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Gc Venture

GC Venture is a series of venture capital pooled investment funds, including GC Venture VIII-B and XII, managed by General Catalyst Group Management rather than being a standalone firm.

GCL Group

GCL Group (协鑫集团) is a Chinese clean-energy group founded in 1990 by Zhu Gongshan, organized around silicon materials for the solar industry, including granular polysilicon.

Gcm Grosvenor Advance

GCM Grosvenor Advance is a private equity fund-of-funds platform of Chicago alternative asset manager GCM Grosvenor, investing in primary funds and co-investments with diverse-owned and woman-owned managers; its first fund closed in 2021.

Gco V Private Investors

GCO V Private Investors is a pair of 2023 venture capital feeder funds, a Delaware LLC and a Cayman Islands L.P., administered by J.P. Morgan Private Investments.

GCT Semiconductor

GCT Semiconductor is a fabless semiconductor company founded by Kyeongho Lee in 1998 in San Jose, California, designing 5G and 4G wireless chipsets and publicly traded on the NYSE as GCTS.

GD Power Development

GD Power Development is a major Chinese power generator founded in 1992 and headquartered in Beijing, listed in Shanghai as a subsidiary of China Energy Investment.

Gdańsk grain trade

The Gdańsk grain trade (Handel zbożowy w Gdańsku) was the export of Polish grain through the port of Gdańsk on the Vistula, chiefly to the Netherlands, from the 15th century.

GDP deflator

The GDP deflator, also known as the implicit price deflator, is the broadest price index of an economy's domestic production, computed as nominal GDP divided by real GDP.

GDS Holdings (万国数据)

GDS Holdings (万国数据) is a carrier-neutral developer and operator of data centers in mainland China, founded by William Huang in 2001 and listed on Nasdaq and in Hong Kong.

GE Capital

GE Capital, the financial services arm of General Electric, was a global finance company that contributed nearly 60% of GE's profits. It was dismantled between 2015 and 2016.

Ge Wenyao

Ge Wenyao (葛文耀, born 1947) is a Chinese business executive who led cosmetics maker Shanghai Jahwa for 28 years, building the Herborist, Liushen, and Maxam brands.

Ge Yao Chu

Ge Yao Chu was a Shanghai-born electrical engineer who spent over two decades as a senior executive of Wang Laboratories and is remembered as a cofounder.

Geberit

Geberit AG is a Swiss sanitary-technology group headquartered in Rapperswil-Jona, founded in 1874, that makes concealed in-wall cisterns, installation frames, and piping systems sold across Europe.

Gecko Robotics

Gecko Robotics is a Pittsburgh-based robotics company founded in 2015 by Jake Loosararian and Troy Demmer that inspects warships, power plants, and pipelines with climbing robots.

Gee Automotive Holdings, L.L.C.

Gee Automotive Holdings, L.L.C., operating as Gee Automotive Companies, is a family-owned automotive dealership group based in Liberty Lake, Washington, founded by George Gee in 1983.

Geek+ (北京极智嘉科技股份有限公司) (极智嘉)

Geek+ (极智嘉) is a Beijing logistics-robotics company founded in 2015 that makes autonomous mobile robots for warehouse picking, handling, and sortation, listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in 2025.

Geetha Manjunath

Geetha Manjunath is an Indian computer scientist who founded Niramai, a Bengaluru startup that uses AI on thermal images to screen for early-stage breast cancer.

GeeXPlus

GeeXPlus, Inc. is a Tokyo-based creator management and marketing company for anime, gaming, and manga YouTubers, founded by Kadokawa in 2019 and owned by dwango.

GEICO

GEICO, the Government Employees Insurance Company, is an American direct-to-consumer auto insurer founded in 1936 in San Antonio, Texas, and owned by Berkshire Hathaway since 1996.

Gellért Jászai

Gellért Jászai is a Hungarian businessman who is Chairman and CEO of 4iG Plc, the Budapest-listed telecom, IT, space, and defense group, and its majority shareholder.

Gelubo Technology (格陆博科技)

Gelubo Technology (格陆博科技) is a Chinese chassis-by-wire startup founded in 2016 in Nantong, Jiangsu by Liu Zhaoyong, mass-producing brake-by-wire components and developing steer-by-wire for passenger and commercial vehicles.

Gem Security

Gem Security was an Israeli-American cloud detection and response startup founded in 2022 by three Unit 8200 veterans and acquired by Wiz in 2024 for a reported $350 million.

Gemdale

Gemdale (金地集团), formally Gemdale Corporation, is a Chinese property developer founded in Shenzhen in 1988, listed in Shanghai in 2001, known for residential and commercial development.

Gemological Science International

Gemological Science International (GSI) is a for-profit diamond grading laboratory founded in New York in 2005 by Debbie Azar and Mark Gershburg, serving large retail chains.

GemPharmatech

GemPharmatech (集萃药康) is a Nanjing-based biotechnology company founded in 2017 that develops genetically engineered mouse models for drug developers, listed on the STAR Market in 2022.

Gen Re

Gen Re, also known as General Re Corporation, is a global property/casualty and life/health reinsurance company headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut, acquired by Berkshire Hathaway in 1998 for about $22 billion.

GenapSys

GenapSys was a Redwood City, California biotechnology startup, founded in 2010, that developed a small, low-cost electronic DNA sequencing platform and went defunct in 2022.

Genbridge Capital

GenBridge Capital is a Beijing-based private equity firm founded in 2015 by former JD.com and TPG executives, investing USD 20-40 million in consumer companies in China.

Genbun recoinage

The Genbun recoinage (元文の改鋳) was a 1736 debasement of Tokugawa shogunate gold and silver coinage, ordered by shogun Yoshimune to end deflation; the new coins then circulated stably for about 80 years.

Gender pay gap

The gender pay gap, also called the gender wage gap, is the measured difference between women's and men's average earnings, typically expressed as a percentage of men's earnings.