Economics and business

ICICI Prudential Life Insurance

ICICI Prudential Life Insurance is an Indian private life insurer founded in 2000 by ICICI Bank and Prudential plc, and listed on Indian stock exchanges in 2016.

Icon (Irish company)

ICON plc is an Irish contract research organization founded in Dublin in 1990, providing outsourced drug development and commercialization services, and trading on NASDAQ as ICLR.

Icosavax was a Seattle-based biopharmaceutical company founded in 2017 as a University of Washington spinout that developed virus-like particle vaccines against RSV and hMPV, acquired by AstraZeneca in 2024.

iD Fresh Foods

iD Fresh Foods is a Bengaluru-based packaged fresh-food company founded in 2005 by P.C. Musthafa and his cousins, known for preservative-free idli and dosa batter.

Ida Handwerker

Ida Handwerker, born Ida Greenwald, was a Polish immigrant who cofounded the Nathan's Famous hot dog restaurant on Coney Island in 1916 and devised its spicy all-beef recipe.

Idaho Technology

Idaho Technology, Inc. was a biotechnology company founded in 1990 in Idaho Falls, Idaho, by Kirk Ririe and Carl Wittwer to commercialize rapid-cycle PCR, later renamed BioFire Diagnostics.

IDBI Bank

IDBI Bank, also known as Industrial Development Bank of India, is an Indian bank majority-owned by LIC and the government, converted from the country's apex development finance institution in 2004.

Ideagen

Ideagen is a Nottingham, UK software company founded in 1993 that sells governance, risk, and compliance software; it was taken private by Hg Capital in a £1.092bn deal in 2022.

IDEAL

iDEAL is the Dutch online payment system, launched in 2005, in which shoppers pay directly from their bank account; it handles roughly three quarters of Dutch e-commerce payments.

idealista

idealista is a Spanish online real estate classifieds platform founded in 2000 by Jesús Encinar, operating in Spain, Italy, and Portugal from Madrid, majority owned by Cinven since 2024.

IDEAYA Biosciences

IDEAYA Biosciences is a publicly traded precision-medicine oncology company in South San Francisco, founded in 2015, developing synthetic lethality and antibody-drug conjugate therapies for molecularly defined solid tumors.

Idemitsu Kosan

Idemitsu Kosan (出光興産) is a Japanese petroleum refiner and wholesaler, the country's second largest after ENEOS, known for its 1953 run of the Iranian oil blockade.

IDFC First Bank

IDFC First Bank, formerly IDFC Bank, is an Indian private-sector universal bank created by the 2018 merger of IDFC Bank with the retail lender Capital First.

IDG Breyer Capital Fund L.P.

IDG Breyer Capital Fund L.P. is a private equity fund formed in 2018 in the Cayman Islands, reporting nearly $2.5 billion sold in its SEC filing.

Idg Ventures India

IDG Ventures India was a technology venture capital firm founded in Bengaluru in 2006 by Sudhir Sethi, which backed over 70 Indian startups including Myntra, Lenskart, and Yatra.

Idg-Accel China

IDG-Accel China was a China-focused venture capital partnership between IDG and Accel Partners, announced in 2005, which raised nearly $1.5 billion and was later succeeded by IDG Capital.

Idiosyncratic risk

Idiosyncratic risk, also called unsystematic risk, is the part of an investment's risk specific to a particular company, sector, or asset class, and it can be reduced through diversification.

Idit Muallem-Yedid

Idit Muallem-Yedid is an Israeli venture capital investor who served as a General Partner at Pitango Venture Capital, known for growth investments in AppsFlyer, Riskified, and DriveNets.

Ido Susan

Ido Susan is an Israeli networking entrepreneur, co-founder and CEO of DriveNets, a Ra'anana company selling software for carrier and AI networks, after co-founding Intucell, sold to Cisco for $475 million.

Idrissa Nassa

Idrissa Nassa is a Burkinabè businessman, founder of Coris Bank International, which opened in Ouagadougou in 2008 and grew into a leading West African banking group.

IEIT Systems

IEIT Systems (浪潮信息), formerly Inspur Electronic Information Industry Company, is a Chinese manufacturer of servers, storage, and AI computing infrastructure, founded in Jinan, Shandong, in 1998.

IEX

IEX, the Investors' Exchange, is a US stock exchange founded by former Royal Bank of Canada traders, best known for its 350-microsecond speed bump that delays every incoming order.

IFC Global Infrastructure Fund

IFC Global Infrastructure Fund is a private equity fund investing in emerging-market infrastructure, managed by the International Finance Corporation, which closed at $1.2 billion in 2013.

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IFC Performance Standards

The IFC Performance Standards are eight environmental and social standards, adopted in 2006 and updated in 2012, that the International Finance Corporation requires clients to apply to financed projects.

iFood

iFood is a Brazilian online food-delivery platform founded in São Paulo in 2011, the largest in Latin America and wholly owned by Prosus since 2022.

IFRS 15 Revenue from Contracts with Customers

IFRS 15 Revenue from Contracts with Customers is the IASB's 2014 revenue standard, replacing IAS 18 with a single five-step model based on transfer of control.

IFRS 16 Leases

IFRS 16 Leases is an international accounting standard issued by the IASB that requires lessees to recognize a right-of-use asset and lease liability for nearly all leases, replacing IAS 17's dual model.

IFRS 17 Insurance Contracts

IFRS 17 Insurance Contracts is the International Financial Reporting Standard governing how insurers recognize, measure, and disclose insurance contracts, replacing IFRS 4 for reporting periods beginning in 2023.

IFRS 9

IFRS 9 Financial Instruments is the IASB accounting standard for financial assets and liabilities, effective from January 2018, replacing IAS 39 with expected credit loss provisioning.