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Bison Ventures
Bison Ventures is a venture capital firm founded in 2022 by Tom Biegala and Ben Hemani, both formerly of the Gates Foundation's investment office, investing in early-stage deep technology companies.
Bisutun (Ziyarid amir)
Bisutun, full name Zahir-al-Dawla Abu Mansur, was the Ziyarid amir of Tabarestan and Gorgan in northern Iran from 967 to 978, ruling with Buyid backing.
Biswa Singha
Biswa Singha (বিশ্বসিংহ), also written Visvasimha, was a Koch chieftain who founded the Kamata-Koch kingdom in the lower Brahmaputra valley, reigning from about 1515 to 1540.
Biswajit Daimary
Biswajit Daimary is an Indian politician of the Bharatiya Janata Party who serves as a minister in the Government of Assam and is a prominent face of Bodo politics.
Biswajit Sinha (Rahul Sinha)
Biswajit Sinha, known politically as Rahul Sinha, is an Indian Bharatiya Janata Party politician who has represented West Bengal in the Rajya Sabha since 2026.
Bit Adini
Bit Adini (Bīt-Adini), known in the Hebrew Bible as Beth-Eden, was an Aramean kingdom on the middle Euphrates with its capital at Til Barsip, conquered by Assyria in 856 BC.
Bit Agusi
Bit Agusi, also written Bit Agushi, was an Aramean kingdom in northern Syria with its capital at Arpad (modern Tell Rifa'at), annexed by Assyria in 740 BCE.
Bit Bahiani
Bit Bahiani was an Aramean principality on the Habur river in northeastern Syria, centered on Guzana, modern Tell Halaf, attested from 894 BC and annexed by Assyria in the early eighth century BC.
Bīt mēseri
Bīt mēseri, meaning "house of enclosure", is a first-millennium BC Mesopotamian ritual series in which an exorcist expelled demons from a patient's house over four days.
Bīt rimki
Bīt rimki (Bit rimki), Akkadian for "house of washing," is an Assyrian royal purification ritual in which an exorcist purified the king with water and prayers to Šamaš.
Bit-Amukkani
Bit-Amukkani was a large Chaldean tribe of southern Babylonia between Nippur and Uruk, with its capital at Šapīya, where Mukin-zeri was besieged by Tiglath-pileser III in 731 BC.
Bit-Halupe
Bit-Halupe (بيت خلوبي), also written Bit-Ḫalupe and Bet-Halupe, was a small Aramean emirate on the middle Euphrates with its capital at Suru, annexed by Assyria under Tiglath-pileser III.
Bit-Hamban
Bit-Hamban, also Bīt Ḫamban or Bīt Habban, was a district and later Assyrian province in the central Zagros, attested from after 1157 BC to 612 BC.
Bit-Iakin
Bit-Iakin, more commonly written Bit-Yakin, was a Chaldean tribal polity in the marshlands of southern Babylonia, an adversary of Assyria in the 8th century BC.
Bit-Laqe
Bit-Laqe, also known as Laqe, was an Aramean tribal confederation on the Middle Euphrates in the early 1st millennium BC, inheriting the territory of the kingdom of Khana.
Bit-Zamani
Bit-Zamani, also written Bet-Zamani, was an Aramean kingdom of the upper Tigris valley centered on Amida, best known from Neo-Assyrian records and later absorbed into the Assyrian province of Amēdu.
bit.bio
bit.bio, also known as Bit Bio Limited, is a Cambridge, UK synthetic biology company founded in 2016 that reprograms stem cells into defined human cell types for research and drug discovery.
Bitauto (易车网)
Bitauto (易车网) is a Chinese automotive internet company founded in 2000 by William Li, who later founded Nio; it runs the Yiche app and was taken private by Tencent in 2020.
Bitch
Bitch (Old English bicce): originally a female dog, from about 1400 a derogatory term for women, with later senses for difficult things, complaints, and men; heavily studied for pejoration and partial feminist and hip-hop reclamation.
Bitch (magazine)
Bitch: Feminist Response to Pop Culture, a feminist quarterly magazine founded in Oakland in 1996 by Lisa Jervis, Andi Zeisler, and Benjamin Shaykin; published by nonprofit Bitch Media from Portland until closing in June 2022.
Bitch Wars
The Bitch Wars (Сучьи войны) were 1945–1953 conflicts in Soviet Gulag camps between thieves-in-law upholding the non-collaboration code and 'sukas', front-veteran prisoners who fought for the Red Army, with tens of thousands dead.
Bitcoin
Bitcoin is a decentralized peer-to-peer electronic cash system, specified in Satoshi Nakamoto's 2008 whitepaper, in which a proof-of-work blockchain validates transactions so coins cannot be spent twice without any central operator.
Bitcoin buried in Newport landfill
A hard drive holding the private key to 8,000 bitcoin, discarded by James Howells of Newport, Wales, in 2013; his lawsuit to excavate the landfill failed in 2025.
Bitcoin Cash
Bitcoin Cash (BCH) is a cryptocurrency created on August 1, 2017, when a faction of the Bitcoin community hard-forked the blockchain to raise the block size limit.
Bitconnect
Bitconnect was a cryptocurrency investment platform, active from 2016 to January 2018, that promised 1% daily returns and was established by US regulators as a $2 billion Ponzi scheme.
Bitfarms Ltd
Bitfarms Ltd, founded in 2017 and traded on Nasdaq and the Toronto Stock Exchange as BITF, is a Bitcoin mining and digital-infrastructure company based in New York and Toronto.
Bitfinex
Bitfinex is a cryptocurrency exchange founded in 2012 by Raphael Nicolle and operated by iFinex, serving professional traders with spot, margin, derivatives, and fiat trading.
Bitglass
Bitglass was a cloud security company based in Campbell, California, founded in 2013 by Nat Kausik and Anurag Kahol, which sold a CASB platform and was acquired by Forcepoint in 2021.
Bithumb Korea
Bithumb Korea (빗썸코리아) is a Seoul-based fintech company founded in 2014 as Xcoin that operates Bithumb, South Korea's second-largest cryptocurrency exchange, and targets a 2028 IPO.
Bithyas
Bithyas (Greek Βιθύας), also spelled Bithias, was a Numidian cavalry commander who deserted from Rome's ally Gulussa to Carthage in 148 BC during the Third Punic War.