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Olivier Pomel

Olivier Pomel is a French-born technology executive who cofounded the cloud monitoring company Datadog in New York in 2010 with Alexis Lê-Quôc and has served as its CEO ever since.

Olivier Scialom

Olivier Scialom is an e-commerce entrepreneur based in Mexico City who co-founded Merama in 2020, the online-brands company that became a unicorn valued at $1.2 billion within twelve months.

Olugbenga Agboola

Olugbenga "GB" Agboola is a Nigerian engineer and entrepreneur who co-founded the payments company Flutterwave in 2016 and has served as its chief executive officer since 2018.

Omar Hagrass

Omar Hagrass is an Egyptian technology founder, co-founder and CEO of Trella (تريلا), a Cairo-based digital trucking marketplace connecting shippers with carriers across the Middle East, North Africa, and Pakistan.

Omar Salah (Egyptian entrepreneur)

Omar Salah is an Egyptian technology entrepreneur who co-founded the Cairo fintech Khazna in 2019, serving as its chief operating officer after managing operations at Uber Egypt.

Omar Saleh

Omar Saleh is an Egyptian technology entrepreneur, co-founder and Group CEO of Khazna, a Cairo-based financial technology company founded in 2019 that provides salary advances, lending, and insurance to underbanked Egyptian workers.

Ömer Koç

Ömer Koç, born in Ankara in 1962, is a Turkish businessman and grandson of Vehbi Koç who has chaired Koç Holding, Turkey's largest industrial group, since 2016.

Omer Priel

Omer Priel is an Israeli technology executive who co-founded the payments company Rapyd in 2016 with Arik Shtilman and Arkady Karpman, serving in business development and general management roles.

OMRON Corporation

OMRON Corporation (オムロン), formerly Tateisi Electronics, is a Japanese automation, sensing, and healthcare group founded by Kazuma Tateishi in Osaka in 1933 and headquartered in Kyoto.

OneWeb

OneWeb is a London-based low Earth orbit satellite broadband operator founded by Greg Wyler in 2012, now operating as Eutelsat OneWeb after a 2020 bankruptcy and rescue.

Opcore

Opcore (Opcore SAS) is a French hyperscale data center company, jointly owned by iliad and InfraVia, operating about 131 MW across Paris, Lyon, Marseille, and Poland.

Opn

Opn, also known as Omise and formerly SYNQA, is a payments and financial technology company founded in Thailand in 2013, registered in Tokyo, and valued at about $1 billion in 2022.

Opontia

Opontia was a Dubai-based e-commerce brand aggregator founded in 2021 by Philip Johnston and Manfred Meyer, acquiring brands across the Middle East, Africa, and Eastern Europe.

Opplane

Opplane, Inc. is an enterprise software company in Santa Clara, California, founded by Mohan Trikha in 2018, building data modernization and governance products that help financial institutions deploy AI.

Orbbec

Orbbec (奥比中光) is a Shenzhen-based 3D vision sensing company founded by Huang Yuanhao in 2013, developing depth cameras across structured light, iToF, stereo, and LiDAR technologies.

OrCam

OrCam is a Jerusalem-based computer-vision company founded in 2010 by Amnon Shashua and Ziv Aviram, the co-founders of Mobileye, that made wearable devices for blind users.

Osama AlRaee

Osama AlRaee is a Saudi entrepreneur who co-founded Lendo in 2019 and leads it as CEO; its Riyadh platform became the first SAMA-licensed Sharia-compliant debt crowdfunder in 2022.

Oscar Höglund

Oscar Höglund, born in 1978, is a Swedish entrepreneur who co-founded Stockholm's music-licensing company Epidemic Sound in 2009 and served as its CEO for about 17 years.

Oscar Jilsén

Oscar Jilsén is a Swedish game designer who co-founded Coffee Stain Studios in Skövde in 2010, one of nine students from the University of Skövde, and served as its lead designer.

OTD Corporation

OTD Corporation (주식회사 오티디코퍼레이션) is a Seoul-based space-curation company founded by Son Chang-hyun in 2014, known for Korea's first "select dining" shop, Over the Dish, and brands like Arc.n.Book.

Otto Toto Sugiri

Otto Toto Sugiri, also known as Toto Sugiri, is an Indonesian technology entrepreneur and CEO of DCI Indonesia, the largest data center operator in Indonesia, which he took public in 2021.

Ouku

Ouku (欧酷网) was a Shanghai-based B2C e-commerce site selling mobile phones and electronics, founded in 2007 by Huang Zheng, a former Google China engineer, and sold to LightInTheBox in 2010.

Oumar Rafiou Barry

Oumar Rafiou Barry is a Guinean fintech entrepreneur and founder and CEO of Cauridor, a cross-border payments company spun out of BNB Transfer Corp in 2022 that reported $500 million in payment volume in 2024.

Paavan Nanda

Paavan Nanda is an Indian internet entrepreneur who co-founded the gaming platform WinZO in 2018, after earlier building the hostel chain Zostel and ZO Rooms.

Pablo González (Mexican entrepreneur)

Pablo González is a Mexican technology entrepreneur who co-founded the cryptocurrency exchange Bitso in 2014, serving as its first CEO and later Chief Design Officer until 2021.

Pagaleve

Pagaleve is a São Paulo fintech founded in 2021 by Henrique Weaver and Michael Greer that lets consumers pay in installments through Pix without a credit card.

Palm (company)

Palm, Inc., founded in 1992 by Jeff Hawkins and Donna Dubinsky, created the PalmPilot handheld organizer and the Treo smartphone, and was acquired by Hewlett-Packard in 2010.

Pan Jibiao

Pan Jibiao (盘继彪), born 1973, is the founder of Changsha's Shengda Jinxi, sentenced to life imprisonment in 2025 for a RMB 91.1 billion fund-raising fraud.

Pan Wen-yuan

Pan Wen-yuan (潘文淵) was a Chinese-American RCA scientist who planned Taiwan's 1976 IC technology transfer, seeding UMC and TSMC, and is called the father of Taiwan's semiconductors.

Panda TV

Panda TV (熊猫直播) was a Chinese game livestreaming platform founded in 2015 by Wang Sicong, which shut down in March 2019 and was declared bankrupt in 2021.