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PrimeSense

PrimeSense was an Israeli 3D-sensing company founded in Tel Aviv in 2005 whose structured-light depth-sensing chip powered Microsoft's Kinect; Apple acquired it in 2013, reportedly for about $350 million.

Pro Medicus Limited

Pro Medicus Limited is a Melbourne-based healthcare informatics company founded in 1983 by Sam Hupert and Anthony Hall, selling the Visage 7 imaging platform worldwide.

Proxene Tools Co., Ltd.

Proxene Tools Co., Ltd. (伯鑫工具股份有限公司) is a Taiwanese hand-tool manufacturer founded in 1984 by Arthur Wu in Taichung, Asia's largest industrial-grade adjustable wrench maker, acquired 51 percent by Fusheng in 2025.

Psion

Psion was a British handheld-computing company founded in 1980 by David Potter, known for the Organiser and Series 3 and 5 palmtops running its EPOC system.

Puneet Agarwal

Puneet Agarwal is an Indian technology executive who co-founded the Bengaluru consumer lending fintech Moneyview in 2014 and has served as its CEO since 2025.

Pure Harvest Smart Farms

Pure Harvest Smart Farms is an Abu Dhabi agritech company founded in 2016 by Sky Kurtz and Robert Kupstas, growing vegetables in climate-controlled desert greenhouses.

Puxin Education

Puxin Education (朴新教育) was a Chinese private education group offering K-12 and study-abroad tutoring; founded in 2014, it listed on the NYSE in 2018 and was wound up in 2022.

Pyypl

Pyypl, pronounced "people," is a fintech company founded in 2017 by Antti Arponen and Phil Reynolds, offering prepaid cards and remittances without a bank account.

Q.ai

Q.ai, officially Q (Cue) Ltd., is an Israeli artificial intelligence startup founded in 2022 in Ramat Gan, acquired by Apple in 2026 for a reported $1.5–2 billion.

QI Tech (fintech)

QI Tech is a Brazilian financial-infrastructure fintech founded in 2018 in São Paulo, the first fintech licensed as a direct credit company and a securities distributor in Brazil.

Qian Jun

Qian Jun (钱军) is a Chinese chip-design executive and co-founder and CEO of Vastai Technologies, a Shanghai AI chip developer founded in 2018, after a decade at AMD.

Qian Zhiya

Qian Zhiya (钱治亚), known in English as Jenny Qian, is a Chinese business executive who co-founded Luckin Coffee in 2017 and served as its first CEO until 2020.

Qianbao Network

Qianbao Network (钱宝网, Qbao.com) was a Nanjing-based Chinese investment platform promising 20% to 60% returns that collapsed in 2017 as a Ponzi-style fraud by founder Zhang Xiaolei.

Qihoo 360

Qihoo 360 (奇虎360), now 360 Security Technology, is a Chinese internet security company founded in 2005 by Qi Xiangdong, best known for its free antivirus suite 360 Safeguard.

Qiu Bojun

Qiu Bojun (求伯君), also known as Bojun Qiu, is a Chinese software entrepreneur who founded Kingsoft in 1988 and wrote the WPS word processor, earning the label "China's First Programmer".

Qonto

Qonto is a French fintech company providing online business accounts and financial-management software for SMEs and freelancers, founded in Paris in 2016 by Alexandre Prot and Steve Anavi.

Qu Xiaohua

Qu Xiaohua (瞿晓铧), known in English as Dr. Shawn Qu, is a Canadian business executive who founded the solar manufacturer Canadian Solar in Ontario in 2001.

Quadient

Quadient is a French multinational technology company headquartered in Paris, known as Neopost until 2019, that automates business communications, finance processes, mailing, and parcel delivery.

Quek Siu Rui

Quek Siu Rui is a Singaporean entrepreneur who co-founded the online marketplace Carousell in 2012 and has been its chief executive officer, leading it to a US$1.1 billion valuation.

QuintoAndar

QuintoAndar is a Brazilian proptech company founded in 2012 by Gabriel Braga and André Penha that intermediates rentals, guarantees payment to landlords, and operates in six countries.

Quip

Quip is a San Francisco productivity software company founded in 2012 by Bret Taylor and Kevin Gibbs, known for combining documents and chat, acquired by Salesforce in 2016.

Qun Jielong

Qun Jielong (群接龙) is a WeChat mini-program group-ordering tool for community group buying, launched in 2017 by Guangxi Shangshi Technology, based in Nanning and Guangzhou.

Qunar

Qunar (去哪儿网) is a Chinese online travel company founded in Beijing in 2005 that began as a travel metasearch engine and became China's largest online air-ticket booking platform.

Qunar.com

Qunar.com (去哪儿网) is a Beijing-based Chinese online travel platform founded in 2005, which listed on Nasdaq in 2013 and now operates as a budget brand inside Trip.com Group.

Radware

Radware (רדוור) is an Israel-based cybersecurity and application delivery company headquartered in Tel Aviv, founded in 1996 and listed on Nasdaq under the ticker RDWR.

Rafael Vasto

Rafael Vasto is a Brazilian technology executive, co-founder and CEO of Daki, the São Paulo rapid grocery delivery company he founded in 2021 that became a unicorn valued at US$1.2 billion.

Raghu Ravinutala

Raghu Ravinutala, born Raghavendra Kumar Ravinutala, is an Indian-born technology executive who co-founded Yellow.ai in 2016 and, as CEO, agreed in 2026 to take it public on Nasdaq.

Rahul Jaimini

Rahul Jaimini is an Indian technology entrepreneur who co-founded the food-delivery company Swiggy in 2014, served as its chief technology officer until 2020, and later co-founded Pesto Tech.

Rahul Sud

Rahul Sud is an India-born semiconductor engineer, formerly Director of Memory Engineering at Intel, who founded Lattice Semiconductor in Oregon in 1983 and was dismissed as CEO in 1987.

Rainbow Robotics

Rainbow Robotics (주식회사 레인보우로보틱스) is a South Korean robotics company founded in 2011 by KAIST's Hubo Lab researchers under Professor Oh Jun-ho, building collaborative robot arms and humanoids.