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David Crane (video game designer)
David Crane is an American video game designer who co-founded Activision in 1979, the first independent game publisher, and designed Pitfall!, which sold over 4 million copies.
David Helgason
David Helgason is an Iceland-born entrepreneur who co-founded the game-engine company Unity Technologies in Copenhagen in 2004, led it as CEO until 2014, and later became a climate-focused venture investor.
David Klimstra
David Klimstra is an American pathologist specializing in gastrointestinal tumors who chaired pathology at Memorial Sloan Kettering for ten years and co-founded the AI company Paige.
David Silin
David Silin is an American software engineer and entrepreneur who co-founded QuillBot, the Chicago-based AI writing company, with Anil Jason and Rohan Gupta, and serves as its Chief Science Officer.
Deel
Deel is a global HR and payroll platform founded in 2019 by Alex Bouaziz and Shuo Wang, letting companies hire and pay workers in over 150 countries.
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.
Didier Malenfant
Didier Malenfant is an American-based video game developer who co-founded Ready At Dawn Studios in California in 2003, after working as a senior programmer at Naughty Dog.
Digital Currency Group (crypto holding company)
Digital Currency Group (DCG) is an American crypto holding company founded by Barry Silbert in 2015, headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut, and owner of Grayscale, Foundry, and Luno.
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.
Dmitriy Karpman
Dmitriy Karpman is the co-founder and chief technology officer of Hive AI, a San Francisco artificial intelligence company he started with Kevin Guo in 2017 after leaving a Stanford doctoral program.
Dmytro Dzhulgakov
Dmytro Dzhulgakov is a Ukrainian-born software engineer who co-founded the AI inference company Fireworks AI in 2022 and serves as its CTO, after more than a decade at Meta leading PyTorch.
Dmytro Ivchenko
Dmytro Ivchenko is a Ukrainian software engineer who co-founded Fireworks AI, a San Mateo company for generative AI inference, in 2022, and earlier authored TorchRec at Meta.
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.
Douwe Kiela
Douwe Kiela is an AI researcher and entrepreneur, co-founder and former CEO of Contextual AI in Mountain View, who joined Google DeepMind in 2026 after leading the Meta team that introduced retrieval-augmented generation.
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.
Eido Gal
Eido Gal is an Israeli technology entrepreneur who co-founded Riskified, an e-commerce fraud prevention company, and serves as its Chairman and CEO, leading it to a $3.3 billion IPO in 2021.
Eli Ben-Sasson
Eli Ben-Sasson (אלי בן-ששון) is an Israeli computer scientist who co-invented the STARK, FRI, and Zerocash protocols, co-founded StarkWare in 2018, and has been its CEO since 2024.
Erez Goren
Erez Goren is an American technology entrepreneur who founded the video game developer Hi-Rez Studios in Georgia in 2005 after selling his point-of-sale software company Radiant Systems.
Eric Glyman
Eric Glyman is an American entrepreneur who cofounded the New York corporate card company Ramp in 2019 and leads it as co-CEO; Ramp was valued at $44 billion in 2026.
Erich Schaefer
Erich Schaefer is an American game designer who co-founded Blizzard North, co-created Diablo I and II and Torchlight, and joined Moon Beast Productions in 2024.
Essentia Analytics
Essentia Analytics is a London-based fintech company founded in 2013 by former fund manager Clare Flynn Levy that provides behavioral data analytics and performance coaching to professional investors.
Eugenia Kuyda
Eugenia Kuyda is a Russian-born technology entrepreneur who co-founded the AI startup Luka in 2013 and created Replika, an AI companion app with over 30 million users.
Evans Hankey
Evans Hankey is an American product designer who co-founded io Products with Jony Ive and spent 23 years at Apple, succeeding him as VP of Industrial Design.
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.
Fireflies.ai
Fireflies.ai is an AI company founded by Krish Ramineni and Sam Udotong in 2016 whose software transcribes and summarizes meetings on Zoom, Google Meet, and Teams.