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Pei-Hao Su

Pei-Hao Su, known as Eddy Su, is a Taiwanese engineer and entrepreneur who co-founded PolyAI, a London-based enterprise voice-AI company, in 2017 and serves as its SVP of Engineering.

Peng Li

Peng Li (彭莉, born 1978) is a Chinese chip engineer who co-founded the Shanghai GPU maker MetaX in 2020 and serves as its chief technology officer and chief hardware architect.

Pengyu He

He Pengyu (何鹏宇) is a Chinese internet entrepreneur, former Tongcheng Travel senior vice president, who founded Tongcheng Life, reaching a $1 billion valuation before its 2021 bankruptcy.

PensionBee

PensionBee is a London-based financial technology company founded in 2014 by Romi Savova that combines scattered UK pensions into one online account, listed on the London Stock Exchange.

Peoplebox.ai

Peoplebox.ai is an AI-native talent-management software company founded in 2018 by Abhinav Chugh and Alagu Muthuraman, offering OKRs, performance reviews, and AI hiring to over 500 companies.

PeopleStrong

PeopleStrong is an Indian human capital management software company headquartered in Gurugram, founded in 2005 by Pankaj Bansal and Shelly Singh, with Goldman Sachs acquiring a majority stake in 2025.

Perfect World

Perfect World (完美世界) is a Beijing-based online game developer and publisher founded by Chi Yufeng, known for MMORPGs such as Zhu Xian and for operating Dota 2, Counter-Strike, and Steam China.

Perimeter 81

Perimeter 81 is an Israeli cloud and network security company founded in 2018 in Tel Aviv by Sagi Gidali and Amit Bareket, acquired by Check Point in 2023.

Personio

Personio is a Munich-based human resources software company founded in 2015 by Hanno Renner, selling an all-in-one HR platform to small and mid-sized businesses across Europe.

Peter Beck

Sir Peter Beck is a New Zealand engineer and entrepreneur who founded Rocket Lab in Auckland in 2006 and has led it as chief executive since 2013.

Peter Carlsson

Peter Carlsson (born 1970) is a Swedish entrepreneur, nicknamed "the Tesla Swede", who co-founded the battery manufacturer Northvolt in 2016 and led it as chief executive until November 2024.

Peter Gassner

Peter Gassner is a software executive, the founder and chief executive officer of Veeva Systems, a cloud software company serving the global life sciences industry, founded in 2007.

Peter Gray (fintech executive)

Peter Gray is an Australian fintech executive who co-founded the buy now, pay later company Zip Co (formerly ZipMoney) with Larry Diamond in 2013, later serving as its global chief operating officer and ANZ chief executive.

Peter Lieck

Peter Mosebjane Lieck is a German fintech co-founder of Augustus, a Berlin payments company founded in 2022 as Ivy, where he serves as chief revenue officer leading partnerships.

Peter Lipka

Peter Lipka is a British technology executive, Chief Operating Officer of Improbable, the London company behind the SpatialOS simulation platform, which he joined in 2012.

Peter Salanki

Peter Salanki is a Swedish-trained network engineer who serves as chief technology officer of CoreWeave, the AI cloud-infrastructure company listed on Nasdaq under the ticker CRWV since March 2025.

Peter Schnell (German IT entrepreneur)

Peter Schnell (born 1938) is a German mathematician and IT entrepreneur who co-founded Software AG in Darmstadt in 1969, led it until 1996, and developed the ADABAS database.

Peter Vesterbacka

Peter Vesterbacka is a Finnish marketing executive and entrepreneur who served as chief marketing officer of Angry Birds developer Rovio from 2010 to 2016, then founded Finest Bay Area to promote a Helsinki–Tallinn undersea tunnel.

Petteri Lahtela

Petteri Lahtela is a Finnish technology founder from Oulu who co-founded Oura Health, maker of the Oura Ring, serving as its first CEO from 2013 to 2018.

Peyush Bansal

Peyush Bansal (पीयूष बंसल) is an Indian entrepreneur who co-founded Lenskart in 2008, India's largest organized eyewear retailer, and serves as its chairman, managing director, and CEO.

PharmEasy

PharmEasy is an Indian online pharmacy and diagnostics marketplace founded in Mumbai in 2015 by Dharmil Sheth and Dhaval Shah, operated under parent company API Holdings.

Phil Moorby

Phil Moorby (1953–2022) was a British-born engineer who invented the Verilog hardware description language and its Verilog-XL simulator, work that became the foundation of digital chip design and verification.

Phil Reynolds

Phil Reynolds is an Australian technology finance executive who co-founded Pyypl, a UAE-based financial services platform for the unbanked, in 2017 with Antti Arponen, whom he met at Virgin Mobile Middle East and Africa.

Phil Robb

Phil Robb is an American video game developer, co-founder and creative director of Turtle Rock Studios, the maker of Left 4 Dead and Back 4 Blood.

Philco

Philco, an American electronics company founded in 1906 as the Philadelphia Storage Battery Company, led US radio manufacturing in the 1930s before Ford bought it in 1961.

Philipp Schröder

Philipp Schröder, born 1983 in Hamburg, is a German entrepreneur and co-founder and chief executive of 1komma5°, one of Europe's largest residential solar installers, after leading Tesla Germany and Sonnen.

Philippe Kahn

Philippe Kahn is a French-born software engineer and entrepreneur who co-founded and led Borland, maker of Turbo Pascal, until 1995, then pioneered the camera phone.

Phison Electronics

Phison Electronics (群联电子) is a Taiwanese fabless semiconductor company, co-founded in 2000 by K.S. Pua, that designs NAND flash controllers for SSDs, memory cards, and USB drives.

Piermont Bank

Piermont Bank is a New York State-chartered, FDIC-insured digital commercial bank founded by Wendy Cai-Lee, the first de novo New York bank charter in a decade, opened in 2019.

Pierpaolo Barbieri

Pierpaolo Barbieri is an Argentine entrepreneur and historian who founded the fintech Ualá in 2017, building it into a digital bank with over 11 million clients.