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FLYR
FLYR, also known as FLYR Labs, is a San Francisco travel technology company founded by Alex Mans in 2013 that sells AI revenue management software to airlines.
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.
Franka Emika GmbH
Franka Emika GmbH was a Munich-based robotics company founded in 2016 as a spin-off of German Aerospace Center research, best known for its torque-controlled Panda robot arm.
Fred Ford (video game programmer)
Fred Ford, born Robert Frederick Ford, is an American game programmer who co-founded Toys for Bob in 1989 and wrote the code for Star Control.
Garry Newman
Garry Newman, born 1982, is a British game developer who founded Facepunch Studios in Birmingham in 2009, the independent studio behind Garry's Mod and Rust.
Gene Lee
Gene Lee is a software engineer and entrepreneur, the third co-founder of Ramp, the New York City financial-operations company started in March 2019 with Eric Glyman and Karim Atiyeh.
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.
Greg Corrado
Greg Corrado is a computer scientist and Distinguished Scientist at Google Research who co-founded Google Brain in 2011 and leads Google's health AI and imaging diagnostics research.
Greg Wyler
Greg Wyler is an American telecommunications and satellite entrepreneur who founded O3b Networks in 2007 and OneWeb in 2012, then E-Space, and holds more than 35 satellite patents.
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.
Henrique Dubugras
Henrique Dubugras is a Brazilian entrepreneur from São Paulo who co-founded the corporate-card fintech Brex in 2017, led it as co-CEO until 2024, and became chairman before its 2026 sale to Capital One.
History of Twitter
Twitter was a short-message social network created in 2006 inside the podcasting startup Odeo, which grew into a global venue for breaking news before Musk bought it in 2022.
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.
Igor Bukhman
Igor Bukhman is a Russian-born technology entrepreneur who co-founded Playrix, the Dublin-based mobile games company behind Gardenscapes and Fishdom, with his brother Dmitry in 2004.
Igor Jablokov
Igor Jablokov is an American AI entrepreneur who founded Yap, a speech-recognition company Amazon acquired in 2011 whose technology fed Alexa, and later Pryon, a Raleigh enterprise AI company.
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.
International Data Group (media and venture capital company)
International Data Group (IDG) is a Boston-based technology market intelligence company founded in 1964 by Patrick J. McGovern, which published Computerworld, InfoWorld, and PC World and backed Tencent and Baidu through IDG Capital.
iRobot; Rethink Robotics; Robust AI
Rodney Brooks, former head of MIT's robotics lab, founded iRobot, maker of the Roomba, in 1990, co-founded Rethink Robotics in 2008, and is chief technology officer of Robust.AI.
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.
Izhar Wallach
Izhar Wallach is a Technion- and University of Toronto-trained computer scientist who co-founded the AI drug-discovery company Atomwise in 2012 as chief technology officer, and first-authored the 2015 paper introducing AtomNet.
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.
James Reed (software engineer)
James Reed is an American software engineer who co-founded Fireworks AI in October 2022 after working on PyTorch at Meta, leading the company's multimedia inference work.
Jamie Walker (video game executive)
Jamie Walker is a video-game executive who co-founded Rocksteady Studios in London in 2004, serving as studio director through the Batman: Arkham games until leaving at the end of 2022.
Jan Møller
Jan Møller is a Danish software engineer who co-founded Chainalysis, the New York-based blockchain-analysis company, in 2014 and was its chief technology officer until October 2019.