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Octopus Group (financial services)
Octopus Group is a privately held London-based family of financial-services, energy, and education businesses, founded in 2000 by Simon Rogerson, Chris Hulatt, and Guy Myles, who remain its largest shareholders.
Olivier Dellenbach
Olivier Dellenbach, born 1961 in Strasbourg, is a French software entrepreneur who founded eFront, sold to BlackRock for $1.3 billion in 2019, and then founded ChapsVision.
Ömer Koç
Ömer Koç, born in Ankara in 1962, is a Turkish businessman and grandson of Vehbi Koç who has chaired Koç Holding, Turkey's largest industrial group, since 2016.
Opcore
Opcore (Opcore SAS) is a French hyperscale data center company, jointly owned by iliad and InfraVia, operating about 131 MW across Paris, Lyon, Marseille, and Poland.
Oscar Höglund
Oscar Höglund, born in 1978, is a Swedish entrepreneur who co-founded Stockholm's music-licensing company Epidemic Sound in 2009 and served as its CEO for about 17 years.
Oscar Jilsén
Oscar Jilsén is a Swedish game designer who co-founded Coffee Stain Studios in Skövde in 2010, one of nine students from the University of Skövde, and served as its lead designer.
Paolo Cerruti
Paolo Cerruti is a business executive who co-founded the Swedish battery maker Northvolt in 2016, serving as chief operating officer and later leading its North American division.
Patrick Söderlund
Patrick Söderlund is a Swedish video game executive who co-founded Refraction Games, led DICE, rose to Chief Design Officer at Electronic Arts, and founded Embark Studios in 2018.
Paul McWilliams
Paul McWilliams is a Northern Irish engineer who co-founded the Belfast social media analytics start-up Yedup and is now Chief Data & Digital Officer at the Public Health Agency.
Pei-Hao Su
Pei-Hao Su, known as Eddy Su, is a Taiwanese engineer and entrepreneur who co-founded PolyAI, a London-based enterprise voice-AI company, in 2017 and serves as its SVP of Engineering.
PensionBee
PensionBee is a London-based financial technology company founded in 2014 by Romi Savova that combines scattered UK pensions into one online account, listed on the London Stock Exchange.
Personio
Personio is a Munich-based human resources software company founded in 2015 by Hanno Renner, selling an all-in-one HR platform to small and mid-sized businesses across Europe.
Peter Lieck
Peter Mosebjane Lieck is a German fintech co-founder of Augustus, a Berlin payments company founded in 2022 as Ivy, where he serves as chief revenue officer leading partnerships.
Peter Lipka
Peter Lipka is a British technology executive, Chief Operating Officer of Improbable, the London company behind the SpatialOS simulation platform, which he joined in 2012.
Peter Schnell (German IT entrepreneur)
Peter Schnell (born 1938) is a German mathematician and IT entrepreneur who co-founded Software AG in Darmstadt in 1969, led it until 1996, and developed the ADABAS database.
Peter Vesterbacka
Peter Vesterbacka is a Finnish marketing executive and entrepreneur who served as chief marketing officer of Angry Birds developer Rovio from 2010 to 2016, then founded Finest Bay Area to promote a Helsinki–Tallinn undersea tunnel.
Petteri Lahtela
Petteri Lahtela is a Finnish technology founder from Oulu who co-founded Oura Health, maker of the Oura Ring, serving as its first CEO from 2013 to 2018.
Philipp Schröder
Philipp Schröder, born 1983 in Hamburg, is a German entrepreneur and co-founder and chief executive of 1komma5°, one of Europe's largest residential solar installers, after leading Tesla Germany and Sonnen.
Pieter Omvlee
Pieter Omvlee is a Dutch software developer who co-founded Sketch, the Mac-based user-interface design application, with designer Emanuel Sá and serves as its chief executive officer.
Piotr Dabkowski
Piotr Dabkowski (Piotr Dąbkowski) is a Polish technology entrepreneur who co-founded the AI voice company ElevenLabs in London in 2022 with Mateusz Staniszewski and leads its research and engineering.
planqc
planqc is a German quantum computing company in Garching near Munich, founded in 2022 by physicists from the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics to build neutral-atom quantum computers.
Pleo
Pleo is a Danish financial-technology company founded in Copenhagen in 2015 by Jeppe Rindom and Niccolo Perra, providing smart company cards and expense software to over 40,000 businesses across Europe.
Qonto
Qonto is a French fintech company providing online business accounts and financial-management software for SMEs and freelancers, founded in Paris in 2016 by Alexandre Prot and Steve Anavi.
Quadient
Quadient is a French multinational technology company headquartered in Paris, known as Neopost until 2019, that automates business communications, finance processes, mailing, and parcel delivery.
Raphaël Lescanne
Raphaël Lescanne is a French entrepreneur and quantum physicist who co-founded Alice & Bob in Paris in 2020, serving as chief technology officer of the cat-qubit company.
Remote
Remote is an HR and payroll software company founded in 2019 by Job van der Voort and Marcelo Lebre that acts as an employer of record for international hiring.
Richard Hadida
Richard Hadida is a business executive who co-founded the Stockholm-based live casino supplier Evolution AB in 2006, serving as its Executive Chairman and later Creative Director until 2018.
Richard Valtr
Richard Valtr is a Czech technology founder and former hotelier who founded Mews in Prague in 2012, a hotel software company valued at $2.5 billion in 2026.
RM plc
RM plc is a United Kingdom education technology company founded in Oxford in 1973 that supplies assessment software, IT services, and educational resources to schools and examination bodies.
Rob Runesson
Rob Runesson, also printed as Robert Runesson, is a Swedish video-game art director who co-founded Embark Studios in 2018 and served as its chief content officer until 2026.