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Adrian Chmielarz
Adrian Chmielarz is a Polish game designer who co-founded People Can Fly in Warsaw in 2002, developer of Painkiller and Bulletstorm, and later founded The Astronauts.
Adrian Durham
Adrian Durham is a technology founder who created the global wealth-management platform FNZ in 2003 in New Zealand and led it as Group CEO until stepping back in 2024.
Ahti Heinla
Ahti Heinla, born 1972, is an Estonian software engineer who was chief technical architect of Skype and co-founded Starship Technologies, the sidewalk delivery robot company, in 2014.
Alan Mamedi
Alan Mamedi (born 1984) is a Swedish entrepreneur of Kurdish origin who co-founded Truecaller in Stockholm in 2009 and led it as chief executive until January 2025.
Alex Kendall
Alex Kendall, born 1992, is a New Zealand entrepreneur and AI researcher who co-founded London-based autonomous-driving company Wayve in 2017 and leads it as chief executive.
Alex LeBrun
Alex LeBrun is a French AI entrepreneur and CEO of AMI Labs, the Paris AI lab founded by Yann LeCun, after cofounding Nabla and selling Wit.ai to Facebook.
Alexander Kent-Braham
Alexander Kent-Braham (born 1991) is a British technology founder who co-founded and co-leads Marshmallow, a London digital insurer serving migrants, valued at just over $2 billion in 2025.
Alexander Rinke
Alexander Rinke is a German technology entrepreneur who co-founded Celonis, the Munich-based process intelligence software company, in 2011 and co-leads it; Forbes estimates his stake at 15%.
Alexander Samwer
Alexander Samwer is a German internet entrepreneur, the youngest of the three Samwer brothers, who co-founded Rocket Internet in 2007, sat on Zalando's supervisory board, and founded Picus Capital.
Alexandre Prot
Alexandre Prot is a French entrepreneur who co-founded Qonto, the Paris-based financial-management service for SMEs and freelancers, with Steve Anavi, and has been its chief executive since 2016.
Alexandre Yazdi
Alexandre Yazdi is a French technology entrepreneur who co-founded Voodoo, the Paris-based mobile games company, with Laurent Ritter in 2013, pioneering hyper-casual games and serving as its CEO.
Alice & Bob
Alice & Bob is a French quantum computing company in Paris, founded in 2020 by Théau Peronnin and Raphaël Lescanne, building a fault-tolerant quantum computer from superconducting cat qubits.
Alma
Alma is a French fintech, founded in 2018 by Louis Chatriot and Guillaume Desloges, that lets merchants offer installment payments while being paid immediately, reaching profitability in 2025.
Amar Shah
Amar Shah is a British machine-learning researcher who co-founded the autonomous driving company Wayve and served as its first chief executive from 2017 to 2020.
Ambarish Mitra
Ambarish Mitra (born 1977) is a technology entrepreneur who co-founded and led Blippar, the British augmented reality unicorn that collapsed into administration in December 2018.
Amin Oumhamdi
Amin Oumhamdi is a German software entrepreneur who co-founded MARKT-PILOT in Esslingen in 2020 with Tobias Rieker and serves as the company's chief technology officer.
Andrzej Poznański
Andrzej Poznański is a Polish video-game developer who co-founded the Warsaw studio People Can Fly in 2002 with Adrian Chmielarz and Michał Kosieradzki, leaving in 2012 after Epic Games acquired the studio.
Anton Osika
Anton Osika is a Swedish engineer and entrepreneur, co-founder and CEO of Lovable, a Stockholm startup whose product turns plain-language descriptions into working software, reaching $100 million in revenue within eight months of its 2024 launch.
Anton Westbergh
Anton Westbergh, born 1985, is a Swedish video game executive who co-founded Coffee Stain in Skövde in 2010 and has been its chief executive ever since, creating Goat Simulator.
Anurag Srivastava
Anurag Srivastava is an Indian-born, Singapore-based venture capitalist who co-founded Jungle Ventures, a firm managing over US$1 billion across Southeast Asia and India, with about 60 portfolio companies.
Arthur Waller
Arthur Waller is a French entrepreneur who co-founded and leads Pennylane, a Paris accounting software company, after selling his hotel pricing startup PriceMatch to Booking.com in 2015.
Arun Sarin
Arun Sarin is an India-born, US-educated business executive who was Chief Executive of Vodafone Group from 2003 until 2008, overseeing growth from 120 million to more than 260 million customers.
Aspirity Partners
Aspirity Partners is a London-based, Irish-domiciled private equity firm founded by Joe O'Mara and Ralph Choufani, which closed its inaugural fund at over €875 million in 2025.
August Erséus
August Erséus is a Swedish technology founder who co-founded the legal-AI company Legora, formerly Leya, in Stockholm in 2023 and served as its Chief Product Officer.
Aura Aero
Aura Aero is a French aerospace manufacturer founded in 2018 at Toulouse-Francazal by three engineers, which builds the certified Integral two-seat aircraft and is developing the 19-seat hybrid-electric ERA regional airliner.
Bambora
Bambora is a Stockholm-based payment service provider founded by Johan Tjärnberg in 2014 under Nordic Capital, sold to Ingenico Group in 2017 for about €1.5 billion.
Barney Hussey-Yeo
Barnaby Hussey-Yeo is a British entrepreneur who founded the AI financial assistant Cleo in 2016 after working as a data scientist at Wonga; it became a unicorn in 2025.
Ben Maruthappu
Ben (Mahiben) Maruthappu is a British doctor and founder and chief executive of Cera, a London home healthcare and health technology company founded in 2016 that became a unicorn in 2025.
Ben Stanway
Ben Stanway is a British fintech entrepreneur who co-founded the London savings-and-investing app Moneybox in 2015, serving as Co-CEO until becoming Executive Chair in 2024.
Bending Spoons
Bending Spoons is a technology company founded in 2013 and headquartered in Milan, Italy, that acquires and operates consumer digital products including Evernote, Meetup, WeTransfer, and Vimeo.