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Econet Wireless

Econet Wireless is a Zimbabwean telecommunications and fintech group founded by Strive Masiyiwa after a five-year legal battle, operating the country's largest mobile network and the EcoCash platform with about 9 million users.

Eddy Maroun

Eddy Maroun (إيدي مارون) is a Lebanese entrepreneur who co-founded Anghami, the first music-streaming platform in the Middle East and North Africa, in 2012, and was its chief executive until 2024.

Eduardo Pontes

Eduardo Pontes is a Brazilian payments entrepreneur who co-founded the card-acquiring company Stone in Rio de Janeiro in 2012 and served as Vice Chairman of StoneCo's board.

Ehud Shabtai

Ehud Shabtai is an Israeli software engineer who founded the community mapping project FreeMap Israel in 2006 and co-founded Waze, the crowdsourced traffic and navigation app Google bought in 2013.

Einride

Einride is a Stockholm-based freight technology company, founded in 2016, that operates autonomous all-electric trucks and was the first to run a cabless heavy vehicle on public roads in Europe.

Ejari

Ejari is a Riyadh-based financial technology company founded in 2022 that offers rent-now-pay-later for residential rentals in Saudi Arabia, paying landlords up front and collecting monthly installments.

ekar

ekar is a Dubai-based car-sharing company founded in 2016 by Vilhelm Hedberg and Ravi Bhusari, pioneering free-floating, pay-per-minute car rental in the Gulf before expanding to Saudi Arabia in 2019.

Ekimetrics

Ekimetrics is a French data science and AI consulting firm founded in Paris in 2006, best known for marketing mix modeling, with over 500 experts on three continents.

Eldad Farkash

Eldad Farkash is an Israeli technology entrepreneur who co-founded Sisense and then Firebolt in 2019, a Tel Aviv cloud data warehouse company he led as chief executive.

Elektramat

Elektramat is a Dutch online electrical wholesaler and distribution-board specialist in Enschede, founded in 2006 by electrician Ruud Pierik, selling to the Benelux with next-day delivery.

Elie-Dan Mimouni

Elie-Dan Mimouni is a French physician and entrepreneur, co-founder and CEO of Medadom, a teleconsultation company founded in 2017 that has served more than 10 million patients.

Emerson de Lima

Emerson de Lima is a Brazilian technology entrepreneur, founder and chief executive of Sauter Digital, a cloud and AI consultancy founded in São Paulo in 2020.

Emil Ovemar

Emil Ovemar is a Swedish technology founder who co-founded Toca Boca, the Stockholm-based maker of digital toys for children, in 2010 and remains its head of studio.

Emmanuelle Martiano Rolland

Emmanuelle Martiano-Rolland is a French engineer and business strategist who co-founded Aqemia, a Paris-based AI drug-discovery company, in 2019 with Maximilien Levesque and serves as its chief operating officer.

Enter

Enter is a Brazilian artificial-intelligence legal-tech company founded in São Paulo in 2023 by Mateus Costa-Ribeiro, whose EnterOS platform automates mass litigation for companies like Nubank and Bradesco.

Epassi

Epassi is a Finnish fintech company, founded in 2007, providing a digital platform for non-taxable employee benefits, serving over 50,000 employers in ten European countries.

Epidemic Sound

Epidemic Sound is a Stockholm-based production-music company founded in 2009 that owns 100% of its catalog of over 50,000 tracks and licenses them directly to online creators through subscriptions.

Eran Zinman

Eran Zinman is an Israeli software entrepreneur who co-founded monday.com with Roy Mann in Tel Aviv in 2012, serving as CTO until 2020 and Co-CEO since.

Esam Al-Nahdi

Esam Alnahdi is a Saudi fintech entrepreneur who co-founded HALA, a Riyadh-based financial platform for small businesses that raised a $157 million Series B in 2025.

Esther Chibesa

Esther Chibesa is a pan-African banking executive who spent 25 years at Citi, rising to Managing Director and Treasury & Trade Solutions Head for Sub-Saharan Africa.

Esther Snyder

Esther Snyder was an American businesswoman who co-founded the In-N-Out Burger chain with her husband Harry Snyder in Baldwin Park, California, in 1948, and led the company as president until her death in 2006.

Etisalat Group

Etisalat Group, formally Emirates Telecommunications Group Company, is a telecommunications group founded in Abu Dhabi in 1976 and operating across the Middle East, Asia, Africa, and Europe.

Etraveli Group AB

Etraveli Group AB is a Swedish flight-booking and travel-technology company, founded in 2000, whose €1.63 billion sale to Booking Holdings was blocked by the EU.

Eyal Desheh

Eyal Desheh is an Israeli financial executive who served as CFO of Check Point Software (2000-2008) and Teva Pharmaceuticals (2008-2017), briefly acting as Teva's CEO, and chaired Isracard from 2017.

Eyal Shani

Eyal Shani, born in Jerusalem in 1959, is an Israeli chef and restaurateur known as the godfather of Israeli cuisine and founder of the Miznon pita chain.

Fabian Hedin

Fabian Hedin is a Swedish technology entrepreneur who co-founded Lovable in 2023 with Anton Osika and serves as its chief technology officer; Lovable is valued at $13.3 billion.

Fabien Mendez

Fabien Mendez is a French-born technology entrepreneur who co-founded Loggi, a São Paulo logistics company, in 2013 and led it until stepping down as CEO in 2022.

Fabien Raison

Fabien Raison is a French aerospace engineer and former Airbus pylon designer who co-founded the Toulouse aircraft maker AURA AERO in 2018, serving as its Chief Operations Officer.

Fábio Bacarin

Fábio Bacarin is a Brazilian entrepreneur and computer scientist who co-founded Contabilizei in Curitiba in 2013 with Vitor Torres, serving as the company's chief technology officer and board member.

Fábio Carrara

Fábio Carrara, full name Fabio Augusto Bredda Carrara, is a Brazilian engineer and entrepreneur, founder and CEO of Solfácil, the São Paulo fintech financing solar energy projects across Brazil.