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Job van der Voort
Job van der Voort is a Dutch entrepreneur and former neuroscientist who co-founded the global payroll company Remote in 2019 and leads it as chief executive officer.
Jochen Engert
Jochen Engert is a German entrepreneur who co-founded FlixBus in Munich in 2011 with André Schwämmlein and Daniel Krauss, building it into a global mobility group.
Johan Tjarnberg
Johan Tjärnberg is a Swedish payments entrepreneur, founder and chief executive of Bambora, sold to Ingenico in 2017 for about €1.5 billion, and later chief executive of Trustly.
Johannes Aspeby
Johannes Aspeby is a Swedish video-game developer who co-founded Coffee Stain Studios in Skövde in 2010, coded the goat in Goat Simulator, and later served as the studio's CEO.
Johannes Schildt
Johannes Schildt, born in 1988, is a Swedish entrepreneur who co-founded the digital healthcare company Kry and served as its chief executive from 2015 until December 2024.
Jonas Rieke
Jonas Rieke is a business graduate who co-founded Personio, the Munich-based HR software company for small and mid-sized businesses, and has served as its Chief Operations Officer since June 2016.
Jonas Ruyter
Jonas Ruyter (born 1991) is a Dutch entrepreneur who co-founded DataSnipper, an Amsterdam-based audit automation software company, in 2017 with Maarten Alblas and Kai Bakker.
Josef Prusa
Josef Prusa, born 1990, is a Czech entrepreneur who founded Prusa Research, a Prague-based 3D printer maker, in 2012, selling over 500,000 printers with no outside investment.
Joshua Becker
Joshua Becker is a German fintech co-founder and chief operating officer of Augustus (formerly Ivy), a Berlin payments company he co-founded in 2022 with Ferdinand Dabitz, Simon Wimmer, and Peter Lieck.
Kai Bakker
Kai Bakker (born 1991) is a Dutch software engineer and cofounder and CTO of DataSnipper, an Amsterdam audit automation company that reached a $1 billion valuation in 2024.
Kai Johan Jiang
Kai Johan Jiang is a China-born entrepreneur with Swedish citizenship who founded National Electric Vehicle Sweden and bought Saab Automobile's assets from bankruptcy in 2012.
Kari Kivelä
Kari Kivelä is a Finnish technology engineer who co-founded Oura Health in Oulu in 2013, leading hardware development and miniaturization of the Oura Ring before stepping back in 2020.
Kolja Hebenstreit
Kolja Hebenstreit is a Berlin technology founder and early-stage investor, known as a co-founder of Delivery Hero in 2011 and of Team Europe and Point Nine Capital.
Kristo Käärmann
Kristo Käärmann is an Estonian technology entrepreneur who co-founded the cross-border payments company TransferWise in London in 2011 and serves as chief executive of its successor, Wise.
Kry
Kry, formerly Livi outside the Nordics, is a Stockholm digital health company founded in 2014 that combines app-based video consultations with its own physical clinics across four European countries.
Lastminute.com
Lastminute.com is an online travel and leisure retailer founded in London in 1998 by Brent Hoberman and Martha Lane Fox, known for late-booking flights and holidays.
Laurent Ritter
Laurent Ritter is a French technology entrepreneur who co-founded Voodoo, the Paris-based mobile gaming company, with Alexandre Yazdi in 2013, serving as its managing director while Voodoo became a leader in hyper-casual mobile games.
Laurent Sifre
Laurent Sifre is a French artificial-intelligence researcher and entrepreneur who co-founded the Paris startup H, serving as its Chief Technological Officer, after nearly a decade at Google DeepMind.
Linus Olsson
Linus Olsson, born 1978, is a Swedish fintech entrepreneur and former CEO of Flattr, the Malmö micropayment service launched with Peter Sunde and acquired by Eyeo in 2017.
Loïc Soubeyrand
Loïc Soubeyrand is a French entrepreneur, founder and chief executive of Swile (formerly Lunchr), the Montpellier employee-benefits fintech valued above $1 billion; he earlier co-founded Teads.
Luca Ferrari
Luca Ferrari (born 1985) is an Italian entrepreneur who co-founded and leads Bending Spoons, the Milan software company that owns Evernote, Meetup, WeTransfer, and Vimeo, and took it public on the Nasdaq in 2026.
Lukasz Gadowski
Lukasz Gadowski is a Polish-born German internet entrepreneur and investor based in Berlin, co-founder of Delivery Hero and founder of Spreadshirt, now investing through Team Global.
Lunar
Lunar is a Danish fintech company founded in 2015 in Aarhus that operates Lunar Bank, a digital, branchless bank with over 1 million users across Denmark, Sweden, and Norway.
Maarten Alblas
Maarten Alblas (born 1992) is a Dutch entrepreneur who co-founded DataSnipper in 2017, an Amsterdam audit automation company that became a $1 billion unicorn in 2024.
Magnus Nilsson (entrepreneur)
Magnus Nilsson is a Swedish entrepreneur who co-founded the Stockholm payments company iZettle in 2010 with Jacob de Geer, serving as its chief operating officer.
Marco Cancellieri
Marco Cancellieri is a software developer who co-founded Trade Republic in Berlin in 2015 with Christian Hecker and Thomas Pischke, building its app as Head of Mobile.
Mariusz Gralewski
Mariusz Gralewski is a Polish technology entrepreneur, co-founder and CEO of DocPlanner, the Warsaw-based doctor appointment booking platform including Znany Lekarz, and previously founded the networking site GoldenLine.pl.
Mark Nuvelstijn
Mark Nuvelstijn is a Dutch entrepreneur who co-founded the Amsterdam-based crypto exchange Bitvavo in 2018 and served as its CEO until resigning in July 2025.
Markku Koskela
Markku Koskela is a Finnish engineer and physicist who co-founded Oura, the Oulu-based maker of the Oura Ring sleep tracker, in 2013, leading its research and development.
MARKT-PILOT
MARKT-PILOT is a German software company, founded in Stuttgart in 2020 by Tobias Rieker and Amin Oumhamdi, selling price-management software for machine manufacturers' spare parts.