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Stina Ehrensvärd

Stina Ehrensvärd is a Swedish entrepreneur who co-founded Yubico in Stockholm in 2007, co-invented the YubiKey, and led the company as chief executive for sixteen years.

StoneCo

StoneCo, known as Stone, is a Brazilian payments fintech founded in 2012 in Rio de Janeiro by André Street and Eduardo Pontes, listed on Nasdaq since 2018.

Sultan AlAsmi

Sultan AlAsmi is a Saudi entrepreneur who co-founded Zid, a Riyadh-based e-commerce enablement platform for retailers, in 2017, and led it as chief executive from December 2017 to June 2025.

Sune Theodorsen

Sune Theodorsen, born 1980, is a Danish entrepreneur who co-founded LifeX, a Copenhagen coliving company renting furnished rooms across European cities, in 2017 with Ritu Jain.

Sven Perkmann

Sven Perkmann, born 1987, is a Swedish-based technology executive who co-founded Anyfin, the Stockholm consumer-loan refinancing fintech, in 2017, and was its chief technology officer until 2022.

Swile

Swile is a French fintech company, founded by Loïc Soubeyrand and headquartered in Montpellier, providing a smart card and app for employee benefits like meal vouchers.

Swvl

Swvl is a technology-enabled mass transit company founded in Cairo, Egypt in 2017 by Mostafa Kandil, Mahmoud Nouh, and Ahmed Sabbah, now headquartered in Dubai.

Taavet Hinrikus

Taavet Hinrikus, born 1981 in Tartu, Estonia, is an investor who co-founded the payments company Wise, led it as chief executive, and was Skype's first-ever employee.

Tabby

Tabby (تابي) is a financial services app built around buy now, pay later installments, founded in Dubai in 2019 by Hosam Arab and Daniil Barkalov.

Tal Feld

Tal Feld is an Israeli technology founder who co-founded Echo, a Y Combinator Winter 2023 company in Haifa that built an AI sales co-pilot for B2B founders.

Tamara

Tamara is a Saudi Arabian financial technology company headquartered in Riyadh that provides Sharia-compliant buy-now-pay-later installment payments; founded in 2020, it became Saudi Arabia's first homegrown fintech unicorn in 2023.

Tamir Pardo

Tamir Pardo is an Israeli former Mossad director, leading the intelligence agency from 2011 to 2016, who co-founded cybersecurity firm XM Cyber, majority-sold to Germany's Schwarz Group in 2021 at a reported $700 million.

Tarun Shah

Tarun Shah is a Kenyan business executive who co-founded Bidco Africa, the Thika-based consumer-goods manufacturer, and holds an equal one-third share with his father and brother.

The Access Group

The Access Group is a British provider of business management software for mid-market organizations, founded in 1991 and headquartered in Loughborough, England, with over 160,000 customers.

Théau Peronnin

Théau Peronnin is a French physicist and entrepreneur who co-founded Alice & Bob in 2020 and serves as its chief executive officer, building fault-tolerant quantum computers around cat qubits.

ThetaRay

ThetaRay is a software company selling AI-based anti-money-laundering tools to banks and payment companies. Founded in 2013 by mathematicians Amir Averbuch and Ronald Coifman, it operates in over 40 countries.

Thomas Pischke

Thomas Pischke is a German fintech entrepreneur who co-founded the Berlin brokerage Trade Republic in 2015 and serves as a managing director of Trade Republic Bank GmbH.

Tiago Dalvi

Tiago de Angeli Dalvi is a Brazilian entrepreneur, founder and chief executive of Olist, the Curitiba-based commerce company for small retailers that reached a $1.5 billion valuation in 2021.

Tiendanube

Tiendanube, known in Brazil as Nuvemshop, is an Argentine e-commerce software company founded in Buenos Aires in 2011, serving more than 180,000 online stores across Latin America.

Tim Baardse

Tim Baardse (born 1994) is a Dutch computer scientist who co-founded Bitvavo, the Amsterdam-based cryptocurrency exchange, in 2018 and left its board in 2021 while remaining a shareholder valued at 170 million euros.

Timo Boldt

Timo Boldt is a German-born entrepreneur, founder and chief executive of the UK meal kit company Gousto, which he started in 2012 after leaving London finance.

Tink (open banking platform)

Tink is a Stockholm-based open banking platform founded in 2012 that lets banks, fintechs, and merchants access account data and initiate payments through a single API, and it has been wholly owned by Visa since 2022.

Tjaart van der Walt

Tjaart van der Walt is a South African engineer and fintech entrepreneur who co-founded Tyme in 2012, the company behind TymeBank and GoTyme Bank in the Philippines.

Tobias Rieker

Tobias Rieker is a German software entrepreneur who co-founded MARKT-PILOT in 2020 and led it as chief executive until 2024, raising €40 million in Series A funding.

Tom Blomfield

Tom Blomfield is a British fintech entrepreneur who co-founded GoCardless in 2011 and the challenger bank Monzo in 2015, later joining Y Combinator as a group partner.

Toran Bruce Richards

Toran Bruce Richards (born 1998) is a British software developer and entrepreneur who created AutoGPT in 2023, an open-source AI agent that became one of GitHub's most-starred repositories.

Torsten Reil

Torsten Reil is a German entrepreneur who co-founded the defense AI company Helsing and earlier founded the games studio NaturalMotion, sold to Zynga in 2014.

Tosin Eniolorunda

Tosin Eniolorunda is a Nigerian technology entrepreneur who co-founded the fintech Moniepoint, formerly TeamApt, in 2015 and serves as its group CEO, leading it to unicorn status in 2024.

Totvs

Totvs is a Brazilian enterprise software company headquartered in São Paulo, founded in 1983, the largest management-software company in Latin America, serving more than 70,000 customers in over 40 countries.

Trade Republic

Trade Republic is a Berlin-based online broker and full bank founded in 2015, with over 10 million customers, €150 billion in assets, and a €12.5 billion valuation.