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Bambora
Bambora is a Stockholm-based payment service provider founded by Johan Tjärnberg in 2014 under Nordic Capital, sold to Ingenico Group in 2017 for about €1.5 billion.
Barney Hussey-Yeo
Barnaby Hussey-Yeo is a British entrepreneur who founded the AI financial assistant Cleo in 2016 after working as a data scientist at Wonga; it became a unicorn in 2025.
Belal El-Megharbel
Belal El-Megharbel, also written Belal El Megharbel, is an Egyptian technology entrepreneur, co-founder and CEO of MaxAB, a Cairo B2B e-commerce platform that merged with Kenya's Wasoko in 2024.
Ben Maruthappu
Ben (Mahiben) Maruthappu is a British doctor and founder and chief executive of Cera, a London home healthcare and health technology company founded in 2016 that became a unicorn in 2025.
Ben Peters
Ben Peters is a software entrepreneur who co-founded the Mexican cryptocurrency exchange Bitso in 2014, led its technology as Chief Technology Officer, and later co-founded djinni.ai in 2024.
Ben Stanway
Ben Stanway is a British fintech entrepreneur who co-founded the London savings-and-investing app Moneybox in 2015, serving as Co-CEO until becoming Executive Chair in 2024.
Bending Spoons
Bending Spoons is a technology company founded in 2013 and headquartered in Milan, Italy, that acquires and operates consumer digital products including Evernote, Meetup, WeTransfer, and Vimeo.
Benjamin Fernandes
Benjamin Fernandes is a Tanzanian fintech founder, a former TV presenter and Stanford MBA graduate, who co-founded NALA in 2016, a cross-border payments company for diaspora customers.
Bestinver Cameroun
Bestinver Cameroun, also known as Bestcam SA, is a Cameroonian holding company promoted by businessman Baba Ahmadou Danpullo that held 30% of Nexttel operator Viettel Cameroun.
Betterfly
Betterfly is a Chilean insurtech founded in 2018 in Santiago by brothers Eduardo and Cristóbal della Maggiora, whose employee benefits platform grew into a US$1 billion unicorn now headquartered in Miami.
Bitso
Bitso is a Latin American cryptocurrency exchange and financial services company founded in 2014 and headquartered in Mexico City, valued at $2.2 billion in 2021.
Bitvavo
Bitvavo is a cryptocurrency exchange based in Amsterdam, founded in 2018, with over 2 million users across Europe and a leading share of euro spot trading.
Björn Jeffery
Björn Jeffery is a Swedish entrepreneur who co-founded Toca Boca, the Stockholm maker of digital toys for children, and led it as chief executive from 2010 to 2017.
Blippar
Blippar is a London-based augmented reality technology company founded by Ambarish Mitra and Omar Tayeb, known for an app that unlocked digital content from objects and ads.
Boaz Dolev
Boaz Dolev (בועז דולב) is an Israeli cybersecurity executive who co-founded ClearSky Cyber Security in 2011 and leads it as CEO, known for Iranian hacking attribution research.
Boaz Golan
Boaz Golan (בועז גולן) is an Israeli journalist who founded the news site and app 0404 News in 2012, serving as its editor-in-chief and chief executive.
Boaz Gorodissky
Boaz Gorodissky is an Israeli technology executive and co-founder and CTO of XM Cyber, a cloud security company founded in 2016 with former Mossad director Tamir Pardo and sold to Germany's Schwarz Group in 2021.
Brent Hoberman
Brent Hoberman, born 1968, is a British entrepreneur who co-founded lastminute.com with Martha Lane Fox in 1998, sold it in 2005, and later founded Made.com and firstminute capital.
Brice Nkengsa
Brice Nkengsa is a software engineer and University of Waterloo graduate who co-founded Andela in Lagos, Nigeria in 2014, serving as the company's Director of Engineering.
Brisanet
Brisanet is a Brazilian fiber broadband and regional 5G operator founded in 1998 in Pereiro, Ceará, by José Roberto Nogueira, the Northeast's fixed-broadband leader and Brazil's fourth-largest provider.
Brynne McNulty Rojas
Brynne McNulty Rojas is an American businesswoman who co-founded Habi, a Bogotá-based real estate technology company, in 2019 and serves as its chief executive officer.
Buhle Goslar
Buhle Goslar is a South African fintech executive who served as JUMO's CEO for Africa and Pakistan from 2019 to 2023, and now chairs the neobank Lula.
Buscapé
Buscapé is a Brazilian online price-comparison and shopping platform founded in 1999 by four university students led by Romero Rodrigues, sold to Naspers for $342 million in 2009.
C6 Bank
C6 Bank is a Brazilian digital multiple bank headquartered in São Paulo, founded in 2018 by former BTG Pactual executives and licensed by the Central Bank of Brazil in 2019.
Cacau Show
Cacau Show is a Brazilian fine-chocolate franchise retailer founded by Alê Costa in 1988, headquartered in Itapevi, São Paulo, and Brazil's largest franchise network by store count since 2022.
Cafe Bazaar
Cafe Bazaar (کافه بازار) is Iran's largest Android app store, founded in January 2011 by Iranian university students and serving tens of millions of Persian-speaking users.
Cameron Borrett
Cameron Borrett is a German-based product manager and startup co-founder, credited as co-founder and Chief Product Officer of the Berlin climate fintech Cloover from 2022 to 2023, after senior product roles at Klarna.
Capitec Bank
Capitec Bank is a South African retail bank headquartered in Stellenbosch, founded by Michiel le Roux and other businessmen and listed in 2002, serving more than 26 million clients.
Carl-Erik Lagercrantz
Carl-Erik Lagercrantz is a Swedish entrepreneur and investor who co-founded the Stockholm firm Vargas with Harald Mix in 2014, building companies such as Northvolt, Stegra, Aira, and Syre.
Carlos García Ottati
Carlos García Ottati is a Venezuelan-born entrepreneur who founded the used-car marketplace Kavak in Mexico City in 2016, which became Mexico's first unicorn in 2020 and Latin America's most valuable startup by 2022.