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8x8 (company)
8x8, Inc. is an American software-as-a-service company providing cloud business communications, including contact center, unified communications, and communications APIs. It is headquartered in Campbell, California and trades on Nasdaq as EGHT.
Abhinav Chugh
Abhinav Chugh is an Indian technology entrepreneur, co-founder and CEO of Peoplebox.ai, a Y Combinator-backed talent and performance-management platform founded in Bangalore in 2018, which launched the AI interview software Nova in 2025.
AJ Loiacono
AJ Loiacono is a technology entrepreneur who co-founded Capital Rx, a New York-based pharmacy benefits technology company, in 2017; rebranded Judi Health in 2025, it was valued at $3.25 billion.
Alamin Uddin
Alamin Uddin is a software entrepreneur who co-founded NexHealth in 2017 with Waleed Asif, a San Francisco patient experience platform for dental and medical practices.
Alex Mans
Alex Mans, born Alexander Mans, is a Dutch entrepreneur based in the United States who founded the travel technology company FLYR in 2013 and leads it as chief executive officer.
Aneel Bhusri
Aneel Bhusri is an American software executive and venture investor who co-founded Workday with Dave Duffield in 2005 after a decade at PeopleSoft, and returned as CEO in 2026.
Brian Halligan
Brian Halligan is an American technology executive who co-founded HubSpot, the Cambridge, Massachusetts marketing software company, with Dharmesh Shah, and was its chief executive officer until September 2021.
Calendly
Calendly is a scheduling software platform founded in 2013 by Tope Awotona and headquartered in Atlanta, letting people share a booking link instead of emailing to arrange meetings.
Cerner
Cerner was a Kansas City healthcare IT company, co-founded by Neal Patterson and Clifford Illig, that became a leading hospital electronic health record vendor before Oracle acquired it in 2022.
Comverse Technology
Comverse Technology was a telecommunications software holding company supplying voice mail, fax, and messaging systems to telephone operators, known for the stock-options backdating scandal involving chief executive Kobi Alexander.
Constellation Software
Constellation Software is a Toronto-based company that permanently acquires vertical market software businesses. Founded by Mark Leonard in 1995, it has bought over 1,000 software companies.
Corel
Corel is a Canadian software company founded in 1985 by Michael Cowpland, known for CorelDRAW and WordPerfect; at its 1990s peak it was Canada's largest software developer.
Deepak Anchala
Deepak Anchala is a software entrepreneur and author of Idea to Exit, best known as co-founder and CEO of Slintel, a buyer-intent data company acquired by 6sense in 2021.
Dharmesh Shah
Dharmesh Shah is an American software entrepreneur who co-founded HubSpot in 2006 and serves as its Chief Technology Officer, after selling his earlier company Pyramid Digital Solutions to SunGard in 2005.
Dmytro Lider
Dmytro Lider, also written Dima Lider, is a Ukrainian software engineer who co-founded Grammarly in Kyiv in 2009, built its initial engineering team, and led language technology until 2025.
Dylan Field
Dylan Field is an American technology entrepreneur who co-founded the design software company Figma in 2012 with Evan Wallace and serves as its chief executive officer.
Facilio Inc
Facilio Inc is a New York-based software company founded in 2017 by former Zoho executive Prabhu Ramachandran, selling an AI-powered Connected CMMS platform for property operations used in over 25,000 buildings.
Figma (software company)
Figma, Inc. is a San Francisco software company founded in 2012 by Dylan Field and Evan Wallace, known for its browser-based collaborative design tool and its 2025 initial public offering.
i2 Technologies
i2 Technologies, commonly known as i2, was a Dallas supply chain management software company founded in 1988 by Sanjiv Sidhu and Ken Sharma, acquired by JDA Software in 2010.
Ironclad (software company)
Ironclad is a San Francisco software company selling AI-powered contract lifecycle management software, founded in 2014 by attorney Jason Boehmig and engineer Cai Wangwilt; it surpassed $200 million in annual recurring revenue in 2026.
Jack Kokko
Jack Kokko, born Jaakko Kokko, is a Finnish-born technology entrepreneur who co-founded AlphaSense in 2011 and leads the New York-based AI market-intelligence company as chief executive officer.
James Goodnight
James Goodnight, born in 1943, is an American software executive and statistician who co-founded SAS Institute in 1976 and has served as its CEO ever since.
Jason Boehmig
Jason Boehmig is an American technology founder and former corporate attorney who co-founded Ironclad, a San Francisco contract lifecycle management company, in 2014 and led it as CEO until 2025.
John Cullinane
John Cullinane is an American software entrepreneur who founded Cullinane Corporation, later Cullinet Software, in Massachusetts in 1968, the first software company listed on the New York Stock Exchange.
John Moores (BMC Software co-founder)
John Moores is an American software entrepreneur who founded BMC Software in Houston, Texas, in 1980, served as its first CEO, and later founded Peregrine Systems and JMI Equity.
Katrina Leslie
Katrina Leslie is an Australian technology founder and the founder and chairman of Swipejobs, a Dallas-based AI talent platform that made $1.3 billion in revenue in 2025.
Ken Sharma
Ken Sharma was an Indian-born American executive who co-founded the supply chain software company i2 Technologies in Dallas and served as its vice chairman until his death in 1999.
Kronos, Incorporated (software company)
Kronos, Incorporated was an American workforce-management software company founded by Mark S. Ain in Massachusetts in 1977, known for time-and-attendance systems; it merged into UKG in 2020.
Mark Leonard (Canadian businessman)
Mark Leonard is a Canadian business executive who founded Constellation Software in Toronto in 1995 and, called Canada's Warren Buffett, acquired over 1,000 software companies before resigning in 2025.
Mark S. Ain
Mark S. Ain (1943–2025) was an American software entrepreneur who founded Kronos Incorporated in 1977, led it as chief executive until 2005, and built it into a workforce management company.