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Genji Nagai (FLUX Inc.)

Genji Nagai (永井元治) is a Japanese entrepreneur who founded the Tokyo AI consulting company FLUX Inc. in 2018 and was named to Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia in 2020.

Girish Mathrubootham

Girish Mathrubootham is an Indian technology entrepreneur who co-founded Freshworks in Chennai in 2010, led it as chief executive until 2024, and took it public on Nasdaq.

Girish Redekar

Girish Redekar is an Indian technology founder, co-founder and CEO of the Bengaluru compliance-automation company Sprinto, founded in 2020. He earlier co-founded Recruiterbox, a recruiting software firm sold in 2018.

Gopal Vittal

Gopal Vittal is an Indian business executive who served as Managing Director and CEO of Bharti Airtel from 2013 to 2025, then became Executive Vice Chairman.

Grab

Grab Holdings, formerly GrabTaxi, is a Singapore-headquartered ride-hailing, delivery, and financial services company founded in 2012 by Anthony Tan and Tan Hooi Ling, listed on Nasdaq since 2021.

GREE, Inc.

GREE, Inc., also known as GREE Holdings, Inc., is a Tokyo-based Japanese internet group founded by Yoshikazu Tanaka in 2004, known for social games and the REALITY VTuber platform.

hacomono

hacomono (株式会社hacomono), founded by Kenichi Hasuda in Tokyo in 2013 as Machiiro, is a SaaS company whose management system serves over 13,000 gyms and wellness facilities.

Han Arming Hanafia

Han Arming Hanafia, born in 1956, is an Indonesian businessman who co-founded DCI Indonesia with Otto Toto Sugiri and Marina Budiman in 2011, holding a 14.11% stake.

Happiest Minds Technologies

Happiest Minds Technologies is a Bengaluru-headquartered Indian IT services company founded in 2011 by Ashok Soota, listed on the NSE since 2020 and merging with ITC Infotech in 2026.

Harishankaran Karunanidhi (HackerRank)

Harishankaran Karunanidhi, also known as Hari Karunanidhi, is an Indian software engineer who co-founded HackerRank in Bangalore in 2009 and serves as its chief technology officer.

Harsh Jain

Harsh Jain is an Indian technology entrepreneur who co-founded Dream Sports, the Mumbai company behind the Dream11 fantasy sports platform, and serves as its chief executive officer.

Harshil Mathur

Harshil Mathur (हर्षिल माथुर) is an Indian fintech entrepreneur who co-founded Razorpay, India's largest payment gateway, in 2014 and leads it as chief executive officer.

HCL

HCL is an Indian technology group founded by Shiv Nadar in 1976, best known through HCL Technologies (HCLTech), a Noida-headquartered provider of IT services and software.

Hemesh Singh

Hemesh Singh is an Indian technology entrepreneur who co-founded the Bengaluru ed-tech company Unacademy in 2015 with Gaurav Munjal and Roman Saini, serving as its chief technology officer until 2024.

Hirohide Sugiura

Hirohide Sugiura (杉浦 博英) is a Japanese game producer and executive who co-founded Monolith Soft in Tokyo in 1999 with Tetsuya Takahashi after working as a producer at Square.

Hiroshi Fujiwara

Hiroshi Fujiwara (Fujiwara Hiroshi, 藤原 洋), born 1954 in Fukuoka, is a Japanese engineer and entrepreneur who founded Internet Research Institute, a key contributor to MPEG standardization.

HOOQ

HOOQ was a Singapore-based video streaming service launched in 2015 as a joint venture of Singtel, Sony Pictures, and Warner Bros., serving five Asian markets before closing in 2020.

IGAWorks

IGAWorks (아이지에이웍스) is a South Korean data-technology company founded in 2006 and headquartered in Seoul, known for adbrix and DFINERY and as Korea's first data-sector unicorn.

Indium Software

Indium Software is a Chennai-headquartered AI-driven digital engineering and technology services company founded in 1999 by Ram Sukumar, majority-owned by EQT Private Capital since 2024.

Internet Research Institute

Internet Research Institute (IRI) is a Tokyo-based consulting and corporate incubation group founded by Hiroshi Fujiwara in 1996, focused on IoT, cyber security, and AI.

Ishwar Sridharan

Ishwar Sridharan is an Indian technology executive who co-founded Exotel, a Bengaluru-based cloud-telephony company, in 2011 and served as its chief operating officer until resigning in 2025.

IVRy

IVRy (アイブリー) is a Tokyo company founded in 2019 whose AI telephone platform automatically answers, routes, and books business calls, handling over 100 million calls by 2026.

J&T Express

J&T Express (极兔速递) is an express delivery company founded in Indonesia in 2015 by Li Jie, operating in 13 countries and ranked first by parcel volume in Southeast Asia.

Jack Zhang

Jack Zhang is a technology entrepreneur who co-founded the cross-border payments platform Airwallex in Melbourne in 2015 and serves as its chief executive, owning a 12% stake.

Jerry Rao

Jerry Rao, also known as Jaithirth Rao (जेरी राव), is an Indian businessman and writer who founded and led the IT services firm MphasiS and later the affordable-housing builder VBHC.

Jet Jie Li

Jet Jie Li, also known as Li Jie (李杰), is the founder, chairman, and CEO of J&T Express, which he started in Indonesia in 2015 after years at OPPO.

Joel Bar-El

Joel Bar-El is an Israeli technology entrepreneur who co-founded Trax, a Singapore-based retail computer vision company, in 2010 and led it as chief executive from 2011 to 2021.

Joseph Phua

Joseph Phua is a Singapore-based technology entrepreneur who co-founded the dating app Paktor in 2013, then founded M17 Entertainment, now 17LIVE Group, which listed on the Singapore Exchange in 2023.

Kailash Joshi

Kailash Joshi is a retired IBM executive who co-founded TiE, the Silicon Valley nonprofit network for entrepreneurs, in 1992, and later served as President of TiE Silicon Valley.

Kaivalya Vohra

Kaivalya Vohra is an Indian technology entrepreneur who co-founded Zepto, the Bengaluru-based quick-commerce grocery delivery company, with Aadit Palicha in 2021 after both left Stanford University.