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Spreedly, Inc. develops payment software for marketplaces and platforms. It offers a credit card vault in the cloud that stores cards independently from payment gateways and users work with one or multiple payment gateways over time or simultaneously. The firm also enables online merchants, affiliates, and resellers to create and manage non-gateway endpoints, as well as to send credit card data to payment gateway and non-gateway endpoints. The company was founded by John M. Carlin, Alexander Kohlhofer, Nathaniel Talbott and Christian O'Melia in April 2007 and is headquartered in Durham, NC.

SAS Institute, Inc. provides business analytics software and services. It offers solutions in the areas of business intelligence, customer intelligence, financial intelligence, foundation tools, fraud and security intelligence, high-performance analytics, human capital intelligence, information management and information technology. The firm offers services to automotive, banking, defense, security, communications and health care industries. The company was founded by James Goodnight and John P. Sall in 1976 and is headquartered in Cary, NC.