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Infarm

Infarm is a Berlin-based vertical farming startup founded in 2013 by Osnat Michaeli and the brothers Erez and Guy Galonska, which sold modular in-store growing units to supermarkets.

Inferior good

An inferior good is a good whose demand falls as consumer income rises, a label about affordability rather than product quality; examples include public transit and instant noodles.

Infinera

Infinera was an American optical networking company headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, founded in 2000, known for photonic integrated circuits and acquired by Nokia in February 2025.

Infinited Fiber Company

Infinited Fiber Company is a Finnish textile-recycling startup founded in Espoo in 2016 by Petri Alava and Ali Harlin, which turns cotton-rich textile waste into its Infinna fiber.

Infinity Dynamics

Infinity Dynamics (无界动力) is a Beijing embodied-intelligence robotics company founded in 2025 by Zhang Yufeng, formerly of Horizon Robotics, developing the MWA general brain and the K15 robot.

Infinity Fincorp

Infinity Fincorp Solutions Private Limited is a Mumbai-based non-banking financial company founded by Shrikant Ravalkar in 2016, lending secured MSME loans against property in Tier-2 and Tier-3 Indian cities.

Inflammatix

Inflammatix is an American molecular diagnostics company founded in 2016 as a Stanford spinout, headquartered in Burlingame, California, developing rapid host-response blood tests for acute infection and sepsis.

Inflation

Inflation, also called economic or price inflation, is a sustained rise in the general price level of goods and services, eroding money's purchasing power; central banks target low, stable rates.

Inflation accounting

Inflation accounting, also called price level accounting, restates financial statements into current purchasing power using a general price index, correcting distortions that inflation causes in historical cost accounting.

Inflation in India

Inflation in India is measured mainly by the wholesale price index and the consumer price index, with CPI inflation targeted at 4 per cent, within a 2 to 6 per cent band, since 2016.

Inflation Reduction Act

The Inflation Reduction Act is a US law signed in August 2022, spending about $369 billion on climate and energy tax credits and Medicare drug pricing, though it barely reduced inflation.

Inflation swap

An inflation swap is an over-the-counter derivative in which one party pays a fixed inflation rate and the other pays realized growth of a consumer price index.

Inflation targeting

Inflation targeting is a monetary policy framework in which a central bank publicly announces a numerical medium-term inflation target; New Zealand adopted it first in 1990.

Inflationary gap

An inflationary gap is the amount by which actual real GDP exceeds potential GDP, the output level consistent with stable inflation, causing prices to rise.

Inflection Point Ventures

Inflection Point Ventures is an Indian angel investing platform founded in 2018 in Gurugram by Vinay Bansal, Ankur Mittal, and Mitesh Shah, investing in over 270 startups.

Infleqtion

Infleqtion is a quantum computing and quantum sensing company in Louisville, Colorado, founded in 2007 as ColdQuanta by physicist Dana Anderson and publicly traded since 2026.

Influence diagram

An influence diagram, sometimes called a relevance diagram, is a directed graph for representing decision problems under uncertainty, invented by Howard and Matheson in the mid-1970s.

Influencer marketing

Influencer marketing is a digital marketing technique in which companies pay social media influencers to promote products to their followers, a market worth tens of billions of dollars in 2025.

InfoBionic

InfoBionic, rebranded as InfoBionic.Ai in 2024, is a digital health company founded in 2011 in Chelmsford, Massachusetts, offering remote cardiac arrhythmia monitoring via its MoMe ARC platform.

Infogrid

Infogrid is a London building-intelligence startup founded in 2018 by William Cowell de Gruchy that uses IoT sensors and AI to monitor commercial buildings; it rebranded as Noda in 2024.

Inforcer

Inforcer is a London-based software company, launched in 2023, that sells managed service providers a multi-tenant platform for Microsoft 365 security and AI management, raising a $50 million Series C in 2026.

Informal economy

The informal economy, also known as the gray economy, covers workers and firms not covered by formal arrangements in law or practice, excluding illicit activities.

Information asymmetry

Information asymmetry, or asymmetric information, is an economic situation in which one party to a transaction knows more than the other, as when a used-car seller knows the car's condition.

Information ratio

The information ratio (IR) is a portfolio performance measure dividing average active return over a benchmark by its tracking error, the standard yardstick for ranking active managers.

InforMed Data Systems Inc.

InforMed Data Systems Inc., doing business as One Drop, is a New York-based digital health company founded by Jeff Dachis in 2015 that built a diabetes-management platform.

Infracapital Partners

Infracapital Partners is a European infrastructure equity manager founded in 2001 by Martin Lennon and Ed Clarke, part of M&G plc, managing around £6bn in assets.

Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act

The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, also called the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, is a US federal statute signed in 2021 authorizing about $1.2 trillion for infrastructure over five years.

Infrastructure Leasing & Financial Services

Infrastructure Leasing & Financial Services (IL&FS) was an Indian infrastructure finance group founded in 1987 whose 2018 default triggered a liquidity crisis and a government takeover.

Infusion Software Inc

Infusion Software Inc is a Delaware-incorporated software company in Chandler, Arizona, founded in 2001 and known for Keap (formerly Infusionsoft), a small-business CRM acquired by Thryv in 2024.

ING Group

ING Group, also known as ING Groep N.V., is a Dutch banking and financial services corporation formed by a 1991 merger, serving about 41 million retail customers.