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Hidden Level

Hidden Level is a defense-technology startup in Syracuse, New York, founded in 2018 by Jeff Cole and Gary Dominicos, that builds passive radar systems for airspace monitoring and counter-drone operations.

Hideki Shoji

Hideki Shoji (庄司 秀樹) is a Japanese engineer and entrepreneur who founded Toyo System in Iwaki, Fukushima, in 1989, a maker of TOSCAT battery test systems.

Hideyuki Busujima

Hideyuki Busujima (毒島秀行), born 1952, is a Japanese business executive, son of SANKYO founder Kunio Busujima, who led the pachinko maker as president from 1996 and CEO from 2008.

HiFiBio Therapeutics (高诚生物)

HiFiBio Therapeutics (高诚生物) is a Hangzhou biopharmaceutical company, registered in 2017 and led by CEO Liang Schweizer, that develops antibody drugs for cancer and autoimmune disease.

High Alpha Capital

High Alpha Capital is an Indianapolis, Indiana venture capital firm founded in 2015 that invests in enterprise B2B SaaS companies from pre-seed through Series A.

High Band Holdings, LLC

High Band Holdings, LLC is a Delaware telecommunications holding company formed in 2018, affiliated with the venture firm Columbia Capital, and headquartered in Alexandria, Virginia.

High Output Management

High Output Management is a 1983 book by Andrew S. Grove applying manufacturing logic to management, arguing a manager's output is their organization's output and turning on managerial leverage.

High Power Exploration (HPX)

High Power Exploration Inc. is a private mining exploration company founded by Robert Friedland that is developing the high-grade Nimba iron ore deposit in southeastern Guinea.

High-Flyer Quant

High-Flyer Quant (幻方量化, 九章资产) is a Hangzhou-based quantitative hedge fund founded by Liang Wenfeng and Xu Jin that uses deep-learning models to trade Chinese securities.

High-frequency trading

High-frequency trading, or HFT, is a form of algorithmic trading in which computers initiate and manage orders at high speed, accounting for roughly half of US equity volume.

High-income economy

A high-income economy is a country or territory the World Bank classifies in its top income group, with GNI per capita above $14,375; 83 economies qualified in 2022.

High-net-worth individual

A high-net-worth individual (HNWI), or high-net-worth client, is a person with at least USD 1 million in investable assets excluding the primary residence, a wealth-management convention from 1997.

High–low method

The high–low method is a cost-estimation technique in management accounting that splits a mixed cost into fixed and variable components using only the highest and lowest activity observations.

Highbar Partners

Highbar Partners is a Menlo Park, California private investment firm founded by John H. Kim and Roy Thiele-Sardiña that provides growth capital to software companies.

Highland Capital Partners

Highland Capital Partners is a venture capital firm in Cambridge, Massachusetts, founded in 1987, investing in consumer and enterprise technology companies across the United States, China, and the United Kingdom.

Highland Europe

Highland Europe is a growth-stage venture capital firm founded in 2012 and headquartered in London with a second office in Geneva, investing in European technology scale-ups.

Highland Europe Technology Growth Limited Partnership

Highland Europe Technology Growth Limited Partnership is a Jersey-domiciled venture capital fund managed by Highland Europe, a growth-stage technology investor spun out of Highland Capital Partners in 2012.

Highline Aftermarket

Highline Aftermarket Investments, LLC was an American manufacturer of packaged automotive chemicals, lubricants, and parts, formed in 2016 and sold in 2020 to form Highline Warren.

HighRadius

HighRadius is a Houston-based fintech company founded by Sashi Narahari in 2006 that sells cloud software automating order-to-cash processes, becoming a venture-backed unicorn valued at $3.1 billion in 2021.

Highspot

Highspot, Inc. was a Seattle-based sales enablement software company founded in 2012 by former Microsoft employees, which raised about $650 million and merged with its longtime competitor Seismic in 2026.

HighTide Therapeutics (君圣泰)

HighTide Therapeutics (君圣泰) is a Shenzhen-based biopharmaceutical company founded by Liu Liping in 2011, known for HTD1801, a type 2 diabetes drug accepted for review by China's NMPA in 2026.

Hightouch

Hightouch is a San Francisco software company selling a composable customer data platform and AI marketing tools built on a company's existing data warehouse, founded by three former Segment employees.

Highvista Private Equity

HighVista Private Equity is the private equity fund series of HighVista Strategies, a Boston alternatives manager founded in 2004, which closed Fund XI at $800 million in 2026.

Higold Group

Higold Group (悍高集团) is a Chinese manufacturer of home hardware and outdoor furniture, founded by Ou Jinfeng in 2004 in Foshan, Guangdong, and listed in Shenzhen in 2025.

Hikari Tsushin

Hikari Tsushin (株式会社光通信) is a Tokyo-based holding company founded by Yasumitsu Shigeta in 1988, selling telecommunications, electricity and gas, water, insurance, and finance through about 1,000 sales agents.

Hikma Pharmaceuticals

Hikma Pharmaceuticals is a multinational pharmaceutical company founded in Amman, Jordan, in 1978 by Samih Darwazah, making generic, specialty, and branded medicines across North America, Europe, and MENA.

Hila Karah

Hila Karah is an Israeli life-sciences investor with over 20 years of experience and board seats at two NASDAQ-listed companies, Managing Partner of HealthTech at Pitango Venture Capital since 2022.

Hila Zigman

Hila Zigman is an Israeli venture capital investor and General Partner at Cyberstarts, a cybersecurity firm, appointed in November 2023 after a career at Noname Security, later acquired by Akamai.

Hilaixinchuang

Hilaixinchuang (海莱新创, Jiangsu Hailai Xinchuang Medical Technology) is a Chinese medical-device startup founded in 2016 in Wuxi, Jiangsu, developing tumor treating fields (TTF) cancer therapy.

Hilary Devey

Hilary Lorraine Devey (1957–2022) was an English haulage entrepreneur who founded Pall-Ex in 1996 and became known as a Dragons' Den investor and Channel 4 presenter.