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Jim Ovia
Jim Ovia is a Nigerian banker who founded Zenith Bank in Lagos in 1990, led it for 20 years as CEO, and returned as chairman from 2014 to 2026.
Joachim Ante
Joachim Ante, known as Joe Ante, is a German programmer who co-founded Unity Technologies in Copenhagen in 2004 and served as its chief technology officer.
João Del Valle
João Del Valle is a Brazilian software engineer turned fintech entrepreneur, co-founder and CEO of EBANX, a cross-border payments company founded in Curitiba in 2012.
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.
Joel C. Rosenberg
Joel C. Rosenberg is an American-Israeli novelist and journalist who founded the Jerusalem-based news outlets All Israel News and All Arab News on September 1, 2020, and edits both.
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.
Jose Roberto Nogueira
José Roberto Nogueira, born 1965, is a Brazilian entrepreneur who founded Brisanet in 1998 in Pereiro, Ceará, and leads it as chief executive; the company listed on B3 in 2021.
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.
Joseph Magen
Joseph Magen is an Israeli high-tech and venture-capital professional who co-founded the Christian news outlet All Israel News in 2020, serving as chief operating officer until 2025.
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.
Jumia Nigeria
Jumia Nigeria is the Nigerian e-commerce marketplace of Jumia Technologies AG, a German-incorporated, NYSE-listed pan-African group launched in Lagos in 2012 under Rocket Internet's Africa Internet Holding.
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.
Kanayo Awani
Kanayo Awani is a banker serving as Executive Vice President, Intra-African Trade and Export Development, at Afreximbank, the first woman to reach vice-president level there.
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.
Karim Beguir
Karim Beguir is a Tunisian-British entrepreneur and mathematician who co-founded InstaDeep, Africa's biggest AI startup, in Tunis in 2014 and sold it to BioNTech in 2023.
Kavak
Kavak is a Mexico City-based e-commerce platform for buying, selling, financing, and servicing pre-owned cars, founded in 2016 by Venezuelan entrepreneurs and valued at US$8.7 billion in 2021.
Khalid Alkhudair
Khalid Waleed Al Khudair is a Saudi entrepreneur, founder and chief executive of Glowork, a Riyadh employment platform for Saudi women, and the first Saudi Ashoka Fellow.
Khalid Almunif
Khalid Almunif is a Saudi proptech and fintech entrepreneur who co-founded Ejari, a Riyadh rent-now-pay-later platform, in 2022, after five years at the Public Investment Fund.
Khalid Ashmawy
Khalid Ashmawy is an Egyptian entrepreneur and computer scientist who co-founded the Dubai property technology company Huspy in 2020 and founded the neobank Munify in January 2025.
Khazna Tech
Khazna Tech is an Egyptian financial technology company founded in Cairo in 2019 that provides payroll, lending, payments, and insurance services to unbanked Egyptians through a mobile super app.
Kitopi
Kitopi (كيتوبي), short for Kitchen Utopia, is a Dubai-based food technology and restaurant company founded in January 2018, which raised $415 million from SoftBank in 2021.
Koby Katz
Koby Katz (Yacob Katz) is an Israeli energy executive who co-founded Navitas Petroleum in 2015, after serving as Director General of Israel's energy ministry and Co-CEO of Delek Energy.
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.
KondZilla
KondZilla is a Brazilian media and entertainment holding company headquartered in São Paulo, founded by Konrad Dantas and built on funk music video channels on YouTube.