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The Company That Gets Paid When Everyone Else Gives Up
Founded on the wreckage of a family business, Hilco Global built a $1 billion enterprise by answering one unglamorous question better than anyone: what is this stuff really worth?
NorthLadder
NorthLadder is a Dubai-founded technology company that runs an auction-driven trade-in and buy-back platform for pre-owned electronics. It gives consumers instant cash for old phones and gadgets - with doorstep pickup and certified data wipes - while offering telecom operators, retailers, e-commerce players and OEMs a white-label, end-to-end trade-in engine that connects devices to a network of global buyers. By automating assessment and valuation, NorthLadder aims to unlock the residual value of used devices and extend their lifecycle in support of circular-economy goals.
73 Strings
73 Strings is an AI-powered financial intelligence platform for the private capital industry. Founded in 2020, it automates data extraction, portfolio monitoring, and fair-value estimation for alternative asset managers - the manual, fragmented "middle-office" work behind private equity, private credit, venture capital, growth equity, and infrastructure funds. Its Extract, Monitor, and Value modules structure unstructured documents, track portfolio performance in real time, and produce valuations reportedly up to 10x faster at roughly half the cost. The company serves institutions representing close to $10 trillion in assets and is backed by Goldman Sachs Alternatives, Blackstone, Fidelity International Strategic Ventures, Hamilton Lane, and Golub Capital.
Modo Energy
Modo Energy is a London-based data and analytics platform that helps investors, developers, lenders and traders value and finance battery storage and other electrification assets. It provides regulated benchmarks, transparent revenue forecasts, expert market research and an AI analyst, turning complex power-market data into investment-grade decisions across markets in Great Britain, Europe, the United States and Australia.