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Tradeshift

Tradeshift is a San Francisco fintech company founded in 2010 by a Danish team that operates a cloud-based network for e-invoicing, compliance, and supply chain payments.

Trella

Trella is a Cairo-based digital trucking marketplace founded in 2019 by Omar Hagrass and three others, connecting shippers with carriers, operating in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE.

TruKKer

TruKKer is a digital freight platform, founded in 2016 by Gaurav Biswas, connecting businesses with independent truck owners across the Middle East and Central Asia.

Trustly

Trustly is a Swedish open-banking payments company, founded in Stockholm in 2008, that lets consumers pay merchants directly from their bank accounts instead of by card.

Tsung-Hsien Wen

Tsung-Hsien Wen, known as Shawn Wen, is a Taiwanese technologist who co-founded the London voice AI company PolyAI in 2017 and serves as its chief technology officer.

Tunde Kehinde

Tunde Kehinde is a Nigerian technology entrepreneur based in Lagos who co-founded Jumia Nigeria in 2012 and led the small-business lending fintech Lidya until 2024.

Turki Bin Zarah

Turki Bin Zarah is a Saudi fintech executive who co-founded the Riyadh-based buy-now-pay-later company Tamara in 2020 with Abdulmajeed Alsukhan and Abdulmohsen Albabtain, serving as its chief operating officer.

Tyme Group

Tyme Group is a Singapore-headquartered digital banking group founded in 2012 that runs branchless banks in South Africa and the Philippines, serving more than 23 million customers.

TymeGroup

TymeGroup is a Singapore-headquartered digital banking group founded in 2012 by Coen Jonker and Tjaart van der Walt, operating TymeBank in South Africa and GoTyme in the Philippines.

Ualá

Ualá is an Argentine fintech company founded in 2017 by Pierpaolo Barbieri and based in Buenos Aires, serving more than 11 million clients in Argentina, Mexico, and Colombia.

unico

Unico, formerly Acesso Digital, is a Brazilian identity-verification company founded in 2007 in São Paulo, offering facial biometrics and fraud prevention, and became Brazil's first IDTech unicorn in 2021.

Unifonic

Unifonic is a Saudi Arabian customer engagement and CPaaS company founded in 2006 and headquartered in Riyadh, letting enterprises reach customers over SMS, WhatsApp, and voice.

UrbanChain

UrbanChain is a Manchester-based energy technology company founded in 2017 that operates an Ofgem-licensed marketplace matching renewable generators directly with consumers on a half-hourly basis.

Uri Levine

Uri Levine (אורי לוין) is an Israeli serial entrepreneur who co-founded Waze, sold to Google in 2013 for about $1.1 billion, and later backed Moovit, acquired by Intel in 2020.

Vargas Holding; co-founder of Stegra

Vargas Holding is a Stockholm-based company-builder and incubator founded in 2014 by Carl-Erik Lagercrantz and Harald Mix, known for building Stegra, Northvolt, Aira, and Syre.

Vector Informatik

Vector Informatik is a privately held German software company headquartered in Stuttgart, founded in 1988, that develops tools and embedded software for networked automotive electronics, with over 4,500 employees and about €1.01 billion in 2024 sales.

Victor Jacobsson

Victor Jacobsson is a Swedish entrepreneur who co-founded the buy-now-pay-later company Klarna in Stockholm in 2005 and served as its chief financial officer until 2012.

Victor Riparbelli

Victor Riparbelli is a Danish technology entrepreneur who co-founded Synthesia in 2017, the London AI video platform he leads as CEO, valued at $4 billion in 2026.

Vimal Shah

Vimal Shah is a Kenyan industrialist, born in Nyeri in 1960, who co-founded Bidco Africa, the Thika-based maker of edible oils and soaps, and led it as chief executive until 2017.

Vitor Torres

Vitor Torres is a Brazilian entrepreneur, founder and CEO of Contabilizei, an online accounting platform founded in 2013 in Curitiba that grew to about 100,000 clients and US$225 million in funding.

Vitor Zaninotto

Vitor Zaninotto is a Brazilian technology entrepreneur and former SAP consultant who co-founded the São Paulo social commerce platform Facily in 2018, serving as its chief technology officer.

Vlad Yatsenko

Vlad Yatsenko (Влад Яценко; Vladyslav Yatsenko) is a British software engineer who co-founded the fintech company Revolut in 2014 and served as its chief technology officer.

Voltalis

Voltalis is a French energy company, created in 2006 and headquartered in Paris, that installs free connected thermostats and sells aggregated demand-response flexibility to grid operators.

Voodoo

Voodoo is a Paris-based mobile games and apps publisher founded in 2013 by Alexandre Yazdi and Laurent Ritter, known for Helix Jump, Paper.io, and the photo-sharing app BeReal.

Wagner Ruiz

Wagner Alexis Ruiz is a Brazilian technology entrepreneur who co-founded the cross-border payments company EBANX in Curitiba in 2012, later serving as chief financial officer and chief risk officer.

Watergen

Watergen is an Israeli company founded in 2009 by former IDF officer Arye Kohavi that makes drinking water from air, with deployments in more than 90 countries as of 2025.

Wildlife Studios

Wildlife Studios is a Brazilian mobile game developer founded in São Paulo in 2011 by brothers Victor and Arthur Lazarte, creator of Sniper 3D and Zooba.

Wise Up

Wise Up is a Brazilian chain of English-language schools for adults, founded in Rio de Janeiro in 1995 by entrepreneur Flávio Augusto da Silva and grown through franchising.

Wix

Wix is an Israeli software company whose cloud platform lets users build websites through free and paid subscriptions. It was founded in 2006 and listed on Nasdaq in 2013.

Wouter Draijer

Wouter Draijer is a Dutch engineer who co-founded SolarMente, a Barcelona company selling rooftop solar by monthly subscription, and served as its CEO from 2019 until 2025.