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Genuine Parts

Genuine Parts Company is an Atlanta-based distributor of automotive and industrial replacement parts, founded in 1928, with $24.3 billion in 2025 sales through its NAPA and Motion businesses.

Genvid Holdings

Genvid Holdings, formerly Genvid Technologies, is a New York media technology company founded in 2016 by Square Enix veterans, known for pioneering interactive livestreaming and Massive Interactive Live Events.

Geode Capital Mgmt.

Geode Capital Management, LLC is a Boston-based, employee-owned asset manager founded by Fidelity in 2001 that subadvises Fidelity's index funds, including the zero-fee ZERO funds.

Geodesic Alliance Fund

Geodesic Alliance Fund is a 2024 venture capital fund managed by Geodesic Capital, John Roos's Foster City firm, targeting $400 million for early-stage deep tech startups.

Geodesic Capital

Geodesic Capital is a California venture capital firm founded in 2015 by John V. Roos and Ashvin Bachireddy with Mitsubishi Corporation, investing Silicon Valley growth-stage capital and helping portfolio companies enter Japan.

Geoff Lewis

Geoff Lewis is a venture capitalist and founder of Bedrock, a technology investment firm with about $3 billion under management, after partnering at Founders Fund.

Geoff Martha

Geoff Martha is an American business executive, chairman and CEO of Medtronic since 2020, who earlier led its $43 billion acquisition of Covidien in 2015.

Geoffrey C. Hsu, CFA

Geoffrey C. Hsu, CFA, is a General Partner at OrbiMed, a healthcare investment firm, and co-manager with Josh Golomb of the UK-listed Biotech Growth Trust PLC.

Geoffrey Rehnert

Geoffrey Rehnert is an American private equity investor who co-founded Audax Group in Boston in 1999 with Marc Wolpow, after helping start Bain Capital in 1984.

Geoffrey Y. Yang

Geoffrey Y. Yang is an American venture capitalist and founding partner of Redpoint Ventures since 1999, known for investing in media, internet, and infrastructure companies and serving on the Warner Bros. Discovery board.

Geometry Partners (上海几何伙伴智能驾驶有限公司) (几何伙伴)

Geometry Partners (上海几何伙伴智能驾驶有限公司) is a Shanghai autonomous-driving startup founded in October 2018 by Xue Dan, developing 4D millimeter-wave imaging radar and L2–L4 fusion perception systems, with SAIC as its anchor customer.

Georg Nemetschek

Georg Nemetschek, born in 1934, is a German engineer and software entrepreneur who founded the construction-software company Nemetschek SE as an engineering office in 1963.

George A. Archer

George A. Archer (1850–1932) was an American linseed-oil businessman from Dayton, Ohio, who co-founded with John W. Daniels the Minneapolis flaxseed-crushing firm that became Archer-Daniels-Midland Company (ADM).

George Averoff

George Averoff (Γεώργιος Αβέρωφ) was a Greek merchant and banker based in Egypt, born in Metsovo in 1818, who financed the restored Panathenaic Stadium for the 1896 Olympics.

George B. Kaiser

George Kaiser is a Tulsa, Oklahoma energy and banking executive who took over Kaiser-Francis Oil in 1969, bought the Bank of Oklahoma in 1991, and founded a philanthropic foundation.

George Bischof

George Bischof is a venture capitalist and General Partner at Meritech Capital Partners since 2008, known for late-stage investments in enterprise software companies including Box and Barracuda Networks.

George Boldt

George Boldt (Georg Carl Boldt, 1851–1916) was a German-born American hotelier who managed the Waldorf-Astoria in New York, owned the Bellevue-Stratford in Philadelphia, and built Boldt Castle, left unfinished after his wife's 1904 death.

George Burton Hunter

George Burton Hunter (1845–1937) was an English shipbuilder who co-founded Swan Hunter at Wallsend on the River Tyne, whose yard built the Mauretania and Carpathia.

George Cadbury

George Cadbury (1839–1922) was an English Quaker cocoa manufacturer and social reformer who built Cadbury Brothers into a major firm and created the Bournville model village near Birmingham.

George Coulam

George Coulam was an American artist and entrepreneur who founded the Texas Renaissance Festival in 1974 and served as the first mayor of Todd Mission, Texas.

George Dimopoulos

George Dimopoulos is a Greek venture capital investor who co-founded VentureFriends in Athens after investment banking at Bank of America Merrill Lynch; the firm manages over €300 million.

George Emanuel Pararas-Carayannis

George Emanuel Pararas-Carayannis, also published as George Pararas-Carayannis, is a Chartered Financial Analyst and portfolio manager at Arrowstreet Capital, a Boston-based quantitative equity manager, after earlier analyst work at Putnam Investments.

George Farmer (businessman)

George Farmer is a British businessman and former hedge fund professional who was chief executive of Parler from 2021 until its 2023 sale, and is married to Candace Owens.

George H. Williamson

George H. Williamson (1888–1967) was an American confectioner who founded the Williamson Candy Company in Chicago in 1917 and created the Oh Henry! candy bar.

George Hearst

George Hearst was a Missouri-born geologist and mining magnate, a Democratic US Senator from California, and the father of publisher William Randolph Hearst, whose claims included the Comstock Lode, Homestake, and Anaconda.

George Heaton

George Heaton is a British fashion entrepreneur who founded the streetwear label Represent with his brother Michael in 2011, growing it from printed T-shirts into a brand approaching £100 million in turnover.

George Mathew

George Mathew is a venture capitalist and former enterprise-software operator who has been a Managing Director at Insight Partners since 2021, investing in data infrastructure, AI, and analytics companies.

George McDonaugh

George McDonaugh is a digital asset investor who left an advertising career after discovering Bitcoin in 2011 and co-founded KR1 plc in 2016, a London-listed crypto investor that seed-funded Ethereum, Polkadot, and Cosmos.

George Osborne

George Osborne, born Gideon George Oliver Osborne, is a British Conservative politician who was Chancellor of the Exchequer from 2010 to 2016, defining policy through austerity.

George P. Putnam

George P. Putnam, also known as George Palmer Putnam, was an American publisher, author, and explorer who signed Charles Lindbergh's memoir and managed and married Amelia Earhart.