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Mikael Mård
Mikael Mård is a Swedish games developer who co-founded Coffee Stain Studios in Skövde in 2010, created the Goat Simulator goat, and resigned in 2018.
Mike Ball
Mike Ball (Michael Ball, born 1969) is a British technology executive who co-founded Ninja Theory in Cambridge in 2000, the studio behind Heavenly Sword and Hellblade.
Mike Booth
Mike Booth is an American video game designer who founded Turtle Rock Studios in 2002, led it through Left 4 Dead and its 2008 Valve acquisition, and later joined Bad Robot Games.
Mike Dailly (video game developer)
Mike Dailly is a Scottish video game developer who co-founded DMA Design in Dundee, contributing to Lemmings and creating the prototype engine from which Grand Theft Auto grew.
Miss Dora
Miss Dora is an artificial-intelligence children's reading and storytelling app for ages 3 to 8, founded by education entrepreneur Kailei Zhang and launched in North America in April 2024.
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.
Mitsunobu Okada (Astroscale)
Mitsunobu Okada, also known as Nobu Okada, is a Japanese entrepreneur who founded Astroscale in Singapore in 2013, the first private company aiming to remove space debris.
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.
Neko Health
Neko Health is a Swedish health-technology company co-founded in 2018 by Daniel Ek of Spotify, selling annual full-body health assessments combining body scans, blood tests, and AI analysis.
Nicholas Francis (Danish businessman)
Nicholas Francis is a Danish programmer who co-founded Unity Technologies in Copenhagen in 2004, serving as Chief Creative Officer until leaving in 2013 to develop his own games.
Nick Harris (businessman)
Nick Harris is the co-founder and CEO of Lightmatter, a photonic computing company founded in 2017 with fellow MIT researchers to build optical interconnects for AI data centers.
Nick Molnar
Nick Molnar is an Australian fintech entrepreneur who co-founded Afterpay in Sydney in 2014 with Anthony Eisen, becoming Australia's youngest self-made billionaire before Square bought the company.
Niklas Hed
Niklas Hed is a Finnish gaming entrepreneur who co-founded Rovio Entertainment, the company behind Angry Birds, in 2003 after winning a Nokia and HP game competition.
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.
Northvolt
Northvolt was a Swedish lithium-ion battery cell maker founded by former Tesla executives in 2016, which built Europe's first homegrown gigafactory in Skellefteå before going bankrupt in 2025.
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.
OneWeb
OneWeb is a London-based low Earth orbit satellite broadband operator founded by Greg Wyler in 2012, now operating as Eutelsat OneWeb after a 2020 bankruptcy and rescue.
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.
PatPat
PatPat is a direct-to-consumer children's and family-matching apparel brand founded in Mountain View, California, in 2014 by software engineers Albert Wang and Ken Gao, selling through its app and website.
Paul Porter (video game developer)
Paul Reginald Porter is a British video game developer who co-founded Sumo Digital in Sheffield in 2003 and later became Chief Operating Officer of Sumo Group.
Paul Reiche III
Paul Reiche III is an American video game designer who co-founded the studio Toys for Bob in 1989, created the Star Control series, and led the design of Skylanders.
Paweł Marchewka
Paweł Marchewka, born in 1973, is a Polish video-game entrepreneur who founded Techland in 1991 and sold two-thirds of it to Tencent in 2023, remaining chief executive.
Pedro Franceschi
Pedro Franceschi is a Brazilian technology entrepreneur who co-founded the San Francisco fintech company Brex in 2017 and has been its sole CEO since June 2024.
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 Beck
Sir Peter Beck is a New Zealand engineer and entrepreneur who founded Rocket Lab in Auckland in 2006 and has led it as chief executive since 2013.
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.
Peter Salanki
Peter Salanki is a Swedish-trained network engineer who serves as chief technology officer of CoreWeave, the AI cloud-infrastructure company listed on Nasdaq under the ticker CRWV since March 2025.