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J.C. Bamford Excavators
J.C. Bamford Excavators, known as JCB, is a British family-owned maker of construction equipment, founded by Joseph Cyril Bamford in 1945 and best known for backhoe loaders.
J.H. Whitney & Company
J.H. Whitney & Company is a New Canaan, Connecticut private equity firm founded in 1946 by John Hay "Jock" Whitney, often credited as one of the first U.S. private equity firms.
J.P. Gan (甘剑平)
J.P. Gan (甘剑平) is a China-focused venture capitalist who spent 2006 to 2019 as a Qiming managing partner before founding INCE Capital, known for early investments in Trip.com, Bilibili, and Meituan.
J.P. Morgan & Co.
J.P. Morgan & Co. was a New York private investment bank, formed in 1895, that merged with Chase Manhattan in 2000 to create JPMorgan Chase.
J.P. Morgan Digital Growth Fund
J.P. Morgan Digital Growth Fund was a family of late-stage technology funds launched inside JPMorgan Chase in 2011, buying pre-IPO shares in companies such as Twitter and Groupon.
J&T Express
J&T Express (极兔速递) is an express delivery company founded in Indonesia in 2015 by Li Jie, operating in 13 countries and ranked first by parcel volume in Southeast Asia.
J&T Finance Group SE
J&T Finance Group SE is a Prague-based European bank holding company in Central and Eastern Europe, founded by Patrik Tkáč and Ivan Jakabovič in 1994.
JA Solar Holdings
JA Solar Holdings (晶澳科技) is a Chinese solar manufacturer founded by Jin Baofang in 2005, based in Ningjin County, Hebei, and ranked among the world's top module suppliers.
Jaan Tallinn
Jaan Tallinn is an Estonian founding engineer of Skype and Kazaa who later invested in AI companies like DeepMind and Anthropic and co-founded the Future of Life Institute.
Jace Kohlmeier
Jace Kohlmeier is an American quantitative trader and technology executive who co-founded Teza Technologies, a Chicago high-frequency trading firm, after nearly seven years at Citadel Investment Group.
Jacinto Ng
Jacinto Ng is a Filipino entrepreneur who founded the biscuit company Rebisco in 1963 and founded Asia United Bank, chairing it until his 2017 retirement.
Jack Altman (investor)
Jack Altman is an American venture capital investor and entrepreneur who co-founded and led the HR software company Lattice, then founded Alt Capital before joining Benchmark in 2026.
Jack Chabala
Jack Chabala is a pharmaceutical chemist who left Bristol-Myers Squibb to lead Pharmacopeia, a Princeton, New Jersey drug discovery company, as president and chief scientific officer in the 1990s.
Jack Cohen (businessman)
Jack Cohen, born John Edward Cohen, was a British grocer who built Tesco from a single East End market stall into one of Britain's largest retailers.
Jack Gifford
Jack Gifford, also known as John Gifford, was an American semiconductor executive who co-founded Maxim Integrated Products in 1983 and AMD in 1968, leading Maxim until 2006.
Jack Kent Cooke
Jack Kent Cooke was a Canadian-American media and sports proprietor who rose from an Ontario radio station to own the Los Angeles Lakers and Washington's NFL franchise.
Jack Kokko
Jack Kokko, born Jaakko Kokko, is a Finnish-born technology entrepreneur who co-founded AlphaSense in 2011 and leads the New York-based AI market-intelligence company as chief executive officer.
Jack Lew
Jack Lew, also known as Jacob J. Lew, is an American official who served as Treasury Secretary from 2013 to 2017 and as Ambassador to Israel from 2023 to 2025.
Jack Roschman
Jack Roschman was an American restaurateur who founded the Rax Roast Beef chain, starting with a Jax restaurant in Springfield, Ohio, in 1968, and co-founded Ponderosa Steakhouse.
Jack Taylor (businessman)
Jack Taylor was an American businessman who founded the company that became Enterprise Rent-A-Car in St. Louis in 1957, building it into the world's largest rental fleet.
Jack Welch
Jack Welch, also known as John F. Welch and nicknamed Neutron Jack, was the American chairman and CEO of General Electric from 1981 to 2001.
Jack Zhang
Jack Zhang is a technology entrepreneur who co-founded the cross-border payments platform Airwallex in Melbourne in 2015 and serves as its chief executive, owning a 12% stake.
Jackson Hole Economic Policy Symposium
The Jackson Hole Economic Policy Symposium is an invitation-only central-banking conference held by the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, since 1982.
Jackson Square Ventures
Jackson Square Ventures is a San Francisco Bay Area early-stage venture capital firm founded in 2011 by partners who spun out of Sigma Partners, investing in SaaS and marketplace companies.
Jacob Best, Sr.
Jacob Best, Sr. was a German-born brewer who ran a brewery in Mettenheim before founding a Milwaukee brewery in 1844 that grew into the Pabst Brewing Company, renamed in 1889.
Jacob De Geer
Jacob De Geer is a Swedish entrepreneur and baron who co-founded the Stockholm mobile-payments company iZettle in 2010 and sold it to PayPal for $2.2 billion in 2018.
Jacob Loose
Jacob Loose (1850–1923) was an American biscuit manufacturer who co-founded the Loose-Wiles Biscuit Company in Kansas City in 1902, whose Hydrox cookie of 1908 was America's first chocolate sandwich cookie.
Jacob Marschak
Jacob Marschak (1898–1977) was a Kiev-born American economist and econometrician, professor at UCLA, who founded the economics of information and, with Roy Radner, the theory of teams.
Jacob Rothschild, 4th Baron Rothschild
Jacob Rothschild, 4th Baron Rothschild (1936–2024), was a British financier who built RIT Capital Partners from £5 million to over £3 billion in net assets.
Jacob Schueler
Jacob Schueler was a Denver confectioner who put up $18,000 of the roughly $20,000 that founded the Golden, Colorado brewery in 1873, later bought out by Adolph Coors.