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Piotr Dabkowski
Piotr Dabkowski (Piotr Dąbkowski) is a Polish technology entrepreneur who co-founded the AI voice company ElevenLabs in London in 2022 with Mateusz Staniszewski and leads its research and engineering.
Pismo
Pismo is a Brazilian cloud-native payments infrastructure company founded in São Paulo in 2016, providing card issuing and core banking processing, acquired by Visa for $1 billion in 2024.
planqc
planqc is a German quantum computing company in Garching near Munich, founded in 2022 by physicists from the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics to build neutral-atom quantum computers.
Pleo
Pleo is a Danish financial-technology company founded in Copenhagen in 2015 by Jeppe Rindom and Niccolo Perra, providing smart company cards and expense software to over 40,000 businesses across Europe.
Positivo Tecnologia
Positivo Tecnologia is a Brazilian technology company headquartered in Curitiba, founded in 1989 as Positivo Informática, that makes computers, servers, payment terminals, and education technology and provides IT services.
Postpay
Postpay is a buy now, pay later fintech founded in Dubai in 2019 by Tariq Sheikh and Dani Molina Carmona, offering interest-free installments in the UAE and Saudi Arabia.
Powermat Technologies
Powermat Technologies is an Israeli wireless-charging company founded by Ran Poliakine in 2006 and headquartered in Petah Tikva, Israel, whose patents are largely standard-essential to the Qi wireless-charging standard.
Pure Harvest Smart Farms
Pure Harvest Smart Farms is an Abu Dhabi agritech company founded in 2016 by Sky Kurtz and Robert Kupstas, growing vegetables in climate-controlled desert greenhouses.
Pyypl
Pyypl, pronounced "people," is a fintech company founded in 2017 by Antti Arponen and Phil Reynolds, offering prepaid cards and remittances without a bank account.
Q.ai
Q.ai, officially Q (Cue) Ltd., is an Israeli artificial intelligence startup founded in 2022 in Ramat Gan, acquired by Apple in 2026 for a reported $1.5–2 billion.
QI Tech (fintech)
QI Tech is a Brazilian financial-infrastructure fintech founded in 2018 in São Paulo, the first fintech licensed as a direct credit company and a securities distributor in Brazil.
Qonto
Qonto is a French fintech company providing online business accounts and financial-management software for SMEs and freelancers, founded in Paris in 2016 by Alexandre Prot and Steve Anavi.
Quadient
Quadient is a French multinational technology company headquartered in Paris, known as Neopost until 2019, that automates business communications, finance processes, mailing, and parcel delivery.
QuintoAndar
QuintoAndar is a Brazilian proptech company founded in 2012 by Gabriel Braga and André Penha that intermediates rentals, guarantees payment to landlords, and operates in six countries.
Rafael Vasto
Rafael Vasto is a Brazilian technology executive, co-founder and CEO of Daki, the São Paulo rapid grocery delivery company he founded in 2021 that became a unicorn valued at US$1.2 billion.
Rami Levy Communications
Rami Levy Communications is an Israeli mobile virtual network operator owned by the Rami Levy supermarket group, launched in Jerusalem in 2011, reselling Pelephone network capacity at discount prices.
Raphael Kofi Afaedor
Raphael Kofi Afaedor is a Ghanaian-born technology entrepreneur who co-founded the online retailer Jumia in Lagos in 2012, serving as its chief executive until January 2014.
Raphaël Lescanne
Raphaël Lescanne is a French entrepreneur and quantum physicist who co-founded Alice & Bob in Paris in 2020, serving as chief technology officer of the cat-qubit company.
Rappi
Rappi is a Colombian on-demand delivery and digital commerce company founded in Bogotá in 2015, operating a multi-service super-app across nine Latin American countries at a valuation above $5 billion.
Rapyd
Rapyd (ראפיד) is a fintech company founded in Israel in 2015 that lets businesses accept payments, send payouts, and issue cards in over 100 countries.
Remote
Remote is an HR and payroll software company founded in 2019 by Job van der Voort and Marcelo Lebre that acts as an employer of record for international hiring.
Renato Andrade
Renato Andrade is a Brazilian co-founder of Merama, a Latin American e-commerce brand holding company founded in 2020, and served as its CEO Brazil until 2025.
Retailo
Retailo is a B2B e-commerce and digital distribution marketplace headquartered in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, founded in July 2020 by three former Careem executives to supply small grocery shops and restaurants.
Riaan Stassen
Riaan Stassen is a South African banker who co-founded Capitec Bank and was its chief executive from 2004 to 2013, building it into a major retail bank.
Richard Hadida
Richard Hadida is a business executive who co-founded the Stockholm-based live casino supplier Evolution AB in 2006, serving as its Executive Chairman and later Creative Director until 2018.
Richard Valtr
Richard Valtr is a Czech technology founder and former hotelier who founded Mews in Prague in 2012, a hotel software company valued at $2.5 billion in 2026.
Ridhwan Khan
Ridhwan Khan is a South African entrepreneur who founded and leads Mobicel, a budget phone brand launched in 2007 and called South Africa's only successful domestic smartphone brand.
Riskified
Riskified is an Israeli-founded, NYSE-listed technology company, trading as RSKD since 2021, that reviews e-commerce orders and reimburses merchants for approved orders that turn out fraudulent.
Rita Huang Zhen
Rita Huang Zhen (黄珍) is a Chinese entrepreneur and former Huawei and Alibaba executive who founded iMile Delivery in Dubai in 2017, a logistics company covering 30 countries.
RM plc
RM plc is a United Kingdom education technology company founded in Oxford in 1973 that supplies assessment software, IT services, and educational resources to schools and examination bodies.