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Hilary Gosher

Hilary Gosher is a Managing Director at Insight Partners, a New York growth equity firm, best known as founder and leader of its Insight Onsite scaling team.

Hilary Howe

Hilary Howe is a venture capital investor who is Partner, Select at Seedcamp, leading its early growth investing practice from New York since rejoining the firm in 2022.

Hilary Minc

Hilary Minc (1905–1974) was a Polish economist and communist politician who, as deputy prime minister and planning chief, built Poland's centrally planned economy after 1944.

Hillary Ball

Hillary Ball is a British-based venture capital investor who is a Partner (Growth) at Atomico, promoted in 2023, sitting on the boards of Perk, Wellhub, and Framer and investing from Series B upwards.

Hillel Kobrinsky

Hillel Kobrinsky is an Israeli technology entrepreneur who founded web-conferencing company Interwise, sold to AT&T in 2007, and co-founded DriveNets, a networking software company, in 2015.

Hillhouse Investment (Zhang Lei)

Hillhouse Investment, historically known as Hillhouse Capital, is a Singapore-based alternative investment firm founded by Zhang Lei in 2005, known for early bets on Tencent and JD.com and deals like Belle International.

Hilton Worldwide

Hilton Worldwide Holdings Inc., founded by Conrad Hilton in 1919, is an American hospitality company operating 9,403 properties and 1,384,842 rooms in 144 countries.

Himalaya Capital

Himalaya Capital, also known as Himalaya Capital Management, is a Seattle investment firm founded by Li Lu in 1997 following Benjamin Graham and Warren Buffett's value principles.

Hindenburg Research

Hindenburg Research was a New York short-selling research firm founded by Nathan Anderson in 2017, known for its 2023 Adani Group report; it disbanded in 2025.

Hinduja Group

The Hinduja Group is a privately held multinational conglomerate founded in 1914 by Parmanand Deepchand Hinduja, with businesses in automotive manufacturing, banking and finance, energy, lubricants, healthcare, and real estate.

Hinge Health

Hinge Health is a San Francisco digital health company treating chronic joint and muscle pain through virtual physical therapy, public since its May 2025 IPO.

Hinova Pharmaceuticals (海创药业股份有限公司) (海创药业)

Hinova Pharmaceuticals (海创药业股份有限公司) is a Chinese biopharmaceutical company in Chengdu, Sichuan, founded in 2013 by chemist Chen Yuanwei; its prostate-cancer drug deutenzalutamide was approved in China in 2025.

Hipolit Cegielski

Hipolit Cegielski (1813–1868) was a Polish philologist, teacher, journalist, and industrialist in Poznań, best known for founding the machine works that continue today as H. Cegielski – Poznań S.A.

Hire purchase

Hire purchase is a form of consumer credit in which goods are paid for in installments, with ownership passing to the hirer only after the final payment.

HireVue

HireVue is an American hiring technology company founded in 2004 and based in Salt Lake City, Utah, providing video interviewing, AI-scored candidate assessments, and conversational recruiting software to enterprise employers.

Hiro Tamura

Hiro Tamura (Hiroyuki Tamura) is a London-based Japanese technology investor, a former Managing Partner at Atomico best known as the Series A investor in MessageBird.

Hiroaki Suga

Hiroaki Suga (菅 裕明) is a Japanese chemist and University of Tokyo professor who invented flexizyme and co-founded the peptide drug-discovery company PeptiDream in 2006.

Hirogin Holdings

Hirogin Holdings, Inc. (株式会社ひろぎんホールディングス) is the bank holding company of The Hiroshima Bank, established in October 2020 as the first in Japan with a single bank under a holding company.

Hirohide Sugiura

Hirohide Sugiura (杉浦 博英) is a Japanese game producer and executive who co-founded Monolith Soft in Tokyo in 1999 with Tetsuya Takahashi after working as a producer at Square.

Hiroshi Fujiwara

Hiroshi Fujiwara (Fujiwara Hiroshi, 藤原 洋), born 1954 in Fukuoka, is a Japanese engineer and entrepreneur who founded Internet Research Institute, a key contributor to MPEG standardization.

Hiroshi Ishibashi

Hiroshi Ishibashi, also known as Kan Ishibashi, is a Japanese businessman born in 1946, a grandson of Bridgestone's founder who founded Axis Inc. and directs the Artizon Museum.

Hiroshi Matsumura

Hiroshi Matsumura (松村 博史), born 1952, is a Japanese dentist and entrepreneur who founded and chairs the Tokushinkai Medical Corporation Group, a large dental healthcare operator.

Hiroshi Mikitani (三木谷浩史)

Hiroshi Mikitani (三木谷浩史), known as "Mickey," is a Japanese entrepreneur, founder, chairman, and CEO of Rakuten, which he started in Tokyo in 1997 and built into a group of more than 70 services.

Hiroshi Sakurai

Hiroshi Sakurai (桜井 博志) is a Japanese sake brewer, born in 1950, who as president of Asahi Shuzo in Iwakuni, Yamaguchi built the Dassai brand into a premium sake.

Hirotake Yano

Hirotake Yano (矢野 博丈) was a Japanese retail entrepreneur who founded Daiso Industries, Japan's largest 100-yen shop chain, beginning as a truck-based street vendor in 1972 and dying in 2024.

Hirtle Callaghan Private Equity

Hirtle Callaghan Private Equity is the fund-of-funds program of Hirtle Callaghan & Co., a Pennsylvania OCIO firm, investing in buyout, growth, and venture capital funds.

Hirtle Callaghan Venture Capital

Hirtle Callaghan Venture Capital is the venture capital fund program of Hirtle, Callaghan & Co. of West Conshohocken, Pennsylvania, with funds including the $119 million Fund 2024.

Hisen Biopharmaceutical (海森生物医药有限公司)

Hisen Biopharmaceutical (海森生物医药有限公司) is a Hefei-based Chinese biopharmaceutical company founded in 2020 by CBC Group and Hefei state investors, focused on chronic disease and critical care.

Histadrut (ההסתדרות)

The Histadrut, also known as the General Federation of Labour in Israel, is Israel's trade union federation, founded in 1920 and representing about 800,000 workers under Arnon Bar-David.

HiStarlink (氦星光联)

HiStarlink (氦星光联) is a Chinese manufacturer of space laser communication terminals, founded in Shenzhen in 2021 by Tan Jun, and supplied the Three-Body Computing Constellation's laser payloads.