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Hasmukh Chudgar

Hasmukh Chudgar is a low-profile Indian pharmaceutical entrepreneur who founded Intas Pharmaceuticals in Ahmedabad around 1977, a Forbes billionaire whose family still controls the unlisted generics maker.

Hassan Allam Holding

Hassan Allam Holding is an Egyptian family-owned engineering and construction group founded in 1936, with 2025 revenues of $2.1 billion and more than 50,000 employees across 10 countries.

Hassan Hamdan (Saudi entrepreneur)

Hassan Hamdan is a Saudi entrepreneur who co-founded Unifonic, a Riyadh-based customer engagement platform, in 2006 with his brother Ahmed, serving as its chief technology officer.

Hassan Jameel

Hassan Jameel, born in 1978, is a Saudi businessman who serves as Vice Chairman of Abdul Latif Jameel, the Toyota distributor his grandfather founded in 1945.

Hassan Khosrowshahi

Hassan Khosrowshahi, born in Tehran in 1940, is an Iranian-born Canadian businessman who founded Future Shop in 1982, built it into Canada's largest electronics retailer, and sold it to Best Buy in 2001.

Hassanali Karabhai

Hassanali Karabhai, also printed as Hasan Ali Karabhai, is the Pakistani businessman who founded the Lakson Group in Karachi in 1954, now run by his four sons.

Hassanein Hiridjee

Hassanein Hiridjee (born 1975) is a Malagasy businessman who co-founded AXIAN Group with his brother Amin in 2015, a pan-African conglomerate headquartered in Antananarivo, Madagascar.

Hasso Plattner

Hasso Plattner, born 1944 in Berlin, is a German software entrepreneur who co-founded SAP in 1972, served as co-CEO, and chaired its Supervisory Board until 2024.

Hastee

Hastee is a London fintech company founded in 2017 that provides earned wage access, letting workers draw on accrued pay before payday. It was acquired by Zellis Group in 2025.

Hasura

Hasura is a developer-tools startup founded in 2017 by Tanmai Gopal and Rajoshi Ghosh, headquartered in San Francisco and Bengaluru, that builds an open-source GraphQL engine and data delivery platform.

Hauser & Wirth

Hauser & Wirth is a Swiss family-owned contemporary art gallery founded in Zurich in 1992 by Iwan and Manuela Wirth, representing over 90 artists and estates.

Havan

Havan is a Brazilian big-box department-store chain founded in 1986 in Brusque, Santa Catarina, by Luciano Hang, known for megastores with White House-style facades and Statue of Liberty replicas.

Haveli Investments Software

Haveli Investments Software, formally Haveli Investments Software Fund I, is a software-focused private equity fund managed by Haveli Investments, an Austin, Texas firm founded by Brian Sheth in 2021.

HavocAI

HavocAI is an American defense-technology company founded by Navy veterans Paul Lwin and Joe Turner that builds autonomous boats and collaborative-autonomy software for the U.S. military.

Hawala (حوالة)

Hawala, also known as hawala banking, is an informal money-transfer system, common in the Middle East and South Asia, in which agents pay recipients and settle debts later without moving money across borders.

Hawk (HAWK:AI)

Hawk, originally known as HAWK:AI, is a Munich-based financial crime compliance software company founded in 2018 by Tobias Schweiger and Wolfgang Berner; it raised a $56 million Series C in April 2025.

HAYA Therapeutics

HAYA Therapeutics SA is a clinical-stage Swiss biotechnology company in Lausanne developing precision RNA-guided therapies against long non-coding RNAs for fibrotic disease, including cardiac fibrosis.

Haymaker Ventures

Haymaker Ventures is a fintech-focused venture capital firm founded in 2017 in Claremont, New Hampshire, whose two funds reported about $193.5 million sold in SEC filings.

Haymarket Media Group

Haymarket Media Group is a privately held British media company headquartered in London, founded in 1957 by Michael Heseltine and known for Autocar, What Car?, Campaign, and PRWeek.

Hayri Çulhacı

Hayri Çulhacı is a Turkish financial executive who became Chair of Sabancı Holding in March 2025, succeeding Güler Sabancı as the first non-family chair after a career at Akbank.

Haystack Oncology

Haystack Oncology is a Baltimore, Maryland-based liquid-biopsy company founded in 2021 by Johns Hopkins cancer researchers, known for the Haystack MRD test and acquired by Quest Diagnostics in 2023.

Haystack Ventures

Haystack Ventures is a San Francisco early-stage venture capital firm founded by Semil Shah in 2013, investing $1M to $3M in initial rounds, with DoorDash, Instacart, and Figma among its investments.

Hazel Technologies

Hazel Technologies is an American agricultural technology company that extends the shelf life of fresh produce using 1-MCP sachets; TransFRESH, a Chiquita subsidiary, acquired it in 2026.

HBOS

HBOS, or Halifax Bank of Scotland, was a British banking group created by the 2001 merger of Halifax and the Bank of Scotland, valued at £30 billion.

HBX Group International plc

HBX Group International plc is a Spanish B2B travel technology marketplace connecting hotels with distributors, grown from the Hotelbeds bed bank and listed in February 2025.

HC Biotech (Haichang Bio)

HC Biotech (海昶生物), also known as Haichang Bio, is a Chinese biopharmaceutical company in Hangzhou developing nucleic acid drugs on its QTsome lipid nanoparticle platform.

HC Group

HC Group (慧聪集团), known as Huicong or HC International, is a Beijing-based Chinese company founded by Guo Fansheng in 1992 that pioneered B2B business-information services in China.

HCL

HCL is an Indian technology group founded by Shiv Nadar in 1976, best known through HCL Technologies (HCLTech), a Noida-headquartered provider of IT services and software.

Hcm

HCM, publicly known as Human Capital, is a San Francisco multi-stage venture capital firm founded in 2015 by Armaan Ali and Baris Akis, investing in fintech and defense technology.

HCM S14A LP

HCM S14A LP is a Delaware limited partnership venture capital fund formed in 2023 in San Francisco and managed by Human Capital Investment Management LLC.