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Gad Huldai (גד חולדאי)

Gad Huldai (גד חולדאי) is an Israeli venture capital investor and General Partner at Pitango First, Pitango Venture Capital's seed fund, whose investments include StreamElements, Duda, and Ubimo.

Gad Saad

Gad Saad (جاد سعد, גד סעד), born in 1964, is a Lebanese-born Canadian evolutionary behavioral scientist and Concordia marketing professor known for founding evolutionary consumption and for his books on idea pathogens.

Gail Miller (businesswoman)

Gail Miller is an American billionaire businesswoman who co-founded a Utah Toyota dealership in 1979 and led the Larry H. Miller Group after her husband's 2009 death.

Gains from trade

Gains from trade are the increase in a country's real income from trading with the world rather than being in autarky, often measured as a percentage of GDP.

Gainsight

Gainsight, originally named JBara Software, Inc., is a Redwood City, California software company founded in 2013 that sells customer success software for subscription businesses; Vista Equity Partners acquired it for a reported $1.1 billion in 2020.

Gajus Worthington

Gajus Worthington is an American engineer who co-founded the life-science tools company Fluidigm in 1999 and served as its chief executive officer for about 17 years.

Galactic Energy (星河动力)

Galactic Energy (星河动力) is a Beijing-based private aerospace company flying the solid-propellant Ceres-1 and the reusable liquid-fueled Pallas-1, which reached orbit on its first flight in 2026.

Galaxea AI (星海图)

Galaxea AI (星海图) is a Chinese embodied-AI robotics startup founded in September 2023 that builds wheeled dual-arm robots and bipedal humanoids around vision-language-action foundation models.

Galaxy Digital (company)

Galaxy Digital is a financial services company for digital assets and high-performance computing, founded by Mike Novogratz in 2018 and listed on Nasdaq under GLXY.

Galaxy Entertainment

Galaxy Entertainment Group is a Macau-focused casino resort operator holding one of Macau's six gaming concessions through Galaxy Casino S.A., the flagship of Hong Kong's K. Wah Group.

Galaxy General Robotics

Galaxy General Robotics, branded Galbot, is a Chinese embodied-AI startup founded in Beijing in 2023 by Wang He and Yao Tengzhou, building wheeled humanoid robots for unstaffed retail and factories.

Galaxy General Robotics (GalaxyBot)

Galaxy General Robotics, also known as Galbot (银河通用), is a Beijing-based embodied-AI robotics startup founded by He Wang in May 2023, China's best-funded in the sector.

Galaxy Interactive

Galaxy Interactive is a venture capital franchise established by Galaxy Digital in 2018 and managed from New York, investing in video games, immersive virtual world infrastructure, and adjacent technology.

Galaxy Ventures

Galaxy Ventures is the venture capital arm of Galaxy, a New York digital-asset firm founded by Michael Novogratz in 2018, which has backed more than 120 crypto companies.

GalaxySpace (银河航天)

GalaxySpace (银河航天) is a Chinese commercial satellite manufacturer in Beijing, founded by Xu Ming in 2018, which has launched over 50 satellites and entered IPO tutoring in 2026.

Galera Therapeutics

Galera Therapeutics is a Malvern, Pennsylvania biopharmaceutical company founded in 2012 that developed SOD mimetics to reduce severe oral mucositis from radiotherapy, then merged into Obsidian Therapeutics in 2026.

Galia Beer-Gabel

Galia Beer-Gabel is an Israeli venture investor and Managing Partner at Team8, appointed in November 2025 to lead fintech company-building from New York after six years developing the firm's fintech platform.

Galileo Technology (company)

Galileo Technology was an Israeli fabless semiconductor company that designed switched Ethernet and communications chips, listed on NASDAQ and acquired by Marvell in 2001 for about $2.7 billion.

Gallagher

Gallagher, formally Arthur J. Gallagher & Co., is an American insurance brokerage and risk management firm founded in 1927, ranked the world's third largest insurance broker by revenue.

Gallatin Point Capital Partners

Gallatin Point Capital is a financial-services-focused private investment firm based in Greenwich, Connecticut, co-founded by Matthew Botein and Lee Sachs, whose Fund III raised over $1.1 billion by 2026.

Galloping inflation

Galloping inflation is double-digit annual inflation, roughly 10 to just under 100 percent a year, that distorts contracts and expectations but falls short of hyperinflation.

Galp Energia

Galp Energia is a Portugal-listed, Iberia-focused energy group operating in upstream production, refining, fuel retail, and renewables, best known for its large Mopane oil discovery offshore Namibia.

Gambian dalasi

The Gambian dalasi (GMD) is the currency of The Gambia, issued by the Central Bank of The Gambia since 1971, replacing the Gambian pound at 5 dalasis to the pound.

Game theory in business

Game theory in business applies formal models of strategic interaction, including Nash equilibrium, auctions, and bargaining, to decisions such as pricing, bidding, capacity investment, and negotiation.

Gameto, Inc.

Gameto, Inc. is a clinical-stage biotechnology company founded in 2020 by Dina Radenkovic and Martin Varsavsky, known for Fertilo, a stem-cell therapy that matures eggs outside the body to reduce hormone injections in IVF.

Gamma (media company)

Gamma is an American music and media company launched in 2023 by Larry Jackson and Ike Youssef, whose roster has included Usher, Rick Ross, and Mariah Carey.

Gander Mountain

Gander Mountain, later Gander RV, was an American chain of outdoor-sports specialty stores selling hunting, fishing, and camping gear, founded in 1960 and sold to Camping World in 2017.

Ganesh K

Ganesh K is an Indian corporate-development executive and venture investor, Partner and Head of Corporate Development at Elevation Capital since 2021, after fifteen years at Spark Capital.

Gang Ye

Gang Ye, also known as Ye Gang (叶刚), is a Singapore-based technology executive who co-founded Sea Limited with Forrest Li and David Chen and has served as its chief operating officer since January 2017.

Ganga Bhishen Agarwal

Ganga Bhishen Agarwal, nicknamed Haldiram, was an Indian snack-food entrepreneur from Bikaner, Rajasthan, who refined Bikaneri bhujia from moth lentil flour and built the family trade into Haldiram's, one of India's largest snack businesses.