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Tanmai Gopal

Tanmai Gopal is an Indian software engineer and entrepreneur who co-founded Hasura in 2017 and serves as its chief executive officer; Hasura became India's first open-source unicorn.

Thomas Fuchs

Thomas Fuchs is a computational pathologist who co-founded the cancer-diagnostics AI company Paige.AI, led computational pathology at Memorial Sloan Kettering, and joined Eli Lilly as its first chief AI officer.

Thomas Hartwig

Thomas Hartwig is a technology entrepreneur who co-founded King, the games company behind Candy Crush Saga, in 2003 and was its chief technology officer through its 2014 IPO.

Tim Ansell

Tim Ansell is a British video game programmer and entrepreneur who founded The Creative Assembly in Sussex, England, in 1987, the studio behind the Total War strategy series.

Tim Ellis (aerospace engineer)

Tim Ellis is an American aerospace engineer and entrepreneur who co-founded the rocket maker Relativity Space in 2016 and served as its chief executive until March 2025.

Toby Rowland

Toby Rowland is a British internet entrepreneur who co-founded King, the games company behind Candy Crush Saga, in 2003, and is the son of mining tycoon Tiny Rowland.

Todd Harris

Todd Harris is an American video game executive who co-founded Hi-Rez Studios in 2005, ran it as chief operating officer until 2019, and now leads Resurgens Gaming.

Todd McKinnon

Todd McKinnon is an American technology executive who co-founded Okta, the San Francisco identity and access management company, in 2009, took it public in 2017, and remains its CEO.

Tom Jenkins (Canadian businessman)

Tom Jenkins is a Canadian technology executive who was CEO of OpenText from 1994 to 2005, has chaired its board since 1998, and returned as Executive Chair in 2025.

Tom Sercu

Tom Sercu is a Belgian-trained AI researcher who co-led the protein team at Meta AI, building the ESM protein language models, then co-founded EvolutionaryScale in 2023.

Tope Awotona

Tope Awotona is a Nigerian-born software entrepreneur who founded Calendly in Atlanta in 2013, funding it with his life savings; a 2021 round valued it at over $3 billion.

Trellix Corporation

Trellix Corporation was a Concord, Massachusetts software company founded in 1995 by VisiCalc co-creator Dan Bricklin, supplying private-label web site publishing tools and acquired by Interland in 2003.

Troy Molander

Troy Molander is an American video-game industry executive who co-founded Telltale Games in October 2004 with Dan Connors and Kevin Bruner, after directing LucasArts' Technical Art Department.

Troy Worrell

Troy Worrell is a software developer and video-game executive who co-founded Interplay Productions in Irvine, California, in 1983, helping grow it from four people to more than 500 employees before leaving in 1999.

Uri Kolodny

Uri Kolodny is a technology entrepreneur and three-time founder who co-founded StarkWare in 2018, commercializing STARK zero-knowledge proofs for scaling Ethereum, and served as its chief executive until January 2024.

Varonis Systems

Varonis Systems is an American data security software company, founded in 2005 by Yaki Faitelson and Ohad Korkus and headquartered in Miami, Florida, known for its Data Security Platform.

Veeva Systems

Veeva Systems is an American software company selling cloud software to the life sciences industry, co-founded by Peter Gassner in 2007 and listed on the NYSE as VEEV.

Venky Harinarayan

Venky Harinarayan (Venkata Harinarayan) is a technology entrepreneur and investor who co-founded Junglee, sold to Amazon in 1998, and Kosmix, acquired by Walmart in 2011 to seed @WalmartLabs.

Vercel

Vercel is an American cloud platform for building and deploying web applications, founded in 2015 by Guillermo Rauch and known as the creator of the open-source Next.js framework.

Vladimir Tenev

Vladimir Tenev, known as Vlad Tenev (Владимир Тенев), is a Bulgarian-born American entrepreneur who co-founded Robinhood in 2013 and is its Chairman, CEO, and President.

W. Randall Jones

W. Randall Jones is an American magazine executive, author, and entrepreneur who founded Worth magazine in 1991, led it until 2003, and wrote The Richest Man in Town.

Waleed Asif

Waleed Asif is a technology entrepreneur who co-founded NexHealth, a San Francisco patient-experience platform for healthcare and dental practices, in 2017 with Alamin Uddin; it reached a $1 billion valuation in 2022.

Walter Driver

Walter Driver is an American gaming executive who co-founded the mobile games company Scopely in Culver City, California in 2011 and leads it as co-CEO and chairman.

Wendy Cai-Lee

Wendy Cai-Lee is an American banker who founded Piermont Bank, a digital commercial bank in New York that opened in 2019, and is described as the first Asian American woman to launch a US commercial bank.

Wilfried Dufaud

Wilfried Dufaud is a French aerospace engineer who spent 2000 to 2016 in Airbus structures work before co-founding the aircraft manufacturer AURA AERO in Toulouse in 2018.

Will Marshall

Will Marshall is a physicist and former NASA scientist who co-founded the Earth-observation satellite company Planet Labs in 2010 and has served as its CEO since 2011.

William Beauchamp (technology founder)

William Beauchamp is a technology founder, CEO of Chai AI, a consumer AI chat company he started in Cambridge in 2020 and moved to Palo Alto in 2022.

Wiz

Wiz is a cloud security company founded in Tel Aviv in 2020 and headquartered in New York, whose agentless platform scans cloud environments for vulnerabilities and misconfigurations.

Workday

Workday is an American enterprise cloud software company, co-founded in 2005 by Dave Duffield and Aneel Bhusri, that sells human capital management and financial applications on subscription from Pleasanton, California.

World Wide Technology

World Wide Technology is a privately held technology solutions provider and systems integrator in St. Louis, Missouri, co-founded in 1990 by David Steward and Jim Kavanaugh.