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Micree Zhan

Micree Zhan (Zhan Ketuan, 詹克团) is a Chinese chip designer who cofounded Bitmain Technologies, the world's largest bitcoin mining machine maker, in 2013, and later founded the AI chip company Sophgo.

Microsoft Ignite

Microsoft Ignite is Microsoft's annual conference for enterprise customers, its largest event of the year, focused on AI, cloud, security, and data announcements; the 2026 edition runs November 17–20 in San Francisco.

Miel Donkers

Miel Donkers is a software engineer who co-founded Dash0, an OpenTelemetry-native observability platform founded in Germany in 2023 and headquartered in New York, where he has served as Principal Software Engineer since May 2023.

Miin Wu

Miin Wu, also known as Wu Min-chiu (吴敏求), is a Taiwanese semiconductor entrepreneur who founded the memory chip maker Macronix in 1989 and leads it as chairman and CEO.

Mikael Mård

Mikael Mård is a Swedish games developer who co-founded Coffee Stain Studios in Skövde in 2010, created the Goat Simulator goat, and resigned in 2018.

Mike Ball

Mike Ball (Michael Ball, born 1969) is a British technology executive who co-founded Ninja Theory in Cambridge in 2000, the studio behind Heavenly Sword and Hellblade.

Mike Booth

Mike Booth is an American video game designer who founded Turtle Rock Studios in 2002, led it through Left 4 Dead and its 2008 Valve acquisition, and later joined Bad Robot Games.

Mike Dailly (video game developer)

Mike Dailly is a Scottish video game developer who co-founded DMA Design in Dundee, contributing to Lemmings and creating the prototype engine from which Grand Theft Auto grew.

Mike Farmwald

Mike Farmwald is an American semiconductor entrepreneur who co-founded Rambus with Mark Horowitz in 1990, serving as its Chief Scientist, and later founded companies including FTL and Matrix Semiconductor.

Mike O'Regan

Mike O'Regan is a British education-technology entrepreneur who co-founded Research Machines in Oxford in 1973 with Mike Fischer, supplying computers and ICT services to UK schools.

Mike Splinter

Mike Splinter, an American semiconductor executive, led chip-equipment maker Applied Materials as president and CEO from 2003 to 2013 after earlier careers at Intel and Rockwell International.

Miki Kuusi

Miki Kuusi is a Finnish entrepreneur, co-founder and CEO of the Helsinki delivery platform Wolt, co-founder of the Slush startup conference, and CEO of Deliveroo since 2025.

Mikko Kodisoja

Mikko Kodisoja, born 1976 in Turku, Finland, is a Finnish entrepreneur who co-founded the mobile game studio Supercell in 2010 and led its creative direction until 2020.

Min Fan

Min Fan (范敏) is a Chinese travel-industry executive who co-founded Ctrip, now Trip.com Group, in 1999 and served as its chief executive from 2006 to 2013.

Ming Liu

Ming Liu (刘明) is a Chinese robotics professor at HKUST and founder of Unity Drive Innovation (一清创新, UDI), a Shenzhen autonomous-driving company founded in 2018 whose unmanned vehicles operate in over 160 parks.

Mirabilis

Mirabilis was a Tel Aviv internet company that created ICQ, the first widely adopted instant messaging service, in 1996 and sold it to America Online in 1998 for $287 million.

Miri Ratner

Miri Ratner is an Israeli engineer who co-founded the 4D imaging radar company Vayyar Imaging in 2011 and serves as its vice president of research and development.

Mirko Novakovic

Mirko Novakovic is a German software entrepreneur and repeat founder who built codecentric and Instana, sold Instana to IBM for $500 million, and founded Dash0 in 2023.

Miss Dora

Miss Dora is an artificial-intelligence children's reading and storytelling app for ages 3 to 8, founded by education entrepreneur Kailei Zhang and launched in North America in April 2024.

MiTAC International Corp.

MiTAC International Corp. (神达电脑) is a Taiwanese electronics manufacturer founded by Matthew Miau in 1982 in Hsinchu Science Park, now known for cloud and AI servers.

MiTAC-SYNNEX Group

MiTAC-SYNNEX Group (联华神通集团) is a Taiwanese technology group of more than 40 companies built by businessman Matthew F.C. Miau, spanning IT distribution, computer manufacturing, and automotive electronics.

Mitch Kapor

Mitch Kapor is an American software entrepreneur who founded Lotus Development in 1982, designed Lotus 1-2-3, and led Lotus until 1986; IBM bought the company in 1995.

Mitchell Bohn

Mitchell Bohn, known as Mick Bohn, is a semiconductor executive who co-founded the ASIC pioneer LSI Logic in California in 1981 and was its chief financial officer.

Mitchell Elegbe

Mitchell Elegbe is a Nigerian entrepreneur who founded Interswitch, a pan-African payments technology company, in Lagos in 2002 and has served as its Group Managing Director and CEO ever since.

Mitchell Hashimoto

Mitchell Hashimoto is a software engineer and entrepreneur who co-founded HashiCorp in 2012, created the tools Vagrant and Terraform, and later built the Ghostty terminal emulator.

Mitsuhiro Ikeda

Mitsuhiro Ikeda is the Japanese businessman who founded HAL Laboratory in Tokyo in February 1980 and was its first president until March 1984, before the Nintendo era.

Mitsunobu Okada (Astroscale)

Mitsunobu Okada, also known as Nobu Okada, is a Japanese entrepreneur who founded Astroscale in Singapore in 2013, the first private company aiming to remove space debris.

Mitutoyo

Mitutoyo (株式会社ミツトヨ, Mitutoyo Corporation) is a Japanese manufacturer of precision measuring instruments, founded by Yehan Numata in Tokyo in 1934 to make the world's most accurate micrometer.

MIXI, Inc.

MIXI, Inc. (株式会社MIXI) is a Tokyo internet company founded by Kenji Kasahara in 1999, known for the mixi social network and the mobile game Monster Strike.

Miznon

Miznon is an Israeli street-food pita restaurant chain founded in Tel Aviv in 2011 by chef Eyal Shani, known for its whole roasted baby cauliflower and run-over potato, with more than 25 locations worldwide.