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Businesses and corporations, and the markets they shape.

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Freetrade

Freetrade is a London-based investment app that let UK customers buy and sell stocks and exchange-traded funds, including fractional shares of US companies, without paying a dealing commission on most trades. Founded in 2016 by Adam Dodds, Davide Fioranelli and André Mohamed, Freetrade grew through a series of high-profile equity crowdfunding campaigns before being acquired

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Freetrade was a London-based commission-free stock trading app, founded in 2016, that was acquired by IG Group in 2025.

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Frontend Mentor

Frontend Mentor is a learning platform that helps developers improve their front-end and full-stack coding skills by building real projects instead of following step-by-step tutorials. Users work from design files and specifications, then submit finished solutions to receive feedback from the wider developer community. How the challenges work Frontend Mentor offers two main challenge formats.

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A learning platform where developers practice coding skills by building real projects from design files or specs and getting peer feedback.

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FutureProof Technologies

FutureProof Technologies is a venture-backed insurtech company that uses an AI-powered underwriting and pricing platform to write property insurance in catastrophe-exposed regions of the United States. Since launching in August 2024, the company says it has written more than $1 billion in total insurable value, concentrated largely in the Southeast, a region where many traditional

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FutureProof Technologies is an AI-driven insurtech company underwriting property insurance in catastrophe-exposed U.S. regions.

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General Electric

General Electric was an American industrial conglomerate formed in 1892 by the merger of Edison General Electric and Thomson-Houston, and its direct successor today is GE Aerospace, a maker of aircraft engines. After breaking into three companies between 2023 and 2024, the business reported 2025 revenue of $45.9 billion and about 57,000 employees as GE

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General Electric was an American industrial conglomerate formed in 1892 whose direct successor is the aircraft engine maker GE Aerospace.

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General Motors

General Motors is an American automaker headquartered in Detroit, Michigan, that sells vehicles under the Buick, Cadillac, Chevrolet and GMC brands. William C. Durant founded it in 1908, and in 2025 it reported about 155,000 employees and 6.18 million total vehicle sales worldwide. History of General Motors Durant founded General Motors in 1908 as a

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General Motors is a Detroit-based American automaker, founded in 1908 by William C. Durant, that sells Buick, Cadillac, Chevrolet and GMC vehicles.

Goldman Sachs headquarters building at 200 West Street in Lower Manhattan

Goldman Sachs

The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., commonly called Goldman Sachs, is an American global financial institution headquartered at 200 West Street in New York City. It advises corporations, financial institutions, governments and individuals on raising capital, trading and investing, and it also manages wealth. The firm traces its origins to a small brokerage opened in 1869

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Goldman Sachs is a New York-based global financial institution founded in 1869 that advises, underwrites and trades for clients.

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Google

Google is an American technology company, now the largest business of its parent Alphabet Inc., best known for its internet search engine and for products such as YouTube, Android, Gmail, Chrome and Google Cloud. Alphabet, which reports Google’s results, had revenues of $402.8 billion in 2025, according to its annual report filed with the U.S.

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An American technology company, the largest business of Alphabet, known for Search, YouTube, Android and Google Cloud.

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HidrateSpark

HidrateSpark is a smart water bottle brand, founded in 2014 by a group of friends from the University of Minnesota, that tracks how much water a person drinks and syncs that data to a companion smartphone app. The idea for the product began after one of the founders became ill from dehydration, prompting the group

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HidrateSpark is a smart water bottle brand, founded in 2014, that tracks hydration and glows to remind users to drink water.

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Hohem

Hohem is a Shenzhen, China-based company, founded in 2014 by Chen Min, that makes handheld gimbal stabilizers for smartphones, action cameras and DSLR cameras, letting users capture smooth, shake-free video footage while walking, running or filming handheld. Hohem has grown from an early entrant in the smartphone-stabilizer category into one of the more recognized consumer

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Hohem is a Shenzhen-based company, founded in 2014, that makes handheld gimbal stabilizers for smartphones and cameras.

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Honda

Honda Motor Co., Ltd. is a Japanese manufacturer of motorcycles, automobiles and power products, headquartered in Minato, Tokyo. It was incorporated on September 24, 1948, and in the fiscal year ended March 31, 2026 it sold about 14.7 million motorcycles, all-terrain vehicles and side-by-sides and about 2.7 million automobiles. Its best-known products include the Super

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Honda is a Japanese maker of motorcycles, cars and power products, incorporated in 1948 and known for the Super Cub and the Civic.