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Docker (company)

Docker, Inc., originally dotCloud, is a Palo Alto company founded by Solomon Hykes that commercializes Docker container technology through Docker Desktop and Docker Hub subscriptions.

Donald O. Pederson

Donald O. Pederson (1925–2004) was an American professor of electrical engineering at UC Berkeley who led the creation of SPICE, the circuit simulator from which most modern chip-design tools descend.

Dong Qi

Dong Qi (董祺) is a Chinese fintech executive who co-founded the consumer-finance group Fanpu Jinke in 2013 and led its P2P lending platform Aiqianjin, which was criminally investigated in 2020.

Dong Rongjie

Dong Rongjie (董荣杰) is a Chinese technology executive who served as CEO of Guangzhou-based game streaming platform Huya Live from 2016 until his resignation in August 2023.

Dongfang Chuangtou

Dongfang Chuangtou (东方创投) was a Shenzhen peer-to-peer lending platform founded by Deng Liang in 2013 that absorbed 126 million yuan before becoming China's first P2P platform convicted as illegal fund-raising, in 2014.

Dongxin Semiconductor

Dongxin Semiconductor (东芯半导体, Dosilicon) is a Shanghai-based fabless designer of small- and medium-capacity memory chips, including NAND Flash, NOR Flash, DRAM, and MCP products, founded by Jiang Xueming in 2014.

Donna Dubinsky

Donna Dubinsky is an American technology executive who ran Palm Computing as president and CEO, brought the PalmPilot to market in 1996, and co-founded Handspring and Numenta with Jeff Hawkins.

Doris Hsu

Doris Hsu (徐秀兰, also Hsu Hsiu-lan) is a Taiwanese executive who has chaired GlobalWafers since 2011 and won the EY World Entrepreneur Of The Year award in 2023.

Doron Myersdorf

Doron Myersdorf is an Israeli entrepreneur, CEO and co-founder of StoreDot, a battery company founded in 2012 in Herzliya that develops extreme fast charging cells for electric vehicles.

Dotomi

Dotomi was an internet advertising technology company co-founded by ICQ co-founder Yair Goldfinger, building personalized display advertising for retailers before ValueClick bought it in 2011 for $295 million.

Douwe Kiela

Douwe Kiela is an AI researcher and entrepreneur, co-founder and former CEO of Contextual AI in Mountain View, who joined Google DeepMind in 2026 after leading the Meta team that introduced retrieval-augmented generation.

Douyin

Douyin (抖音) is the Chinese short-video platform operated by ByteDance. Launched in 2016, it is separate from TikTok and had over 850 million daily users and about RMB 901 billion in 2025 revenue.

DouYu

DouYu (斗鱼, formerly 斗鱼TV) is a Wuhan-based Chinese game live streaming platform founded in 2014 by Chen Shaojie and Zhang Wenming, listed on NASDAQ since 2019.

Dr. Alexander Glätzle

Dr. Alexander Glätzle is a quantum physicist and entrepreneur who co-founded planqc in 2022, a neutral-atom quantum computing startup in Garching near Munich, and leads it as CEO.

Dr. John Hennessy

John L. Hennessy is an American computer scientist who cofounded MIPS Computer Systems and Atheros Communications, served as Stanford's 10th president from 2000 to 2016, and won the 2017 Turing Award.

Dr. Sebastian Blatt

Dr. Sebastian Blatt is a quantum physicist who co-founded the quantum computing startup planqc in Garching near Munich and leads the Strontium group at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics.

Dr. Simon Haddadin

Dr. Simon Haddadin, born 1986 in Bad Oeynhausen, is a German physician and robotics entrepreneur who co-founded Franka Emika in Munich in 2016 and won the 2017 Deutscher Zukunftspreis.

Dream Sports

Dream Sports is an Indian sports technology company based in Mumbai, founded by Harsh Jain and Bhavit Sheth, best known for the Dream11 fantasy sports platform.

Drew Durbin

Drew Durbin is the American co-founder and CEO of Wave, a mobile money company launched in Senegal in 2018 that reached a $1.7 billion valuation in 2021.

DriveNets

DriveNets is an Israeli networking software company founded in 2015 by Ido Susan and headquartered in Ra'anana, whose Network Cloud software runs core routing on white-box hardware.

Dunamu

Dunamu (두나무) is a Seoul-based fintech company founded in 2012, best known as the operator of Upbit, South Korea's largest digital asset exchange, launched in October 2017.

Duomi Music

Duomi Music (多米音乐) was a Beijing-based music-streaming platform that led China's mobile music clients in 2012, listed on the NEEQ in 2016, and shut down in 2018.

Dwango

Dwango (株式会社ドワンゴ) is a Tokyo-based Japanese internet media company founded by Nobuo Kawakami in 1997, best known as the operator of Niconico and a subsidiary of KADOKAWA since 2014.

Dylan Field

Dylan Field is an American technology entrepreneur who co-founded the design software company Figma in 2012 with Evan Wallace and serves as its chief executive officer.

EBANX

EBANX is a Brazilian cross-border payments technology company founded in 2012 in Curitiba by Alphonse Voigt, João Del Valle, and Wagner Ruiz, connecting global merchants with local payment methods like Pix and boleto.

Eberhard Hinderer

Eberhard Hinderer is a German mechanical engineer who co-founded Vector Informatik near Stuttgart in 1988, managed it for about 26 years, and retired in 2014.

Ebrahim Al-Jassim

Ebrahim Aljassim is a Saudi entrepreneur who founded HungerStation in 2012, led it until his 2019 termination by Delivery Hero, and later founded the quick-commerce company Ninja.

EcoFlow

EcoFlow (正浩) is a Chinese clean-energy company founded in Shenzhen in 2017 by former DJI battery engineer Bruce Wang, making portable power stations and home batteries.

Econet Wireless

Econet Wireless is a Zimbabwean telecommunications and fintech group founded by Strive Masiyiwa after a five-year legal battle, operating the country's largest mobile network and the EcoCash platform with about 9 million users.

Ed Colligan

Ed Colligan (born 1961) is a technology executive who co-founded Handspring in 1998 and led Palm, Inc., as chief executive officer from 2005 to 2009.