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Bucketplace

Bucketplace (버킷플레이스) is a South Korean company, founded in 2014 and headquartered in Seoul, that operates Ohouse (오늘의집), an interior design community and e-commerce platform.

Bugcrowd

Bugcrowd is a San Francisco crowdsourced cybersecurity company founded by Casey Ellis in Australia in 2012, operating a platform connecting organizations with over half a million security researchers.

Buhle Goslar

Buhle Goslar is a South African fintech executive who served as JUMO's CEO for Africa and Pakistan from 2019 to 2023, and now chairs the neobank Lula.

Bukalapak

Bukalapak, founded in 2010 by Achmad Zaky, is an Indonesian technology company whose 2021 IPO raised Rp21.9 trillion, the largest in Indonesian stock-exchange history at the time.

Buscapé

Buscapé is a Brazilian online price-comparison and shopping platform founded in 1999 by four university students led by Romero Rodrigues, sold to Naspers for $342 million in 2009.

BV Jagadeesh

BV Jagadeesh is an Indian-born Silicon Valley entrepreneur and investor who co-founded data-center pioneer Exodus Communications and led NetScaler as CEO until Citrix acquired it in 2005.

Byte Shop

The Byte Shop was an American computer store chain founded by Paul Terrell in Mountain View, California, in 1975, and the first to order the Apple I.

Byton

Byton (拜腾汽车) was a Chinese-German electric vehicle startup founded in 2016 by former BMW executives in Nanjing, known for its M-Byte SUV and for never delivering a production car.

C-Cube Microsystems

C-Cube Microsystems was a Milpitas, California semiconductor company founded in 1988 that pioneered MPEG video compression chips, powering Video CD, satellite, and DVD players before LSI Logic acquired it in 2001 for about $878 million.

C. Norman Winningstad

C. Norman "Norm" Winningstad (1925–2010) was an American engineer and businessman in Oregon who founded Floating Point Systems, helped launch Lattice Semiconductor, and was a Silicon Forest philanthropist.

C. P. Gurnani

C. P. Gurnani, also known as Chandra Prakash Gurnani, is an Indian technology executive who was Managing Director and CEO of Tech Mahindra until 2023, known for the Satyam turnaround.

C.C. Leung (Quanta Computer)

C.C. Leung, also known as Chee-Chun Leung (梁次震), is a Taiwanese executive who co-founded Quanta Computer with Barry Lam in 1988 and serves as its vice chairman and president.

C6 Bank

C6 Bank is a Brazilian digital multiple bank headquartered in São Paulo, founded in 2018 by former BTG Pactual executives and licensed by the Central Bank of Brazil in 2019.

Cacau Show

Cacau Show is a Brazilian fine-chocolate franchise retailer founded by Alê Costa in 1988, headquartered in Itapevi, São Paulo, and Brazil's largest franchise network by store count since 2022.

Cafe Bazaar

Cafe Bazaar (کافه بازار) is Iran's largest Android app store, founded in January 2011 by Iranian university students and serving tens of millions of Persian-speaking users.

Cai Haoyu

Cai Haoyu (蔡浩宇, born 1987) is a Chinese game developer who co-founded miHoYo, creator of Genshin Impact, in 2012 and led it until stepping back in 2023.

Calendly

Calendly is a scheduling software platform founded in 2013 by Tope Awotona and headquartered in Atlanta, letting people share a booking link instead of emailing to arrange meetings.

Cambium Networks

Cambium Networks is an American wireless broadband equipment company, formed in 2011 from Motorola Solutions' point-to-point and point-to-multipoint businesses, serving wireless ISPs, enterprises, and governments.

Cambridge Processor Unit Ltd

Cambridge Processor Unit Ltd, usually shortened to CPU Ltd, was a Cambridge microprocessor consultancy founded by Hermann Hauser and Chris Curry that became Acorn Computers.

Cameron Adams

Cameron Adams is an Australian technology designer who joined Canva as its third co-founder in June 2012 and leads its technical development as Chief Product Officer.

Cameron Borrett

Cameron Borrett is a German-based product manager and startup co-founder, credited as co-founder and Chief Product Officer of the Berlin climate fintech Cloover from 2022 to 2023, after senior product roles at Klarna.

Canadian Solar

Canadian Solar is a Canadian-incorporated solar photovoltaic module and battery energy storage manufacturer founded by Shawn Qu in Mississauga, Ontario, in 2001 and listed on NASDAQ since 2006.

Cao Renxian

Cao Renxian (曹仁贤), born 1968, is a Chinese engineer and entrepreneur who founded solar inverter maker Sungrow Power Supply in Hefei in 1997 and chairs it today.

Capitec Bank

Capitec Bank is a South African retail bank headquartered in Stellenbosch, founded by Michiel le Roux and other businessmen and listed in 2002, serving more than 26 million clients.

Carina Letong Hong

Carina Letong Hong (洪乐潼) is a Chinese-born mathematician who left Stanford graduate study to found the AI mathematics startup Axiom Math in Palo Alto in 2025, raising $264 million.

Carl Cavers

Carl Cavers is a British video-game executive who co-founded Sumo Digital in Sheffield in 2003 and served as chief executive of Sumo Group until retiring in 2025.

Carl-Erik Lagercrantz

Carl-Erik Lagercrantz is a Swedish entrepreneur and investor who co-founded the Stockholm firm Vargas with Harald Mix in 2014, building companies such as Northvolt, Stegra, Aira, and Syre.

Carlos García Ottati

Carlos García Ottati is a Venezuelan-born entrepreneur who founded the used-car marketplace Kavak in Mexico City in 2016, which became Mexico's first unicorn in 2020 and Latin America's most valuable startup by 2022.

Carlotta Baumann

Carlotta Baumann (born 1987) is a German business executive and managing owner of Finetech, a Berlin manufacturer of high-precision die-bonding equipment, who won the EY Entrepreneur of the Year award in 2024.

Carolina Matsuse

Carolina Matsuse, known as Carol Matsuse, is a Brazilian technology entrepreneur who co-founded the São Paulo functional apparel brand Insider with Yuri Gricheno in 2017.