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Insta360

Insta360, also known as Arashi Vision (影石创新), is a Chinese camera maker founded by Liu Jingkang in Shenzhen in 2015, known for 360-degree and action cameras.

Instabug

Instabug, rebranded as Luciq.ai in September 2025, is a mobile SDK company providing AI-powered mobile observability, founded in Cairo by Omar Gabr and Moataz Soliman with dual headquarters in Cairo and San Francisco.

InstaDeep

InstaDeep is an artificial intelligence company founded in Tunis in 2014 by Karim Beguir and Zohra Slim, later headquartered in London and acquired by BioNTech in 2023.

International Data Group (media and venture capital company)

International Data Group (IDG) is a Boston-based technology market intelligence company founded in 1964 by Patrick J. McGovern, which published Computerworld, InfoWorld, and PC World and backed Tencent and Baidu through IDG Capital.

Internet Research Institute

Internet Research Institute (IRI) is a Tokyo-based consulting and corporate incubation group founded by Hiroshi Fujiwara in 1996, focused on IoT, cyber security, and AI.

Intersil

Intersil was an American semiconductor company founded in 1967 by Jean Hoerni, a Fairchild co-founder who invented the planar process; Renesas acquired it in 2017 for about $3.2 billion.

Interswitch Group

Interswitch Group is a Nigerian digital payments and commerce company founded by Mitchell Elegbe in 2002, operating in 32 African countries and owning the Verve card scheme and Quickteller.

iRobot; Rethink Robotics; Robust AI

Rodney Brooks, former head of MIT's robotics lab, founded iRobot, maker of the Roomba, in 1990, co-founded Rethink Robotics in 2008, and is chief technology officer of Robust.AI.

iROKOtv

iROKOtv is a subscription streaming service for Nollywood, Nigeria's film industry, founded by Jason Njoku, launched in 2011, and often called the "Netflix of Africa".

Ironclad (software company)

Ironclad is a San Francisco software company selling AI-powered contract lifecycle management software, founded in 2014 by attorney Jason Boehmig and engineer Cai Wangwilt; it surpassed $200 million in annual recurring revenue in 2026.

ironSource

ironSource was an Israeli business platform for the app economy, founded in Tel Aviv in 2010, which helped mobile app developers distribute, monetize, and analyze their apps.

Ishwar Sridharan

Ishwar Sridharan is an Indian technology executive who co-founded Exotel, a Bengaluru-based cloud-telephony company, in 2011 and served as its chief operating officer until resigning in 2025.

Islam Shawky

Islam Shawky is an Egyptian technology entrepreneur who co-founded Paymob, a Cairo-based payments company serving over 350,000 merchants across five Middle East countries, in 2015.

Ismael Belkhayat

Ismael Belkhayat is a Moroccan technology entrepreneur, co-founder and chief executive of Chari, a Casablanca-based B2B e-commerce and fintech company he started with Sophia Alj in 2020, valued at $125 million by 2025.

Isol

Isol (이솔), formally E-SOL, is a South Korean semiconductor equipment maker founded in 2018 by ex-Samsung mask specialist Kim Byung-gook, known for EUV mask inspection systems.

Issuu

Issuu is a digital publishing platform that turns static documents into interactive online publications, founded in Copenhagen in 2006 and sold to Italy's Bending Spoons in 2024.

IVRy

IVRy (アイブリー) is a Tokyo company founded in 2019 whose AI telephone platform automatically answers, routes, and books business calls, handling over 100 million calls by 2026.

Iyinoluwa Aboyeji

Iyinoluwa Aboyeji, known as Iyin Aboyeji, is a Nigerian technology entrepreneur who co-founded Andela in 2014 and Flutterwave in 2016, and now invests through Future Africa.

iZettle

iZettle was a Swedish financial technology company founded in Stockholm in 2010 by Jacob de Geer and Magnus Nilsson, known for the first mini chip card reader.

Izhar Wallach

Izhar Wallach is a Technion- and University of Toronto-trained computer scientist who co-founded the AI drug-discovery company Atomwise in 2012 as chief technology officer, and first-authored the 2015 paper introducing AtomNet.

J&T Express

J&T Express (极兔速递) is an express delivery company founded in Indonesia in 2015 by Li Jie, operating in 13 countries and ranked first by parcel volume in Southeast Asia.

JA Solar Holdings

JA Solar Holdings (晶澳科技) is a Chinese solar manufacturer founded by Jin Baofang in 2005, based in Ningjin County, Hebei, and ranked among the world's top module suppliers.

Jaan Tallinn

Jaan Tallinn is an Estonian founding engineer of Skype and Kazaa who later invested in AI companies like DeepMind and Anthropic and co-founded the Future of Life Institute.

Jack Gifford

Jack Gifford, also known as John Gifford, was an American semiconductor executive who co-founded Maxim Integrated Products in 1983 and AMD in 1968, leading Maxim until 2006.

Jack Kokko

Jack Kokko, born Jaakko Kokko, is a Finnish-born technology entrepreneur who co-founded AlphaSense in 2011 and leads the New York-based AI market-intelligence company as chief executive officer.

Jack Zhang

Jack Zhang is a technology entrepreneur who co-founded the cross-border payments platform Airwallex in Melbourne in 2015 and serves as its chief executive, owning a 12% stake.

Jacob De Geer

Jacob De Geer is a Swedish entrepreneur and baron who co-founded the Stockholm mobile-payments company iZettle in 2010 and sold it to PayPal for $2.2 billion in 2018.

Jad Antoun

Jad Antoun is a Lebanese entrepreneur who co-founded the Dubai property technology company Huspy in 2020 and serves as its chief executive officer, expanding it into Spain.

Jad Sayegh

Jad Sayegh is a Lebanese entrepreneur who co-founded the investment platform Sarwa in 2017 with Mark Chahwan and Nadine Mezher, and serves as its chief technology officer in Abu Dhabi.

James C. Morgan

James C. Morgan is an American business executive who was CEO of Applied Materials from 1977 to 2003, growing it into the world's largest semiconductor equipment maker.