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Nir Pochter
Nir Pochter is an Israeli technology entrepreneur who co-founded Lightricks, the Jerusalem-based maker of Facetune, in 2013, and leads its marketing, building the ad-campaign prediction platform behind its growth.
Nir Zuk
Nir Zuk (ניר צוק), born in Israel in 1971, is a cybersecurity entrepreneur who founded Palo Alto Networks in 2005 and pioneered the next-generation firewall.
Nitin Gajria
Nitin Gajria is a technology executive who serves as Managing Director for Sub-Saharan Africa at Google, based in Johannesburg since June 2019, overseeing its $1 billion investment program.
Nitin Khanna
Nitin Khanna is an entrepreneur and investor, best known as co-founder of Saber Corp., a Portland, Oregon government software company sold to EDS in 2007.
Niu Yixin
Niu Yixin (牛一心) is a Chinese semiconductor engineer who co-founded the graphics-chip startup Lisuan Tech in 2021 and serves as its chief technology officer, after 18 years leading GPU development at S3 Graphics.
Nixdorf Computer
Nixdorf Computer AG was a German computer company founded by Heinz Nixdorf in 1952, a leading European maker of mid-range computers, taken over by Siemens in 1990.
Njalla
Njalla is a privacy-focused domain registration intermediary founded by Pirate Bay co-founder Peter Sunde in 2017, which registers domains under its own name as legal registrant and also offers servers and VPN service.
Noam Erez
Noam Erez is an Israeli technology entrepreneur who co-founded the cybersecurity company XM Cyber in 2016 after about 30 years in the Israeli Intelligence Community.
Noam Hertz
Noam Hertz is an Israeli software engineer and co-founder and CTO of Echo, a Y Combinator-backed sales-software startup in Haifa, after four years as a verification engineer at NVIDIA.
Nobuo Kawakami
Nobuo Kawakami (川上量生), born 1968, is a Japanese internet entrepreneur who founded Dwango in 1997, built the niconico video platform, and later led KADOKAWA DWANGO.
Norio Ichihashi
Norio Ichihashi (市橋規夫) is named on Mobileye's corporate history page as a founding team member of the Israeli company in 1999, responsible for its Asian market until 2001.
Norris Koppel
Norris Koppel is an Estonian fintech entrepreneur, born 1977, who founded and led Monese, a London mobile banking service launched in 2015 for people who move between countries.
Northvolt
Northvolt was a Swedish lithium-ion battery cell maker founded by former Tesla executives in 2016, which built Europe's first homegrown gigafactory in Skellefteå before going bankrupt in 2025.
NotCo
NotCo is a Chilean foodtech company founded in Santiago in 2015 whose AI platform, Giuseppe, develops plant-based foods like NotMilk; it became a $1.5 billion unicorn.
Noureddine Tayebi
Noureddine Tayebi, born in Algiers in 1977, is an Algerian engineer and entrepreneur who founded the super app Yassir in 2017, Algeria's most funded startup.
Novatek Microelectronics
Novatek Microelectronics (聯詠科技) is a Taiwanese fabless semiconductor company founded in 1997 from UMC's former commercial product division, headquartered in Hsinchu Science Park, and known as the world's largest display-related chip supplier.
Novellus Systems
Novellus Systems was a San Jose, California maker of thin-film deposition equipment for chips, founded in 1984 and acquired by Lam Research in 2012 for about $3.3 billion.
Nowports
Nowports is a digital freight forwarder founded in Monterrey, Mexico, in 2018 by Alfonso de los Ríos and Maximiliano Casal, and became Latin America's first LogiTech unicorn in 2022.
Nubank
Nubank, also known as Nu Holdings, is a São Paulo-based digital bank founded in 2013 by David Vélez, the largest in Latin America with 139 million customers.
Nugroho Herucahyono
Nugroho Herucahyono is an Indonesian software engineer who co-founded the Jakarta-based online marketplace Bukalapak in 2010 with Achmad Zaky and Fajrin Rasyid, serving as Chief Technology Officer until March 2020.
Nuvemshop
Nuvemshop, known as Tiendanube in Spanish-speaking markets, is a Latin American e-commerce platform founded in Buenos Aires in 2011, serving about 180,000 brands across five countries.
Octopus Group (financial services)
Octopus Group is a privately held London-based family of financial-services, energy, and education businesses, founded in 2000 by Simon Rogerson, Chris Hulatt, and Guy Myles, who remain its largest shareholders.
ofo
ofo, known in China as ofo小黄车, was a Chinese dockless bike-sharing company founded by Dai Wei and Peking University classmates in 2014, valued at $3 billion before collapsing in 2018.
Oh Jun-ho
Oh Jun-ho (오준호), born 1954 in Seoul, is a South Korean robotics engineer who led development of HUBO at KAIST, won the 2015 DARPA Robotics Challenge, and founded Rainbow Robotics.
Ohm Stock Broker Pvt. Ltd.
Ohm Stock Broker Pvt. Ltd. is a privately held Indian financial services company in Mumbai, founded by Amal Parikh in 1999, offering equity broking and SEBI-registered portfolio management.
OKWave
OKWAVE is a Japanese question-and-answer community website launched in January 2000 by Kaneto Kanemoto, generally credited as Japan's first Q&A site and once among its largest knowledge communities.
Ola
Ola is an Indian ride-hailing platform operated by ANI Technologies, founded by Bhavish Aggarwal in 2010 and headquartered in Bengaluru, which exited its international markets in 2024 to focus on India.
Olist
Olist is a Brazilian commerce-technology company based in Curitiba, founded by Tiago Dalvi in 2015, which connects small retailers to marketplaces and became a unicorn in 2021.
Oliver Curtis
Oliver Curtis is an Australian businessman who co-founded the AI infrastructure company Firmus Technologies in 2019 and is its co-CEO, owning 13 percent; he was jailed for insider trading in 2016.
Olivier Dellenbach
Olivier Dellenbach, born 1961 in Strasbourg, is a French software entrepreneur who founded eFront, sold to BlackRock for $1.3 billion in 2019, and then founded ChapsVision.