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Wilfried Dufaud
Wilfried Dufaud is a French aerospace engineer who spent 2000 to 2016 in Airbus structures work before co-founding the aircraft manufacturer AURA AERO in Toulouse in 2018.
Will Marshall
Will Marshall is a physicist and former NASA scientist who co-founded the Earth-observation satellite company Planet Labs in 2010 and has served as its CEO since 2011.
Will Semiconductor, which acquired OmniVision
Will Semiconductor (上海韦尔) is a Chinese fabless semiconductor company founded in Shanghai in 2007 by Yu Renrong, best known for its 2019 acquisition of OmniVision Technologies, making it a top-three CMOS image sensor supplier.
William Beauchamp (technology founder)
William Beauchamp is a technology founder, CEO of Chai AI, a consumer AI chat company he started in Cambridge in 2020 and moved to Palo Alto in 2022.
William Ding
William Lei Ding (丁磊) is the Chinese billionaire founder and CEO of NetEase, the Hangzhou internet company he built into one of the world's largest online games firms.
William E. Foster
William E. Foster, known as Bill Foster, is an American technology executive who co-founded Stratus Computer in 1980, led it as CEO, and took it public in 1983.
William M. Holt
William M. Holt is an American semiconductor engineer who spent 42 years at Intel, retiring in 2016 as head of its Technology and Manufacturing Group.
William Poduska
William (Bill) Poduska Sr. is an American electrical engineer and serial entrepreneur who co-founded Prime Computer in 1972, founded Apollo Computer in 1979 or 1980, and later led Stellar and Stardent Computer.
William Roberts (Australian businessman)
William Roberts is an Australian businessman who co-founded IREN, formerly Iris Energy, in Sydney in 2018 and serves as Co-CEO alongside his brother and co-founder Daniel Roberts.
William Wang
William Wang is a Taiwanese-American business executive who co-founded Vizio in 2002, built it into a leading North American TV brand, and sold it to Walmart for about $2.3 billion.
Wingman (software company)
Wingman was a Bengaluru-based software-as-a-service company founded in 2018 by Shruti Kapoor and two co-founders, offering real-time sales call intelligence and acquired by Clari in 2022.
Winston Chen
Winston Chen (陳文雄) is a Taiwan-born American engineer and executive who invested $100,000 in Solectron in 1978 and led it to $18 billion in revenue by 2000.
Wise Up
Wise Up is a Brazilian chain of English-language schools for adults, founded in Rio de Janeiro in 1995 by entrepreneur Flávio Augusto da Silva and grown through franchising.
WiseTech Global
WiseTech Global is a Sydney-based logistics software company founded in 1994 by Richard White and Maree Isaacs, best known for its CargoWise platform for freight forwarders.
Wistron Corporation
Wistron Corporation (緯創資通) is a Taiwanese electronics manufacturing company formed from Acer in 2001 and Taiwan's largest ODM by revenue in 2025, driven by AI servers.
Wiwynn
Wiwynn (纬颖) is a Taiwanese original design manufacturer of hyperscale cloud servers, founded in 2012 as a Wistron spin-off and listed on the Taiwan Stock Exchange since 2019.
Wix
Wix is an Israeli software company whose cloud platform lets users build websites through free and paid subscriptions. It was founded in 2006 and listed on Nasdaq in 2013.
Wiz
Wiz is a cloud security company founded in Tel Aviv in 2020 and headquartered in New York, whose agentless platform scans cloud environments for vulnerabilities and misconfigurations.
Workday
Workday is an American enterprise cloud software company, co-founded in 2005 by Dave Duffield and Aneel Bhusri, that sells human capital management and financial applications on subscription from Pleasanton, California.
World Wide Technology
World Wide Technology is a privately held technology solutions provider and systems integrator in St. Louis, Missouri, co-founded in 1990 by David Steward and Jim Kavanaugh.
Worth Magazine
Worth is an American media brand for affluent investors, launched by Fidelity Investments in February 1992 and now owned by Clarim Holdings with a quarterly magazine and events.
Wouter Draijer
Wouter Draijer is a Dutch engineer who co-founded SolarMente, a Barcelona company selling rooftop solar by monthly subscription, and served as its CEO from 2019 until 2025.
Wu Bin (Chinese entrepreneur)
Wu Bin (吴彬) is a Chinese entrepreneur from Nanning, Guangxi, founder and CEO of Qunjielong (群接龙), a WeChat mini-program supplying group-buying tools to community sellers.
Wu Chuan-fu
Wu Chuan-fu (吴传福) is a Taiwanese businessman who founded PROXENE TOOLS, a Taichung maker of adjustable wrenches, in 1984 and serves as its general manager.
Wu Jian
Wu Jian (吴剑) is a Chinese business executive who co-founded the online travel company Tongcheng in Suzhou in 2002, serving as its long-time chief operating officer.
Wu Jihan
Wu Jihan (吴忌寒) is a Singapore-based cryptocurrency entrepreneur who co-founded Bitmain in 2013, built it into the world's largest bitcoin mining chip maker, and now leads Bitdeer.
Wu Xianyong
Wu Xianyong (吴显勇) is a Chinese finance entrepreneur who co-founded Touna Wang, a Shenzhen peer-to-peer lending platform, and was later convicted of illegally absorbing public deposits.
Wu Xinhong
Wu Xinhong (吴欣鸿), born 1981, is the founder, CEO, and chairman of Meitu, Inc., the Xiamen photo-editing app company he started in 2008 and listed in Hong Kong in 2016.
Wu Yiran
Wu Yiran (吴逸然) is a Chinese finance executive who co-founded the Beijing peer-to-peer lending platform Yooli.com in 2012 and served as its CEO from September 2015 to 2020.
Wu Zhixiang
Wu Zhixiang (吴志祥) is a Chinese entrepreneur who co-founded Tongcheng, a Suzhou-based online travel agency, in 2004 and led it to a Hong Kong listing in 2018.