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Integrum Capital Partners

Integrum Capital Partners is a New York-based private equity firm, founded in 2021 by Tagar Olson, Richard Kunzer, and Ursula Burns, investing in technology-enabled services companies.

Intel Foundry

Intel Foundry, first organized as Intel Foundry Services in 2021, is Intel's contract chip manufacturing business offering wafer fabrication and advanced packaging, competing primarily with TSMC and Samsung.

Intellifusion (云天励飞)

Intellifusion (云天励飞) is a Chinese artificial intelligence company founded in Shenzhen in 2014, which moved from facial-recognition systems for police to self-developed AI inference chips.

Intellipaat

Intellipaat (Intellipaat Software Solutions Pvt. Ltd.) is an Indian edtech company, founded in 2011, selling online technical training and certification courses to individuals and corporate clients.

IntelyCare

IntelyCare is a Quincy, Massachusetts healthtech company founded in 2015 that runs an AI-matched nurse staffing platform, hiring nurses as W2 employees with benefits and reaching a $1.1 billion valuation by 2022.

Inter-American Development Bank

The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) is a multilateral development bank founded in 1959 to finance development in Latin America and the Caribbean, with 48 member countries.

Interactive Brokers

Interactive Brokers Group, Inc. is an automated global electronic broker headquartered in Greenwich, Connecticut, founded by Thomas Peterffy in 1993 and serving over 5 million accounts in more than 200 countries.

Interactive Strength, Inc.

Interactive Strength Inc. (Nasdaq: TRNR), doing business as Forme, is a fitness-technology company founded in 2017 that makes connected fitness equipment and went public in April 2023.

Interbank lending market

The interbank lending market is where banks and other financial institutions lend unsecured funds to one another, reshaped since the 2007–09 financial crisis and the failure of LIBOR.

InterCloud

InterCloud was a Paris-based startup founded in 2010 that provided software-defined private network connectivity between enterprises and major cloud providers; it was acquired by BSO in 2025.

InterContinental

InterContinental Hotels & Resorts is a luxury hotel brand owned by IHG, founded by Pan Am in 1946, with 242 hotels at the end of 2025.

Intercontinental Exchange

Intercontinental Exchange, formerly IntercontinentalExchange Group Inc., is an American exchange operator founded in 2000 to digitize energy markets, agreeing in 2012 to buy NYSE Euronext for $8.2 billion.

Interest

Interest is the price paid for the use of money over time, the cost of borrowing and the return on saving, set by supply and demand for loans.

Interest coverage ratio

The interest coverage ratio (ICR), also called times interest earned, is a credit measure of EBIT divided by interest expense, showing how easily a company pays interest.

Interest on reserve balances

Interest on reserve balances is the rate the Federal Reserve pays banks on balances held at Reserve Banks, its main tool for steering short-term interest rates.

Interest rate

An interest rate is the cost of borrowing money, and central banks set a policy rate, like the US federal funds rate, to steer demand and inflation.

Interest rate cap and floor

An interest rate cap and floor are over-the-counter options on floating rates like SOFR: a cap pays when the rate fixes above the strike, a floor when it fixes below.

Interest rate parity

Interest rate parity is the no-arbitrage condition linking spot and forward exchange rates with nominal interest rates in two currencies, so covered arbitrage earns no riskless profit; Keynes formalized it in 1923.

Interest rate swap

An interest rate swap is a derivative contract in which counterparties exchange fixed and floating interest payments on a notional principal, the largest segment of the derivatives market.

Intergenerational equity

Intergenerational equity is the principle of fairness among generations, holding that every generation holds the Earth in common with past and future generations and underpinning sustainable development.

Intergenerational income mobility

Intergenerational income mobility is the degree to which a child's adult income depends on their parents' income, measured by relative and absolute mobility, which can move in opposite directions.

Intergovernmental Authority on Development

The Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) is a regional organization of Eastern African states, formed in 1996 from a 1986 drought body and best known for mediating peace in Sudan, South Sudan, and Somalia.

Interim financial report

An interim financial report is a set of financial statements for a period shorter than a full year, such as a quarter, updating the latest annual accounts.

Interius BioTherapeutics

Interius BioTherapeutics was a Philadelphia biotechnology company, spun out of the University of Pennsylvania in 2019, that developed in vivo CAR gene therapies engineering immune cells inside the body.

Intermediate good

An intermediate good is a produced good sold to be used up or transformed in making other goods, and its value is excluded from GDP to avoid double counting.

Internal audit

Internal audit, also called internal auditing, is an independent function within an organization that provides its board and management objective assurance and advice on risk, control, and governance.

Internal labor market

An internal labor market is a firm or plant where wages and job allocation are governed by administrative rules, with workers hired into entry jobs and promoted from within.

Internal migration

Internal migration is the movement of people across administrative boundaries within a country, without crossing an international border; about 750 million people had done so by the mid-2000s.

Internal rate of return

The internal rate of return (IRR) is the discount rate that makes the net present value of a series of cash flows equal to zero, found by solving for the rate.

International Accounting Standards Board

The International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) is the independent standard-setting body of the IFRS Foundation, responsible for IFRS Accounting Standards used in more than 140 jurisdictions.