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Hala

Hala, formerly known as HalalaH, is a Riyadh-based financial technology company founded by Esam Alnahdi and Maher Loubieh that provides banking, payments, and financing services to Saudi SMEs.

Ham Serunjogi

Ham Serunjogi is a Ugandan entrepreneur who co-founded the cross-border payments company Chipper Cash in 2018 and leads it as chief executive from San Francisco, California.

Hamid Mohammadi

Hamid Mohammadi (حمید محمدی) is an Iranian entrepreneur who co-founded Digikala in Tehran in 2006 with his twin brother Saeid, serving as its chief executive until November 2023.

Hande Cilingir

Hande Çilingir is a Turkish technology executive who co-founded the customer engagement software company Insider, now Insider One, in 2012 and has served as its chief executive officer since.

Hanno Renner

Hanno Renner is a German technology entrepreneur who co-founded Personio, a Munich-based HR software provider for small and mid-sized companies, in 2015 and serves as its chief executive officer.

Hans Steinbichler

Hans Steinbichler is a German pioneer in laser and optical metrology who co-founded the industrial 3D printing company EOS GmbH with Hans J. Langer in 1989.

Harald Mix

Harald Mix is a Swedish private equity investor based in Stockholm who co-founded Industri Kapital and Altor and backed Northvolt and green steel company Stegra through Vargas Holding.

Hardy Pemhiwa

Hardy Pemhiwa is a technology executive serving as President and Group CEO of Cassava Technologies, a UK-headquartered pan-African digital infrastructure group, after six years leading Econet.

Hassan Hamdan (Saudi entrepreneur)

Hassan Hamdan is a Saudi entrepreneur who co-founded Unifonic, a Riyadh-based customer engagement platform, in 2006 with his brother Ahmed, serving as its chief technology officer.

Hasso Plattner

Hasso Plattner, born 1944 in Berlin, is a German software entrepreneur who co-founded SAP in 1972, served as co-CEO, and chaired its Supervisory Board until 2024.

Helmut Schelling

Helmut Schelling is a German electrical engineer who co-founded Vector Informatik in 1988 near Stuttgart, growing it into an automotive software firm with over 4,500 employees.

Henrik Landgren

Henrik Landgren is a Swedish technology executive who co-founded the Stockholm AI lending firm Gilion in 2021, after serving as Spotify's first VP of analytics.

Henrique Weaver

Henrique Weaver is a Brazilian fintech entrepreneur and co-founder and CEO of Pagaleve, founded in 2021, whose Pix installment payments reached US$100 million in annualized revenue by 2026.

Herman Narula

Herman Narula, born 1988, is a British technology founder and CEO who co-founded Improbable in 2012, a London virtual worlds company valued above $1 billion after a SoftBank investment in 2017.

Hessam Armandehi

Hessam Armandehi (حسام آرمندهی) is an Iranian technology entrepreneur who co-founded Cafe Bazaar, the Tehran-based Android app store, with Reza Mohammadi, and originated the Divar classifieds platform.

Hillel Kobrinsky

Hillel Kobrinsky is an Israeli technology entrepreneur who founded web-conferencing company Interwise, sold to AT&T in 2007, and co-founded DriveNets, a networking software company, in 2015.

Hjalmar Nilsonne

Hjalmar Nilsonne (born 1986) is a Swedish engineer and entrepreneur, co-founder and CEO of Neko Health, the Stockholm health-scanning company he started with Daniel Ek in 2018.

Hjalmar Winbladh

Hjalmar Winbladh is a Swedish technology entrepreneur who co-founded the music-licensing platform Epidemic Sound in Stockholm in 2009 and was nominated as its Chairperson in 2025.

Hosam Arab

Hosam Arab is a technology entrepreneur, co-founder and chief executive of Tabby, the buy-now-pay-later fintech he launched in Dubai in 2019 that became the Middle East's most valuable fintech, after co-founding Namshi.

Hot Sale (shopping event)

Hot Sale is an annual online discount shopping event in Latin America, launched in Mexico in 2014 by AMVO and held mainly in late May and early June.

Hotmart

Hotmart is a marketplace for digital products founded in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, in 2011 by João Pedro Resende and Mateus Bicalho, now headquartered in Amsterdam.

Hublo

Hublo is a French healthtech company, created in 2016 and formed by the 2020 merger of Whoog and medGo, whose platform serves 6,000 establishments with 1.2 million daily care-worker users.

HungerStation

HungerStation is a Saudi online food-ordering and delivery platform founded in 2012 by Ebrahim Al-Jassim, based in Riyadh, owned by Delivery Hero, and transferring to Uber.

HungerStation.com

HungerStation (هنقرستيشن) is a Saudi Arabian food, grocery, and pharmacy delivery platform founded in 2012 in Dammam by Ebrahim Al-Jassim, wholly owned by Delivery Hero since 2023 and operating in about 100 cities.

Huspy

Huspy is a Dubai-based property technology company, founded in 2020 by Jad Antoun and Khalid Ashmawy, that helps people buy homes and arrange mortgages in the UAE and Spain.

Ian Carnevale

Ian Carnevale is a Canadian technology founder who co-founded Andela in 2014, the talent company that began in Lagos placing Nigerian developers with global firms.

Idrissa Nassa

Idrissa Nassa is a Burkinabè businessman, founder of Coris Bank International, which opened in Ouagadougou in 2008 and grew into a leading West African banking group.

iFood

iFood is a Brazilian online food-delivery platform founded in São Paulo in 2011, the largest in Latin America and wholly owned by Prosus since 2022.

Igor Marinelli

Igor Marinelli is a Brazilian entrepreneur, co-founder and CEO of TRACTIAN, an industrial technology company founded in São Paulo in 2019 that applies sensors, software, and artificial intelligence to machine maintenance.

Ilkka Paananen

Ilkka Paananen is a Finnish gaming executive who co-founded Supercell in 2010 and leads it as CEO; its games include Clash of Clans, Clash Royale, and Brawl Stars.