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FactSet

FactSet – Solving All Financial Industry Problems Using The Latest Technology.

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The rise of the IT industry has given great opportunities to other fields to level up their game using technology and remain up to date and relevant in today’s changing trends. Thus from hospital industries to aviation, from hospitality to finance, every field has opted to include technology to achieve the required growth in lesser time.
Talking about the finance industry, there has been a rise in the number of fintech companies as well and companies that provide software solutions to such companies. FactSet Research Systems Inc. falls into the latter category, a financial data, and software company that chose a traditional way of working in the beginning, but today is offering services based on the latest technologies. The company is about more than forty years old, but it has tried to walk with the changing trends, and thus, today is known as one of the leading financial data and software companies.

About The Company

Howard Wille and Charles Snyder founded FactSet in 1978. The company is an American financial services company, with its headquarters based in Norwalk, Connecticut, United States. The company is responsible for data integrations, large-scale transitions, reporting, and research analysis, API integration, index services, portfolio data management, etc. It is a publically traded company and trades with the symbol FDS on New York Stock Exchange. In the past 43 years, FactSet has reached 22 countries and has set up offices in 48 different locations. It has over 10000 people working for it globally and made annual revenues worth US$1.49 billion in the financial year 2020. With high revenues in 2020, FactSet became a unicorn 2020.

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Founding FactSet

Howard Wille and Chuck Snyder founded FactSet in 1978. The two co-founders used to be co-workers at Faulkner, Dawkins & Sullivan, Wall Street. At the beginning of the 70s, computers became quite popular for office work, and with the acquisition of Faulkner, Dawkins & Sullivan by Shearson, the two thought of founding a company of their own that would directly sell user data to their clients. Hence in 1978, they founded FactSet, a company that began with delivering data on paper to the clients under the program, “Company FactSet”.
During the early 80s, FactSet offered its clients the option to download data directly to their spreadsheets, making the process simpler for the clients. In 1989, the company also started a new and advanced service with the name Private Database Service. The service helped users directly include the proprietary data into their research information.
In the next decade, Company released its software for Windows operating system and expanded overseas by establishing offices in countries like London and Tokyo. During the mid-90s, the company was serving the top investment managers in the US. In 1995, FactSet was renamed FactSet Research Systems Inc., and the next year, it went public on NYSE in 1996. In further years, the company released platforms like Portfolio Management Workstation, Economic Analysis, and Company Explorer. Along with those platforms, it also introduced the DIRECTIONS interface and Online Assistant for those platforms. It also started a 24*7 customer care telephone service in 1999.
In the next few years, the Company included more products and applications such as SPAR, Data Central, Marquee, IBCentral, etc. Later, the company merged DIRECTIONS interface, Marquee, and IBCentral into one, to form FactSet, a more versatile product for the FactSet clients. In further years, FactSet made some acquisitions including of Thomson Fundamentals database (2008), Market Metrics (2009), StreetAccount (2012), Revere Data (2013), Code Red Inc (2015), Vermilion (2016), BISAM (2017), Data Managed Solutions (2017), Truvalue Labs (2020), etc., adding to the growth of the company.

The CEO At FactSet

F. Philip Snow is the current CEO of FactSet. He is a B.A. graduate in Chemistry from the University of California at Berkeley and holds a Master’s degree in International Management from the Thunderbird School of Global Management. Snow started his career by working at companies like Global Content Sales and Americas Sales. He joined FactSet in 1996 and served the company in different positions. For a long time, he handled the Asia Pacific regions for FactSet, operating from Tokyo and Sydney. In 2015, he became the CEO at FactSet. He is also a board member of the company.

ZoomInfo

ZoomInfo – The Largest Cloud Market Intelligence Platform.

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A business is all about marketing and sales. Better the marketing, the higher are the sales for a business. For the past many years, the marketing techniques had been the same, but for the last couple of years, we have become more dependent on online marketing and customer data for the growth of the businesses. Data, though, has always been an important part of marketing, today, the value of data has increased by 100 times. The user data, whether about their behavior, daily needs, or liking, is the basis of how the marketing strategies should be developed.
Considering the significance of the data in marketing, ZoomInfo took the initiative to make it the very basis of their business, too. The company is one of the biggest information and database companies providing subscription-based software as a service (SaaS) to its clients, helping them accelerate their sales and business growth.

About The Company

ZoomInfo is the provider of B2B data and information to companies which are helpful for the latter in marketing and sales of their products, leading to better business growth. The company provides a cloud-based platform including information about companies, business people, marketing, and recruiting professionals. This information is available to ZoomInfo customers through various subscription plans. Henry Schuck and Kirk Brown founded ZoomInfo in 2007 as DiscoverOrg. The company operated with the same name till 2019. In 2019 ZoomInfo acquired Zoom Information and renamed the DiscoverOrg as ZoomInfo.
With the merger of the two companies, they combined their platforms and developed a new flagship Go-to-Market (GTM) for its customers. ZoomInfo gathers and verifies data of various companies, such that to provide accurate information to its clients. It has curated an in-house research team of over 300 data analysts who use updated technologies, tools, and integrations to verify the information and provide the highest accuracy data to the customers.
ZoomInfo headquarters is based in Vancouver, Washington, United States, and over 2500 people are working for it. One of the founders, Henry Schuck is the current CEO at ZoomInfo. NeverBounce and Datanyze are the ZoomInfo subsidiaries. As of 2020, the company made revenues worth $476 million.

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The Founding Of ZoomInfo

Henry Schuck and Kirk Brown founded ZoomInfo as DiscoverOrg in 2007. The co-founders were law students but eventually, ended up launching DiscoverOrg, a completely different company than their education, at the age of 23. Henry Schuck took up a part-time job as a marketing analyst to pay his tuition fees for college. This very job helped Schuck conceive the idea of DiscoverOrg, and he founded the company with his college mate Kirk Brown.
RainKing was another newly founded company that worked on the same concept as ZoomInfo, except, RainKing had the funding, whereas ZoomInfo was just a concept, and the founders possessed no experience. But in the next ten years, with immense hard work, ZoomInfo was able to acquire RainKing in 2017. As soon as the company started to grow, it received investments from companies like TA Associates, The Carlyle Group, and 22C Capital.
ZoomInfo’s other acquisitions include NeverBounce (2018), Komiko (2019), Clickagy (2020), EverString Technology (2020), and Insent (2021), etc. The company had its first IPO in June 2020, and it went public on Nasdaq Global Select Market trading with ticker symbol ZI. Today the company serves over 16000 customers globally. ZoomInfo has won multiple awards for excellence, like Leader by Forrester in its B2B Marketing Data Wave and was ranked Number One in customer service by G2 Crowd.

The CEO At ZoomInfo

Henry Schuck is a lawyer by education and has got a license for practicing as a lawyer from Washington State Bar Association and Nevada Supreme Court. He received his BS in Accounting and Hospitality Administration from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and Juris Doctorate in Law from the Ohio State University. While Schuck was still in college, he worked as a data analyst at Political Data Inc. Later he joined MGM grand as Hotel Operations Administrator. Schuck also worked as the vice president of operations at iProfile. In 2007, he launched DiscoverOrg with Kirk Brown, becoming the CEO of the company.

Dynatrace

Dynatrace – The Software Intelligence Company Assuring Error-free Execution of Business Applications.

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It won’t be inappropriate if we call the current era the era of Information Technology. There is no business that is not using the very technology to accomplish their daily work. Though there have been discovered various software to ease out the tasks for companies, still to deal with some conflicts in that software we require some application monitoring software too. This software ensures the seamless working of the software without having to face any errors or other conflicts. Dynatrace is one of the companies which is responsible for building such software and helping companies work without any difficulty. Dynatrace is a U.S.A.-based software intelligence company that offers monitoring and optimization services to ensure a better user experience for its clients.

About The Company

Dynatrace is a sixteen years old company founded in 2005 in Linz, Austria. The company has its headquarters based in Waltham, Massachusetts, U.S., but it offers services to its customers globally. Dynatrace is best known for its Software Intelligence Platform, which uses AI to provide monitoring and application optimizing services to its customers. Other services by the company include Application Security, Cloud Automation, Digital Business Analytics, Infrastructure Monitoring, and IT Operations Analytics, etc.
It is a publicly-traded company, as it trades on the New York Stock Exchange as DT. As of the year 2021, about 3000 people are working at Dynatrace, and for the fiscal year 2021, it made revenues worth US$703.509 Million. Apart from its headquarters in the U.S., the company has opened about 50 offices in countries like Canada, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Egypt, Italy, Poland, Ireland, the U.K., Estonia, Finland, France, and Greece, etc. From Mastercard and Bank of America to At&T and Vodafone, almost every big-name company is using services by Dynatrace.

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Founding Dynatrace

Bernd Greifeneder is the founder of Dynatrace. He founded the company Dynatrace Software GmbH on 2 February 2005 in Linz, Austria. During the dot-com boom, Greifeneder was studying Computer Science at the JKU Linz. Despite the popularity of the internet around, he always felt confused about online shopping stores getting crashed due to more than ten users using the website. This problem led to a solution by Greifeneder, as he invented software for websites to handle rush with ease and without getting them collapsed. This led to the birth of Dynamic Tracing with the help of AI and then to the founding of Dynatrace in 2005. In the beginning, the company used a few servers for the business, but later with the growth, it started using thousands of servers for its work.
Within one year of founding Dynatrace, the founder of the company was able to bag investments from the leading venture capitalist Bain Capital Ventures. In the next three years, the company received 13 million US dollars from Bay Partners of California.
In 2011, Compuware acquired Dynatrace for a sum 256 of million US dollars, and with the acquisition, Compuware (previously a public company) became private. After the acquisition, Greifeneder held the position of CTO at the company, and the company growth skyrocketed like never before. The two companies were different in their field of work, and Dynatrace remained a separate division of Compuware handled by Greifeneder. Later in 2014, the Compuware APM group was renamed Dynatrace. In the same year, the company also established the Digital Performance Management category. Dynatrace had its first IPO in 2019 and started to trade on NYSE. For the past many years, Dynatrace has won several awards of excellence, including Best Large Company to Work For by Built In Boston.

The Founder

Bernd Greifeneder is the founder and the current CTO at Dynatrace. He is a software engineer with a graduate and postgraduate degree in computer science from Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria. He has held many prominent positions in various companies. Greifeneder has spent more than seven years at Segue Software Inc., where he started as the Project lead and was promoted to be the CTO of Globel Technologies and Chief software architect. Greifeneder also served Ruxit as the Senior Vice President and CTO of the company. He founded Dynatrace in 2005, and since then, he has served the company as the CEO, CTO, Vice President Engineering, etc. Currently, he is leading the company as the Senior Vice President and CTO.

CrowdStrike

CrowdStrike – The Leading EndPoint protection Software Provider.

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With the first virus on the computer, the IT industry has seen multiple threats in the form of viruses, malicious activities, and cyber-attacks. Today, data is everything, and safeguarding the data has become the supreme task for the industry. There are several companies that are working towards providing a secure working environment and keeping the data safe from any sort of external threat. CrowdStrike is one of those companies bringing the most innovative products promoting cyber security and fighting such attacks. This 10-year-old company is best known for its endpoint security, threat intelligence, and cyberattack response services.

About The Company

CrowdStrike is a publically traded company founded in 2011. The company trades on Nasdaq with the ticker name CRWD. Its founders include George Kurtz, Dmitri Alperovitch, and Gregg Marston. The company headquarters is based in Sunnyvale, California, U.S., and it operates globally. CrowdStrike is home to about 4000 employees, and as of 2021, it made revenues worth US$874.438 million. A few of the major products by the company include Endpoint security, Security and IT operations, and Security cloud. CrowdStrike has helped companies tackle major high-profile cyberattacks like the Sony Pictures hack in 2014 and the Democratic National Committee cyber attacks in 2015-16, etc.

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Founding CrowdStrike

George Kurtz, Dmitri Alperovitch, and Gregg Marston co-founded CrowdStrike in 2011. The next year, the founders started a subsidiary with the name CrowdStrike Services, Inc. The subsidiary provided proactive and incident response services. The company’s first product was the CrowdStrike Falcon, a threat intelligence software published in the year 2013. In the following years, CrowdStrike assisted major organizations like the United States Department of Justice, Sony Pictures, and the Democratic National Committee in tackling the biggest cyber-attacks. The company was also successful in uncovering malicious activities by many hacking groups, such as the activities of the Energetic Bear that worked for the Russian Federation.
In 2015, CrowdStrike received investments from Google through a Series C funding round. CrowdStrike launched a version of its antivirus software Falcon for mobile devices in 2017. During the same year, it became a unicorn and had annual revenues worth $100 million. By 2018, the company value reached more than $3 billion. The company went public on Nasdaq and had its first IPO in 2019. In the years 2020 and 2021, CrowdStrike acquired companies, including Preempt Security and Humio.
The company has won awards like AWS Global Public Sector Partner Award for best cybersecurity solution and Canada AWS Partner Award as the ISV Partner of the Year in 2021. It also got ranked at number one for Modern Endpoint Security 2020 Market Shares in IDC’s Worldwide Corporate Endpoint Security Market Shares, 2020 Report in the same year. Telstra, Google, Rackspace, March Capital Partners, Accel Partners, and Warburg Pincus are some of the major investors in CrowdStrike.

The CEO of CrowdStrike

George Kurtz is the President, CEO, and one of the co-founders of CrowdStrike. He was born in 1970 and grew up in Parsippany-Troy Hills, New Jersey. Kurtz went to the Parsippany High School, and according to sources, he started to program video games at an early age. When he was in high school, he built a bulletin board system too. He has got an accounting degree from Seton Hall University.
As soon Kurtz graduated from college, he started to work at Price Waterhouse. He then was shifted to the security group of the company in 1993. In 1999, he co-published a book on cybersecurity named Hacking Exposed, which later came in 30 different languages. In the same year, Kurtz founded his first company named Foundstone, which he sold to McAfee in 2004, becoming the senior vice president and general manager of risk management at McAfee.
In 2011, Kurtz, along with the former chief financial officer at Foundstone, Gregg Marston, and Dmitri Alperovitch, co-founded CrowdStrike in Irvine, California. Since then, he has been working as the President and the CEO of CrowdStrike.

LogMeIn

LogMeIn – World’s Largest SaaS Company Making Work-From-Home Easier for Companies.

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Today every company and firm has opted for the work from home scenario. And looking at the current circumstances, it may be a lasting trend for most of the companies. Though this is a new way of working, a company named LogMeIn has been the promoter of work-from-home even before the pandemic had hit the world. The company has been providing its remote work tools even before the Covid-19 pandemic. LogMeIn is an eighteen years old company providing software as a service and cloud-based remote-work tools for its clients worldwide. It offers its services to almost every size company, such as they can communicate and collaborate from anywhere to achieve their business goals, using any internet-connected devices.
LogMeIn deals in three major categories, i.e., Unified Communications & Collaboration services, Identity & Access Management services, and Customer engagement & support services.

About The Company

LogMeIn is a software company founded in 2003 in Budapest, Hungary. The company provides cloud-based software as a service (SaaS) remote work tools to its customers. The company headquarters is based in Boston, Massachusetts, and about 4000 people are working for the company globally. As of 2019, LogMeIn made revenues worth US$1.262 billion.
LogMeIn is a privately held company, and GoTo, LastPass, Rescue, Central are some of its popular products. The company promotes a remote-centric workplace through its variety of software, helping companies be more productive and enabling flexible hours.
GoToConnect, GoToMeeting, GoToRoom, GoToWebinar, GoToTraining, LogMeIn Central, LogMeIn Pro, GoToMyPC, and Grasshopper are some of the company’s most loved software helping its customers better connect and work remotely securely. Comcast, Dyson, Facebook, Johnson&Johnson, SalesForce and TheNorthFace are some of its major clients.

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The Founding of LogMeIn

LogMeIn was founded as 3 am Labs in 2003 in Budapest. Later, in 2006, the name of the company was changed to LogMeIn. As soon as the company was founded, it started its growth through acquisitions. It first acquired Hamachi VPN product. In 2009 the company had its first IPO on NASDAQ. The company started to merge cloud computing with its products in 2011 and acquired Pachube. The merger resulted in the launch of IoT services under the brand name Xively.
In 2012, LogMeIn acquired Bold Software, and in 2014, it overtook the operations of Ionia Corp and Meldium. The company launched one of its revolutionary products, Rescue Lens, in 2015. The software provided video assistance to the customers on iOS and Android devices. The same year, LogMeIn also acquired the password management software LastPass for a sum of $110 Million. It also had a merger with Citrix that to acquire the rights of GoTo Family in 2016. In the following years, the company acquired names like Nanorep (2017) and Jive Communications (2018).
In August 2020, Francisco Partners and Elliott Management Corporation acquired LogMeIn. This also led to the delisting of the company from NASDAQ, and it became a private company.

The CEO At LogMeIn

William R (Bill) Wagner is the current CEO of LogMeIn. He has got a B.A. degree in History from Lafayette College, as well as an M.B.A. from The Wharton School of Business. In 1998, Wanger joined AT&T as the Marketing Director. He then started to work as the Chief Marketing Officer at Fiberlink Communications. In 2006 Wanger joined Vocus as the Chief Marketing Officer and later became the Chief Operating Officer of the same company. In April 2013, he became the President and Chief Operating Officer of LogMeIn and then was promoted to CEO in 2015. Wanger is also a member of the board of directors of companies like ChurnZero, Akamai Technologies, and BUILD Boston.

Angi Inc.

Angi Inc. – The Largest Marketplace And Review Service Of America.

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Before the internet era, one would only get to know about things through radio or TV. But the most reliable source of information used to be the word of mouth. But this type of information system, despite being the most accurate and reliable, did not have the reach. One could only provide information about a particular, topic like a sort of home decor service or the service of a hospital, etc., to people they knew. Though there used to be directories like Yellow pages and ads in the newspaper that would help to an extent, with limited reach and were the static approach. The arrival of the internet and the fact that it is accessible to all has helped companies like Angi. Angi is an online platform that facilitates review services on a broad spectrum of things to help people analyze what would suit their particular needs. Angi Inc. is as reliable a platform as mouth-to-mouth marketing has been, just with a broader reach. It is an internet content and information platform and one of the largest home service websites in America where people can put or read reviews on local businesses and contractors.

About The Company

Angi Inc. previously known as ANGI Homeservices Inc. is a publically traded home service website for putting and viewing reviews about nearby businesses and contractors. The company was founded in 1995 and trades on Nasdaq as ANGI. William S. Oesterle and Angie Hicks are the founders of Angi, and IAC is the current owner of the company. The platform provides an online marketplace for businesses and offers review services to people. Angi’s corporate headquarters is based in Denver, Colorado. As of 2019, 4500 people are working for Angi, and it made annual revenues worth US$1.132 billion in the same year. Angi and HomeAdvisor are its major subsidiaries.

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Founding Angi Inc.

The idea behind Angi’s founding came up to Angie Hicks when he was looking for some reliable construction contractor for his boss William S. Oesterle in the suburban Columbus, Ohio in 1995. The search resulted in Hicks joining Oesterle to start a call-in service in Columbus for its natives, where they could rate a certain home or lawn care service. For that, Hicks went door-to-door and asked people to sign up for reviewing local contractors. In a year in Columbus, Hicks was able to recruit 1000 members and also raised money for the new business.
In 1996, the founder acquired Unified Neighbors a company providing similar review services. In 2012, the company name was changed to HomeAdvisor, and it made acquisitions like Werkspot (2013) and MyHammer (2016). In 2010, the company raised $25 million in capital to operate its other wing, Angie’s List. Angi went public on the NASDAQ exchange in 2011. In 2014, the company opened another branch of Werkspot.nl in Italy. The year 2015 noted the most growth for the company, as the recorded annual revenues for the year was $300 million.
The next year, Angi made its Angie’s List a freemium service having over 10 million reviews over it for free. The platform provided additional services on the paid subscription for the same. In October 2017, IAC acquired Angi and merged Angie’s List and HomeAdvisor into one. The new company was renamed ANGI Homeservices. Another name change for Angie’s List and ANGI Homeservices took place in 2021. The former was renamed Angi, and the latter now is known as Angi Inc.

The CEO At Angi Inc.

Oisin Hanrahan is the current Chief Executive Officer of Angi Inc. He went to the Harvard Business School and earned a Master of Business Administration. He has also got a master’s in Finance from the London School of Economics as well as a Business, Economics, and Social Sciences degree, which he received from Trinity College Dublin.
Hanrahan is a well-known entrepreneur, as he has founded companies like MiCandidate and Clearwater Group. He has also co-founded The Undergraduate Awards. He joined Angi in 2018 when one of his founded companies was acquired by Angi. Before becoming the CEO of Angi, he served the company as the CPO (Chief Product Officer). In February 2021, Hanrahan was named the CEO of Angi Inc.