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Grafana Labs

Grafana Labs is an American software company founded in 2014 by Raj Dutt, Torkel Ödegaard, and Anthony Woods to develop the Grafana open source observability platform.

GREE, Inc.

GREE, Inc., also known as GREE Holdings, Inc., is a Tokyo-based Japanese internet group founded by Yoshikazu Tanaka in 2004, known for social games and the REALITY VTuber platform.

Greg Corrado

Greg Corrado is a computer scientist and Distinguished Scientist at Google Research who co-founded Google Brain in 2011 and leads Google's health AI and imaging diagnostics research.

Greg Wyler

Greg Wyler is an American telecommunications and satellite entrepreneur who founded O3b Networks in 2007 and OneWeb in 2012, then E-Space, and holds more than 35 satellite patents.

Gregory Rockson

Gregory Rockson is a Ghanaian social entrepreneur who co-founded mPharma in Accra in 2013, led it as chief executive for about 12 years, and became its board chairman in 2025.

Growatt

Growatt (古瑞瓦特) is a Shenzhen-based maker of solar inverters and energy storage systems, founded by Ding Yongqiang in 2010; by 2025 it ranked third globally in residential storage inverters.

Grupo ABC (Brazilian advertising holding)

Grupo ABC was a São Paulo-based advertising and marketing holding founded in 2002 by Nizan Guanaes and Guga Valente, Brazil's largest, sold to Omnicom in 2015 for about R$ 1 billion.

Grupo SEB

Grupo SEB is a Brazilian private-education group founded in 1963 in Ribeirão Preto by businessman Chaim Zaher, split in 2026 into SEB Education and Z Participações.

Grzegorz Krysiak

Grzegorz Krysiak is a Polish technology executive who served as chief technology officer of ZnanyLekarz.pl, the Polish brand of DocPlanner, a Warsaw-founded doctor appointment booking platform that became the first Polish startup unicorn.

Guilherme Benchimol

Guilherme Benchimol is a Brazilian financial-services executive who co-founded the brokerage XP Investimentos in Porto Alegre in 2001, led it as chief executive until 2021, and took XP Inc. public on the Nasdaq in 2019.

Guillaume Desloges

Guillaume Desloges (born 1986) is a French fintech entrepreneur, co-founder and chief operating officer of Alma, the French installment-payment company founded in 2018 and headquartered in Neuilly-sur-Seine.

Guillaume Pousaz

Guillaume Pousaz is a Swiss entrepreneur who founded Checkout.com, a London-based digital payments company, in 2012, bootstrapped it for nearly a decade, and still controls about two-thirds of it.

Guillermo Rauch

Guillermo Rauch is an Argentine software engineer and cofounder and CEO of Vercel, the cloud platform behind Next.js, which he founded as ZEIT in 2015 after creating Socket.IO and Mongoose.

Gundbert Scherf

Gundbert Scherf is a German technology executive who co-founded Helsing in Munich in 2021, a defense startup that raised $1.8 billion at an $18 billion valuation in 2026.

Guo Fansheng

Guo Fansheng (郭凡生), born in 1955, is a Chinese entrepreneur who founded Huicong, now HC Group, one of China's first B2B e-commerce companies, in Beijing in 1992.

Guo Wei

Guo Wei (郭为, born 1963) is a Chinese technology executive who joined Legend, now Lenovo, in 1988 and has led Digital China Holdings since its 2001 listing in Hong Kong.

Gupy

Gupy is a Brazilian human-resources technology company founded in São Paulo in 2015 by Mariana Dias and three co-founders, selling AI-based recruitment and employee-lifecycle software to more than 4,000 enterprises.

Gur Shatz

Gur Shatz is an Israeli technology entrepreneur who co-founded Cato Networks in Tel Aviv in 2015 with Shlomo Kramer, after co-founding the cloud web security service Incapsula.

Gustavo Chamati

Gustavo Chamati is a Brazilian fintech entrepreneur who co-founded the cryptocurrency exchange Mercado Bitcoin in São Paulo in 2013 with his brother Maurício, later serving as CEO before joining the board of its holding company 2TM.

Gwen Bell

Gwen Bell, born in 1934, is an American engineer who cofounded The Computer Museum in Boston with Gordon Bell and Ken Olsen, serving as its first director.

Habana Labs

Habana Labs is an Israeli developer of deep learning processors, founded in 2016 in Caesarea, Israel, and acquired by Intel for about $2 billion in 2019.

Habi

Habi is a Bogotá-based, data-driven residential real estate platform founded in 2019 that buys, renovates, and resells used homes in Colombia and Mexico, becoming a unicorn in 2022.

hacomono

hacomono (株式会社hacomono), founded by Kenichi Hasuda in Tokyo in 2013 as Machiiro, is a SaaS company whose management system serves over 13,000 gyms and wellness facilities.

Hala

Hala, formerly known as HalalaH, is a Riyadh-based financial technology company founded by Esam Alnahdi and Maher Loubieh that provides banking, payments, and financing services to Saudi SMEs.

Halcyon (company)

Halcyon is an American cybersecurity company founded in 2021 and headquartered in Austin, Texas, whose anti-ransomware platform captures ransomware's encryption keys so files can be decrypted without paying.

Ham Serunjogi

Ham Serunjogi is a Ugandan entrepreneur who co-founded the cross-border payments company Chipper Cash in 2018 and leads it as chief executive from San Francisco, California.

Hamamatsu Photonics

Hamamatsu Photonics K.K. (浜松ホトニクス) is a Japanese manufacturer of photomultiplier tubes, opto-semiconductors, imaging equipment, and lasers, founded in 1953 in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, with a near-monopoly in photomultiplier tubes used in Nobel Prize neutrino experiments.

Hamid Mohammadi

Hamid Mohammadi (حمید محمدی) is an Iranian entrepreneur who co-founded Digikala in Tehran in 2006 with his twin brother Saeid, serving as its chief executive until November 2023.

Han Arming Hanafia

Han Arming Hanafia, born in 1956, is an Indonesian businessman who co-founded DCI Indonesia with Otto Toto Sugiri and Marina Budiman in 2011, holding a 14.11% stake.

Han Kun

Han Kun (韩坤) is a Chinese internet entrepreneur and chief executive who founded Beijing-based Yixia Technology in 2011, whose apps Miaopai, Xiaokaxiu, and Yizhibo powered Sina Weibo.