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Tao Weijie

Tao Weijie (陶伟杰) is a Chinese internet entrepreneur and former Sogou product director who founded the wealth-management platform Lancai Wang, detained in 2019 for suspected illegal deposit-taking.

Tarun Shah

Tarun Shah is a Kenyan business executive who co-founded Bidco Africa, the Thika-based consumer-goods manufacturer, and holds an equal one-third share with his father and brother.

TBEA

TBEA (特变电工) is a Chinese power-transmission equipment and polysilicon group headquartered in Changji, Xinjiang, listed in Shanghai since 1997 and controlled by founder Zhang Xin.

TBM

TBM Co., Ltd. (株式会社TBM) is a Tokyo materials company founded in 2011 by CEO Atsuyoshi Yamasaki, known for LIMEX, a limestone-based alternative to plastic and paper.

Ted Dabney

Ted Dabney was an American electrical engineer who co-founded Atari with Nolan Bushnell in 1972 after building Computer Space, the first commercial video game, and contributed the circuitry behind Pong.

Ted Hoff

Ted Hoff, born 1937 in Rochester, New York, is an American engineer who proposed the architecture of the Intel 4004, the first commercial microprocessor, becoming Intel's first Fellow in 1980.

Ted Hsu

Ted Hsu (徐世昌, Hsu Shih-chang) is a Taiwanese engineer who co-founded ASUS in 1989, served as Vice Chairman of Pegatron, and returned in 2016 to lead ASUS's AI programs.

Teijin

Teijin, also known as Teijin Limited, is a Japanese technology group founded in 1918 as Japan's first rayon manufacturer, now spanning high-performance materials, healthcare, and IT.

Tencor Instruments

Tencor Instruments was a San Jose, California maker of wafer inspection and measurement equipment for chip manufacturing, founded by Karel Urbanek and merged with KLA in 1997.

TERASS

TERASS (株式会社TERASS) is a Japanese real estate technology company founded in Tokyo in 2019 by Ryosuke Eguchi, operating a brokerage of independent-contractor agents who keep 75% of each commission.

Teresa Meng

Teresa Meng (孟怀萦) is a Taiwan-born electrical engineer who pioneered all-CMOS Wi-Fi, founded Atheros Communications, and in 2019 became the first woman to receive the IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal.

Terry Gou (Foxconn (Hon Hai Precision Industry))

Terry Gou, also known as Guo Taiming (郭台铭), is a Taiwanese entrepreneur who founded Foxconn, formally Hon Hai Precision Industry, in Taiwan in 1974 and led it as chairman for 45 years.

Tetsuo Fukuda

Tetsuo Fukuda (福田哲夫) is a Japanese engineer and entrepreneur who founded the video game company Data East Corporation in Tokyo in 1976 and led it until its 2003 bankruptcy.

Tetsuya Iizuka

Tetsuya Iizuka (飯塚 哲哉) is a Japanese engineer, founder and CEO of the fabless semiconductor company THine Electronics since 1991, known for establishing the V-by-One HS interface used in high-definition televisions.

Tetsuya Takahashi

Tetsuya Takahashi (高橋哲哉) is a Japanese video game director who co-founded Monolith Soft in Tokyo in 1999 and created the Xeno series, including Xenogears and Xenoblade Chronicles.

The Access Group

The Access Group is a British provider of business management software for mid-market organizations, founded in 1991 and headquartered in Loughborough, England, with over 160,000 customers.

The Computer Museum, Boston

The Computer Museum was an independent non-profit museum of computing at Boston's Museum Wharf, founded by Ken Olsen and Gordon and Gwen Bell, operating from 1984 until 1999.

Théau Peronnin

Théau Peronnin is a French physicist and entrepreneur who co-founded Alice & Bob in 2020 and serves as its chief executive officer, building fault-tolerant quantum computers around cat qubits.

ThetaRay

ThetaRay is a software company selling AI-based anti-money-laundering tools to banks and payment companies. Founded in 2013 by mathematicians Amir Averbuch and Ronald Coifman, it operates in over 40 countries.

THine Electronics

THine Electronics (ザインエレクトロニクス) is a Tokyo-based fabless semiconductor company founded by Tetsuya Iizuka, known for its V-by-One HS interface standard used widely in 4K and 8K displays.

Thinking Machines Corporation

Thinking Machines Corporation was an American supercomputer company founded in 1983 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, by Danny Hillis and Sheryl Handler to build the Connection Machine.

Thomas Fuchs

Thomas Fuchs is a computational pathologist who co-founded the cancer-diagnostics AI company Paige.AI, led computational pathology at Memorial Sloan Kettering, and joined Eli Lilly as its first chief AI officer.

Thomas Hartwig

Thomas Hartwig is a technology entrepreneur who co-founded King, the games company behind Candy Crush Saga, in 2003 and was its chief technology officer through its 2014 IPO.

Thomas Pischke

Thomas Pischke is a German fintech entrepreneur who co-founded the Berlin brokerage Trade Republic in 2015 and serves as a managing director of Trade Republic Bank GmbH.

Thomas W. Williams

Thomas W. Williams is an EDA scientist and former IBM researcher known for co-inventing Level Sensitive Scan Design in 1977 and winning the 2018 Phil Kaufman Award.

Thomson-CSF

Thomson-CSF was a French defense and professional electronics group formed in 1968, Europe's largest in the field, privatized in 1998 and renamed Thales in 2000.

Tiago Dalvi

Tiago de Angeli Dalvi is a Brazilian entrepreneur, founder and chief executive of Olist, the Curitiba-based commerce company for small retailers that reached a $1.5 billion valuation in 2021.

Tianjin Luding Technology

Tianjin Luding Technology (天津鹿鼎科技) was the Chinese operating company behind the Bluegogo bike-sharing brand, China's third-largest, which collapsed in 2017 and was taken over by Didi Chuxing in 2018.

Tianyu Longtong

Tianyu Longtong, known for its K-Touch (天语) handsets, was a Chinese mobile-phone manufacturer founded in Beijing in 2002 by Rong Xiuli, once China's leading domestic phone brand.

TiE (organization)

TiE (The Indus Entrepreneurs) is a non-profit global entrepreneurship network founded in Silicon Valley in 1992 by Ambrish Patel and eight cofounders, with over 12,000 members in 60-plus chapters.