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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.
Diane Greene
Diane Greene is an American software engineer and businesswoman who cofounded VMware in 1998, led it as CEO until 2008, and later ran Google Cloud from 2015 to 2019.
Dmitri Alperovitch
Dmitri Alperovitch is a Moscow-born American cybersecurity executive who co-founded CrowdStrike, was its chief technology officer until 2020, and now leads the Silverado Policy Accelerator.
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.
Docker (company)
Docker, Inc., originally dotCloud, is a Palo Alto company founded by Solomon Hykes that commercializes Docker container technology through Docker Desktop and Docker Hub subscriptions.
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.
Firebolt
Firebolt is an Israeli cloud data warehouse company founded in 2019 by three Sisense veterans, offering sub-second analytics on large datasets, valued at $1.4 billion in 2022.
Foxglove Technologies Inc.
Foxglove Technologies Inc. is a San Francisco software company founded in 2021 that builds visualization and data tools for robotics and physical AI, and created the open-source MCAP log format.
Gloo
Gloo is an American technology company, founded in 2013 in Boulder, Colorado, that builds software and AI tools for churches and faith-based organizations; it went public on the Nasdaq under symbol GLOO in 2025.
Grafana Labs
Grafana Labs is an American software company founded in 2014 by Raj Dutt, Torkel Ödegaard, and Anthony Woods to develop the Grafana open source observability platform.
Guillermo Rauch
Guillermo Rauch is an Argentine software engineer and cofounder and CEO of Vercel, the cloud platform behind Next.js, which he founded as ZEIT in 2015 after creating Socket.IO and Mongoose.
Halcyon (company)
Halcyon is an American cybersecurity company founded in 2021 and headquartered in Austin, Texas, whose anti-ransomware platform captures ransomware's encryption keys so files can be decrypted without paying.
HashiCorp
HashiCorp is a developer-tools company co-founded in 2012 by Mitchell Hashimoto and Armon Dadgar, known for Terraform, Vault, and Consul, and acquired by IBM in 2025.
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.
Illumio
Illumio is a privately held American cybersecurity company founded in 2013 by Andrew Rubin and PJ Kirner in Sunnyvale, California, best known for the Illumio Core microsegmentation platform.
Ingres; Illustra Information Technologies
Illustra Information Technologies was an Oakland, California database company founded by Michael Stonebraker in 1992 to commercialize Berkeley's POSTGRES, and was acquired by Informix in 1996 for about $400 million.
Instabug
Instabug, rebranded as Luciq.ai in September 2025, is a mobile SDK company providing AI-powered mobile observability, founded in Cairo by Omar Gabr and Moataz Soliman with dual headquarters in Cairo and San Francisco.
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.
Jane Helwig
Jane T. Helwig was one of the four co-founders of SAS Institute, the private software company incorporated in 1976, and co-authored A User's Guide to SAS-76.
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.
Jenny Chang
Jenny Chang (陳怡蓁) is a Taiwanese business executive who co-founded the Tokyo-headquartered cybersecurity company Trend Micro in 1988 with her husband Steve Chang and sister Eva Chen.
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.