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Ian Carnevale

Ian Carnevale is a Canadian technology founder who co-founded Andela in 2014, the talent company that began in Lagos placing Nigerian developers with global firms.

Ian Chiu

Ian Chiu is a Managing Director at Owl Ventures, a Silicon Valley venture firm investing only in education technology, known for backing LingoAce, MasterClass, and Interplay Learning.

Ian Maxwell

Ian Maxwell (born 1956) is a British-French businessman, son of media tycoon Robert Maxwell, acquitted of fraud in 1996 and a defender of his sister Ghislaine.

Ian Wace

Ian Wace, born in 1963, is a British hedge fund manager who co-founded London-based Marshall Wace with Paul Marshall in 1997 and chairs the children's charity Ark.

iAngels Ventures

iAngels Ventures is the institutional venture capital arm of iAngels, a women-led Tel Aviv firm founded by Shelly Hod Moyal and Mor Assia, whose first fund closed at $55.5 million in 2021.

iAnthus Capital Holdings

iAnthus Capital Holdings, incorporated in 2013 as Genarca Holdings Ltd., is a Toronto-based cannabis company operating 40 dispensaries and four facilities in seven U.S. states.

IAS 39 Financial Instruments: Recognition and Measurement

IAS 39 Financial Instruments: Recognition and Measurement is an International Accounting Standard on recognizing and measuring financial instruments, largely replaced by IFRS 9 in 2018.

IASO Bio (驯鹿生物)

IASO Bio (驯鹿生物) is a Chinese biopharmaceutical company founded in 2017 and based in Nanjing and Shanghai, known for Fucaso, a BCMA-targeted CAR-T therapy for multiple myeloma approved in China in 2023.

IASO Biotherapeutics (驯鹿医疗)

IASO Biotherapeutics (驯鹿医疗) is a private Chinese cell-therapy company founded in Nanjing in 2017 by Zhang Jinhua, whose approved CAR-T therapy Fucaso treats relapsed multiple myeloma.

Iberdrola

Iberdrola is a Spanish multinational energy utility and holding company operating in Spain, the US, the UK, and Brazil, described as the world's largest producer of wind energy.

Ibibo

Ibibo Group was an Indian internet company founded in 2007 in Gurgaon by Ashish Kashyap, which owned Goibibo and redBus and merged into MakeMyTrip in 2017.

Ibiden

Ibiden (イビデン株式会社) is a Japanese manufacturer headquartered in Ogaki, Gifu Prefecture, founded in 1912, and a world leader in IC package substrates for AI and PC processors.

Ibis (hotel)

Ibis, also known as Hotel Ibis, is the economy hotel brand of the French group Accor, founded in Bordeaux in 1974 and spanning more than 2,500 hotels in 79 countries.

IBM India

IBM India Private Limited is the Indian subsidiary of IBM Corporation, incorporated in Bangalore in 1997, providing sales, delivery, and engineering services that account for about one-third of IBM's workforce.

Ibrajim Bukele

Ibrajim Bukele is a Salvadoran businessman, general director of Global Motors, the family-owned Yamaha distributor in El Salvador, and a brother of President Nayib Bukele.

Ibukun Awosika

Ibukun Awosika is a Nigerian businesswoman who founded The Chair Centre Group, a furniture and security-systems manufacturer, and became the first woman to chair First Bank of Nigeria in 2015.

ICA Gruppen

ICA Gruppen, also known as ICA AB, is a Swedish grocery retail group combining the ICA Sweden wholesaler with over 1,200 retailer-owned stores, plus a pharmacy and bank.

Icahn Enterprises

Icahn Enterprises L.P., formerly American Real Estate Partners, is a master limited partnership and diversified holding company controlled by Carl Icahn, with businesses in investment, energy, automotive, and food packaging.

ICAP

ICAP plc was a London-headquartered interdealer broker founded by Michael Spencer that matched bond, currency, and derivatives trades between banks; its broking arm was sold to Tullett Prebon in 2016.

ICBC-AXA Life (工银安盛人寿保险有限公司)

ICBC-AXA Life (工银安盛人寿) is a Shanghai-headquartered life insurance company formed in 2012 from the restructuring of AXA-Minmetals Assurance, majority-owned by ICBC with AXA and Minmetals as minority shareholders.

Icelandic króna

The Icelandic króna (plural krónur) is the currency of Iceland, issued solely by the Central Bank of Iceland since 1961; it collapsed in 2008 and floated with capital controls until 2017.

Icg Centre Street Partnership

Icg Centre Street Partnership is a pooled private equity fund organized as a Delaware limited partnership in 2015 and administered from St. Helier, Jersey, in the Channel Islands.

Icg Europe

ICG Europe is the European buyout and structured-capital fund franchise of Intermediate Capital Group, a London-listed asset manager, whose Fund IX closed at €12bn in 2026.

Icg North American Credit Partners

ICG North American Credit Partners is the North American private debt platform of asset manager Intermediate Capital Group, established in 2014 and led from New York by Brian Spenner.

ICG Strategic Equity

ICG Strategic Equity is the GP-led secondaries investment strategy of London-listed Intermediate Capital Group, founded in 2014; its fifth fund closed at $11 billion in 2025.

Icg Strategic Secondaries

ICG Strategic Secondaries was the private equity secondaries strategy of Intermediate Capital Group, specializing in fund restructurings and GP-led liquidity solutions from 2014 until 2017.

Ichiran (一蘭)

Ichiran (一蘭) is a Japanese tonkotsu ramen chain founded in Fukuoka in 1960, known for serving one pork-bone ramen in partitioned booths where customers order by paper flavor sheet.

Ichitan Group

Ichitan Group is a Thai beverage company founded by Tan Passakornnatee in 2010, known for ready-to-drink green tea and brands like Yen Yen and Bireley's.

ICICI Bank

ICICI Bank is an Indian private-sector universal bank, formed in 2002 when ICICI, a development finance institution founded in 1955, merged with its banking subsidiary.

ICICI Lombard

ICICI Lombard General Insurance Company Limited is India's largest private-sector general insurer, founded in 2000 by ICICI and Lombard of Canada, with an 8.9% market share in FY2026.