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Gastón Taratuta

Gastón Taratuta is an Argentine entrepreneur who founded Aleph Group, a Miami-based digital-advertising intermediary, and in 2022 became the first Argentine named EY World Entrepreneur Of The Year.

Gaurav Biswas

Gaurav Biswas is an entrepreneur and the co-founder and chief executive of TruKKer, a digital freight platform often described as an "Uber for trucks," founded in 2016.

Gellért Jászai

Gellért Jászai is a Hungarian businessman who is Chairman and CEO of 4iG Plc, the Budapest-listed telecom, IT, space, and defense group, and its majority shareholder.

Georg Nemetschek

Georg Nemetschek, born in 1934, is a German engineer and software entrepreneur who founded the construction-software company Nemetschek SE as an engineering office in 1963.

Geraldo Thomaz

Geraldo Thomaz, full name Geraldo do Carmo Thomaz Júnior, is a Brazilian software entrepreneur who co-founded the e-commerce platform VTEX in Rio de Janeiro in 2000.

Gerry Giacoman Colyer

Gerry Giacoman Colyer is a Mexican technology entrepreneur and co-founder and CEO of Clara, the corporate spend-management fintech founded in Mexico City in 2020 that became Latin America's fastest unicorn.

Ghassab Al-Mandeel

Ghassab Al-Mandeel (غصاب المنديل) is a Saudi technology founder and co-founder and CEO of Jahez, a Riyadh-based food-delivery group that listed on Nomu in 2022 at a $2.4 billion valuation.

Gideon Tadmor

Gideon Tadmor is an Israeli oil and gas entrepreneur, founder and executive chairman of Navitas Petroleum, and a leader of Israel's Tamar and Leviathan gas discoveries.

Gil Shwed

Gil Shwed (גיל שווד) is an Israeli technology entrepreneur who co-founded Check Point Software in 1993, invented stateful inspection, and led the company as CEO until 2024.

Gilad Japhet

Gilad Japhet is an Israeli software entrepreneur who founded the genealogy company MyHeritage in 2003 and has led it as CEO, growing it to over 104 million users.

Gilion

Gilion, formerly known as Ark Kapital AB, is a Stockholm-based financial technology company founded in 2021 that provides non-dilutive growth loans and AI-based performance forecasting to European technology startups.

Giora Kaplan

Giora Kaplan is an Israeli software entrepreneur who co-founded Wix.com in Tel Aviv in 2006 with Avishai and Nadav Abrahami, serving as co-CEO and later CTO.

GITEX Global

GITEX Global is an annual technology and AI trade exhibition in Dubai, first held in 1981 as the Gulf Computer Exhibition and described as the world's largest tech and AI event.

Glowork

Glowork is a Riyadh-based Saudi recruitment organization founded in 2011 to place Saudi women in jobs, co-founded by Khalid Alkhudair and valued at US$32 million in 2013.

Golan Telecom

Golan Telecom is an Israeli low-cost mobile operator founded in 2012 by Michael Golan, whose flat-rate pricing triggered a price war; it has been part of Cellcom since 2020.

Goldenpeak

Goldenpeak is a London-based private equity firm founded in 2025 by Leon Gillespie and Mark Williams, specializing in high-growth B2B services in the UK and Ireland.

Gousto

Gousto is a British recipe-box delivery company founded by Timo Boldt in 2012, posting pre-portioned ingredients and recipes to subscribers; it became a unicorn in 2021.

Gracjan Polak

Gracjan Polak is a Polish software engineer who co-founded Scrive, the Stockholm-based electronic signing company, and served as its chief technology officer from 2010 to 2015.

Gregory Rockson

Gregory Rockson is a Ghanaian social entrepreneur who co-founded mPharma in Accra in 2013, led it as chief executive for about 12 years, and became its board chairman in 2025.

Grupo ABC (Brazilian advertising holding)

Grupo ABC was a São Paulo-based advertising and marketing holding founded in 2002 by Nizan Guanaes and Guga Valente, Brazil's largest, sold to Omnicom in 2015 for about R$ 1 billion.

Grupo SEB

Grupo SEB is a Brazilian private-education group founded in 1963 in Ribeirão Preto by businessman Chaim Zaher, split in 2026 into SEB Education and Z Participações.

Grzegorz Krysiak

Grzegorz Krysiak is a Polish technology executive who served as chief technology officer of ZnanyLekarz.pl, the Polish brand of DocPlanner, a Warsaw-founded doctor appointment booking platform that became the first Polish startup unicorn.

Guilherme Benchimol

Guilherme Benchimol is a Brazilian financial-services executive who co-founded the brokerage XP Investimentos in Porto Alegre in 2001, led it as chief executive until 2021, and took XP Inc. public on the Nasdaq in 2019.

Guillaume Desloges

Guillaume Desloges (born 1986) is a French fintech entrepreneur, co-founder and chief operating officer of Alma, the French installment-payment company founded in 2018 and headquartered in Neuilly-sur-Seine.

Guillaume Pousaz

Guillaume Pousaz is a Swiss entrepreneur who founded Checkout.com, a London-based digital payments company, in 2012, bootstrapped it for nearly a decade, and still controls about two-thirds of it.

Gundbert Scherf

Gundbert Scherf is a German technology executive who co-founded Helsing in Munich in 2021, a defense startup that raised $1.8 billion at an $18 billion valuation in 2026.

Gupy

Gupy is a Brazilian human-resources technology company founded in São Paulo in 2015 by Mariana Dias and three co-founders, selling AI-based recruitment and employee-lifecycle software to more than 4,000 enterprises.

Gur Shatz

Gur Shatz is an Israeli technology entrepreneur who co-founded Cato Networks in Tel Aviv in 2015 with Shlomo Kramer, after co-founding the cloud web security service Incapsula.

Gustavo Chamati

Gustavo Chamati is a Brazilian fintech entrepreneur who co-founded the cryptocurrency exchange Mercado Bitcoin in São Paulo in 2013 with his brother Maurício, later serving as CEO before joining the board of its holding company 2TM.

Habi

Habi is a Bogotá-based, data-driven residential real estate platform founded in 2019 that buys, renovates, and resells used homes in Colombia and Mexico, becoming a unicorn in 2022.