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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.
John Sall
John Sall is an American software developer and businessman who co-founded SAS Institute in 1976, owns one-third of the analytics company, and founded and leads its JMP statistics subsidiary.
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.
Linode
Linode is a cloud infrastructure provider offering Linux virtual machines, founded by Christopher Aker in 2003 and acquired by Akamai Technologies in 2022 for about $900 million.
Mandiant
Mandiant is an American cybersecurity firm founded by Kevin Mandia in 2004, known for incident response, threat intelligence, and its 2013 APT1 report.
Marcel Birkner
Marcel Birkner is a software engineer who co-founded Dash0 in 2023, an observability company built on OpenTelemetry that reached a $1 billion valuation in 2026.
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.
Medidata
Medidata is a New York company founded in 1999 that provides cloud-based software for clinical trials, best known for Rave EDC and owned by Dassault Systèmes since 2019.
Michael Cowpland
Michael Cowpland is a British-born Canadian software entrepreneur who co-founded Mitel in 1973 and founded Corel of Ottawa, building CorelDRAW before resigning as CEO in 2000.
Michael Stonebraker
Michael Stonebraker is an American computer scientist who co-created the Ingres and Postgres database systems at Berkeley, founded a series of database companies, and won the 2014 Turing Award.
Michael Widenius
Michael (Monty) Widenius is a software engineer who co-created the MySQL database, co-founded MySQL AB, and later founded the MariaDB fork after leaving Sun Microsystems.
Microsoft Ignite
Microsoft Ignite is Microsoft's annual conference for enterprise customers, its largest event of the year, focused on AI, cloud, security, and data announcements; the 2026 edition runs November 17–20 in San Francisco.
Miel Donkers
Miel Donkers is a software engineer who co-founded Dash0, an OpenTelemetry-native observability platform founded in Germany in 2023 and headquartered in New York, where he has served as Principal Software Engineer since May 2023.
Mitchell Hashimoto
Mitchell Hashimoto is a software engineer and entrepreneur who co-founded HashiCorp in 2012, created the tools Vagrant and Terraform, and later built the Ghostty terminal emulator.
Mohammed AlMadani
Mohammed AlMadani, also written Mohammad Suhail Al Madani, is a Saudi entrepreneur who co-founded the education technology company Classera in 2012 and leads it as chief executive.
Neal Patterson
Neal Patterson (1949–2017) was an American business executive who co-founded the health IT company Cerner in 1979, built it to $4.7 billion in projected 2015 revenue, and led it until his death.
Nir Zuk
Nir Zuk (ניר צוק), born in Israel in 1971, is a cybersecurity entrepreneur who founded Palo Alto Networks in 2005 and pioneered the next-generation firewall.
Nitin Khanna
Nitin Khanna is an entrepreneur and investor, best known as co-founder of Saber Corp., a Portland, Oregon government software company sold to EDS in 2007.
Olivier Pomel
Olivier Pomel is a French-born technology executive who cofounded the cloud monitoring company Datadog in New York in 2010 with Alexis Lê-Quôc and has served as its CEO ever since.
Opplane
Opplane, Inc. is an enterprise software company in Santa Clara, California, founded by Mohan Trikha in 2018, building data modernization and governance products that help financial institutions deploy AI.
Parker Harris
Parker Harris is a software engineer who co-founded Salesforce in San Francisco in 1999 and has been the company's technical leader, including seven years as chief technology officer.
Peoplebox.ai
Peoplebox.ai is an AI-native talent-management software company founded in 2018 by Abhinav Chugh and Alagu Muthuraman, offering OKRs, performance reviews, and AI hiring to over 500 companies.
Peter Gassner
Peter Gassner is a software executive, the founder and chief executive officer of Veeva Systems, a cloud software company serving the global life sciences industry, founded in 2007.
Postman
Postman is a privately held software company founded in Bangalore, India in 2014 and headquartered in San Francisco that builds a collaboration platform for designing, testing, and documenting APIs.
Quip
Quip is a San Francisco productivity software company founded in 2012 by Bret Taylor and Kevin Gibbs, known for combining documents and chat, acquired by Salesforce in 2016.
Raghu Ravinutala
Raghu Ravinutala, born Raghavendra Kumar Ravinutala, is an Indian-born technology executive who co-founded Yellow.ai in 2016 and, as CEO, agreed in 2026 to take it public on Nasdaq.
Raj Neervannan
Raj Neervannan is an Indian-origin technology executive who co-founded AlphaSense, the New York market-intelligence company, with Jack Kokko in 2011 and serves as its Chief Technology Officer.