TOP 100 COMPANIES
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Carta
Founded in 2012
CEO: Henry Ward
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Carta is a fintech equity management platform. With a mission to unlock equity ownership for more people, Carta has amassed an equity management portfolio of over US $ 2tn, covering two million people worldwide. The equity platform manages funds for over 30,000 businesses and over 5,000 investment funds too. Formally called eShares, Inc., Carta’ s valuation software digitises paper stock certificates along with derivatives, warrants and stock options, allowing individual investors and companies to manage their own equity and track company ownership. Raising US $ 1.2bn in total funding, Carta has risen to the top of capital asset management after acquiring its competitor Silicon Valley Bank Analytics in 2017.
Wealth and Investing
United States
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Chainalysis
Founded in 2014
CEO: Michael Gronager
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Offering cryptocurrency compliance and investigation solutions to global law enforcement agencies, businesses, and regulators, Chainalysis helps global partners work together to combat illicit cryptocurrency activity. With venture capital backing from the likes of Benchmark, Chainalysis was first set up as a Bitcoin tracing organisation. Since its 2014 founding, the fintech’ s clientele has stretched to the US FBI, DEA, and IRS, as well as the UK’ s National Crime Agency. Notably, Chainalysis helped law enforcement agencies retrieve over US $ 1bn from the shutdown of the dark web marketplace Silk Road, while assisting in the 2021 crypto theft investigation, identifying North Korea’ s Lazarus Group as the culprit.
Software Development
United States
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