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Naveen Joseph

Naveen Joseph is a logistics executive and former Amazon employee who co-founded the Dubai-based e-commerce delivery company iMile Delivery in September 2017, later serving as its Global HR Officer.

Navid Arabi

Navid Arabi is an Iranian AI engineer and startup co-founder, known for the Gooya Persian speech models and as co-founder of the London fashion-tech startup Luxi.Ai.

Navitas Petroleum Limited Partnership

Navitas Petroleum LP (נאביטס פטרוליום) is an Israeli oil and gas partnership controlled by Gideon Tadmor, with assets in the Gulf of Mexico and the Falkland Islands.

Neal Patterson

Neal Patterson (1949–2017) was an American business executive who co-founded the health IT company Cerner in 1979, built it to $4.7 billion in projected 2015 revenue, and led it until his death.

Ned Barnholt

Edward W. (Ned) Barnholt (born 1943) is an American business executive who spent 33 years at Hewlett-Packard before leading Agilent Technologies as CEO from its 1999 spin-off until 2005.

Neha Bansal

Neha Bansal is an Indian business executive and chartered accountant who co-founded the eyewear company Lenskart in 2008, serving as Executive Director and Global Head of Merchandising.

Neko Health

Neko Health is a Swedish health-technology company co-founded in 2018 by Daniel Ek of Spotify, selling annual full-body health assessments combining body scans, blood tests, and AI analysis.

Nemetschek Group

The Nemetschek Group is a Munich-based software company for the architecture, engineering, and construction industries, founded by Georg Nemetschek in 1963 and listed in Frankfurt since 1999.

NetEase Youdao

NetEase Youdao (网易有道) is a Chinese education-technology and AI company founded in 2006 as part of NetEase, best known for the Youdao Dictionary app and Dictionary Pen.

Neusoft Group

Neusoft Group (东软集团) is a Chinese software company headquartered in Shenyang, founded in 1991 by Liu Jiren out of Northeastern University and listed in 1996.

Newave Semiconductor

Newave Semiconductor (新涛科技) was a fabless semiconductor company founded in 1997 that designed mixed-signal communication chips in Shanghai, and was acquired by IDT in 2001 for about $80 million.

NextSilicon

NextSilicon is an Israeli semiconductor company in Tel Aviv, founded by Elad Raz in 2017, that builds the Maverick-2 software-defined dataflow accelerator for high-performance computing and AI workloads.

Nexttel

Nexttel, the brand of Viettel Cameroon SA, is a joint venture between Vietnam's Viettel and Cameroonian businessman El Hadji Baba Danpullo, and Cameroon's third mobile operator.

Nexus Research Laboratory, Inc.

Nexus Research Laboratory, Inc. was an early-1960s American maker of analog modules and operational amplifiers in Canton, Massachusetts, founded by Roger Noble and Alan R. Pearlman.

Niccolo Perra

Niccolo Perra is a software engineer and entrepreneur who co-founded the Copenhagen spend-management fintech Pleo in 2015, serving as chief technology officer through its $4.7 billion valuation.

NiCE Ltd

NiCE Ltd, formerly NICE Systems, is an Israeli software company headquartered in Ra'anana, founded in 1986, known for its CXone customer-experience platform and Actimize compliance software.

Nicholas Francis (Danish businessman)

Nicholas Francis is a Danish programmer who co-founded Unity Technologies in Copenhagen in 2004, serving as Chief Creative Officer until leaving in 2013 to develop his own games.

Nick Harris (businessman)

Nick Harris is the co-founder and CEO of Lightmatter, a photonic computing company founded in 2017 with fellow MIT researchers to build optical interconnects for AI data centers.

Nick Molnar

Nick Molnar is an Australian fintech entrepreneur who co-founded Afterpay in Sydney in 2014 with Anthony Eisen, becoming Australia's youngest self-made billionaire before Square bought the company.

Nidec Corporation

Nidec Corporation (ニデック株式会社) is a Japanese motor manufacturer headquartered in Kyoto, founded in 1973 by Shigenobu Nagamori, supplying precision motors for hard disk drives, cars, and appliances.

Niklas Adalberth

Niklas Adalberth (full name Gustav Erik Niklas Adalberth) is a Swedish entrepreneur who co-founded Klarna in 2005 and was its deputy CEO until 2015, before founding the Norrsken Foundation in 2016.

Niklas Hed

Niklas Hed is a Finnish gaming entrepreneur who co-founded Rovio Entertainment, the company behind Angry Birds, in 2003 after winning a Nokia and HP game competition.

Niklas Köhler

Niklas Köhler is a theoretical physicist and entrepreneur who co-founded the Munich defense AI company Helsing in 2021, where he is president and chief product officer.

Niklas Östberg

Niklas Östberg is a Swedish technology entrepreneur who co-founded Delivery Hero in Berlin in 2011 and led it as CEO for fifteen years, building it into one of the world's largest food delivery platforms.

Nikola Mrkšić

Nikola Mrkšić, born in Serbia in 1991, is a technology entrepreneur who co-founded PolyAI in 2017 and leads the London voice AI company as CEO.

Nikolay Storonsky

Nikolay Storonsky, also known as Nik Storonsky, is a British fintech entrepreneur who co-founded Revolut in 2015 and leads it as chief executive, after a career trading derivatives at Lehman Brothers and Credit Suisse.

Nilesh Patel

Nilesh Patel is an Indian software entrepreneur, co-founder and CEO of the Bengaluru-based sales execution company LeadSquared, India's 103rd unicorn, and earlier founded the software firm Proteans.

Nina Kristensen

Nina Broni Kristensen, born 1972, is a British video game executive who co-founded Ninja Theory in Cambridge and led development of Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice.

Ningbo Deye Technology

Ningbo Deye Technology is a Chinese manufacturer based in Ningbo, founded by Zhang Hejun in 2000, and the world's largest provider of residential energy-storage inverters.

Ninja Van

Ninja Van is a Singapore-based last-mile logistics company founded in 2014 that delivers parcels across Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam, the Philippines, and Thailand, with investors including Alibaba.