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Toru Nishikawa

Toru Nishikawa (西川徹) is a Japanese computer scientist and entrepreneur who co-founded the Tokyo deep learning company Preferred Networks in 2014 and served as its CEO until 2025.

Toshihiko Furukawa

Toshihiko Furukawa was a Japanese business executive who founded Sodick Co., Ltd., a maker of electrical discharge machines and precision machine tools, in Yokohama in 1976.

Tosin Eniolorunda

Tosin Eniolorunda is a Nigerian technology entrepreneur who co-founded the fintech Moniepoint, formerly TeamApt, in 2015 and serves as its group CEO, leading it to unicorn status in 2024.

Totvs

Totvs is a Brazilian enterprise software company headquartered in São Paulo, founded in 1983, the largest management-software company in Latin America, serving more than 70,000 customers in over 40 countries.

Trade Republic

Trade Republic is a Berlin-based online broker and full bank founded in 2015, with over 10 million customers, €150 billion in assets, and a €12.5 billion valuation.

Tradeshift

Tradeshift is a San Francisco fintech company founded in 2010 by a Danish team that operates a cloud-based network for e-invoicing, compliance, and supply chain payments.

Tran Ngoc Thai Son

Tran Ngoc Thai Son, born 1981, is a Vietnamese entrepreneur who founded the e-commerce platform Tiki in 2010 and chairs its Singapore parent Tiki Global.

Transitron Electronic Corp (semiconductor company)

Transitron Electronic Corporation was an American semiconductor manufacturer founded in 1952 by brothers Leo and David Bakalar in Massachusetts, once among the largest US diode and transistor makers.

Traveloka

Traveloka is an online travel booking platform founded in Jakarta, Indonesia, in 2012 by Ferry Unardi, Derianto Kusuma, and Albert Zhang, now based in Singapore.

Trax

Trax is a Singapore-headquartered retail analytics company founded in 2010 by Joel Bar-El and Dror Feldheim that uses computer vision to audit store shelves; it was acquired in 2026.

Trella

Trella is a Cairo-based digital trucking marketplace founded in 2019 by Omar Hagrass and three others, connecting shippers with carriers, operating in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE.

Trellix Corporation

Trellix Corporation was a Concord, Massachusetts software company founded in 1995 by VisiCalc co-creator Dan Bricklin, supplying private-label web site publishing tools and acquired by Interland in 2003.

Tridge

Tridge (트릿지) is a Seoul-based agri-food price intelligence and sourcing platform founded by Hoshik Shin in 2015, which became a unicorn in 2022 before its auditor flagged going-concern doubts.

Trina Solar

Trina Solar (天合光能) is a Chinese photovoltaic module manufacturer founded by Gao Jifan in 1997, headquartered in Changzhou, Jiangsu, and among the world's four largest module suppliers.

Trip.com Group (James Liang, Neil Shen, Min Fan, Qi Ji)

Trip.com Group, also known as Ctrip (携程), is a Chinese online travel company founded in Shanghai in 1999 by James Liang, Neil Shen, Min Fan, and Qi Ji.

Troy Molander

Troy Molander is an American video-game industry executive who co-founded Telltale Games in October 2004 with Dan Connors and Kevin Bruner, after directing LucasArts' Technical Art Department.

Troy Worrell

Troy Worrell is a software developer and video-game executive who co-founded Interplay Productions in Irvine, California, in 1983, helping grow it from four people to more than 500 employees before leaving in 1999.

TruKKer

TruKKer is a digital freight platform, founded in 2016 by Gaurav Biswas, connecting businesses with independent truck owners across the Middle East and Central Asia.

Truong Gia Binh

Truong Gia Binh (Trương Gia Bình, born 1956) is a Vietnamese mathematician-turned-businessman who co-founded FPT Corporation in 1988 and chairs it, Vietnam's leading technology conglomerate.

Trustly

Trustly is a Swedish open-banking payments company, founded in Stockholm in 2008, that lets consumers pay merchants directly from their bank accounts instead of by card.

tryb Group

tryb Group is a Singapore-based fintech investment firm founded in 2016 that holds stakes in and acquires fintech companies serving small businesses across Southeast Asia.

Tseng Fan-cheng

Tseng Fan-cheng (曾繁城), also romanized F.C. Tseng, is a Taiwanese semiconductor engineer, a 1976 RCA trainee whom Morris Chang calls a TSMC co-founder, who led the company as president and vice chairman.

Tsung-Hsien Wen

Tsung-Hsien Wen, known as Shawn Wen, is a Taiwanese technologist who co-founded the London voice AI company PolyAI in 2017 and serves as its chief technology officer.

Tunde Kehinde

Tunde Kehinde is a Nigerian technology entrepreneur based in Lagos who co-founded Jumia Nigeria in 2012 and led the small-business lending fintech Lidya until 2024.

Tuniu

Tuniu (途牛) is a Chinese online leisure travel company founded in Nanjing in 2006 and listed on Nasdaq under the symbol TOUR, known for self-operated packaged tours.

Turki Bin Zarah

Turki Bin Zarah is a Saudi fintech executive who co-founded the Riyadh-based buy-now-pay-later company Tamara in 2020 with Abdulmajeed Alsukhan and Abdulmohsen Albabtain, serving as its chief operating officer.

Tyme Group

Tyme Group is a Singapore-headquartered digital banking group founded in 2012 that runs branchless banks in South Africa and the Philippines, serving more than 23 million customers.

TymeGroup

TymeGroup is a Singapore-headquartered digital banking group founded in 2012 by Coen Jonker and Tjaart van der Walt, operating TymeBank in South Africa and GoTyme in the Philippines.

Ualá

Ualá is an Argentine fintech company founded in 2017 by Pierpaolo Barbieri and based in Buenos Aires, serving more than 11 million clients in Argentina, Mexico, and Colombia.

UBTech Robotics

UBTech Robotics (优必选) is a Shenzhen robotics company founded by Zhou Jian in 2012 that makes humanoid robots, from the small Alpha robots to the Walker industrial humanoids.