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Fabricio Bloisi

Fabricio Bloisi (Fabrício Bloisi) is a Brazilian technology entrepreneur who built iFood into Brazil's leading delivery platform and became Prosus and Naspers chief executive in 2024.

Facily

Facily is a Brazilian social commerce marketplace founded in 2018 in São Paulo by Diego Dzodan and two co-founders, selling discounted groceries through WhatsApp group buying and neighborhood pickup points.

Fahad Albedah

Fahad Albedah (فهد البداح) is a Saudi technology executive who co-founded Ejari, a Riyadh-based proptech offering Rent Now, Pay Later for residential rentals, and serves as its chief technology officer.

Fatma El Shenawy

Fatma El Shenawy is an Egyptian fintech executive who co-founded Khazna, a Cairo financial super app for underbanked workers, in 2019, and served as its chief strategy officer.

Fawry

Fawry (فوري) is an Egyptian banking technology and electronic payments company founded in 2008, led by chief executive Ashraf Sabry and listed on the Egyptian Exchange since 2019.

Felipe Delgado (entrepreneur)

Felipe Delgado is an entrepreneur who co-founded Merama, a Latin American e-commerce company, in December 2020; previously CEO of Beetmann Energy, he now serves as Merama's CFO and president.

Felipe Villamarín

Felipe Villamarín is a Colombian technology entrepreneur who co-founded Rappi in Bogotá in 2015 with Simón Borrero and Sebastián Mejía, after building the grocery app Grability; Rappi became Colombia's first technology unicorn.

Felix Ike

Felix Ike is a Nigerian software engineer who co-founded the payments company Moniepoint with Tosin Eniolorunda in 2015 as TeamApt and serves as its Chief Technology Officer.

FENECON GmbH

FENECON GmbH is a German manufacturer of battery energy storage systems for home, commercial, and grid-scale use, founded in 2011 and headquartered in Iggensbach, Lower Bavaria.

Ferdinand Dabitz

Ferdinand Dabitz is a German entrepreneur, co-founder and CEO of Augustus, a Berlin payments company founded in 2022 as Ivy that received conditional OCC approval for a US national clearing bank in 2026.

Fernanda Ribeiro

Fernanda Ribeiro is a Brazilian entrepreneur who cofounded the fintech Conta Black in São Paulo in 2017 with her husband Sérgio All, serving as its CEO since May 2023.

Filip Lilja

Filip Lilja (born 1982) is a Swedish technology founder who co-founded Einride, the electric and autonomous freight transport company, in Stockholm in 2016 with Robert Falck and Linnéa Kornehed.

Flattr

Flattr was a Swedish social micropayment service started by Pirate Bay co-founder Peter Sunde and Linus Olsson in 2010, letting users share a monthly budget among creators.

Flix

Flix, known to travelers as FlixBus, is a Munich-based travel-technology company founded in 2011 that sells long-distance bus and train tickets while partner companies operate the vehicles, including Greyhound.

FlixMobility GmbH

FlixMobility GmbH, registered as Flix SE since 2022, is a Munich-based mobility technology company founded in 2013 that runs FlixBus, FlixTrain, and Greyhound in 45 countries while partner companies own the vehicles.

Florian Fournier

Florian Fournier is a French technology entrepreneur who co-founded PayFit, a Paris-based cloud payroll and HR software company, in 2015, and later founded the defense startup Orasio in 2025.

Floward

Floward is an online flower and gifting e-commerce company founded in Kuwait in 2017 by Abdulaziz B. Al Loughani and Mohammed Al Arifi, now based in Saudi Arabia.

Flutterwave

Flutterwave is an African payments-technology company founded in 2016, headquartered in San Francisco with its main base in Lagos, which had processed over $40 billion in payments by 2026.

FNZ

FNZ is a global wealth-management platform provider founded in 2003 in Wellington, New Zealand, by Adrian Durham, serving over 650 financial institutions with US$2.5 trillion in assets on platform.

Foodics

Foodics is a Saudi Arabian restaurant technology and fintech company founded in Riyadh in 2014 by Ahmad AlZaini and Mosab AlOthmani, serving over 40,000 restaurant branches.

Francisco Padilla

Francisco de Jesús Padilla Sánchez is a Mexican technology entrepreneur who left Wall Street to co-found Konfío, a fintech lender to small businesses, in 2013.

Franco Lamping

Franco Lamping is a Brazilian software engineer and entrepreneur who co-founded the digital insurer 180 Seguros in São Paulo in 2020, after five years as a Nubank engineer.

Fredrik Hedberg

Fredrik Hedberg is a Swedish technology entrepreneur who co-founded the Stockholm open banking platform Tink in 2012, serving as its chief technology officer through Visa's €1.8 billion acquisition.

Fredrik Hjelm

Fredrik Hjelm is a Swedish entrepreneur who co-founded Voi Technology in Stockholm in 2018 and leads it as chief executive officer, steering the shared e-scooter operator to its first profitable year in 2024.

Fredrik Österberg

Fredrik Österberg (born 1970) is a Swedish businessman who co-founded Evolution AB, the Stockholm-based live-dealer casino supplier, in 2006 with Jens von Bahr and remains one of its largest owners.

Freelance Programmers

Freelance Programmers was a British software house founded by Stephanie Shirley in 1962 with £6, staffed almost entirely by women working from home; later called F International, FI Group, and Xansa.

Frete.com

Frete.com is a Brazilian digital road-freight marketplace and financial-services company formed in 2021 from CargoX, Fretebras, and FretePago, led by founder Federico Vega; it became a unicorn in November 2021.

Gabriel Braga

Gabriel Braga is a Brazilian technology entrepreneur, co-founder and CEO of QuintoAndar, a São Paulo rental platform he built with André Penha into Latin America's largest proptech.

Gabriel Lameirinhas

Gabriel Lameirinhas is a Brazilian computer engineer, educated at the Universidade de São Paulo, who co-founded the industrial technology company Tractian in 2019 and serves as its Co-CEO.

Gary Gallen

Gary Gallen is a British solicitor and entrepreneur, founder and chief executive of rradar, a technology-driven legal, insurance, and risk management group based in Hull, England.