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Gryphon Investors

Gryphon Investors is a lower middle-market private equity firm founded in 1995, with more than $10 billion in assets and 75 platform investments plus over 550 add-on acquisitions.

Gryphon Partners

Gryphon Partners is the fund-family name used in SEC filings by Gryphon Investors, a San Francisco private equity firm founded in 1995 that invests in lower-middle-market companies.

Grytviken

Grytviken, South Georgia's first whaling station, founded by Carl Anton Larsen in 1904; operated to the mid-1960s, processed part of 175,250 whales, holds Shackleton's grave, the South Georgia Museum, and the Commensalis Whale Memorial.

Grzebita family

The Grzebita family is a Polish business family that owns Terg S.A., the company behind Media Expert, one of Poland's largest consumer electronics retail chains.

Grzegorz Ira

Grzegorz Ira is a molecular biologist and professor of molecular and human genetics at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, who studies DNA double-strand break repair and genome instability.

Grzegorz Karpiński

Grzegorz Karpiński is a Polish politician and legal counsel who has served as Secretary of State and Deputy Head of the Prime Minister's Chancellery since 2023.

Grzegorz Kondrak

Grzegorz Kondrak is a Canadian computer scientist and professor at the University of Alberta known for work on string similarity, transliteration, cognate detection, and computational decipherment of the Voynich manuscript.

Grzegorz Krychowiak

Grzegorz Krychowiak, Polish defensive midfielder (born 1990, Gryfice), won the 2015 and 2016 Europa Leagues with Sevilla, played for PSG, Lokomotiv Moscow and others, earned 100 Poland caps, and retired in October 2025.

Grzegorz Krysiak

Grzegorz Krysiak is a Polish technology executive who served as chief technology officer of ZnanyLekarz.pl, the Polish brand of DocPlanner, a Warsaw-founded doctor appointment booking platform that became the first Polish startup unicorn.

Grzegorz Lato

Grzegorz Lato (Grzegorz Bolesław Lato, "Bolek"), Polish right winger born 1950 in Malbork; 1972 Olympic gold, 1976 silver, top scorer at the 1974 World Cup with 7 goals, 100 caps, later PZPN president.

Grzegorz Płaczek

Grzegorz Płaczek is a Polish politician of the Konfederacja party who serves as leader of its parliamentary club in the Sejm, and has chaired the Confederation Parliamentary Club.

GS 1124-68

GS 1124-68, also cataloged GRS 1124-68 and X-ray Nova Muscae 1991, is a soft X-ray transient in Musca discovered on January 8, 1991, hosting a black hole of about 11 solar masses.

GS 2000+25

GS 2000+25 (QZ Vulpeculae) is a stellar-mass black hole X-ray binary in Vulpecula, discovered as a bright X-ray nova by the Ginga satellite in 1988.

GS Caltex

GS Caltex is a South Korean oil refining and petrochemical company owned equally by GS Energy and Chevron, operating the Yeosu refinery, Korea's second-largest energy company.

Gs Collective

GS Collective is a San Mateo, California venture fund platform managed by GS Futures LLC, whose two funds target early-stage physical AI, energy transition, and digital infrastructure investments.

GS Holdings

GS Holdings is the holding company of GS Group, one of South Korea's ten largest business groups, created in 2004 by a demerger from LG and controlled by the Huh family.

GS omega/kappa HxTx Hv1a

GS-omega/kappa-HxTx-Hv1a (ω/κ-Hv1a, Spear-T, Spear-Lep) is a 37-residue spider-venom peptide bioinsecticide from Hadronyche versuta, IRAC Group 32 nAChR allosteric modulator, EPA tolerance-exempt 2014, Canadian registration 2023, not EU-approved.

GS Yuasa Corporation

GS Yuasa Corporation (GSユアサ株式会社) is a Kyoto-based Japanese battery manufacturer formed in 2004 by the merger of Japan Storage Battery and Yuasa Corporation, ranking second worldwide in automotive lead-acid batteries.

GS1

GS1, formerly EAN.UCC and Global Standards One, is the neutral global standards organization behind the barcode and supply chain identification standards, active in 118 countries.

GS1 Digital Link

GS1 Digital Link is a GS1 standard, first ratified in 2018, that encodes identifiers like the GTIN in web addresses linking barcodes to online product information.

GS1-128

GS1-128, formerly UCC/EAN-128, is a barcode symbology standard defined by GS1 that encodes Application Identifier data and is mandatory on GS1 logistic labels for cases and pallets.

GS1191-0445 (haemophilia A AAV gene therapy)

GS1191-0445 (GS001) is Gritgen Therapeutics' AAV8 gene therapy delivering B-domain-deleted human factor VIII for hemophilia A; first-in-China HA gene therapy, now in phase 3 (NCT06833983) with CDE Breakthrough Therapy Designation.

GSAT

GSAT (Geosynchronous Satellite) is a series of Indian geostationary communication satellites developed and operated by ISRO since 2001, carrying India's telecommunications, TV broadcasting, DTH, and broadband services.

GSC 06214-00210

GSC 06214-00210 is a young K7 star in Upper Scorpius, ~354 light-years away, with the directly imaged planetary-mass companion GSC 06214-00210 b (about 14-16 Jupiter masses) at 320 au, which retains a circumplanetary accretion disk.

GSC Game World

GSC Game World, Ukrainian studio founded 1995 in Kyiv (also Prague), creator of Cossacks and S.T.A.L.K.E.R. series; made S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl (2024) during Russia's invasion, with Cost of Hope DLC and Update 2.0 in August 2026.

GSDMD

GSDMD (gasdermin D), gene ID 79792 at 8q24.3, is the pore-forming executor of pyroptosis, cleaved by inflammatory caspases at Asp275/276 to release a 31–34-subunit membrane pore; inhibitors target Cys191/192 but none are approved.

GSG 9

GSG 9, or Grenzschutzgruppe 9, is the counter-terrorism and hostage-rescue special unit of the German Federal Police, founded in 1972 after the Munich Olympics massacre.

GShard

GShard is a June 2020 Google system that trained a 600-billion-parameter sparsely-gated mixture-of-experts Transformer for multilingual machine translation, plus a sharding framework whose expert parallelism later systems like Switch Transformer and DeepSeek-V3 reused.

GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research

GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research (Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung) is a German national laboratory in Darmstadt operating a heavy-ion accelerator, known for discovering six chemical elements including darmstadtium.

GSI study

GSI study (NCT02735824), Genetic Study of Immunodeficiency, is a Swiss observational study led by University Children's Hospital Zurich, enrolling 500 suspected primary immunodeficiency patients plus relatives to find genetic causes, running 2016 to 2027.