support.com

Only after three years the company was launched in the market, it decided to go public in 2000. When Support.com went public, it was backed by the investment banking division of Credit Suisse Group. After a couple of years, the company changed its name to SupportSoft Inc but after the enterprise technology of SupportSoft was acquired by Consona Corporation, the company again was back to Support.com. The company also made a handful of acquisitions before its latest merger with the bitcoin mining company. Some of its acquisitions include Core Networks (2004), YourTechOnline (2008), Sammsoft (2009), SUPERAntiSpyware (2011), and RightHand IT (2012). Apart from the chain of acquisitions, it established a partnership with Target (one of America’s largest retailers) to provide tech support to MyTGTtech solutions.

Support.com became very active during the COVID-19 pandemic and people around the world needed online support for everything. So, to help and support the consumers get used to this new online work environment, Support.com provided a month of free tech support for those working and learning from home. It also hired additional employees during the onset of the pandemic while most of the companies were discussing layoffs.

About the Founder

Mark Pincus is an American entrepreneur who has founded several companies other than Support.com. He is mainly popular as the founder of Zynga, a mobile social gaming company. Some of his other endeavors are Freeloader Inc and Tribe Networks. Mark completed his education at the University of Pennsylvania followed by Harvard University.

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