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iMile Delivery
iMile Delivery is a Dubai-based logistics company founded in 2017 by Rita Huang Zhen that delivers parcels from Chinese sellers to the Middle East and beyond.
Improbable
Improbable is a British technology company founded in 2012 by Herman Narula and Rob Whitehead that builds software for large-scale virtual worlds, including SpatialOS and the MSquared metaverse network.
ingatlan.com Zrt.
ingatlan.com Zrt. is a 100 percent Hungarian-owned company operating ingatlan.com, Hungary's leading real estate listing portal, launched in March 1998 by Dávid Mészáros, who registered the domain in 1997.
Insider
Insider, since 2024 also branded Insider One, is a customer-engagement and marketing-technology company founded in Istanbul in 2012 by Hande Cilingir and five co-founders, now based in Singapore.
InstaDeep
InstaDeep is an artificial intelligence company founded in Tunis in 2014 by Karim Beguir and Zohra Slim, later headquartered in London and acquired by BioNTech in 2023.
Interswitch Group
Interswitch Group is a Nigerian digital payments and commerce company founded by Mitchell Elegbe in 2002, operating in 32 African countries and owning the Verve card scheme and Quickteller.
iROKOtv
iROKOtv is a subscription streaming service for Nollywood, Nigeria's film industry, founded by Jason Njoku, launched in 2011, and often called the "Netflix of Africa".
ironSource
ironSource was an Israeli business platform for the app economy, founded in Tel Aviv in 2010, which helped mobile app developers distribute, monetize, and analyze their apps.
Islam Shawky
Islam Shawky is an Egyptian technology entrepreneur who co-founded Paymob, a Cairo-based payments company serving over 350,000 merchants across five Middle East countries, in 2015.
Ismael Belkhayat
Ismael Belkhayat is a Moroccan technology entrepreneur, co-founder and chief executive of Chari, a Casablanca-based B2B e-commerce and fintech company he started with Sophia Alj in 2020, valued at $125 million by 2025.
Issuu
Issuu is a digital publishing platform that turns static documents into interactive online publications, founded in Copenhagen in 2006 and sold to Italy's Bending Spoons in 2024.
Iyinoluwa Aboyeji
Iyinoluwa Aboyeji, known as Iyin Aboyeji, is a Nigerian technology entrepreneur who co-founded Andela in 2014 and Flutterwave in 2016, and now invests through Future Africa.
iZettle
iZettle was a Swedish financial technology company founded in Stockholm in 2010 by Jacob de Geer and Magnus Nilsson, known for the first mini chip card reader.
Jaan Tallinn
Jaan Tallinn is an Estonian founding engineer of Skype and Kazaa who later invested in AI companies like DeepMind and Anthropic and co-founded the Future of Life Institute.
Jacob De Geer
Jacob De Geer is a Swedish entrepreneur and baron who co-founded the Stockholm mobile-payments company iZettle in 2010 and sold it to PayPal for $2.2 billion in 2018.
Jad Antoun
Jad Antoun is a Lebanese entrepreneur who co-founded the Dubai property technology company Huspy in 2020 and serves as its chief executive officer, expanding it into Spain.
Jad Sayegh
Jad Sayegh is a Lebanese entrepreneur who co-founded the investment platform Sarwa in 2017 with Mark Chahwan and Nadine Mezher, and serves as its chief technology officer in Abu Dhabi.
James Mwangi
James Mwangi, born 1962, is a Kenyan banker and Group CEO of Equity Group Holdings, which he led from a failing building society to a major African bank.
James North-Hearn
James North-Hearn is a British video game industry businessman who co-founded Sumo Digital in Sheffield in 2003, was its chief executive, and later led Foundation 9 Entertainment.
Janus Friis
Janus Friis is a technology entrepreneur who co-founded Skype with Niklas Zennström, sold to eBay in 2005 for about $2.6 billion, and later founded Rdio and co-founded Starship Technologies.
Jaroslaw Kutylowski
Jaroslaw "Jarek" Kutylowski is a Polish-born, Germany-raised computer scientist who founded the machine-translation company DeepL in Cologne in 2017 and has been its chief executive since 2019.
Jason Njoku
Jason Njoku (Jason Chukwuma Njoku) is a Nigerian entrepreneur who co-founded and leads iROKOtv, the Nollywood streaming platform often called the "Netflix of Africa", launched from the UK in 2011.
Jelle de Boer
Jelle de Boer is a Dutch entrepreneur who co-founded Bitvavo, the Amsterdam-based cryptocurrency exchange, in 2018 with Tim Baardse and Mark Nuvelstijn; it grew into the world's largest euro spot exchange.
Jenny Huldschiner
Jenny Elisabeth Huldschiner, born 1971, is a Stockholm-based games-industry executive who co-founded Embark Studios in 2018 with Patrick Söderlund, having been Electronic Arts' European communications chief, and serves on Embark's board.
Jens von Bahr
Jens von Bahr, born in 1971, is a Swedish businessman who co-founded the live-dealer casino supplier Evolution in 2006, led it as chief executive, and has chaired its board since 2016.
Jeppe Rindom
Jeppe Rindom is a Danish technology founder, co-founder and CEO of Pleo, a Copenhagen-based spend-management fintech founded in 2015 and valued at $4.7 billion in 2021.
Jérémy Caussade
Jérémy Caussade is a French aerospace engineer and glider pilot who co-founded the aircraft manufacturer Aura Aero in 2018 and serves as its president and chief executive.
Jeremy Hodara
Jeremy Hodara is a French entrepreneur and former McKinsey consultant who co-founded the pan-African e-commerce company Jumia in 2012, leading it as Co-CEO until stepping down in November 2022.
Jeune Afrique Media Group
Jeune Afrique Media Group is a privately held pan-African media and events company based in Paris, led by Amir Ben Yahmed, son of founder Béchir Ben Yahmed.
Jide Odunsi
Jide Odunsi is a British-born Nigerian entrepreneur who co-founded and co-leads Moove, the mobility-fintech company launched in Lagos in 2020 that finances vehicles for ride-hailing drivers.