Four founders sold. All four are still here.

An engineer by training, Marc has been building Infobel's data since 1995.

Our very first steps go back to 1995, when my brother and I launched one of the world’s first online directories. Back then, the idea that you could search for a company or person online, instead of flipping through a massive printed Yellow Pages book, felt revolutionary. We started with CD-ROMs. The first and biggest challenge? Figuring out how to fit all that data onto a single disc, with just 640MB of storage. But we succeeded. We launched with 40,000 local companies in our database.

Max is Belgian, moved to the United States for university, and has run Techsalerator from Miami ever since he started it.

I launched Techsalerator from a college dorm room at the University of Florida in the middle of Covid-19. What started as a small venture selling business data quickly evolved through countless pivots, iterations and customer conversations, until we found our mission: becoming the one-stop shop for global data acquisition.

We were at an inflection point. Either we needed to go with venture capital money, or we needed to be part of a bigger group. We were growing fast, but as a bootstrapped business it is sometimes tough to scale faster.

JT spent his early career at Esri, the mapping software company, before starting the business in Montpellier in 2009. Woosmap grew out of it.

As a geographer, I was trained to analyse the world, understand problems and try to solve them. What is wonderful about software is being able to answer the small questions people ask themselves: where is the product or the service, and which one is nearest. Helping them make very small decisions very quickly, every day, but at an enormous scale.

Kestutis (Kris) is a transfer pricing expert with extensive experience in international taxation, transfer pricing and intangibles. Previously, he held senior transfer pricing roles at Big Four firms, advising multinational businesses on complex international tax and transfer pricing matters.

Kestutis is a lawyer and holds an LL.M. and an Advanced Diploma in International Taxation from the UK’s Chartered Institute of Taxation. He has also completed executive programmes at London Business School and the University of Oxford.

Kestutis is known in the industry for building data and technology that help transfer pricing professionals make complex benchmarking faster, more reliable and easier to perform.