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Kevin Guo

Kevin Guo is a technology entrepreneur, co-founder and CEO of Hive AI, a San Francisco artificial-intelligence company he started with Dmitriy Karpman, providing content moderation and AI-detection APIs.

KR1 plc

KR1 plc is a digital asset investment company headquartered in Douglas on the Isle of Man, listed on the London Stock Exchange under the ticker KR1.

Krish Ramineni

Krish Ramineni is a technology entrepreneur who co-founded the AI meeting assistant Fireflies.ai with Sam Udotong in 2016 and serves as its chief executive officer.

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.

Kyle Vogt

Kyle Vogt is an American technology entrepreneur who co-founded Twitch, sold to Amazon for $970 million, and Cruise, bought by GM in 2016; he founded The Bot Company in 2024.

Lin Qiao

Lin Qiao is a technology executive who co-created PyTorch during seven years at Meta before founding Fireworks AI, an AI inference platform, in Redwood City, California, in 2022.

Linhao Zhang

Linhao Zhang is the co-founder and chief technology officer of Formation Bio, a New York pharma company using AI to develop in-licensed drug candidates, founded in 2016.

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.

Magnus Nordin

Magnus Nordin is a Swedish technologist who co-founded Embark Studios in Stockholm in 2018 and serves as its Chief Exploration Officer, after about 30 years in research and systems development.

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.

Marco Thrush

Marco Thrush is a video game executive who co-founded Bluepoint Games in Austin, Texas in 2006 and led the remake studio until Sony shut it down 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.

Markit

Markit was a financial information company founded in London in 2003 by Canadian banker Lance Uggla to provide credit default swap pricing data, merging with IHS in 2016.

Max Li

Max Li is an Australian technology entrepreneur who co-founded the cross-border payments company Airwallex in Melbourne in 2015 with Jack Zhang, after payment frustrations at the coffee shop they ran together.

Max Lytvyn

Max Lytvyn (Макс Литвин) is a Ukrainian-born technology entrepreneur who co-founded Grammarly in 2009 with Alex Shevchenko and Dmytro Lider, after selling his earlier plagiarism-detection company MyDropBox to Blackboard in 2008.

Max Schaefer

Max Schaefer is an American video game developer who co-founded Blizzard North in 1993, worked on the Diablo series, and later founded Runic Games, maker of Torchlight.

Medal.tv

Medal.tv is a gaming clip-capture and sharing platform founded by game developers including Pim de Witte, whose recorder saves the last moments of gameplay as shareable clips.

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.

Mel Morris

Mel Morris is a British internet entrepreneur and early investor in King, the games company behind Candy Crush Saga, which Activision Blizzard bought for $5.9 billion in 2016.

Michael Condrey

Michael Condrey is a video game executive who co-founded Activision's Sledgehammer Games in 2009, directing Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare and WWII, and later founded 2K's 31st Union studio.

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 Gronager

Michael Gronager is a technology founder who co-founded the blockchain data platform Chainalysis in New York in 2014 and was its chief executive for a decade, until December 2024.

Michael Intrator

Michael Intrator is an American business executive who co-founded CoreWeave, a GPU cloud provider based in Livingston, New Jersey, in 2017 and serves as its chairman, president, and CEO.

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.

Michał Kosieradzki

Michał Kosieradzki is a Polish video game developer who co-founded the Warsaw shooter studio People Can Fly in 2002, staying through Painkiller, Bulletstorm, and the founders' 2012 exit.

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.