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Gur Shatz

Gur Shatz is an Israeli technology entrepreneur who co-founded Cato Networks in Tel Aviv in 2015 with Shlomo Kramer, after co-founding the cloud web security service Incapsula.

Gurbax Singh

Gurbax Singh was an Indian businessman who co-founded Ranbaxy in Amritsar, Punjab, in 1937, a drug distribution firm whose name merges his with Ranbir Singh's.

Gus Agioritis

Gus Agioritis is a Greek-Canadian restaurateur who founded Boston Pizza and Spaghetti House in Edmonton, Alberta in 1964, building it into 17 locations by 1970.

Gustav Brock

Gustav Edvard Brock (1816–1878) was a Danish jurist and supreme-court advocate who, with Tietgen, Heyman, and Puggaard, founded the Tuborg brewery in Hellerup, Denmark, in 1873.

Gustav Goelitz

Gustav Goelitz (1845–1901) was a German immigrant candy maker who founded a confectionery in Belleville, Illinois, in 1869, the business that became the Jelly Belly Candy Company.

Gustav von Sydow

Gustav von Sydow is a Swedish venture capital investor and serial founder, a Partner at EQT Ventures in New York since 2024 after co-founding the advertising-data startup Burt.

Gustavo Chamati

Gustavo Chamati is a Brazilian fintech entrepreneur who co-founded the cryptocurrency exchange Mercado Bitcoin in São Paulo in 2013 with his brother Maurício, later serving as CEO before joining the board of its holding company 2TM.

Gustavus Franklin Swift

Gustavus Franklin Swift (1839 to 1903) was an American meat packer who founded Swift & Company in Chicago, pioneering refrigerated railcars and a nationwide fresh-meat distribution system.

Gusto (company)

Gusto, founded in 2011 as ZenPayroll and rebranded in 2015, is a San Francisco company providing payroll, benefits, and human resources software used by more than 500,000 small businesses.

Guy Hands

Guy Hands is a British financier who founded the private equity firm Terra Firma Capital Partners, known for the EMI takeover and Four Seasons care homes deal.

Guy Laliberté

Guy Laliberté, born in 1959 in Quebec, is a Canadian businessman and former street performer who founded the circus company Cirque du Soleil in 1984.

Guy Spier

Guy Spier is a Zurich-based value investor who managed the Aquamarine Fund, a Buffett-style partnership, from 1997 until 2026, and wrote The Education of a Value Investor.

Guy Standing (economist)

Guy Standing is an economist known for popularizing the precariat, for a career largely at the International Labour Organisation, and for designing basic income pilots in India and Namibia.

Guyanese dollar

The Guyanese dollar (GYD, symbol G$) is the currency of Guyana, issued by the Bank of Guyana since 1965 and officially pegged near G$208.50 per US dollar.

Guzman y Gomez

Guzman y Gomez, also known as Guzman and Gomez, is an Australian fast-casual Mexican restaurant chain founded by Steven Marks and Robert Hazan, listed on the ASX in 2024.

GV (company)

GV, formerly Google Ventures, is the venture capital firm of Alphabet, launched in 2009, investing roughly $1 billion a year from seed to growth in technology and life sciences.

GV Ravishankar

GV Ravishankar, full name Ganapathyagraharam Venkataraman Ravishankar, is an Indian venture capital investor and Managing Director at Peak XV Partners, formerly Sequoia Capital India, which he joined in 2005.

GVK Group

GVK Group is an Indian infrastructure group founded by G.V. Krishna Reddy and headquartered in Secunderabad, which built and operated Mumbai's main international airport before ceding it to the Adani Group in 2020.

GVK Reddy

GVK Reddy, full name Gunupati Venkata Krishna Reddy, is the founder and chairman of the Hyderabad-based GVK Group, an Indian infrastructure company spanning power, transportation, and hospitality.

Gwen Bell

Gwen Bell, born in 1934, is an American engineer who cofounded The Computer Museum in Boston with Gordon Bell and Ken Olsen, serving as its first director.

GymBeam

GymBeam is a Slovak-founded, digital-first retailer and private-label brand of sports nutrition and fitness products, founded by Dalibor Cicman in 2011 and selling across 16 European markets.

Gympass

Gympass is a corporate wellness platform founded in São Paulo, Brazil, in 2012 and headquartered in New York since 2018. It sells gym and wellbeing access to companies as an employee benefit.

Gynesonics

Gynesonics was a privately held medical device company in Redwood City, California, developer of the Sonata System, the first FDA-cleared incisionless fibroid treatment device, acquired by Hologic in 2025.

György Gattyán

György Gattyán is a Hungarian technology entrepreneur who founded the LiveJasmin webcam platform in 2001, built Luxembourg-based Docler Holding, and ranks among Hungary's richest people.

Gyroscope Therapeutics Ltd

Gyroscope Therapeutics Limited was a clinical-stage biotechnology company in Stevenage, England, developing a one-time gene therapy for dry age-related macular degeneration, acquired by Novartis in 2022.

H Capital

H Capital is a venture capital manager whose Cayman Islands funds are controlled by Xiaohong Chen, a US citizen, with public holdings consolidated into Ke Holdings (BEKE).

H I G Advantage Buyout

H I G Advantage Buyout is a pair of private equity funds sponsored by Miami's H.I.G. Capital, making control buyout investments in higher-quality US middle-market companies.

H I G Growth Buyouts & Equity

H I G Growth Buyouts & Equity is the growth-equity and growth-buyout fund program of H.I.G. Capital, a Miami private equity firm founded in 1993.

H I G Middle Market Lbo

H.I.G. Middle Market LBO is the leveraged buyout fund series of H.I.G. Capital, targeting control equity investments in U.S. middle-market companies with enterprise values of $50 million to $1 billion.

H I G Small-Cap & Growth Buyout

H I G Small-Cap & Growth Buyout is a fund strategy of H.I.G. Capital making control equity investments in undermanaged or high-growth North American companies.