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Satish Gupta

Satish Gupta is a Silicon Valley semiconductor executive who led Cradle Technologies as president and CEO from 1998 to 2002, after marketing roles at Cirrus Logic.

Satish Kannan

Satish Kannan is an Indian engineer and entrepreneur who co-founded MediBuddy, a Bengaluru-based digital healthcare platform, in 2013 with Enbasekar Dinadayalane and serves as its chief executive officer.

Satyam Computer Services

Satyam Computer Services was an Indian IT services company co-founded by B. Ramalinga Raju, sold to Tech Mahindra after its chairman confessed to fraud in 2009.

Saumya Singh Rathore

Saumya Singh Rathore is an Indian entrepreneur who co-founded WinZO, a Gurugram-based real-money mobile gaming platform, with Paavan Nanda; she was arrested under money laundering laws in November 2025 and later granted bail.

Sauter Digital

Sauter Digital is a Brazilian technology consultancy founded in 2020 by Emerson de Lima, providing AI, Google Cloud, and data engineering services to large enterprises from São Paulo and Garanhuns.

Sayling Wen

Sayling Wen (温世仁, 1948–2003) was a Taiwanese electronics executive who co-founded Kinpo Electronics in 1973, led Inventec to become Taiwan's largest notebook maker, and funded rural digitization in China.

Scientific Data Systems

Scientific Data Systems (SDS) was an American computer company founded in California in 1961 by Max Palevsky and Packard Bell colleagues, sold to Xerox in 1969 for about $1 billion.

Scopely

Scopely is an American mobile games company founded in 2011 in Los Angeles and headquartered in Culver City, known for Monopoly Go!, Star Trek Fleet Command, and Pokémon GO.

Scott Cannon

Scott Cannon is an American technology executive who co-founded io, the hardware startup OpenAI agreed to acquire for $6.5 billion in 2025, alongside Jony Ive.

Scott Monks

Scott Monks is a British business executive who joined Rocksteady Music School as chief executive in 2015 after two decades building music TV channels for EMAP and Channel 4.

Scottrade

Scottrade was a St. Louis discount brokerage firm founded by Rodger Riney in 1980, with 3 million accounts and nearly 500 branches when sold to TD Ameritrade.

Scrive

Scrive is a Stockholm-based e-signature, digital identity, and contract management company founded in 2010, majority-owned by Vitruvian Partners since 2020, a Qualified Trust Service Provider under eIDAS, and profitable in 2025.

SDA Systems, later part of Cadence Design Systems

SDA Systems was a Silicon Valley electronic design automation company founded by James Solomon in 1983 to build chip design software, merging with ECAD to form Cadence in 1988.

Sean Lie

Sean Lie is a chip architect who co-founded Cerebras Systems in Sunnyvale, California, and as its chief hardware architect led the Wafer-Scale Engine, a chip spanning an entire silicon wafer.

Sebastian Castro (Kushki co-founder)

Sebastian Castro, full name Sebastián Castro Galnares, is an Ecuadorian entrepreneur and MIT-trained engineer who co-founded the payments company Kushki, Ecuador's first unicorn, and serves as its President.

Sebastian Kanovich

Sebastián Kanovich is a Uruguayan entrepreneur and economist who co-founded the payments company dLocal, Uruguay's first unicorn, and led it as chief executive until 2024.

Sebastian Knutsson

Sebastian Knutsson (John Sebastian Knutsson) is a Swedish game executive who co-founded King in 2003 and served as its chief creative officer, designing Candy Crush Saga.

Sebastián Mejía

Sebastián Mejía is a Colombian entrepreneur from Cali who co-founded Rappi, the Bogotá-based delivery and financial-services super-app, in 2015 and led it as President until April 2025.

Sebastián Noguera

Sebastián Noguera is a Colombian economist and industrial engineer who co-founded Habi in 2019, the real estate platform that became the first PropTech unicorn in Spanish-speaking Latin America in 2022.

Secureworks

Secureworks, formerly SecureWorks, is an American cybersecurity company headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. Founded in 1999, it offers the Taegis platform and was acquired by Sophos in 2025.

Seek (online employment marketplace)

Seek is an online employment marketplace founded in Melbourne, Australia in 1997, which facilitates nearly a third of Australian job placements and operates JobStreet and JobsDB across Asia.

Sefton Hill

Sefton Hill is a British video game director who co-founded Rocksteady Studios in London in 2004, directed the Batman: Arkham games, and co-founded Hundred Star Games in 2023.

Sehat Sutardja (Marvell Technology)

Sehat Sutardja (1961–2024) was an Indonesian-born American electrical engineer who co-founded the chipmaker Marvell Technology in 1995 and served as its CEO and chairman until 2016.

Seiuemon Inaba

Seiuemon Inaba, also known as Inaba Seiuemon, was a Japanese engineer who founded FANUC, the world's largest maker of numerical controls and industrial robots, and led it until 1995.

Sekiya family

The Sekiya family (関家) is the founding family of Disco Corporation, started by Mitsuo Sekiya in 1937 and led today by grandson Kazuma Sekiya, president since 2009.

Semtech

Semtech is an American semiconductor company headquartered in Camarillo, California, founded in 1960, that makes analog and mixed-signal chips and owns the LoRa low-power wireless technology.

Sendcloud

Sendcloud is a European e-commerce shipping automation platform founded in 2012 and headquartered in Eindhoven, Netherlands, connecting online shops to 170+ carriers for labels, tracking, and returns, serving over 28,000 webshops.

SenseTime

SenseTime (Shangtang Technology, 商汤科技) is a Chinese artificial intelligence company founded in 2014 by Tang Xiao'ou and Xu Li, headquartered in Hong Kong and listed there since 2021.

SentinelOne

SentinelOne is an American cybersecurity company founded in 2013 and based in Mountain View, California, selling the AI-driven Singularity Platform for endpoint, cloud, and identity security.

Sergio Fogel

Sergio Fogel is a Uruguayan technology entrepreneur and investor who co-founded the Montevideo-based cross-border payments platform dLocal in 2016, now its co-president and chief strategy officer.