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Konfío
Konfío, also known as Konfio, is a Mexican financial technology company founded in 2013 that lends digitally to small businesses, becoming a $1.3 billion unicorn in 2021.
Konrad Dantas
Konrad Dantas, known professionally as Kondzilla, is a Brazilian entrepreneur who founded KondZilla, the São Paulo entertainment company behind Brazil's largest YouTube music channel, and the Netflix series Sintonia.
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.
Kushki
Kushki is a Latin American payments technology company founded in 2017 by Aron Schwarzkopf and Sebastián Castro and headquartered in Quito, Ecuador. In 2022 it became Ecuador's first unicorn.
Ladi Delano
Ladi Delano, born in 1982, is a British-Nigerian entrepreneur who co-founded and co-leads Moove, the mobility fintech that reached a $2.1 billion valuation in 2026.
Laércio Cosentino
Laércio Cosentino is a Brazilian software entrepreneur, an electrical engineering graduate of the University of São Paulo, who founded Microsiga in 1983 and chairs TOTVS, Latin America's largest software company.
Lamia Merzouki
Lamia Merzouki is a Moroccan business executive, chief operating officer of Casablanca Finance City since 2010 and chair of the World Alliance of International Financial Centers since 2024.
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.
Leandro Torres
Leandro Torres is a Brazilian banking executive and co-founder of C6 Bank, the São Paulo digital bank founded in 2018 by former BTG Pactual partners, where he runs the brokerage.
Lendo
Lendo is a Saudi Arabian fintech company, founded in 2019 by Osama Alraee and Mohamed Jawabri, operating a Shariah-compliant debt crowdfunding marketplace that finances invoices for small and medium-sized businesses.
Lincoln Quirk
Lincoln Quirk is an American fintech entrepreneur who co-founded Sendwave, sold to WorldRemit for up to $500 million, and Wave, Francophone Africa's first unicorn, with Drew Durbin.
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.
Lionshare
Lionshare is a majority Black-owned investment holding company based in Johannesburg, South Africa, founded by Ike Cha (Isaac Chalumbira) and investing in real estate, fuel retail, transport, and energy.
Loggi
Loggi is a Brazilian logistics and delivery technology company founded in São Paulo in 2013 by Fabien Mendez and Arthur Debert, which intermediates freight between corporate clients and independent partner couriers.
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.
Loreanne Garcia Ottati
Loreanne Garcia Ottati is a Venezuelan businesswoman who co-founded Kavak, the Mexico City-based used-car platform that became Mexico's first unicorn, and served as Chief People Officer.
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.
Luciano Freitas
Luciano Freitas is a Brazilian entrepreneur and marketing executive who co-founded the São Paulo social-commerce marketplace Facily in 2018, after marketing roles at Uber and Airbnb.
Lucky Financial
Lucky, also branded Lucky ONE and Lucky Financial, is an Egyptian consumer fintech founded in Cairo in 2019, offering cashback, credit lines, and the Lucky One card.
Luiz Marcelo Calicchio
Luiz Marcelo Calicchio, known in the Brazilian financial market as Teco, is a banking executive and founding partner of C6 Bank, the digital bank launched in São Paulo in 2019.
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.
Maher Loubieh
Maher Loubieh (ماهر لوبية) is a Saudi-based fintech entrepreneur who co-founded Hala Payments, serving small businesses in Saudi Arabia, and became Group CEO of HALA in 2025.
Mahmoud Nouh
Mahmoud Nouh, also printed Mahmoud Noah, is an Egyptian technology entrepreneur who co-founded Swvl in 2017, served as COO until 2019, and later co-founded Capiter, a Cairo marketplace that collapsed in 2022.
Maijid Moujaled
Maijid Moujaled is a Ghanaian technology entrepreneur who co-founded Chipper Cash, a San Francisco-based cross-border payments company, in 2018 with Ham Serunjogi, and serves as its President.