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GGV Capital

GGV Capital (纪源资本) was a Menlo Park venture capital firm founded in 2000 as Granite Global Ventures, backing Alibaba, ByteDance, and Airbnb before splitting in 2024.

GH Group, Inc. (Glass House Brands)

GH Group, Inc., doing business as Glass House Brands, is a vertically integrated California cannabis company headquartered in Long Beach, founded by Kyle Kazan and Graham Farrar in 2015.

GH Research

GH Research is a Dublin-based clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, founded in 2018, developing mebufotenin (5-MeO-DMT) therapies for psychiatric disorders; its lead inhaled candidate, GH001, targets treatment-resistant depression, and the company trades on Nasdaq as GHRS.

Ghana banking crisis

The Ghana banking crisis comprised the 2017–2019 clean-up that resolved nine distressed banks at about 7.10% of GDP, followed by the 2022 Domestic Debt Exchange Programme's hit to bank balance sheets.

Ghana Cocoa Board

The Ghana Cocoa Board, known as COCOBOD, is the state body of Ghana regulating and marketing cocoa, coffee, and sheanut, successor to the Cocoa Marketing Board established in 1947.

Ghana Economic Recovery Program

The Ghana Economic Recovery Program was a program of macroeconomic stabilization and structural adjustment launched by Ghana's PNDC government in April 1983, supported by the IMF and World Bank.

Ghana Empire

The Ghana Empire, also known as Wagadu, was a West African trading state that flourished from the 7th to the 13th century on the trans-Saharan gold and salt trade.

Ghana Stock Exchange

The Ghana Stock Exchange is Ghana's national securities exchange, trading since 1990, which runs equities, the Ghana Alternative Market for smaller firms, and the Ghana Fixed Income Market.

Ghanaian cedi

The Ghanaian cedi (GHS, ₵) is the currency of Ghana, issued by the Bank of Ghana and divided into 100 pesewas; the current cedi dates from 2007.

Ghanshyam Das Birla

Ghanshyam Das Birla, known as G.D. Birla, was an Indian industrialist from Pilani, Rajasthan, who built the Birla group into one of India's two largest business houses and co-founded FICCI.

Ghassab Al-Mandeel

Ghassab Al-Mandeel (غصاب المنديل) is a Saudi technology founder and co-founder and CEO of Jahez, a Riyadh-based food-delivery group that listed on Nomu in 2022 at a $2.4 billion valuation.

Ghazal Alagh

Ghazal Alagh is an Indian entrepreneur who co-founded Honasa Consumer, the company behind Mamaearth, with her husband Varun in 2016, serving as Chief Innovation Officer as it became India's first unicorn of 2022.

Ghermezian family

The Ghermezian family is an Iranian family of rug merchants who, through their company Triple Five Group, built and own the three largest shopping centers in North America.

Ghost Autonomy Inc.

Ghost Autonomy Inc., formerly Ghost Locomotion Inc., was a Mountain View, California startup developing self-driving software for consumer cars, which raised about $203 million before shutting down in April 2024.

GI Alliance

GI Alliance is a physician-led, physician-owned management services organization headquartered in Southlake, Texas, formed in 2018, serving over 900 gastroenterologists in 20 states; Cardinal Health agreed in 2024 to acquire a majority stake.

Giancarlo Devasini

Giancarlo Devasini is an Italian former physician, born in Turin in 1964, who served as chief financial officer of Tether and Bitfinex and is now Tether's chairman and controlling shareholder.

Gianni Agnelli

Gianni Agnelli, born Giovanni Agnelli and known as L'Avvocato Agnelli, was an Italian industrialist who chaired Fiat from 1966 to 1996 and was made a senator for life in 1991.

Giannis Alafouzos (Γιάννης Αλαφούζος)

Giannis Alafouzos (Γιάννης Αλαφούζος) is a Greek shipping and media owner who controls the Skai broadcasting group, founded Okeanis Eco Tankers, and has owned Panathinaikos FC since 2012.

Giant Biogene (巨子生物)

Giant Biogene (巨子生物) is a biotechnology company based in Xi'an, China, founded in 2000 by Dr. Fan Daidi, known for recombinant collagen skincare brands like Comfy.

Giant Group (bicycle manufacturer)

Giant Group, also known as Giant Manufacturing Co., Ltd. (巨大集团), is a Taiwanese bicycle and electric bicycle manufacturer founded by King Liu in Taichung in 1972.

Giant Network Group

Giant Network Group is a Shanghai-based Chinese online game developer founded by Shi Yuzhu, known for the free-to-play game Zhengtu and its 2007 NYSE listing.

Gibco

Gibco, short for Grand Island Biological Company, is a cell culture brand owned by Thermo Fisher Scientific. Founded in 1962 in New York, it supplies media, sera, and reagents.

Gibraltar pound

The Gibraltar pound is the currency issued by the Government of Gibraltar, at parity with pound sterling; it is legal tender in Gibraltar but not in the United Kingdom.

Gid Mainstay

Gid Mainstay is the open-ended US multifamily apartment fund complex of the GID real estate organization, managed from Atlanta, Georgia, targeting Class B apartments at a 9–12% net IRR.

Gideon Tadmor

Gideon Tadmor is an Israeli oil and gas entrepreneur, founder and executive chairman of Navitas Petroleum, and a leader of Israel's Tamar and Leviathan gas discoveries.

Giffen good

A Giffen good, also called the Giffen paradox, is an inferior good for which a price increase raises quantity demanded, violating the law of demand; first evidence came from rice in China in 2008.

GIFT City

GIFT City (Gujarat International Finance Tec-City) is a planned financial-services city on the Sabarmati River near Gandhinagar, Gujarat, centered on an International Financial Services Centre regulated by the IFSCA since 2020.

Gig economy

The gig economy is the part of the labor market where workers take short-term tasks, paid per unit of work, with no assurance of steady employment.

Gig worker

A gig worker, also known as gig work, is a person earning income from short-term, per-task engagements through digital platforms, usually classified as an independent contractor rather than an employee.

GigaDevice

GigaDevice (兆易创新) is a Beijing-based fabless semiconductor company founded by Zhu Yiming in 2005, second worldwide in SPI NOR flash and listed in Shanghai since 2016.