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Cyrix Corp.

Cyrix Corp. was a fabless American microprocessor company founded in 1988 by former Texas Instruments engineers, whose x86 chips competed with Intel until National Semiconductor bought it in 1997.

D-Link

D-Link (友讯科技) is a Taiwanese networking equipment maker headquartered in Taipei. Founded in 1986 as Datex Systems, it sells routers, switches, wireless LAN equipment, and IP cameras in 43 countries.

Dai Shanhui

Dai Shanhui (戴山辉) is a Chinese internet entrepreneur who founded Shixianghui, a Wuhan community group-buying platform, in 2017 and later co-founded the snack chain Ailingshi.

Dai Wei

Dai Wei (戴威) is a Chinese entrepreneur who founded the bike-sharing company ofo in 2014 and was later listed by courts as a dishonest debtor.

Daie Zaocan

Daie Zaocan (呆鹅早餐, "Silly Goose Breakfast") was a Hangzhou internet breakfast pre-ordering platform founded by former Alibaba employee Lan Yaodong in 2014, closing after nine months.

Daiki Okai

Daiki Okai (岡井大輝) is a Japanese entrepreneur, founder, Representative Director, and CEO of Luup Inc., the Tokyo company behind the LUUP electric micromobility sharing service founded in 2018.

Dailyhunt

Dailyhunt is an Indian local-language news and content app operated by VerSe Innovation, founded by Virendra Gupta in Bengaluru in 2007, with over 350 million monthly users.

Daisuke Okanohara

Daisuke Okanohara (岡野原 大輔) is a Japanese technology founder and researcher who co-founded the Tokyo AI company Preferred Networks in 2014 and became its CEO in 2025.

Daki

Daki is a Brazilian online grocery and quick-commerce company founded in São Paulo in 2021, which delivers from its own dark stores and became a unicorn within ten months.

Dame Stephanie Shirley

Dame Stephanie Shirley, known professionally as Steve, is a British software entrepreneur and philanthropist who founded the all-woman programming company Freelance Programmers in 1962 and became a major autism donor.

Dameng Data

Dameng Data (达梦数据) is a Chinese database software vendor founded in Wuhan in 2000, listed on the STAR Market in 2024 and selling the DM series of relational databases.

Dan Connors

Dan Connors is a video-game executive and former LucasArts producer who co-founded Telltale Games in 2004, leading the studio behind The Walking Dead as CEO until 2015.

Dan Morehead

Dan Morehead, also known as Daniel Morehead, is an American hedge fund manager who founded Pantera Capital in 2003 and launched the first US cryptocurrency fund in 2013.

Danggeun Market

Danggeun Market, known abroad as Karrot (당근마켓), is a South Korean hyperlocal secondhand marketplace founded in Seoul in 2015 and valued at $2.7 billion in 2021.

Dani Molina Carmona

Dani Molina Carmona is a Spanish technology entrepreneur and software engineer who co-founded Postpay, a leading Gulf buy-now-pay-later fintech founded in Dubai in 2019, and served as its chief technology officer.

Daniel Castanho

Daniel Castanho is a Brazilian entrepreneur who cofounded Ânima Educação in 2003, led it as CEO for 15 years, and has chaired its board since 2018.

Daniel Contos

Daniel Contos is an Australian fashion entrepreneur who co-founded White Fox Boutique, an online women's fashion label, in Sydney in 2013, which reached $542.5 million in sales in 2025.

Daniel Hager

Daniel Hager is a German family-business executive who led the Hager Group, an electrical installation technology maker in Blieskastel, as CEO from 2008 to 2023, and has chaired its supervisory board since 2023.

Daniel Kan

Daniel Kan is an American entrepreneur who co-founded the self-driving car company Cruise in 2013 and served as its chief operating officer and later chief product officer.

Daniel Kirchert

Daniel Kirchert (戴雷) is a German automotive executive who co-founded the Chinese EV startup Byton in Nanjing in 2016 and was its CEO from 2019 to 2020.

Daniel Kjellen

Daniel Kjellen is a Swedish technology entrepreneur who co-founded the Stockholm open banking platform Tink in 2012 and led it as chief executive until its acquisition by Visa for 1.8 billion euros.

Daniel Knight

Daniel Knight is a British video game developer, founder and CEO of Kinetic Games and creator of the horror game Phasmophobia, which has sold over 25 million copies.

Daniel Krauss

Daniel Krauss, born 1983, is a German technology entrepreneur who co-founded Flix SE, the Munich-based intercity bus and rail platform, and serves as its CIO and CHRO.

Daniel Roberts (Australian businessman)

Daniel Roberts is an Australian finance and infrastructure executive who co-founded IREN, a Sydney-headquartered, Nasdaq-listed AI cloud and data center company, serving as Co-CEO alongside his brother Will Roberts.

Daniel Scandian

Daniel Scandian is a Brazilian entrepreneur who co-founded the online furniture retailer MadeiraMadeira in Curitiba in 2009, a former Formula 3 champion who made the company a unicorn in 2021.

Daniel Vogel

Daniel Vogel is a Mexican technology entrepreneur, co-founder and CEO of Bitso, a Mexico City-based digital asset platform that became Latin America's first crypto unicorn in 2021.

Daniil Barkalov

Daniil Barkalov is a Russian-born fintech executive, co-founder and chief operating officer of Tabby, the buy-now-pay-later company launched in Dubai in 2019 and valued at $6.5 billion in 2026.

Danny Hillis

Danny Hillis, also known as W. Daniel Hillis, is an American computer scientist and entrepreneur born in 1956 who founded Thinking Machines and designed the Connection Machine supercomputer.

Danny Lui

Danny Lui (Lui Tam Ping, 1957–2012) was a Hong Kong entrepreneur known for co-founding Lenovo, then Legend Computer, and leading its 1994 Hong Kong IPO.

Darius Cheung

Darius Cheung is a Singapore technology entrepreneur who co-founded mobile security firm tenCube, sold to McAfee in 2010, and founded property portal 99.co in 2014, now 99 Group.