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Isq Growth Markets Infrastructure

ISQ Growth Markets Infrastructure is a family of private equity funds, managed by I Squared Capital of Miami, investing in mid-market infrastructure across emerging markets in Asia and Latin America.

Israel Discount Bank

Israel Discount Bank is an Israeli universal bank founded in 1935 by Leon Recanati, ranking fourth among Israel's five major banking groups with over one million customers.

Israel Englander

Israel "Izzy" Englander, born 1948, is an American hedge fund manager who founded Millennium Management in 1989 with $35 million and leads it as chairman and chief executive officer.

Israel Grimberg

Israel Grimberg is an Israeli venture capitalist, co-founder and managing partner of Team8, the Tel Aviv venture group founded in 2014 that builds cybersecurity, AI, fintech, and digital-health companies.

Israeli banking crisis (1983–1986)

The Israeli banking crisis of 1983–1986 was the October 1983 collapse of artificially supported bank share prices, ending with the government owning almost all equity of the four largest banks.

Israeli new shekel (שקל חדש)

The Israeli new shekel (שקל חדש) is the currency of Israel, with ISO code ILS and symbol ₪, replacing the old shekel at 1,000 to 1 in 1985.

Israeli old shekel

The Israeli old shekel, abbreviated ISh, was Israel's currency from February 1980, replacing the lira at 10 to 1, until the new shekel replaced it in 1986.

Israeli pound

The Israeli pound, known in Hebrew as the lira (לירה ישראלית), was Israel's currency from 1948 to 1980, replacing the Palestine pound and then the sheqel.

Issad Rebrab

Issad Rebrab, born 1944, is an Algerian businessman who founded Cevital in 1998, building it into Algeria's largest privately held company; Forbes ranks him Algeria's richest man.

Issuu

Issuu is a digital publishing platform that turns static documents into interactive online publications, founded in Copenhagen in 2006 and sold to Italy's Bending Spoons in 2024.

IT service management

IT service management (ITSM) is the practice of planning, delivering, and optimizing IT services to meet user needs and business goals, guided by frameworks such as ITIL.

Italian lira

The Italian lira was the currency of Italy from 1861 until the euro replaced it in 1999, converted at 1,936.27 lire per euro and ceasing to be legal tender in 2002.

Itaú Unibanco Holding

Itaú Unibanco Holding S.A. is a Brazilian private bank, the largest private-sector bank in Latin America, formed by the 2008 merger of Banco Itaú and Unibanco.

Itaúsa

Itaúsa (Investimentos Itaú S.A.) is Brazil's largest publicly traded investment holding company, controlled by the Setubal and Villela families, whose main asset is a 37.5% stake in Itaú Unibanco.

ITC Hotels

ITC Hotels, also known as ITC Welcomgroup, is an Indian hospitality company with more than 140 hotels and 13,300 rooms, demerged from ITC Ltd in 2025.

ITC Limited (आईटीसी लिमिटेड)

ITC Limited (आईटीसी लिमिटेड), also known as Indian Tobacco Company, is an Indian conglomerate founded in 1910 as a British American Tobacco subsidiary, now spanning cigarettes, packaged foods, and agri-business.

iTeos Therapeutics

iTeos Therapeutics was a clinical-stage immuno-oncology company in Watertown, Massachusetts, with research in Belgium, known for a roughly $2 billion GSK partnership before its 2025 wind-down.

Iterative Scopes

Iterative Scopes is a Cambridge, Massachusetts medical software company applying artificial intelligence to gastroenterology. Founded in 2017 as an MIT spinout, it makes the SKOUT polyp-detection device.

Iterum Therapeutics plc

Iterum Therapeutics plc was an Irish pharmaceutical company, founded in 2015, that developed the oral penem antibiotic ORLYNVAH and filed to wind up in March 2026.

ITM Radiopharma

ITM Radiopharma, legally ITM Isotope Technologies Munich SE, is a Munich, Germany-based biotech company that manufactures medical radioisotopes and develops targeted radiopharmaceutical cancer therapies, including lead candidate ITM-11.

Itochu (伊藤忠商事)

Itochu Corporation (伊藤忠商事) is a Japanese general trading company, or sogo shosha, founded in 1858, in which Berkshire Hathaway holds a stake of more than 10%.

iTrustCapital

iTrustCapital is a fintech software platform founded in 2018 by Todd Southwick and Blake Skadron, based in Irvine, California, for trading cryptocurrencies, gold, and silver inside self-directed IRAs.

Ittai Harel

Ittai Harel is an Israeli venture capital investor and Managing Partner at Pitango Venture Capital, leading its HealthTech funds across biopharma, devices, diagnostics, and digital health.

ITW Gema

ITW Gema was the name of the Swiss powder coating equipment maker Gema while a subsidiary of Illinois Tool Works, from 1998 until Graco bought it in 2012.

Itzik Parnafes

Itzik Parnafes is an Israeli venture capital investor and General Partner at Battery Ventures, known for the XtremIO sale to EMC and investments in Omio, GetYourGuide, and N26.

Ivan Baťka

Ivan Baťka (Ivan Baťka mladší), born 1966, is a Czech businessman, owner and CEO of Fosfa a.s., a Břeclav chemicals producer that is Europe's largest processor of yellow phosphorus.

Ivan Boesky

Ivan Boesky, born Ivan Frederick Boesky, was an American risk arbitrageur who built a $200 million fortune and became the central figure of the 1980s Wall Street insider-trading scandal.

Ivan Glasenberg

Ivan Glasenberg is a South African-born, Australian-citizen billionaire commodities trader who was chief executive of Glencore, the world's biggest commodity trader, from 2002 until his retirement on 30 June 2021.

Ivan Jakabovič

Ivan Jakabovič is a Slovak financier who co-founded the securities broker J&T Securities in 1994 and holds 35.15 percent of J&T FINANCE GROUP SE, a Prague-registered banking group.

Ivan Muller Botelho

Ivan Muller Botelho is a Brazilian electrical engineer and businessman who chairs the board of Energisa, the family-controlled electricity utility, and is a third-generation descendant of one of its founders.