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Realtek Semiconductor
Realtek Semiconductor (瑞昱半导体) is a Taiwanese IC design company founded in 1987 and headquartered in Hsinchu Science Park, known for Ethernet chips, PC audio codecs, and networking controllers.
Rebecca Heineman
Rebecca Heineman, nicknamed "Burger Becky", was an American video game programmer who became the first US video game champion in 1980 and co-founded Interplay Productions in 1983.
Redwood Materials
Redwood Materials is an American battery recycling and materials company founded in 2017 by Tesla co-founder JB Straubel, based in Carson City, Nevada, and valued above $6 billion.
Reebonz
Reebonz was a Singapore-based luxury e-commerce platform selling authenticated new and pre-owned goods, founded in 2009, listed on Nasdaq in 2018, and liquidated in 2021.
Reeve Collins
Reeve Collins is an entrepreneur best known as co-founder of Tether, issuer of the world's most widely used stablecoin, and its first CEO from 2013 to 2015.
Reeve Kwan Chun-man
Reeve Kwan Chun-man (关俊文) is a Hong Kong entrepreneur who co-founded GoGoVan, now GOGOX, in 2013; the company listed on the Hong Kong stock exchange in 2022.
Relativity Space
Relativity Space is an American launch-vehicle developer in Long Beach, California, founded by Tim Ellis and Jordan Noone; its 3D-printed Terran 1 reached space in March 2023.
Rémi Racine
Rémi Racine is a Canadian video-game executive who co-founded Behaviour Interactive in Quebec in 1992 and built it into Canada's largest independent game developer, known for Dead by Daylight.
Remington Rand
Remington Rand was an American office-equipment manufacturer formed in 1927 that bought the Eckert-Mauchly company in 1950 and delivered the UNIVAC I, the first commercial US computer.
Remote
Remote is an HR and payroll software company founded in 2019 by Job van der Voort and Marcelo Lebre that acts as an employer of record for international hiring.
Ren Ito
Ren Ito (伊藤錬) is a Japanese entrepreneur and former diplomat who co-founded the Tokyo AI startup Sakana AI in 2023, the fastest company in Japan to reach unicorn status.
Renato Andrade
Renato Andrade is a Brazilian co-founder of Merama, a Latin American e-commerce brand holding company founded in 2020, and served as its CEO Brazil until 2025.
Renren Jucai
Renren Jucai (人人聚财) was a Chinese peer-to-peer lending platform founded by Xu Jianwen in Shenzhen in 2011, known for car-title loans before its supervised exit in 2020.
Renrendai
Renrendai (人人贷) was a Beijing-based peer-to-peer lending platform founded in 2010 by Zhang Shishi, Li Xinhe, and Yang Yifu, one of China's largest until the P2P sector was shut down in 2020.
RenrenYouXin Group
RenrenYouXin Group (人人友信集团) is a Beijing-based Chinese financial group founded by Li Xinhe, Zhang Shishi, and Yang Yifu, best known for the P2P lending platform Renrendai.
Retailo
Retailo is a B2B e-commerce and digital distribution marketplace headquartered in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, founded in July 2020 by three former Careem executives to supply small grocery shops and restaurants.
Riaan Stassen
Riaan Stassen is a South African banker who co-founded Capitec Bank and was its chief executive from 2004 to 2013, building it into a major retail bank.
Ribbon Communications
Ribbon Communications is an American communications technology company, formed in 2017 by merging Sonus Networks and GENBAND, supplying session border controllers and IP networking equipment.
Riccardo Zacconi
Riccardo Zacconi is an Italian business executive who co-founded King, the mobile games company behind Candy Crush Saga, in 2003 and served as its chief executive for sixteen years.
Rich Templeton
Rich Templeton is an American semiconductor executive who spent his 45-year career at Texas Instruments, serving as CEO from 2004 and chairman until his 2025 retirement.
Richard Chang (semiconductor executive)
Richard Chang, or Zhang Rujing (张汝京), is a Chinese-American semiconductor executive born in 1948 who founded and led SMIC, China's largest chip foundry, from 2000 to 2009.
Richard Egan (businessman)
Richard Egan, known as Dick Egan, was an American engineer who co-founded EMC Corporation in 1979 and served as US Ambassador to Ireland from 2001 to 2003.
Richard Hadida
Richard Hadida is a business executive who co-founded the Stockholm-based live casino supplier Evolution AB in 2006, serving as its Executive Chairman and later Creative Director until 2018.
Richard Sogge
Richard Sogge is an engineer who co-founded Data General Corporation in Hudson, Massachusetts, in 1968, after leaving Digital Equipment Corporation to build the Nova minicomputer.
Richard Valtr
Richard Valtr is a Czech technology founder and former hotelier who founded Mews in Prague in 2012, a hotel software company valued at $2.5 billion in 2026.
Rick Tsai
Rick (Lih Shyng) Tsai is a Taiwanese semiconductor executive who leads MediaTek, the world's top smartphone chip supplier, after serving as TSMC's CEO from 2005 to 2009.
Ricky Wong (Hong Kong entrepreneur)
Ricky Wong, also known as Wong Wai-kay (王维基), is a Hong Kong telecom and e-commerce entrepreneur who co-founded City Telecom in 1992 and built HKTVmall.
Ridhwan Khan
Ridhwan Khan is a South African entrepreneur who founded and leads Mobicel, a budget phone brand launched in 2007 and called South Africa's only successful domestic smartphone brand.
RIDI
RIDI (리디) is a Seoul-based content platform company founded by Bae Ki-sik in 2008 that sells ebooks, web novels, and webtoons, and runs the global webtoon service Manta.
Ridibooks
Ridibooks, now Ridi (리디), is a Seoul-based content platform company selling e-books, web novels, webtoons, and short dramas; founded in 2008, it became South Korea's first content platform unicorn in 2022.