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Hydrow, Inc.

Hydrow, Inc., legally Crew By True Rowing, Inc., is a Boston-based connected fitness company whose Hydrow rowing machine streams live and on-demand workouts and had over 200,000 users by 2022.

Hyflux

Hyflux was a Singapore water-treatment and seawater-desalination group founded by Olivia Lum in 1989 and listed from 2001, which collapsed into judicial management in 2020 and liquidation in 2021.

Hyman Minsky

Hyman Minsky, born Hyman Philip Minsky, was an American economist, 1919 to 1996, whose financial instability hypothesis argues prolonged stability breeds fragile financing and severe crises; the 2008 financial crisis made his work famous.

Hyper Beast Inc.

Hyper Beast Inc. is a Los Angeles crowdsourcing and network-marketing company, organized in California in 2021, that pays gig workers in sweat equity to promote startups' products and services.

Hyperbolic discounting

Hyperbolic discounting is a behavioral economics model of intertemporal choice in which the discount rate declines with delay, so people discount the near future steeply and the distant future gently, producing present bias and time-inconsistent preferences.

Hypergryph

Hypergryph (鹰角网络) is a Chinese video game developer founded in Shanghai in January 2017, best known as the developer and Chinese publisher of the tower defense gacha game Arknights.

Hyperinflation

Hyperinflation is extremely rapid inflation with monthly price increases above 50 percent, a threshold set by Philip Cagan in 1956; Hungary in 1946 was the worst episode.

Hyperinflation in Venezuela

Hyperinflation in Venezuela (Hiperinflación venezolana) was a period of extreme price increases that began in late 2017, peaked in 2018 and 2019, and ended in December 2021.

Hyperinflation in Yugoslavia

Hyperinflation in Yugoslavia was a 1992–1994 episode in Serbia and Montenegro, with monthly inflation peaking at 313 million percent in January 1994 before a currency reform ended it.

Hyperinflation in Zaire

Hyperinflation in Zaire was a period of extreme inflation in the central African country of Zaire, now the Democratic Republic of the Congo, between 1990 and 1996.

Hyperinflation in Zimbabwe

Hyperinflation in Zimbabwe was the period from March 2007 to November 2008 when monthly inflation peaked at an estimated 79.6 billion percent, the second-highest recorded rate in world history, ending with dollarization in 2009.

Hypershell

Hypershell (极壳科技) is a Chinese consumer-exoskeleton startup founded in Shanghai in 2021 by Sun Kuan, building lightweight AI-assisted lower-limb exoskeletons for hiking, everyday mobility, and aged-mobility users.

Hypertherm

Hypertherm, formerly Hypertherm Inc and now Hypertherm Associates, is an American manufacturer of plasma, laser, and waterjet cutting systems founded in 1968 in Hanover, New Hampshire.

Hyperwise Ventures

Hyperwise Ventures is a venture capital firm in Tel Aviv, Israel, founded in 2020, describing itself as a lead seed investor in cybersecurity and enterprise software.

Hyrum Cook

Hyrum Cook, born in 1993, is a British entrepreneur who founded the Manchester activewear brand Adanola in 2015 and led it as chief executive until 2024.

HyTest Invest Oy (海肽生物)

HyTest Invest Oy (海肽生物) is a Finnish maker of antibodies and antigens for diagnostic tests, founded in Turku in 1994 and owned by China's Mindray since 2021.

Hyundai Engineering

Hyundai Engineering (현대엔지니어링) is a South Korean engineering and construction company affiliated with Hyundai Motor Group, providing FEED and EPC services for chemical, power, and energy plants.

Hyundai Glovis

Hyundai Glovis (현대글로비스) is the logistics, shipping, and distribution arm of the Hyundai Motor Group, founded in 2001 and listed on Korea's KOSPI market since 2005.

Hyundai Marine & Fire

Hyundai Marine & Fire Insurance Co., Ltd. (현대해상화재보험주식회사) is a South Korean non-life insurer in Seoul, founded in 1955 and third largest in Korea by premium income.

Hyundai Mobis

Hyundai Mobis (현대모비스) is a South Korean automotive parts manufacturer and the Hyundai Motor Group's module, components, and after-service parts supplier, ranked 6th worldwide by OEM-supply revenue in 2024.

Hyundai Steel

Hyundai Steel is South Korea's second-largest steelmaker and the steelmaking arm of Hyundai Motor Group, producing 19.24 million tonnes of crude steel in 2023, 18th in the world.

I Squared Capital

I Squared Capital is an independent private equity firm focused on infrastructure, founded in 2012 by Sadek Wahba, Gautam Bhandari, and Adil Rahmathulla after leaving Morgan Stanley, with over $40 billion in assets.

I-care Group

I-care Group is a Belgian predictive maintenance and industrial reliability company founded in 2004 in Quaregnon by Fabrice Brion and Arnaud Stiévenart, valued at $1.16 billion in 2025.

I-Mab

I-Mab (天境生物) is a clinical-stage biotechnology company founded in 2016 to develop immuno-oncology biologics, divesting its China operations in 2024 and rebranding as NovaBridge Biosciences.

I-Pulse Inc.

I-Pulse Inc. is a private pulsed-power technology company founded in 2007 by Robert Friedland and Laurent Frescaline, which signed a $250 million CHIPS R&D award in 2026 to develop silicon-carbide power semiconductors.

i2 Technologies

i2 Technologies, commonly known as i2, was a Dallas supply chain management software company founded in 1988 by Sanjiv Sidhu and Ken Sharma, acquired by JDA Software in 2010.

I80 Group Asset Based Finance

i80 Group Asset Based Finance is a private-credit fund vehicle of i80 Group, a New York asset-based finance firm founded by former Goldman Sachs banker Marc Helwani in 2016.

iA Financial Corporation

iA Financial Corporation, doing business as iA Financial Group, is a Canadian insurance and wealth management company founded in 1892 and traded on the Toronto Stock Exchange.

Ia Venture Strategies

IA Venture Strategies, also known as IA Ventures, is a New York seed-stage venture capital firm founded by Roger Ehrenberg around 2009 to invest in data-intensive businesses.

Iambic Therapeutics

Iambic Therapeutics, formerly Entos, Inc., is a clinical-stage San Diego biotechnology company that uses artificial intelligence to discover small-molecule drugs, founded in 2019 by chemists Tom Miller and Fred Manby.