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Ching-Chu Chang
Ching-Chu Chang (章青驹) was a Taiwanese semiconductor engineer and executive, an ITRI seed engineer sent to RCA in 1976 who later led Winbond and chaired Vanguard from 2009 until his death in 2015.
Chipper Cash
Chipper Cash is a pan-African cross-border payments fintech founded in 2018 by Ham Serunjogi and Maijid Moujaled, known for its no-fee peer-to-peer money transfer app across Africa.
Chips & Technologies
Chips & Technologies was an American semiconductor company founded in 1984 that made chipsets and graphics controllers for IBM PC-compatible computers, and was acquired by Intel in 1997.
Cho Man-ho
Cho Man-ho (조만호, born 1983) is a South Korean entrepreneur who founded Musinsa as a high-school sneaker community in 2001 and remains its controlling shareholder and co-leader.
Chong Moon Lee
Chong Moon Lee (이종문), born 1928, is a Korean-born American entrepreneur who founded Diamond Multimedia Systems, the top US producer of PC graphics accelerators by 1994, and later AmBex Venture Partners.
Chow Shing-yuk
Chow Shing-yuk (周胜馥), known as Shing Chow, is a Hong Kong entrepreneur who founded the on-demand logistics platform Lalamove in 2013 and leads its parent, Lalatech Holdings.
Chris Ashton
Chris Ashton is a video game developer who co-founded Turtle Rock Studios, the California studio behind Left 4 Dead, Evolve, and Back 4 Blood, and still leads it.
Chris Curry
Chris Curry, born 1946 in Cambridge, is a British technologist who spent thirteen years with Clive Sinclair before co-founding Acorn Computers, maker of the BBC Micro.
Chris Hulatt
Chris Hulatt, born 1976, is a British entrepreneur who co-founded Octopus Group in London in 2000 with Simon Rogerson and Guy Myles, and manages its institutional investor relationships.
Chris Malachowsky
Chris Malachowsky is an American electrical engineer who co-founded Nvidia in April 1993 with Jensen Huang and Curtis Priem, and serves as a Founder and NVIDIA Fellow.
Chris Stolte
Chris Stolte is a software engineer and entrepreneur who co-founded Tableau in 2003 and developed VizQL, the visual query language at the heart of its products.
Chrissy Luo
Chrissy Luo (雒芊芊, Luo Qianqian) is a Chinese businesswoman who co-founded the online-games company Shanda in 1999 and served as its chief financial officer until 2004.
Christian Chabot
Christian Chabot is a software entrepreneur who co-founded Tableau Software in 2003, led it as chief executive through its 2013 IPO, and stayed until 2016.
Christian Hecker
Christian Hecker is a German fintech entrepreneur who co-founded Trade Republic, the Berlin neobroker and bank, in 2015; by 2025 it was valued at €12.5 billion.
Christina Sass
Christina Sass is an American entrepreneur who co-founded Andela in 2014, serving as its chief operating officer and president, and became CEO of the International Youth Foundation in 2024.
Christophe Jurczak
Christophe Jurczak is a French quantum physicist turned venture investor who co-founded Quantonation, the Paris-based quantum venture firm, and the neutral-atom quantum computing company Pasqal.
Christopher Weaver
Christopher Weaver is a video game industry executive who founded Bethesda Softworks in 1986 and co-founded ZeniMax Media with Robert A. Altman in 1999, leaving in 2002.
Chuck del Prado
Chuck del Prado (Charles Dean del Prado) is a Dutch business executive who served as chief executive officer of semiconductor equipment maker ASM International from 2008 to 2020.
Cindy Fu
Cindy Fu is an American-based operations executive who has served as Head of US Operations at DeepRoute.ai, an autonomous driving technology company, since July 2019, working from its Fremont, California office.
Cindy Mi
Cindy Mi, born Mi Wenjuan, is a Chinese entrepreneur who founded VIPKid in 2013, connecting Chinese children with North American teachers for one-to-one English lessons.
Cirrus Logic, Inc.
Cirrus Logic, Inc. is a fabless semiconductor company founded in 1984 and headquartered in Austin, Texas, that designs low-power mixed-signal chips, mostly audio components for smartphones, its largest customer being Apple.
CK Prahalad
CK Prahalad (1941–2010) was an Indian-American management thinker and University of Michigan professor who developed core competence with Gary Hamel and the bottom of the pyramid.
Clara (corporate spend-management fintech)
Clara is a Latin American corporate spend-management fintech founded in Mexico City in 2020, combining corporate credit cards, bill payment, and expense automation for companies in Mexico, Brazil, and Colombia.
Clare Flynn Levy
Clare Flynn Levy is a fintech founder and former fund manager who founded Essentia Analytics, a London-based behavioral data analytics provider for professional investors, in 2013.
Classera
Classera is a San Francisco-based education technology company founded by Mohammad Almadani and Mohammad Alashmawi, which raised $40 million led by Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund in 2022.
Cleo (fintech company)
Cleo is an AI financial assistant app founded in London in 2016 by Barney Hussey-Yeo, offering budgeting tools and cash advances, mainly serving US users.
Cliff Obrecht
Cliff Obrecht is an Australian technology executive who co-founded the design software company Canva in 2012 and serves as its chief operating officer, alongside his wife, CEO Melanie Perkins.
Cloopen Group Holding Ltd
Cloopen Group Holding Ltd is a Chinese cloud-based communications company founded in Beijing in 2013 by Sun Changxun, providing CPaaS, cloud contact centers, and unified communications to enterprise customers.
Co-founders of Qualcomm
The five lesser-known Qualcomm co-founders besides Irwin Jacobs and Andrew Viterbi were Harvey White, Adelia Coffman, Franklin Antonio, Andrew Cohen, and Klein Gilhousen, all former Linkabit colleagues who met in July 1985.
Co-founders of Xiaomi
The seven co-founders of Xiaomi besides Lei Jun, including Lin Bin, Li Wanqiang, and Liu De, who together formed the "Eight King Kongs" founding team in 2010.