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Howard Li

Howard Li is a Chinese American businessman who founded and solely owns the Waitex Group, a New York conglomerate in supply-chain logistics, apparel, and real estate, started in 1981.

Howard Marks (investor)

Howard Marks is an American investor who co-founded Oaktree Capital Management in 1995, built it into a leading distressed-debt investor, and became widely known for his client memos.

Howard Morgan (venture capitalist)

Howard L. Morgan is an American venture capitalist who co-founded the seed-stage firm First Round Capital in 2004 and is Co-Founder, Chair, and General Partner of B Capital.

Howard R. Hughes Sr.

Howard Robard Hughes Sr. (1869–1924) was an American oilman and inventor who patented the two-cone roller drill bit in 1909 and built the Hughes Tool Company on it.

Howard Schultz

Howard Schultz is an American businessman who built Starbucks from 17 stores into a global chain of more than 28,000 stores across three stints as CEO.

Howard Stevenson

Howard H. Stevenson is an American educator, investor, and author who co-founded the Baupost Group in 1982, served as its first president, and built Harvard Business School's entrepreneurship program.

Howie Hubler

Howie Hubler is a former Morgan Stanley bond trader behind the largest single-trader loss in Wall Street history, about $9 billion on subprime bets in 2007.

HOWZAT Partners

HOWZAT Partners, also known as HOWZAT Asset Managers SARL, is a Luxembourg-based venture capital firm founded in 2006 that invests in early-stage digital and travel-technology businesses.

Hoxton Ventures

Hoxton Ventures is a London-based venture capital firm founded in 2013 by Hussein Kanji and Robert Kniaz. It leads pre-seed and seed rounds for European technology companies.

Hoya

Hoya Corporation is a Japanese technology company making semiconductor photolithography mask blanks, glass hard disk substrates, and eyeglass lenses, holding over 75% of the EUV mask blank market.

HPE Growth

HPE Growth is an Amsterdam-based European growth-equity firm founded by Tim van Delden, investing in European fintech and software companies such as PPRO and WeTransfer.

Hps Mezzanine Private Investors

HPS Mezzanine Private Investors is a family of five mezzanine fund vehicles of HPS Investment Partners that reported about $2.64 billion raised between 2012 and 2020.

HR Path

HR Path, founded in Paris in 2001 as CBL Consulting, is an independent HR software and services group with 2,600 employees across 30 countries, valued near $1 billion in 2026.

HSBC

HSBC, also known as HSBC Holdings plc, is a British multinational bank founded in Hong Kong in 1865 and headquartered in London, serving about 41 million customers across 58 countries.

HSBC Bank Canada

HSBC Bank Canada, formerly Hongkong Bank of Canada, was a Vancouver-headquartered foreign subsidiary bank with about $120 billion in assets, Canada's seventh largest, acquired by RBC in 2024.

Hsieh Wen-ta

Hsieh Wen-ta (谢文达), also romanized Wen-Ta Hsieh, is a Taiwanese executive who co-founded and chairs Hon. Precision, a Taichung maker of IC test handlers used by TSMC and Nvidia.

Hsu Kai-li

Hsu Kai-li (許介立, Jerry Hsu) is a Taiwanese executive who chairs AcBel Polytech, Kinpo Electronics, and Cal-Comp Electronics, and is the only son of Kinpo Group founder Hsu Sheng-hsiung.

HTGF

HTGF, or High-Tech Gründerfonds, is a German public-private seed venture capital investor founded in 2005 under a federal government mandate, backing over 800 startups with funds exceeding €3 billion.

Htoo Group of Companies

Htoo Group of Companies, also known as Htoo Trading, is a Myanmar conglomerate founded by Tay Za in 1990, active in timber, construction, aviation, hotels, and banking.

Hu Baosen

Hu Baosen (胡葆森), born 1955 in Puyang, Henan, is a Chinese property developer known as the "Henan property godfather" who founded Jianye Property Group in Zhengzhou in 1992.

Hu Qingyu Tang

Hu Qingyu Tang (胡庆余堂) is a traditional Chinese medicine pharmacy founded in 1874 by the Qing-dynasty merchant Hu Xueyan at Dajing Lane in Hangzhou, China.

Hu Sen

Hu Sen (胡森) is a Chinese internet entrepreneur, founder and CEO of MetaApp, whose 233 Playground game platform passed 200 million registered users by 2025.

Hu Weiwei (entrepreneur)

Hu Weiwei (胡玮炜), born 1982, is a Chinese entrepreneur and former journalist who co-founded the bike-sharing company Mobike in 2015 and served as its CEO.

Hu Yahua

Hu Yahua (胡亚华) is a Chinese engineer and businessman who co-founded Changsha Jingjia Microelectronics, a Changsha-based maker of military graphics display-control products and domestic GPU chips.

Hu Zhibiao

Hu Zhibiao (胡志标) is a Chinese entrepreneur from Zhongshan, Guangdong, who founded Aiduo in 1995 and led China's VCD player market before its 1999 collapse.

Hua Hong Semiconductor Manufacturing (Wuxi) (华虹半导体制造(无锡)有限公司)

Hua Hong Semiconductor Manufacturing (Wuxi) (华虹半导体制造(无锡)有限公司) is a Chinese 12-inch specialty-process semiconductor foundry in Wuxi, Jiangsu, incorporated in 2022, majority-owned by Hua Hong Semiconductor, and producing automotive-grade chips.

Hua Medicine (华领医药)

Hua Medicine (华领医药) is a Shanghai-based biopharmaceutical company that developed dorzagliatin, a first-in-class oral glucokinase activator for type 2 diabetes, approved in China in 2022.

Hua Nan Financial

Hua Nan Financial Holdings Co., Ltd. is a Taiwanese financial holding company, listed in 2001, that owns Hua Nan Commercial Bank plus securities, insurance, and asset management subsidiaries.

Hua Rui Investment Management

Hua Rui Investment Management, known as Sinowisdom, is a private venture capital firm founded in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, in 2002 by Zong Peimin, investing in hard technology.

Hua Wang (汪华)

Hua Wang (汪华) is a Chinese venture capital investor who co-leads Sinovation Ventures, a firm with over US$3 billion under management, after building Google China's ad business from 2006 to 2009.