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IG Metall

IG Metall, or Industriegewerkschaft Metall, is Germany's largest industrial union, representing about 2.1 million metal and electrical workers within the German Trade Union Confederation and tracing its lineage to 1891.

IGAWorks

IGAWorks (아이지에이웍스) is a South Korean data-technology company founded in 2006 and headquartered in Seoul, known for adbrix and DFINERY and as Korea's first data-sector unicorn.

Ignis Therapeutics (翼思生物)

Ignis Therapeutics (翼思生物) is a Shanghai-based biopharmaceutical company founded in 2020 that in-licenses, develops, and commercializes central nervous system drugs for Greater China, launched in 2021 with $180 million in Series A funding.

Ignyta, Inc.

Ignyta, Inc. was a San Diego precision-oncology biotechnology company founded in 2011. Its lead drug was entrectinib, and Roche agreed to acquire it for $1.7 billion in 2017.

Igor Bukhman

Igor Bukhman is a Russian-born technology entrepreneur who co-founded Playrix, the Dublin-based mobile games company behind Gardenscapes and Fishdom, with his brother Dmitry in 2004.

Igor Jablokov

Igor Jablokov is an American AI entrepreneur who founded Yap, a speech-recognition company Amazon acquired in 2011 whose technology fed Alexa, and later Pryon, a Raleigh enterprise AI company.

Igor Marinelli

Igor Marinelli is a Brazilian entrepreneur, co-founder and CEO of TRACTIAN, an industrial technology company founded in São Paulo in 2019 that applies sensors, software, and artificial intelligence to machine maintenance.

Igor Tulchinsky

Igor Tulchinsky (Игорь Тульчинский) is the Belarus-born founder, chairman, and CEO of WorldQuant, a quantitative asset management firm he founded in 2007 after twelve years at Millennium Management.

IHG Hotels & Resorts

IHG Hotels & Resorts (InterContinental Hotels Group) is a British hotel company with 20 brands, including Holiday Inn and InterContinental, across 6,963 hotels in more than 100 countries.

IHH Healthcare

IHH Healthcare is a private hospital group dual-listed on Bursa Malaysia and the Singapore Exchange, operating more than 80 hospitals in 10 countries under brands including Acibadem, Fortis, and Gleneagles.

Ihor Kolomoyskyi (Ігор Валерійович Коломойський)

Ihor Kolomoyskyi is a Ukrainian billionaire businessman who co-founded PrivatBank in 1992, served as Dnipropetrovsk governor, and was found liable in London in 2025 for $1.9 billion taken from the bank.

iHub (Nairobi)

iHub is a technology innovation hub and co-working space in Nairobi, Kenya, founded in March 2010 as the first widely recognized innovation hub in Africa.

IIF Private Investors Offshore SICAV-RAIF S.A.

IIF Private Investors Offshore SICAV-RAIF S.A. is a Luxembourg-domiciled private equity feeder fund, registered in 2021, that invests essentially all its assets in a single Infrastructure Fund.

IIFL Asset Management

IIFL Asset Management (IIFL AMC) is the asset management and private equity arm of India's IIFL Wealth group, now branded 360 ONE Asset, running mutual funds and venture funds.

IK Partners

IK Partners, formerly IK Investment Partners and Industri Kapital, is a European mid-market private equity firm founded in 1989 by Björn Savén, with its head office in London.

IK X Fund

IK X Fund is the tenth Mid Cap private equity fund program of European buyout firm IK Partners, closed at its €3.3 billion hard cap in April 2025.

Ike Chalumbira

Isaac 'Ike' Chalumbira, who publishes as Ike Cha, is a Zimbabwean-born South African entrepreneur and founder of Lionshare, a Johannesburg investment holding group covering property, logistics, and fuel.

ILC

ILC (Inversiones La Construcción S.A.) is a Chilean investment holding controlled by the Cámara Chilena de la Construcción, founded in 1980 and active in pensions, insurance, health, and banking.

Ilija Kolarac

Ilija Kolarac (around 1800 to 1878) was a Serbian grain merchant and philanthropist in Pančevo who left his fortune to found a university endowment and support Serbian literature.

Ilkka Paananen

Ilkka Paananen is a Finnish gaming executive who co-founded Supercell in 2010 and leads it as CEO; its games include Clash of Clans, Clash Royale, and Brawl Stars.

Illinois STRS

Illinois STRS, the Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois (TRS), is the pension plan covering Illinois public school teachers outside Chicago, created in 1939.

Illinois Tool Works

Illinois Tool Works Inc. is a Fortune 300 industrial manufacturer founded in Chicago in 1912, with 88 divisions in 49 countries and $16 billion in 2025 revenue.

Illumina (genomics company)

Illumina is an American genomics company headquartered in San Diego, California, founded in 1998, whose sequencing machines hold more than 70% of the high-throughput sequencing market.

Illumio

Illumio is a privately held American cybersecurity company founded in 2013 by Andrew Rubin and PJ Kirner in Sunnyvale, California, best known for the Illumio Core microsegmentation platform.

ILOS Projects

ILOS Projects is a German independent power producer in Karlsruhe, founded in 2018 by Michael Winter and Nikolaus Krane, developing solar projects across seven European markets.

Ilya Sukhar

Ilya Sukhar is a venture capital investor and technology founder, a General Partner at Matrix since 2016 and the co-founder of Parse, which Facebook acquired in 2013.

iM Financial Group

iM Financial Group (iM금융지주), formerly DGB Financial Group, is a South Korean financial holding company headquartered in Daegu and built around iM Bank, the former Daegu Bank.

Imaginary Venture Capital Partners

Imaginary Venture Capital Partners, trading as Imaginary Ventures, is a New York venture capital firm founded by Natalie Massenet and Nick Brown that invests in consumer businesses.

Imbria Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

Imbria Pharmaceuticals is a Boston-based, Delaware-incorporated clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company founded in 2018, developing ninerafaxstat, an oral pFOX inhibitor now in a Phase 2b trial for non-obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.

IMC Financial Markets

IMC Financial Markets is a privately held proprietary trading and market-making firm headquartered in Amsterdam, founded in 1989 on the Amsterdam options exchange floor by Robert Defares and René Schelvis.