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Cobilt
Cobilt was a California maker of semiconductor manufacturing equipment, founded in 1970, known for automated contact mask aligners and the 1974 Autofab resist processing system.
Cocar
Cocar was a Shanghai-based peer-to-peer car-rental startup founded in 2014, the first in China to shut down, closing in July 2015 after failed Series A funding.
Colin Huang (Pinduoduo)
Colin Huang, known in Chinese as Huang Zheng (黄峥), is a Chinese entrepreneur who founded the e-commerce company Pinduoduo, taking it public on Nasdaq in 2018.
ColorTokens Inc.
ColorTokens Inc. is an enterprise cybersecurity company founded in 2015 in San Jose, California, whose Xshield platform uses zero-trust microsegmentation to stop malware spreading laterally across networks.
Comisma
Comisma (コミスマ株式会社), formerly Comicsmart, is a Tokyo manga and anime IP company founded by Koki Sato in 2013 that runs the GANMA! manga app and owns the anime studio Qzil.la.
Community 001
Community 001 (社区001) was a Chinese online grocery delivery platform founded in 2012, which delivered supermarket goods within one hour before collapsing in September 2015.
Compal Electronics
Compal Electronics (仁宝电脑) is a Taiwanese original design manufacturer of notebooks, tablets, and servers, founded in Taoyuan in 1984 and now expanding into AI server factories.
Computer History Museum
The Computer History Museum is a nonprofit museum of computing history in Mountain View, California, with a collection of more than 1 million items and over 1,300 oral histories.
Comverse Technology
Comverse Technology was a telecommunications software holding company supplying voice mail, fax, and messaging systems to telephone operators, known for the stock-options backdating scandal involving chief executive Kobi Alexander.
Constellation Software
Constellation Software is a Toronto-based company that permanently acquires vertical market software businesses. Founded by Mark Leonard in 1995, it has bought over 1,000 software companies.
Conta Black
Conta Black is a Brazilian fintech founded in 2017 by Fernanda Ribeiro and Sérgio All in São Paulo, offering accounts, cards, and credit mainly to Black and peripheral Brazilians.
Contabilizei
Contabilizei is a Brazilian online accounting firm founded in 2013 in Curitiba by Vitor Torres, serving over 100,000 small businesses and describing itself as Brazil's largest accounting company.
Contemporary Amperex Technology
Contemporary Amperex Technology (CATL) is a Chinese manufacturer of lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles and energy storage, founded in 2011 and headquartered in Ningde, Fujian.
Contextual AI
Contextual AI is an American enterprise AI company in Mountain View, California, founded in 2023 by Douwe Kiela and Amanpreet Singh to build retrieval-augmented generation systems for businesses.
Converge ICT Solutions
Converge ICT Solutions is a Philippine fixed-broadband and telecommunications company co-founded by Dennis Anthony Uy and Maria Grace Uy, now the country's number-two fixed broadband provider behind PLDT.
Corel
Corel is a Canadian software company founded in 1985 by Michael Cowpland, known for CorelDRAW and WordPerfect; at its 1990s peak it was Canada's largest software developer.
Cradle
Cradle is an Amsterdam-based software company founded in 2021 by Stef van Grieken, a former Google manager, selling a generative-AI protein engineering platform to pharma and biotech customers.
Craig Sellars
Craig Sellars is a cryptocurrency engineer and entrepreneur who co-founded the stablecoin issuer Tether in 2014 with Brock Pierce and Reeve Collins, after serving as CTO of the Mastercoin Foundation.
Cray Research
Cray Research was an American supercomputer manufacturer founded by Seymour Cray in 1972 in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, maker of the CRAY-1 and world supercomputer market leader through the 1980s.
Creatio
Creatio is a privately held enterprise software company founded in 2014 and headquartered in Boston, with Ukrainian roots, selling a no-code platform combining CRM, workflow automation, and AI agents.
Cred
Cred is a members-only Indian fintech company founded in 2018 by Kunal Shah, whose app lets creditworthy members pay credit card bills and make UPI payments.
Creditas
Creditas is a Brazilian fintech, founded by Sergio Furio in 2012 and headquartered in São Paulo, that makes loans secured by real estate, vehicles, or payroll at rates far below unsecured credit.
CreditEase
CreditEase (宜信) is a Beijing fintech and wealth management group founded by Tang Ning in 2006 as China's first peer-to-peer lending company; it created the Yirendai platform, listed on the NYSE in 2015.
Cruise Automation
Cruise Automation was a San Francisco autonomous-vehicle company founded in 2013 by Kyle Vogt and Dan Kan, acquired by GM in 2016 and shut down in 2024.
Cui Shanshan
Cui Shanshan (崔珊珊) is a Chinese technology executive who joined Baidu in January 2000 as one of its seven founding members, later serving as senior vice president for human resources.
Cullinet Software
Cullinet Software, founded as Cullinane Corporation in 1968 by John Cullinane, was a Massachusetts company that sold packaged software to mainframe users; Computer Associates bought it in 1989.
Curtis Priem
Curtis Priem is an American electrical engineer who co-founded Nvidia in 1993 and served as its chief technical officer until 2003, after designing the IBM Professional Graphics Adapter.
CXMT
CXMT (ChangXin Memory Technologies, 长鑫存储) is a Chinese semiconductor company founded in 2016 in Hefei that makes DRAM memory chips, ranking fourth in global DRAM revenue by 2026 behind Samsung, SK hynix, and Micron.
CyberAgent
CyberAgent (サイバーエージェント) is a Tokyo-based internet company founded by Susumu Fujita in 1998, centered on digital advertising and also running games, the ABEMA streaming service, and venture investing.
Cypress Semiconductor
Cypress Semiconductor was a San Jose, California semiconductor company founded by T. J. Rodgers in 1982, best known for SRAMs, PSoC microcontrollers, and connectivity chips; Infineon acquired it in 2020.