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Flag Private Equity
Flag Private Equity was a private equity fund-of-funds series run by FLAG Capital Management of Stamford, Connecticut, raising over $423 million before Aberdeen Asset Management acquired the manager in 2015.
Flamingo Las Vegas
Flamingo Las Vegas, also The Fabulous Flamingo or Flamingo Hilton, is a Caesars Entertainment casino hotel on the center Strip, opened by Bugsy Siegel on December 26, 1946; oldest continuously operating Strip resort, 3,500+ rooms.
Flapping Airplanes, Inc.
Flapping Airplanes, Inc. is a San Francisco-based AI research lab founded in 2025 by Ben Spector, Asher Spector, and Aidan Smith. It raised $180 million in seed funding.
Flare Therapeutics
Flare Therapeutics is a Cambridge, Massachusetts clinical-stage biotechnology company founded in 2021 that develops small-molecule drugs targeting transcription factors for cancer, with over $290 million raised and lead candidate FX-909.
FlashParking
FlashParking, also known as Klever Logic, is an Austin, Texas-based parking software and mobility platform company founded in 2011, rebranded as Flash and valued above $1 billion in 2022.
Flat organization
A flat organization, also known as flat management or a horizontal organization, is a company with few or no management layers between frontline staff and leadership.
Flat tax
A flat tax is an income tax with a single rate above an allowance, popularized by Hall and Rabushka and adopted by over 20 countries from the 1990s.
Flatiron Health
Flatiron Health is a New York City healthcare technology company, founded in 2012 by Nat Turner and Zach Weinberg, that builds oncology electronic health record software and real-world evidence datasets.
Flatpay
Flatpay is a Danish payments fintech founded in Copenhagen in 2022 that sells flat-rate card terminals and POS software to small merchants, becoming a unicorn in 2025.
Flattr
Flattr was a Swedish social micropayment service started by Pirate Bay co-founder Peter Sunde and Linus Olsson in 2010, letting users share a monthly budget among creators.
Flávio Augusto
Flávio Augusto da Silva is a Brazilian education entrepreneur who founded the English school chain Wise Up in Rio de Janeiro in 1995 and later led Wiser Educação.
Flea market
A flea market, also called a swap meet or marché aux puces, is a retail venue where independent sellers rent stalls to sell new and secondhand goods, typically with haggling.
Flex Capital
Flex Capital is a seed-stage venture capital firm based in California, founded in 2018 by the founding chief executives of LiveRamp, BrightRoll, and other technology companies.
Flex Class Holdings
Flex Class Holdings Inc. was a Delaware-registered online-education company selling finance and IT courses for India, Thailand, and Africa, with claims traceable only to its own press releases.
Flexible budget
A flexible budget is a management accounting budget expressed across a range of activity levels, so budgeted costs can be recalculated for whatever activity actually occurs.
Flexible spending account
A flexible spending account (FSA) is a tax-exempt employer account, created by the Revenue Act of 1978, funded by pre-tax salary to pay health care or dependent-care expenses.
FlexiLoans
FlexiLoans is a Mumbai-based fintech company founded in 2016 that offers collateral-free term loans and supply chain financing digitally to micro, small, and medium enterprises across India.
Fleximize
Fleximize is a British fintech lender, founded in Ipswich in 2014, that provides flexible business loans to small and medium-sized enterprises through its own underwriting technology.
Flexiv
Flexiv (非夕科技) is a general-purpose robotics company founded in 2016 by Stanford-trained engineer Wang Shiquan, headquartered in Shanghai, that builds adaptive robot arms and grippers around force-sensing technology.
Flight Centre
Flight Centre, also known as Flight Centre Travel Group, is an Australian travel agency group founded in 1982, headquartered in Brisbane, and listed on the Australian Securities Exchange.
Flint Hills Resources
Flint Hills Resources, LLC is a refining and chemicals company based in Wichita, Kansas. It is a subsidiary of Koch Industries and produces fuels and petroleum products.
Flipdish
Flipdish is a Dublin-based food-ordering and restaurant-technology company founded in 2015 by brothers Conor and James McCarthy. It provides white-label ordering apps and kiosks, and reached a valuation above $1.25 billion in January 2022.
Flipspaces
Flipspaces is a Mumbai-based technology-enabled commercial interior design-and-build startup founded in 2015, which has delivered over 1,000 projects across India, the United States, and the United Arab Emirates.
Flix
Flix, known to travelers as FlixBus, is a Munich-based travel-technology company founded in 2011 that sells long-distance bus and train tickets while partner companies operate the vehicles, including Greyhound.
FlixMobility GmbH
FlixMobility GmbH, registered as Flix SE since 2022, is a Munich-based mobility technology company founded in 2013 that runs FlixBus, FlixTrain, and Greyhound in 45 countries while partner companies own the vehicles.
Floating exchange rate
A floating exchange rate, also called a floating or flexible currency, is a currency rate set by the market, not targeted by authorities, and dominant since 1973.
Floating rate note
A floating rate note (FRN, or floater) is a debt security whose coupon resets regularly to a reference rate such as SOFR plus a fixed spread.
FloHealth
Flo Health is a London-based women's health company founded in 2015 by twin brothers Dmitry and Yuri Gurski, best known for its period-tracking app, which reached unicorn status in 2024.
Flomics
Flomics Biotech is a Spanish liquid-biopsy genomics company in Barcelona, founded in 2018 by CRG and UPF researchers, developing blood tests for early cancer detection using cell-free RNA.
FLORA Ventures
FLORA Ventures is a Tel Aviv venture capital firm founded in 2023 by Gil Horsky and Esther Barak-Landes, investing in early-stage sustainable AgriFood tech startups in Israel and Europe.