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Flattr
Flattr was a Swedish social micropayment service started by Pirate Bay co-founder Peter Sunde and Linus Olsson in 2010, letting users share a monthly budget among creators.
Flexiv
Flexiv (非夕科技) is a general-purpose robotics company founded in 2016 by Stanford-trained engineer Wang Shiquan, headquartered in Shanghai, that builds adaptive robot arms and grippers around force-sensing technology.
Flix
Flix, known to travelers as FlixBus, is a Munich-based travel-technology company founded in 2011 that sells long-distance bus and train tickets while partner companies operate the vehicles, including Greyhound.
FlixMobility GmbH
FlixMobility GmbH, registered as Flix SE since 2022, is a Munich-based mobility technology company founded in 2013 that runs FlixBus, FlixTrain, and Greyhound in 45 countries while partner companies own the vehicles.
Florian Fournier
Florian Fournier is a French technology entrepreneur who co-founded PayFit, a Paris-based cloud payroll and HR software company, in 2015, and later founded the defense startup Orasio in 2025.
Floward
Floward is an online flower and gifting e-commerce company founded in Kuwait in 2017 by Abdulaziz B. Al Loughani and Mohammed Al Arifi, now based in Saudi Arabia.
Flutterwave
Flutterwave is an African payments-technology company founded in 2016, headquartered in San Francisco with its main base in Lagos, which had processed over $40 billion in payments by 2026.
FLUX Inc.
FLUX Inc. (株式会社FLUX, formerly Adflux) is a Japanese AI consulting company in Tokyo founded by Genji Nagai in 2018, serving large enterprises in finance, manufacturing, and retail.
FLYR
FLYR, also known as FLYR Labs, is a San Francisco travel technology company founded by Alex Mans in 2013 that sells AI revenue management software to airlines.
FNZ
FNZ is a global wealth-management platform provider founded in 2003 in Wellington, New Zealand, by Adrian Durham, serving over 650 financial institutions with US$2.5 trillion in assets on platform.
Focallure
Focallure (菲鹿儿) is a Chinese cross-border beauty brand founded in Guangzhou in 2016 by Fang Xing, reported in 2021 as Southeast Asia's top-selling cross-border online beauty brand.
Foodics
Foodics is a Saudi Arabian restaurant technology and fintech company founded in Riyadh in 2014 by Ahmad AlZaini and Mosab AlOthmani, serving over 40,000 restaurant branches.
Forrest Li
Forrest Li (李小冬, Li Xiaodong) is a Singapore-based technology entrepreneur, born in 1978 in Tianjin, who founded Sea Limited in 2009 and serves as its chairman and CEO.
Foxglove Technologies Inc.
Foxglove Technologies Inc. is a San Francisco software company founded in 2021 that builds visualization and data tools for robotics and physical AI, and created the open-source MCAP log format.
Francisco Padilla
Francisco de Jesús Padilla Sánchez is a Mexican technology entrepreneur who left Wall Street to co-found Konfío, a fintech lender to small businesses, in 2013.
Franco Lamping
Franco Lamping is a Brazilian software engineer and entrepreneur who co-founded the digital insurer 180 Seguros in São Paulo in 2020, after five years as a Nubank engineer.
Frank Huang
Frank Huang (黄崇仁) was a Taiwanese semiconductor entrepreneur who founded DRAM maker Powerchip Semiconductor in 1994 and rebuilt it as the foundry PSMC, which he chaired until his death in 2026.
Franka Emika GmbH
Franka Emika GmbH was a Munich-based robotics company founded in 2016 as a spin-off of German Aerospace Center research, best known for its torque-controlled Panda robot arm.
Franklin Antonio
Franklin Antonio (1953–2022) was an American engineer and philanthropist who co-founded Qualcomm in San Diego in 1985, served as chief scientist, and left nearly $200 million to the Summer Science Program.
Fred Ford (video game programmer)
Fred Ford, born Robert Frederick Ford, is an American game programmer who co-founded Toys for Bob in 1989 and wrote the code for Star Control.
Frederick Krehbiel
Frederick August Krehbiel was an American inventor and businessman who founded Molex in Brookfield, Illinois, in 1938, after he and his son developed a moldable plastic.
Fredrik Hedberg
Fredrik Hedberg is a Swedish technology entrepreneur who co-founded the Stockholm open banking platform Tink in 2012, serving as its chief technology officer through Visa's €1.8 billion acquisition.
Fredrik Hjelm
Fredrik Hjelm is a Swedish entrepreneur who co-founded Voi Technology in Stockholm in 2018 and leads it as chief executive officer, steering the shared e-scooter operator to its first profitable year in 2024.
Fredrik Österberg
Fredrik Österberg (born 1970) is a Swedish businessman who co-founded Evolution AB, the Stockholm-based live-dealer casino supplier, in 2006 with Jens von Bahr and remains one of its largest owners.
Freelance Programmers
Freelance Programmers was a British software house founded by Stephanie Shirley in 1962 with £6, staffed almost entirely by women working from home; later called F International, FI Group, and Xansa.
Freshworks
Freshworks, founded as Freshdesk in Chennai, India, in 2010, is a software-as-a-service company selling customer and employee experience software, including Freshdesk, Freshservice, and Freddy AI assistants.
Frete.com
Frete.com is a Brazilian digital road-freight marketplace and financial-services company formed in 2021 from CargoX, Fretebras, and FretePago, led by founder Federico Vega; it became a unicorn in November 2021.
Fritz Demopoulos
Fritz Demopoulos, also known as Dai Furei (戴福瑞), is an American entrepreneur who co-founded Qunar, China's online travel search company, and led it as CEO until 2011.
Frontier Digital Ventures
Frontier Digital Ventures is a Kuala Lumpur-headquartered operator of online classifieds marketplaces in emerging markets, founded in 2014 and listed on the Australian Securities Exchange.
Fu Binxing
Fu Binxing (傅斌星, born 1984) is a Chinese media executive and president of Zhejiang Huace Film & TV, China's first listed TV series producer, since January 2022.