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Gigafund

Gigafund is a venture capital firm in Austin, Texas, founded in 2017 by Luke Nosek and Stephen Oskoui, known for investing over $1 billion in SpaceX.

Gil Caffray

Gil Caffray is an American hedge-fund executive who co-founded the multi-strategy firm FrontPoint Partners in 2000, ran it under Morgan Stanley ownership from 2006, and later led Tiger Management LLC.

Gil Dibner

Gil Dibner is an American-Israeli venture capitalist and founding partner of Angular Ventures, a London firm he founded in 2018 to back early-stage enterprise and deep-tech companies in Europe and Israel.

Gil Rosenman

Gil Rosenman is an Israeli solid-state physicist and professor emeritus at Tel Aviv University, best known as a co-founder and chief scientist of the battery company StoreDot.

Gil Shwed

Gil Shwed (גיל שווד) is an Israeli technology entrepreneur who co-founded Check Point Software in 1993, invented stateful inspection, and led the company as CEO until 2024.

Gilad Japhet

Gilad Japhet is an Israeli software entrepreneur who founded the genealogy company MyHeritage in 2003 and has led it as CEO, growing it to over 104 million users.

Gilat Satellite Networks

Gilat Satellite Networks (גילת לוויינים) is an Israeli satellite communications company founded in 1987 and headquartered in Petah Tikva, making VSAT terminals, modems, and antennas, and trading on NASDAQ as GILT.

Gilbert Trigano

Gilbert Trigano (1920–2001) was a French businessman who led Club Méditerranée from 1963 to 1993, turning the tented holiday club into the pioneer of the all-inclusive resort.

Gilchrist Berg

Gilchrist Berg is an American investor who founded Water Street Capital, a long/short equity firm in Jacksonville, Florida, in 1987 with backing from Julian Robertson's Tiger Management.

Gili Raanan

Gili Raanan, born 1969, is an Israeli venture capitalist and former software entrepreneur who founded the cybersecurity seed fund Cyberstarts and was a Sequoia Capital general partner.

Gilion

Gilion, formerly known as Ark Kapital AB, is a Stockholm-based financial technology company founded in 2021 that provides non-dilutive growth loans and AI-based performance forecasting to European technology startups.

Gill Pearson

Gill Pearson (Gillian Louisa Pearson, born 1983) is a British businesswoman who owns and leads Newberry International Produce, a frozen fruit and vegetable supplier in Ledbury, Herefordshire.

Gina Miller

Gina Miller is a British investment manager and campaigner who co-founded SCM Direct in 2009 and brought the two Brexit cases decided by the UK Supreme Court.

Gina Rinehart

Gina Rinehart, born Georgina Hope Hancock, is an Australian mining magnate who has led Hancock Prospecting since 1992, rebuilding it into Australia's largest private company.

Ginger Liau

Ginger Liau is a partner on Andreessen Horowitz's Bio + Health fund focused on biotech, leading business development for the a16z life sciences portfolio since 2019.

Gini coefficient

The Gini coefficient, also called the Gini index or Gini ratio, is the most widely used measure of income inequality, ranging from 0 for perfect equality to 1.

Ginkgo Bioworks

Ginkgo Bioworks is a Boston synthetic biology company founded in 2008 by five MIT-affiliated scientists, known as a cell programming foundry engineering organisms for chemicals, agriculture, food, and pharmaceuticals.

Ginlong Technologies

Ginlong Technologies, which sells inverters under the Solis brand, is a Chinese manufacturer of solar string and energy-storage inverters founded in 2005 in Xiangshan, Ningbo, Zhejiang.

Ginni Rometty

Ginni Rometty, born Virginia Rometty, is an American business executive who was IBM's first female CEO, serving from 2012 to 2020 and leading its pivot to cloud computing.

Gionee

Gionee (金立), formally Shenzhen Gionee Communication Equipment, is a Chinese phone maker founded in Shenzhen in 2002 by Liu Lirong and bankrupt by December 2018.

Giora Kaplan

Giora Kaplan is an Israeli software entrepreneur who co-founded Wix.com in Tel Aviv in 2006 with Avishai and Nadav Abrahami, serving as co-CEO and later CTO.

Giovanni Caforio

Giovanni Caforio, born in 1964, is an Italian-American physician and pharmaceutical executive who has chaired the Novartis board since 2025, after leading Bristol Myers Squibb.

Giovanni De Micheli

Giovanni De Micheli is an Italian electrical engineer and professor at EPFL, a pioneer of electronic design automation and inventor of the Network on Chip paradigm.

Giovanni di Bicci de' Medici

Giovanni di Bicci de' Medici (c. 1360–1429) was a Florentine banker who founded the Medici Bank in 1397, built it into an international banking house, and left his family the richest in Florence.

Giovanni Peroni

Giovanni Peroni was an Italian brewing industrialist who took over his family's Rome brewery in 1867 at age 18, building Birra Peroni, now owned by Asahi.

Gip Capital Solutions

GIP Capital Solutions is the credit and capital-solutions fund family of Global Infrastructure Partners, a New York-based infrastructure investor owned by BlackRock, selling since 2016.

Gip Spectrum

Gip Spectrum is the co-investment fund program of Global Infrastructure Partners, a New York infrastructure manager, comprising several limited partnerships formed between 2018 and 2020.

Gip Strategic Alliance Sma

GIP Strategic Alliance SMA is a pair of Delaware limited-partnership fund vehicles, raised in 2019 and 2020 within Global Infrastructure Partners, whose manager BlackRock acquired in 2024.

GIP V Velocity Co-Invest 3, L.P.

GIP V Velocity Co-Invest 3, L.P. is a Delaware private equity pooled investment fund formed in 2024 to co-invest alongside Global Infrastructure Partners' Fund V flagship.

Girdhari Lal Bawri

Girdhari Lal Bawri is an Indian pharmaceutical entrepreneur who co-founded Macleods Pharmaceuticals, a Mumbai-based generics maker, in 1986, serves as its chairman, and whose family Forbes valued at $6.3 billion in 2025.