Economics and business

Latin American Integration Association

The Latin American Integration Association (ALADI, or LAIA) is a Latin American trade association founded by the 1980 Treaty of Montevideo, headquartered in Montevideo, Uruguay.

Latin American Reserve Fund

The Latin American Reserve Fund (FLAR, Fondo Latinoamericano de Reservas) lends to member central banks for balance-of-payments support, founded in 1978 as a regional alternative to the IMF.

Latin Monetary Union

The Latin Monetary Union was an 1865 coinage convention of France, Belgium, Italy, and Switzerland, later joined by Greece, harmonizing coins on the French franc standard.

Latour AB Investment

Investment AB Latour is a Swedish family-controlled mixed investment company, founded in 1985, holding ten listed stakes and wholly-owned businesses with SEK 28 billion turnover.

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Lattice model (finance)

A lattice model in finance values an option on a tree of possible price paths, working backward from payoffs at maturity; the best-known form is the 1979 Cox–Ross–Rubinstein binomial model.

Lattice Semiconductor is an American semiconductor company in Hillsboro, Oregon, founded in 1983, that designs low-power field-programmable gate arrays and is the last major FPGA maker still independent.

Latvian lats

The Latvian lats (LVL) was the currency of Latvia in two eras, 1922 to 1940 and 1993 to 2014, when the euro replaced it at 0.702804 lats per euro.

Latvian ruble

The Latvian ruble (Latvijas rublis) was Latvia's transitional currency between the Soviet ruble and the lat, in circulation from May 1992 to October 1993 and exchanged at 200 rubles to 1 lat.

Laura Connell

Laura Connell is a venture capital investor who leads growth-stage investing at the European venture firm Atomico, where she has led investments including PhysicsX, DeepL, Corti, and Pelago Health.

Laura Niklason

Laura Niklason is an American physician-scientist and biomedical engineer who co-founded Humacyte in 2004 and invented the human acellular vessel, FDA-approved as Symvess in 2024.

Laura Tadvalkar

Laura Tadvalkar is a Managing Director on the Venture Team at RA Capital Management, a life-science investment firm, where she works on new company creation and early-stage investments.

Laura Veroneau

Laura Veroneau is a managing partner and founding team member of Optum Ventures, a healthcare venture firm launched in 2017 in partnership with UnitedHealth Group.

Laurance Rockefeller

Laurance Spelman Rockefeller (1910–2004) was an American financier, venture capital pioneer, and conservationist, son of John D. Rockefeller, who backed aviation firms and helped create several national parks.

Laurel Bowden

Laurel Bowden is a London-based venture capital partner at 83North, the firm's first European partner, ranked No. 4 on the Forbes Midas List Europe in 2022.

Lauren Bush

Lauren Bush, also known as Lauren Bush Lauren, is an American social entrepreneur and former model who founded FEED Projects in 2007 to fund school meals.

Lauren Gross

Lauren Gross is Partner and Chief Operating Officer of Founders Fund, Peter Thiel's venture capital firm, which she joined in 2010 after working at his hedge fund Clarium Capital.

Lauren Ratner

Lauren Ratner, also known as Lauren Rothberg, is an American brand executive who cofounded rhode with Hailey Bieber, leading it to a $1 billion acquisition by E.l.f. Beauty.

Lauren Rauch

Lauren Rauch is an American derivatives trader who became Co-CEO and Chief Operating Officer of the options market maker Chicago Trading Company effective January 1, 2026.

Laurene Powell Jobs

Laurene Powell Jobs is an American billionaire businesswoman, widow of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, and founder of Emerson Collective, which owns The Atlantic and holds a stake in Monumental Sports.

Laurent Dassault

Laurent Dassault is a French industrial heir and company director, the second son of Serge Dassault and grandson of Marcel Dassault, honorary chairman of the family holding's supervisory board since 2025.

Laurent Farinelli

Laurent Farinelli is a University of Geneva alumnus who co-developed the DNA colonies invention in 1996 with Pascal Mayer, recognized by the 2022 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences.

Laurent Laizet

Laurent Laizet is a French quantitative trader who co-founded Qube Research & Technologies, a London-based quantitative hedge fund, and serves as its Chief Investment Officer.

Laurent Laloux

Laurent Laloux is a French quantitative finance executive who serves as Chief Product Officer and board member of the Paris hedge fund Capital Fund Management.

Laurent Ritter

Laurent Ritter is a French technology entrepreneur who co-founded Voodoo, the Paris-based mobile gaming company, with Alexandre Yazdi in 2013, serving as its managing director while Voodoo became a leader in hyper-casual mobile games.

Laurent Sifre

Laurent Sifre is a French artificial-intelligence researcher and entrepreneur who co-founded the Paris startup H, serving as its Chief Technological Officer, after nearly a decade at Google DeepMind.

Lauri Moore

Lauri Moore is an American venture capitalist and a Partner at Bessemer Venture Partners in Silicon Valley since 2024, investing in early-stage data, AI, and developer tools.

Laurus Labs

Laurus Labs is an Indian pharmaceutical and biotechnology company founded in Hyderabad in 2005 by Dr Satyanarayana Chava, known for anti-retroviral APIs, oncology products, and CDMO services, and listed since 2016.

Lausanne school

The Lausanne school was a school of economics at the University of Lausanne built around Léon Walras and Vilfredo Pareto, founders of mathematical general equilibrium theory.