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OrthoSensor

OrthoSensor was a medical-device company founded in 2007 in Dania Beach, Florida, best known for the Verasense knee sensor, acquired by Stryker in December 2020.

Ortivity

Ortivity is a German buy-and-build platform for outpatient orthopedic care. Founded in 2022, it scaled to over 100 locations and received a €200 million growth investment in 2025.

Osairlin (奥斯巴林) (Odin Vision acquirer)

Osairlin (奥斯巴林) is a name linked to a Chinese report of Olympus's December 2022 acquisition of the London cloud-AI endoscopy company Odin Vision for about $79 million.

osapiens

osapiens is a German enterprise software company based in Mannheim, founded in 2018, selling the osapiens HUB cloud platform for supply-chain transparency and ESG compliance.

Oscar Health Insurance

Oscar Health Insurance is a New York-based technology-led health insurer founded in 2012 by Mario Schlosser, Joshua Kushner, and Kevin Nazemi, serving about 2 million members.

OSChina / Gitee (开源中国)

OSChina, also known as Gitee (开源中国), is a Shanghai company that operates a developer community and Gitee, a code-hosting and DevSecOps platform founded in 2008.

Osisko Exploration Ltee

Osisko Exploration Ltee is a Quebec mineral exploration entity started by Osisko founder Robert Wares in 1998; the group's Osisko Mining Corporation built the Canadian Malartic gold mine.

Osler Diagnostics

Osler Diagnostics is a British medical diagnostics company spun out of the University of Oxford in 2017 to develop the Osler Origin, a portable point-of-care blood testing platform.

Osteal Therapeutics, Inc.

Osteal Therapeutics, Inc., formerly Joint Purification Systems, is a clinical-stage pharmaceutical company in Dallas, Texas, developing VT-X7, a seven-day antibiotic therapy for infected hip and knee implants.

Ostendo Technologies

Ostendo Technologies is a display and semiconductor company founded in 2005 in Carlsbad, California, led by CEO Hussein El-Ghoroury and developing the Quantum Photonic Imager, a full-color micro-LED microdisplay for wearables and light-field displays.

OTA Insight

OTA Insight is a Belgian-founded hospitality business intelligence company providing rate-shopping and revenue intelligence software to hotels, founded by Matthias Geeroms, Adriaan Coppens, and Gino Engels and rebranded as Lighthouse in 2023.

OTR Therapeutics

OTR Therapeutics (翱路医药) is a Shanghai-based biotechnology startup founded in March 2025 that raised a $100 million Series A to build oncology and immunology drugs.

Oula New Materials (欧莱新材)

Oula New Materials (欧莱新材; Guangdong Oulai High-tech Materials Co., Ltd.) is a Chinese maker of sputtering targets for flat-panel displays, founded in 2010 and listed on the STAR Market.

Ouro Medicines

Ouro Medicines was a San Francisco biotechnology company developing immune reset therapeutics for chronic autoimmune diseases; it launched in 2025 with $120 million and was acquired by Gilead Sciences in 2026.

Outfund

Outfund is a London-based fintech company founded in 2017 by Daniel Lipinski that provides revenue-based finance: equity-free cash advances to online businesses repaid as a share of sales.

Outpace Bio

Outpace Bio is a Seattle biotechnology company, spun out of Lyell Immunopharma in 2021, that uses AI protein design to engineer T cell therapies for solid tumors.

Outpost24

Outpost24 is a Swedish cybersecurity company founded in Karlskrona in 2001 by Carsten Bang Jensen, selling vulnerability management, threat intelligence, and identity security software; Vitruvian Partners has been its majority owner since 2022.

Outreach (company)

Outreach is a Seattle-based software company, founded in 2014, that sells a sales engagement and revenue workflow platform with sequences, calling, forecasting, and AI agents.

Outset Medical

Outset Medical, formerly Home Dialysis Plus, is a San Jose, California medical technology company whose Tablo console integrates water purification and dialysate production for dialysis.

Ouyeel

Ouyeel, formally Ouyeel Cloud Business Co. (欧冶云商), is a Chinese steel industry internet platform founded in 2015 by China Baowu Steel Group, integrating steel trading, logistics, and processing services.

Overhaul Group, Inc.

Overhaul Group, Inc. is an Austin, Texas-based supply-chain risk-management software company founded by Barry Conlon and David Broe in 2015, serving enterprise shippers like Microsoft and Dyson.

Ovid Therapeutics Inc.

Ovid Therapeutics Inc. is a New York-based, clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company founded in 2014 by Matthew During and Jeremy Levin that develops small-molecule medicines for rare epilepsies and other brain conditions.

Oviva

Oviva is a European digital health company founded in Switzerland in 2014, offering app-based dietary and chronic-condition coaching reimbursed by health systems in Germany, the UK, and Switzerland.

OWASP

OWASP (Open Worldwide Application Security Project) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit founded 2001, incorporated 2004, known for the OWASP Top 10 web security risk list, ASVS, 250+ chapters, and 275+ open-source security projects.

OwnBackup

OwnBackup, later Own Company, was a cloud data protection company for SaaS data, founded in 2015 and acquired by Salesforce in 2024 for about $1.9 billion.

Oxane Materials

Oxane Materials Inc was a Houston, Texas company founded in 2002 to make nanotechnology-enhanced ceramic proppants for hydraulic fracturing; it filed for bankruptcy in 2015.

Oxbury

Oxbury, formally Oxbury Bank Plc, is a British agricultural fintech bank in Chester, founded in 2018 and launched as a fully regulated bank in February 2021.

Oxide Computer Co

Oxide Computer Co is an American technology company founded in 2019 in Emeryville, California. It sells the Oxide Cloud Computer, a rack-scale integrated system for on-premises cloud platforms.

Oxyzo

Oxyzo Financial Services is a Gurugram-based Indian non-banking finance company, founded in 2017, lending collateral-free working capital and term loans to small and medium enterprises.

Paack

Paack is a Barcelona-based e-commerce last-mile delivery startup founded in 2015, which raised about €273 million and whose Iberian and French businesses were acquired by CEVA Logistics in 2026.