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Hacı Ömer Sabancı

Hacı Ömer Sabancı (1906–1966) was a Turkish businessman who built a cotton-trading firm in Adana into one of Turkey's largest family business groups and founded Akbank in 1948.

hacomono

hacomono (株式会社hacomono), founded by Kenichi Hasuda in Tokyo in 2013 as Machiiro, is a SaaS company whose management system serves over 13,000 gyms and wellness facilities.

Hadean Ventures

Hadean Ventures is a Norway-based European venture capital firm investing in pharma, biotech, medtech, diagnostics, and digital health, managing about EUR 244 million with offices in Oslo and Stockholm.

Hagan Bayley

Hagan Bayley is Professor of Chemical Biology at the University of Oxford who founded Oxford Nanopore Technologies in 2005, whose portable MinION sequencer came from his engineered protein pores.

Hagong Graphite Technology (哈工石墨科技)

Hagong Graphite Technology (哈工石墨科技), formally Heilongjiang Hagong Graphite Technology Co., Ltd., is a Chinese natural graphite mining and deep-processing company founded in 2017 in Jixi, Heilongjiang.

Hahn & Company

Hahn & Company (한앤컴퍼니) is a Seoul-based private equity firm founded in 2010 by Scott Sang-Won Hahn, specializing in control buyouts of Korean companies like Ssangyong C&E and Hanon Systems.

Haichang Biotech (海昶生物)

Haichang Biotech (海昶生物) is a Chinese drug-development company founded in Hangzhou in 2013 by former FDA reviewer Zhao Xiaobin, working on nucleic-acid drugs and complex injectables.

Haidilao (海底捞)

Haidilao (海底捞) is a Chinese Sichuan-style hotpot restaurant chain founded in 1994 by Zhang Yong, known for free manicures and elaborate service for queuing customers.

Haidilao International Holding

Haidilao International Holding is a restaurant group that runs the Haidilao hot pot chain, founded in Jianyang, Sichuan, in 1994 by Zhang Yong and listed in Hong Kong in 2018.

Haihe Biopharma

Haihe Biopharma (海和药物) is a Shanghai-based oncology biopharmaceutical company founded in 2011 by Ding Jian, best known for gumarontinib, China's first approved first-line treatment for MET-mutant lung cancer.

Haijie Medical

Haijie Medical (海杰亚) is a Beijing-based medical device company founded in 2010 that makes minimally invasive tumor ablation equipment, best known for the Kangbo Dao combined cryo-thermal ablation system.

Hailey Bieber

Hailey Bieber, also known as Hailey Baldwin, is an American model who founded the skincare brand rhode in 2022 and sold it to e.l.f. Beauty in 2025.

Hailiang Group

Hailiang Group (海亮集团) is a Chinese private conglomerate founded in 1989 in Zhuji, Zhejiang, and headquartered in Hangzhou, whose main businesses are copper processing and education.

Hainan Mining (海南矿业)

Hainan Mining (海南矿业) is a Chinese resources company built around the Shilu iron ore mine, listed in Shanghai since 2014 and expanding into lithium and oil and gas.

Haipaike (海拍客)

Haipaike (海拍客), also known as Yangtuo Technology Inc., is a Hangzhou-based B2B2C e-commerce platform for mother-and-baby products, founded in 2015 by former Alibaba executive Zhao Chen.

Haitian Flavouring and Food

Haitian Flavouring and Food (海天味业) is a Chinese condiment maker headquartered in Foshan, Guangdong, China's largest condiment company by sales volume for 28 consecutive years.

Haitian gourde

The Haitian gourde (HTG) is the national currency of Haiti, divided into 100 centimes and issued by the Bank of the Republic of Haiti since 1979.

Haitunjia (海豚家)

Haitunjia (海豚家) was a Chinese membership-based beauty e-commerce platform founded by Xu Xiao in 2017, which sold cosmetics at claimed cost price before mass complaints and fines in 2020.

Haji Isam

Haji Isam, born Andi Syamsuddin Arsyad, is an Indonesian coal and agribusiness tycoon from South Kalimantan who founded and owns the Jhonlin Group, a conglomerate of 60 companies.

Haji Zeynalabdin Taghiyev

Haji Zeynalabdin Taghiyev (Hacı Zeynalabdin Tağıyev, c. 1838–1924) was an Azerbaijani oil industrialist and philanthropist who financed Baku's water supply, its first theater, and the first secular school for Muslim girls.

HAL Trust

HAL Trust is a Bermuda trust listed on Euronext Amsterdam whose sole asset is HAL Holding, a Rotterdam-based investment company controlled by the Van der Vorm family.

Hala

Hala, formerly known as HalalaH, is a Riyadh-based financial technology company founded by Esam Alnahdi and Maher Loubieh that provides banking, payments, and financing services to Saudi SMEs.

Halcyon (company)

Halcyon is an American cybersecurity company founded in 2021 and headquartered in Austin, Texas, whose anti-ransomware platform captures ransomware's encryption keys so files can be decrypted without paying.

Halda Therapeutics

Halda Therapeutics is a New Haven, Connecticut clinical-stage biotechnology company founded by Yale professor Craig Crews in 2019 to develop RIPTAC cancer therapies; in 2025 Johnson & Johnson agreed to acquire it for $3.05 billion.

Haleon

Haleon plc is a British consumer healthcare company formed when GSK separated its consumer health business in July 2022, selling brands like Sensodyne, Advil, and Centrum.

Haley Abivardi

Haley Abivardi is a Swiss dentist and healthcare entrepreneur who co-founded vVARDIS with her sister Goly; the company's drill-free cavity treatment reached a billion-dollar valuation in 2026.

Half dime

The half dime was a United States silver coin worth five cents, authorized by the Coinage Act of 1792 and struck from 1794 until 1873, when the copper-nickel five-cent piece replaced it.

Halian Health (禾连健康)

Halian Health (禾连健康), legally Zhejiang Halian Network Technology Co., Ltd., is a Hangzhou health-technology company founded in 2014, once China's largest hospital Wi-Fi provider, which raised US$75 million from SenseTime in 2018.

Halifax (bank)

Halifax is a British retail banking brand, part of Lloyds Banking Group, that grew out of the Halifax Building Society, demutualised in 1997, and is to be retired from 2027.

Halkbank

Halkbank (Türkiye Halk Bankası A.Ş.) is a Turkish state-controlled commercial bank founded in 1938, now majority-owned by the Turkey Wealth Fund and the country's leading lender to small and medium-sized enterprises.