Atlanis is an Italian business services company operating in marketing, events, publishing, cybersecurity, real estate, and charity sectors. The company, established in March 2021 by entrepreneur Andrea Di Maso, has six business units, including the digital magazine Italia News Online and the publishing arm Fragola Edizioni, as well as Fragola Company (marketing and communications), Fragola Records (music label), and the Festival del Cuore charity event.
Founded on October 2, 2013, Sagarmatha Technologies Limited is an investment company focused on platform technologies. It claims to deliver comprehensive technology solutions for businesses, encompassing content management systems, data infrastructure, website builders, mobile and web applications, marketing automation, merchandising software, e-commerce platforms, video tools, and related support services. The company was originally incorporated in South Africa as Virturtorque Proprietary Limited, and underwent several name changes before becoming Sagarmatha Technologies Limited in September 2017. The company is a subsidiary of the Sekunjalo Group, which holds 55 percent of South Africa’s Independent Media alongside Chinese state investment.
Sekunjalo Investment Holdings is a South African private equity firm founded in 1997 by businessman Iqbal Survé and three partners. The company was established with principles of “social justice, broad-based economic participation, and inclusion,” emphasizing what it describes as “a gentler capitalism” focused on people before profits. Sekunjalo operates across multiple sectors, including healthcare, pharmaceuticals, telecommunications, fisheries, and media. In August 2013, the company acquired a 55% stake in Independent News & Media South Africa for approximately 150 million dollars, with funding largely provided by the government-owned Public Investment Corporation.
PT Bina Media Tenggara is an Indonesian media company founded in late 1982 as an independent newspaper institution to publish The Jakarta Post, an English-language daily newspaper based in Jakarta. The company was established as a private entity owned by four competing Indonesian media groups: the online daily newspaper Suara Karya, the national newspaper Kompas, the weekly magazine Tempo, and the evening daily Sinar Harapan. PT Bina Media Tenggara operates as a limited liability company with its headquarters in Jakarta.
Djarum Group is a family-owned Indonesian conglomerate company founded in 1951, when Oei Wie Gwan (黃惠源) acquired a nearly defunct cigarette manufacturer in Kudus, Central Java. The company is now controlled by brothers Robert Budi Hartono and Michael Bambang Hartono, and produces tobacco products, having also diversified into banking, technology, and media. In December 2024, Djarum’s venture capital arm, GDP Venture, acquired news platform Kumparan for 60 million dollars, consolidating control after earlier investments.
Listed on the footer of Japan’s Chinese-language Chubun (中文導報) as the copyright holder, Chubun Sangyo Co., Ltd. (中文产业株式会社) is the publisher of what China’s Baidu Baike describes as Japan’s “comprehensive Chinese-language weekly newspaper.” The company has published Chubun since its September 1992 founding, distributing 80,000 copies weekly across four sections. A 2005 speech by the newspaper’s editor-in-chief, published in CNHubei, describes Chubun Sangyo as “Japan’s largest comprehensive Chinese enterprise promoting Sino-Japanese exchange” and a “cross-media group” operating multiple outlets including Chubun, “Lele China” (乐乐中国) television station, Japanese magazine CHAi, and the “Kentoshi” (遣唐使) website. However, the company also describes itself as a logistics firm delivering “necessary goods to necessary places at necessary times” with “low prices, high quality, and short delivery times,” creating an unusual structure where a supply chain operation owns a prominent Chinese-language media outlet.
HTC Corporation is a Taoyuan-based company that specializes in consumer electronics. It was founded in 1997 and initially focused on manufacturing laptop computers as an original design manufacturer and provider. It later shifted its focus to smartphones and gained popularity for its HTC One series of mobile devices.
Bigwave Robotics is a South Korean tech company founded in 2020 and based in Seoul that operates Marosol, a platform where businesses can rent robots for their needs and which the company calls “the nation’s most extensive robot database.” The platform uses AI to help companies find the right robots for their work by matching them with robot suppliers. Bigwave Robotics also built SOLlink, a tool that lets businesses control different brands of robots all in one industrial or work setting.
Bashundhara Group is a Bangladeshi conglomerate founded in 1987 by Ahmed Akbar Sobhan as East West Property Development Ltd. Originally focused on real estate development in Dhaka, the company expanded into manufacturing, cement production, paper mills, and steel during the 1990s. The group reports in the “About Us” section of its website that it operates more than 50 businesses across sectors including LPG distribution and food processing. Its media business centers on the subsidiary East West Media Group. With more than 700,000 employees according to its corporate profile, Bashundhara is one of Bangladesh’s largest private enterprises.