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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.

Opontia

Opontia was a Dubai-based e-commerce brand aggregator founded in 2021 by Philip Johnston and Manfred Meyer, acquiring brands across the Middle East, Africa, and Eastern Europe.

OrCam

OrCam is a Jerusalem-based computer-vision company founded in 2010 by Amnon Shashua and Ziv Aviram, the co-founders of Mobileye, that made wearable devices for blind users.

Osama AlRaee

Osama AlRaee is a Saudi entrepreneur who co-founded Lendo in 2019 and leads it as CEO; its Riyadh platform became the first SAMA-licensed Sharia-compliant debt crowdfunder in 2022.

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.

Oumar Rafiou Barry

Oumar Rafiou Barry is a Guinean fintech entrepreneur and founder and CEO of Cauridor, a cross-border payments company spun out of BNB Transfer Corp in 2022 that reported $500 million in payment volume in 2024.

Pablo González (Mexican entrepreneur)

Pablo González is a Mexican technology entrepreneur who co-founded the cryptocurrency exchange Bitso in 2014, serving as its first CEO and later Chief Design Officer until 2021.

Pagaleve

Pagaleve is a São Paulo fintech founded in 2021 by Henrique Weaver and Michael Greer that lets consumers pay in installments through Pix without a credit card.

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.

Paulo Alencastro

Paulo Alencastro is a Brazilian technology entrepreneur who co-founded the identity-verification company unico in São Paulo in 2007, Brazil's first idtech unicorn, valued at US$ 2.6 billion in 2022.

Paulo Veras

Paulo Veras is a Brazilian technology entrepreneur, co-founder and former chief executive of 99, the São Paulo ride-hailing company sold to DiDi in 2018 as Brazil's first unicorn.

Paymob

Paymob is a Cairo-based financial technology company founded in 2015 by Islam Shawky and two others, providing payment infrastructure for over 350,000 merchants across the Middle East.

Peak (game studio)

Peak Games is an Istanbul-based mobile gaming company founded by Sidar Şahin in 2010, known for Toy Blast and Toon Blast and acquired by Zynga in 2020.

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.

Perimeter 81

Perimeter 81 is an Israeli cloud and network security company founded in 2018 in Tel Aviv by Sagi Gidali and Amit Bareket, acquired by Check Point in 2023.

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.

Phil Reynolds

Phil Reynolds is an Australian technology finance executive who co-founded Pyypl, a UAE-based financial services platform for the unbanked, in 2017 with Antti Arponen, whom he met at Virgin Mobile Middle East and Africa.

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.

Pierpaolo Barbieri

Pierpaolo Barbieri is an Argentine entrepreneur and historian who founded the fintech Ualá in 2017, building it into a digital bank with over 11 million clients.

Pierre Saad

Pierre Saad is an Egyptian software engineer and entrepreneur, co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Trella, the Cairo-based digital freight marketplace serving Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and the UAE.

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.