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NWP Services made the utility bill a business.
An apartment’s water bill looks simple until someone has to divide it, collect it, and explain it. NWP built a business around that work - then became part of RealPage.
Jean-Jacques Poutrel and the business of making money move
Before Ingenico reached shop counters around the world, Jean-Jacques Poutrel was a self-taught entrepreneur making useful things. His career followed the machinery of everyday life, from keeping food cold to getting a card payment through.
Hypercom: the checkout rival worth keeping alive
Hypercom made the small machines that let a sale become a payment. Its $485 million takeover came with an unusual condition: America still needed a rival at the counter.
Data Dimensions and the bill that brought its own paperwork
A medical bill is only as useful as the documents that travel with it. Data Dimensions built a business around keeping them together - and One Call bought that business in April 2026.
Dean Leavitt
Dean M. Leavitt is the founder and CEO of Boost Payment Solutions, a New York fintech he launched in 2009 to build commercial card and B2B payment rails for large enterprises. A 30-plus-year payments veteran who previously ran public and bankruptcy-rescued processing companies, he spotted a vacuum in the roughly $125 trillion global B2B market and built patented straight-through processing technology now used across 45-plus countries by more than half the Fortune 100. Boost has landed on the Inc. 5000 five times and raised a $22 million Series C led by Invictus Growth Partners in 2021.