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Giant Network Group

Giant Network Group is a Shanghai-based Chinese online game developer founded by Shi Yuzhu, known for the free-to-play game Zhengtu and its 2007 NYSE listing.

Gideon Tadmor

Gideon Tadmor is an Israeli oil and gas entrepreneur, founder and executive chairman of Navitas Petroleum, and a leader of Israel's Tamar and Leviathan gas discoveries.

GigaDevice

GigaDevice (兆易创新) is a Beijing-based fabless semiconductor company founded by Zhu Yiming in 2005, second worldwide in SPI NOR flash and listed in Shanghai since 2016.

Gil Rosenman

Gil Rosenman is an Israeli solid-state physicist and professor emeritus at Tel Aviv University, best known as a co-founder and chief scientist of the battery company StoreDot.

Gil Shwed

Gil Shwed (גיל שווד) is an Israeli technology entrepreneur who co-founded Check Point Software in 1993, invented stateful inspection, and led the company as CEO until 2024.

Gilad Japhet

Gilad Japhet is an Israeli software entrepreneur who founded the genealogy company MyHeritage in 2003 and has led it as CEO, growing it to over 104 million users.

Gilat Satellite Networks

Gilat Satellite Networks (גילת לוויינים) is an Israeli satellite communications company founded in 1987 and headquartered in Petah Tikva, making VSAT terminals, modems, and antennas, and trading on NASDAQ as GILT.

Gilion

Gilion, formerly known as Ark Kapital AB, is a Stockholm-based financial technology company founded in 2021 that provides non-dilutive growth loans and AI-based performance forecasting to European technology startups.

Ginlong Technologies

Ginlong Technologies, which sells inverters under the Solis brand, is a Chinese manufacturer of solar string and energy-storage inverters founded in 2005 in Xiangshan, Ningbo, Zhejiang.

Gionee

Gionee (金立), formally Shenzhen Gionee Communication Equipment, is a Chinese phone maker founded in Shenzhen in 2002 by Liu Lirong and bankrupt by December 2018.

Giora Kaplan

Giora Kaplan is an Israeli software entrepreneur who co-founded Wix.com in Tel Aviv in 2006 with Avishai and Nadav Abrahami, serving as co-CEO and later CTO.

Giovanni De Micheli

Giovanni De Micheli is an Italian electrical engineer and professor at EPFL, a pioneer of electronic design automation and inventor of the Network on Chip paradigm.

Girish Mathrubootham

Girish Mathrubootham is an Indian technology entrepreneur who co-founded Freshworks in Chennai in 2010, led it as chief executive until 2024, and took it public on Nasdaq.

Girish Redekar

Girish Redekar is an Indian technology founder, co-founder and CEO of the Bengaluru compliance-automation company Sprinto, founded in 2020. He earlier co-founded Recruiterbox, a recruiting software firm sold in 2018.

GITEX Global

GITEX Global is an annual technology and AI trade exhibition in Dubai, first held in 1981 as the Gulf Computer Exhibition and described as the world's largest tech and AI event.

Gjalt Smit

Gjalt Smit is a Dutch physicist who served as the first managing director of ASML, the lithography joint venture of Philips and ASM International, from 1984 to 1987.

Global Semiconductor Alliance

The Global Semiconductor Alliance (GSA) is a Dallas, Texas-based trade association for the semiconductor industry, founded in 1994 as the Fabless Semiconductor Association and renamed in 2007.

Global Unichip Corporation

Global Unichip Corporation (创意电子, GUC) is a Taiwanese ASIC design services company founded in 1998 in Hsinchu, Taiwan, and listed on the Taiwan Stock Exchange since 2006.

Gloo

Gloo is an American technology company, founded in 2013 in Boulder, Colorado, that builds software and AI tools for churches and faith-based organizations; it went public on the Nasdaq under symbol GLOO in 2025.

Glowork

Glowork is a Riyadh-based Saudi recruitment organization founded in 2011 to place Saudi women in jobs, co-founded by Khalid Alkhudair and valued at US$32 million in 2013.

Gogolook

Gogolook (走著瞧股份有限公司) is a Taipei-based anti-fraud software company founded in 2012, best known for the Whoscall caller-ID app, which has passed 100 million downloads and holds leading anti-fraud market share in Taiwan, Thailand, and Japan.

GoGoX

GoGoX, formerly GoGoVan (Kuaigou Dache in mainland China), is a Hong Kong online intra-city logistics platform founded in 2013 and listed in Hong Kong since 2022.

Golan Telecom

Golan Telecom is an Israeli low-cost mobile operator founded in 2012 by Michael Golan, whose flat-rate pricing triggered a price war; it has been part of Cellcom since 2020.

Gold Circuit Electronics

Gold Circuit Electronics (金像电) is a Taiwanese printed circuit board maker founded by Yang Chang-Chih in Taoyuan in 1981, now among Taiwan's largest on AI server board orders, with record 2025 revenue of about NT$60 billion.

Goldenpeak

Goldenpeak is a London-based private equity firm founded in 2025 by Leon Gillespie and Mark Williams, specializing in high-growth B2B services in the UK and Ireland.

Gopal Vittal

Gopal Vittal is an Indian business executive who served as Managing Director and CEO of Bharti Airtel from 2013 to 2025, then became Executive Vice Chairman.

Gordon Campbell (semiconductor executive)

Gordon A. Campbell is an American semiconductor executive, formerly of Intel, who co-founded Chips and Technologies in 1984 and is credited with pioneering the fabless model of chip design.

Gousto

Gousto is a British recipe-box delivery company founded by Timo Boldt in 2012, posting pre-portioned ingredients and recipes to subscribers; it became a unicorn in 2021.

Grab

Grab Holdings, formerly GrabTaxi, is a Singapore-headquartered ride-hailing, delivery, and financial services company founded in 2012 by Anthony Tan and Tan Hooi Ling, listed on Nasdaq since 2021.

Gracjan Polak

Gracjan Polak is a Polish software engineer who co-founded Scrive, the Stockholm-based electronic signing company, and served as its chief technology officer from 2010 to 2015.