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Ing. Sumetzberger GmbH

Ing. Sumetzberger GmbH is a family-run Austrian manufacturer of pneumatic tube systems, founded in Vienna in 1921, whose systems carry blood samples, cash, and gemstones in 66 countries.

ingatlan.com Zrt.

ingatlan.com Zrt. is a 100 percent Hungarian-owned company operating ingatlan.com, Hungary's leading real estate listing portal, launched in March 1998 by Dávid Mészáros, who registered the domain in 1997.

Inge Marie Svane

Inge Marie Svane is a Danish oncologist and professor who co-founded IO Biotech in 2015 and directs the Center for Cancer Immune Therapy at Herlev Hospital in Copenhagen.

Ingres; Illustra Information Technologies

Illustra Information Technologies was an Oakland, California database company founded by Michael Stonebraker in 1992 to commercialize Berkeley's POSTGRES, and was acquired by Informix in 1996 for about $400 million.

Ingvar Kamprad

Ingvar Kamprad, also known as Ingvar Feodor Kamprad, was a Swedish entrepreneur who registered IKEA in 1943 at age 17 and built it into the world's largest furniture retailer.

Inhibrx, Inc.

Inhibrx, Inc. was a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing single-domain antibody therapeutics for cancer and orphan diseases; Sanofi acquired it in 2024 for its lead program INBRX-101.

Iñigo U. Zobel

Iñigo U. Zobel (born 1957) is a Filipino businessman who has chaired Top Frontier Investment Holdings, San Miguel Corporation's largest shareholder, since 2008, and sits on San Miguel's board.

Initial coin offering

An initial coin offering (ICO) is a form of crowdfunding in which a blockchain project sells its own cryptographic tokens to the public, beginning with MasterCoin in 2013.

Initial public offering

An initial public offering (IPO), also called a stock market flotation, is a company's first sale of shares to the public, typically with an exchange listing.

Initial public offering of Facebook

The initial public offering of Facebook, the Facebook IPO, was the largest technology IPO in U.S. history at the time, raising $16 billion on NASDAQ in May 2012.

Initial public offering of SpaceX

The initial public offering of SpaceX, its first sale of stock to public investors, closed in June 2026, raising about $85.7 billion on Nasdaq under the symbol SPCX.

Initialized Superclass

Initialized Superclass is the name of two venture capital funds of Initialized, a San Francisco seed firm, which raised $220 million in 2019 and 2021.

Inke

Inke (映客) is a Chinese mobile live-streaming and social-entertainment company founded in Beijing in 2015 by Feng Yousheng, listed in Hong Kong in 2018 and renamed Inkeverse in 2022.

Inkitt

Inkitt, legally Inkitt GmbH, is a Berlin-based data-driven publishing and entertainment company founded in 2014 that uses algorithms to turn user-submitted stories into paid books, audio, and video.

Inmar

Inmar is a Winston-Salem, North Carolina technology company founded in 1980 by John Whitaker that processes promotions, returns, and supply chain data for retailers, brands, and healthcare organizations.

InMode

InMode Ltd. is an Israeli aesthetic medical device company founded in 2008 as Invasix by Moshe Mizrahy and Dr. Michael Kreindel, making radiofrequency platforms for minimally invasive procedures.

Innate Pharma

Innate Pharma is a clinical-stage biotech developing antibodies and antibody-drug conjugates that recruit innate immune cells, especially natural killer cells, against cancer; its lead asset is IPH4502.

Inner Mongolia Baotou Steel

Inner Mongolia Baotou Steel Union (内蒙古包钢钢联股份有限公司) is a steelmaker in Baotou, Inner Mongolia, producing about 15 Mt of steel yearly plus rare earth concentrate from Bayan Obo.

Inner Mongolia Junzheng Energy & Chemical Group

Inner Mongolia Junzheng Energy & Chemical Group (君正集团) is a Chinese energy and chemical company in Wuhai, Inner Mongolia, producing PVC, caustic soda, and BDO.

Inner Mongolia Mengtai Group

Inner Mongolia Mengtai Group is a private Chinese industrial group founded in 2001 in Ordos, Inner Mongolia, with an integrated coal, power, heat, and aluminum business.

Inner Mongolia Yili

Inner Mongolia Yili Industrial Group (内蒙古伊利实业集团) is a dairy company headquartered in Hohhot, China, producing liquid milk, milk powder, yogurt, and ice cream, and ranked fifth in the global dairy industry.

INNIO

INNIO is a Munich-based distributed energy company that makes Jenbacher and Waukesha gas engines, carved out of General Electric by Advent International in 2018 and listed on Nasdaq in 2026.

Inno Asset

Inno Asset (因诺资产), formally Innovation Asset Management Co., Ltd., is a Chinese quantitative hedge-fund manager founded in Shanghai in 2014 by Xu Shunan, now based in Beijing and managing over RMB 10 billion.

Inno Medicine (茵诺医药)

Inno Medicine (茵诺医药) is a Chinese biotechnology company founded in 2016 in Beijing that develops targeted nanomedicine drugs for cardiovascular disease and glioma, led by YN001, now in phase 2 trials.

InnoCare Pharma (诺诚健华)

InnoCare Pharma (诺诚健华) is a Beijing-based biopharmaceutical company founded in 2015 by Jisong Cui and Shi Yigong, dual-listed in Hong Kong and Shanghai and known for the BTK inhibitor orelabrutinib, its lead cancer drug.

Innofox Intelligent

Innofox Intelligent (Huixi Intelligent) is a Chinese smart-driving chip startup founded in 2022 and headquartered in Beijing E-Town; it released its first chip, the 7 nm Guangzhi R1, in October 2024.

Innotron Memory

Innotron Memory Co., Ltd. (睿力集成) is a Hefei-based semiconductor holding company, incorporated in 2016 and chaired by Zhu Yiming, whose wholly-owned subsidiary ChangXin Memory Technologies manufactures DRAM.

InnovaFeed

Innovafeed is a French biotechnology company, founded in Paris in 2016, that rears black soldier fly larvae at industrial scale to produce protein, oil, and fertilizer for animal feed.

Innovate Corp.

Innovate Corp., formerly HC2 Holdings, is a New York-based diversified holding company, renamed in 2021, whose segments span infrastructure, life sciences, and broadcasting; it sold DBM Global in 2026.

Innovation

Innovation, sometimes called human innovation, is the implementation of a new or significantly improved product or business process, distinct from invention; the Oslo Manual sets the standard definition.