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Ariel Yaroshevich

Ariel Yaroshevich is an Israeli software engineer who co-founded Firebolt, the Tel Aviv cloud data warehouse company, with Eldad Farkash and Saar Bitner, and served as its first CTO.

Arik Shtilman

Arik Shtilman (אריק שטילמן) is an Israeli entrepreneur, co-founder and CEO of fintech company Rapyd, which he built from 2015 into a payments firm serving over 100 countries.

Arik Vardi

Arik Vardi (אריק ורדי) is an Israeli internet entrepreneur who co-founded Mirabilis, the Tel Aviv company behind ICQ, and was its chief executive when AOL bought it in 1998 for $287 million.

Arkady Karpman

Arkady Karpman is an Israeli technology executive and co-founder of Rapyd, the London-headquartered fintech company, where he serves as Chief Technology Officer. He started the venture in 2015 as CashDash with Arik Shtilman and Omer Priel.

ArkEdge Space Inc.

ArkEdge Space Inc. (株式会社アークエッジ・スペース) is a Japanese space technology company founded in Tokyo in 2018 by Takayoshi Fukuyo, building micro-satellites and a lunar navigation system.

Arm China

Arm China, formally Arm Technology (China) Co. Ltd. (安谋科技), is the independent Chinese joint venture that licenses Arm's semiconductor technology and collects royalties in China.

Aron Schwarzkopf

Aron Schwarzkopf is an Ecuadorian-American entrepreneur, co-founder and CEO of the payments company Kushki, founded in 2017, which became Ecuador's first unicorn in 2022 at a $1.5 billion valuation.

Arteris

Arteris, Inc. is a Campbell, California-based semiconductor IP company founded in 2004 and listed on Nasdaq as AIP; its network-on-chip interconnect technology has shipped in more than 4 billion chips and chiplets.

Arthur Debert

Arthur Debert is a Brazilian technology entrepreneur who co-founded the logistics company Loggi in São Paulo in 2013, serving as its chief technology officer and later in product and strategy roles.

Arthur Hayes (cryptocurrency entrepreneur)

Arthur Hayes is a former derivatives trader who co-founded the cryptocurrency exchange BitMEX in Hong Kong in 2014, serving as CEO and pioneering the perpetual swap futures contract.

Arthur Waller

Arthur Waller is a French entrepreneur who co-founded and leads Pennylane, a Paris accounting software company, after selling his hotel pricing startup PriceMatch to Booking.com in 2015.

Arthur Wu

Arthur Wu (吴传福, Wu Chuan-fu) is a Taiwanese engineer who founded Proxene Tools in Taichung in 1984, building it into Asia's largest maker of industrial adjustable wrenches.

Arun Sarin

Arun Sarin is an India-born, US-educated business executive who was Chief Executive of Vodafone Group from 2003 until 2008, overseeing growth from 120 million to more than 260 million customers.

Arye Kohavi

Arye Kohavi is an Israeli entrepreneur and former IDF Special Forces company commander who founded Watergen in 2009; its patented technology condenses humidity into drinking water.

Ascenty

Ascenty is a Brazilian data center provider founded in 2010 by Chris Torto and headquartered in Vinhedo, São Paulo, now Latin America's largest data center operator.

Ashneer Grover

Ashneer Grover, born in 1982 in Delhi, is an Indian fintech entrepreneur who co-founded BharatPe, led it until his 2022 exit, and later founded Third Unicorn.

Ashok Soota

Ashok Soota, born 1942, is an Indian IT entrepreneur who built Wipro's IT business, co-founded Mindtree in 1999, and founded Happiest Minds in 2011.

Ashraf Sabry

Ashraf Sabry (أشرف صبري) is an Egyptian technology entrepreneur who founded Fawry, Egypt's largest electronic payment network, in 2008 and led its 2019 stock listing.

Ashton-Tate

Ashton-Tate was an American personal-computer software company founded in 1980, best known for the dBASE database program, which it sold to Borland in 1991 for $439 million.

ASM International

ASM International is a Dutch semiconductor equipment maker founded by Arthur del Prado in 1968, based in Almere, holding over 55% of the atomic layer deposition market.

Aspirity Partners

Aspirity Partners is a London-based, Irish-domiciled private equity firm founded by Joe O'Mara and Ralph Choufani, which closed its inaugural fund at over €875 million in 2025.

Assaf Feldman

Assaf Feldman is a technology entrepreneur who co-founded Riskified, the NYSE-listed ecommerce fraud-prevention company, in 2012 with Eido Gal, and has served as its Chief Technology Officer since inception.

Astroscale

Astroscale Holdings (株式会社アストロスケールホールディングス) is a Tokyo-based space debris removal company founded by Mitsunobu Okada in Singapore in 2013, listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange since 2024.

Asuene Inc.

Asuene Inc. (アスエネ株式会社) is a Tokyo-based climate-tech company founded in October 2019 by Kohei Nishiwada, selling the ASUENE carbon-accounting cloud used by more than 22,000 companies.

Atheros Communications

Atheros Communications was a California developer of wireless chipsets, founded in 1998 by Stanford's Teresa Meng and John Hennessy, and acquired by Qualcomm in 2011 for $3.1 billion.

Atmel

Atmel Corporation was an American semiconductor company in San Jose, California, founded by George Perlegos in 1984 and known for its AVR microcontrollers; Microchip Technology acquired it in 2016.

Attila Tetik

Attila Tetik is a semiconductor executive who co-founded LSI Computer Systems in Melville, New York, in 1969 with Alvin Kaplan after developing CPU circuits for Control Data Corporation.

August Erséus

August Erséus is a Swedish technology founder who co-founded the legal-AI company Legora, formerly Leya, in Stockholm in 2023 and served as its Chief Product Officer.

Aura Aero

Aura Aero is a French aerospace manufacturer founded in 2018 at Toulouse-Francazal by three engineers, which builds the certified Integral two-seat aircraft and is developing the 19-seat hybrid-electric ERA regional airliner.

AutoDS Ltd.

AutoDS Ltd., short for Automatic Dropshipping System, is an Israeli software company that automates dropshipping for sellers on Shopify, eBay, and Amazon; Fiverr acquired it in 2024 for $55.658 million.