51 Technology company founders

Shai Agassi is an Israeli entrepreneur. He is the founder and former CEO of Better Place, which had developed a model and infrastructure for employing electric cars as an alternative to fossil fuel technology. The company went bankrupt in 2013, having spent over $850 million while deploying less than 1000 cars.

Tarus Balog is an American open source advocate, software developer, commentator and blogger.

Sean Bradley is an American conductor, composer, violinist, music theorist, educator, and impresario. Bradley is conductor of the Bradley String Orchestra, and president of Concert Talent—a production company which provides corporate entertainment, engagement marketing, talent management and logistical support for major label recording and touring artists. In recent years, his activities as an entrepreneur have increasingly included funding and leading a variety of music-related projects on the World Wide Web. He is the founder of Bravoflix, the first online subscription video service in the U.S. dedicated exclusively to the performing arts, as well as a technology consultancy providing custom web application development and cloud computing. As a musician, he performs regularly on stages in the U.S., China, and Mexico.

Matthew Buckland was a South African Internet entrepreneur and businessman who founded and exited digital agency and publisher Creative Spark, acquired in 2015 by UK firm M&C Saatchi PLC, the holding group of M&C Saatchi. Buckland was also the founder of Burn Media, a suite of technology publishing brands which includes Memeburn, Ventureburn.com, Gearburn.com and others.

Alexandra Chong is a Jamaican entrepreneur. She is the founder and CEO of Jacana, a global cannabis company. Jacana cultivates, develops and distributes medical cannabis internationally and in a historic move, it was the first company to export Jamaican medical cannabis flower internationally.

Alon N. Cohen is an Israeli inventor, entrepreneur, and novelist. He is the Founder, and served for 14 years (1999-2012) as Chairman and for 6 years (1999-2004) also as the first CEO, of CyberArk Software Ltd, a global cyber security company and one of Israel's leading software companies.

Avid Larizadeh-Duggan OBE is an Iranian-French-American entrepreneur and venture capitalist. She was Chief Operating Officer at Kobalt Music Group and is a non executive director of Barclays Bank UK.

José Eisenberg, is an Italian entrepreneur.

Jeri Janet Ellsworth is an American entrepreneur and computer chip designer and inventor. She gained fame in 2004 for creating a complete Commodore 64 system on a chip housed within a joystick, called C64 Direct-to-TV. It runs 30 video games from the early 1980s, and at peak, sold over 70,000 units in a single day via the QVC shopping channel.

Mike Faith is a British-American serial entrepreneur. He is the founder and CEO and of Headsets.com.

Stacey Ferreira is an American entrepreneur, speaker and author. She is the co-founder and CEO of Forge.

Olég Figóvsky — Israeli inventor, D.Sc. in Materials Engineering, academician of EAS, RAASN and REA. He was elected as the honorary professor of a few universities in Poland (WSG) and Russian Federation, chairman of the UNESCO chair "Green Chemistry". He is the author of more than 500 inventions.

Emily Forbes is the founder and chief executive officer (CEO) of Seenit, a platform which allows users to co-create content with employees, fans and journalists. Before founding Seenit in 2014, Forbes worked in film production at Working Title Films.

Yossi Gross is an Israeli engineer, inventor and entrepreneur. He is a founding partner of Rainbow Medical, an operational investment company, established to launch companies based on the technological ideas and inventions of Gross. Yossi Gross first started his professional career in the 20th century as a project manager of the Lavi program for the Israel Air Force. From the 1990s through to the beginning of the 21st century, Gross started 27 medical device companies based on his various inventions in electronics, signal processing, nanotechnology, drug delivery and neurostimulation. Gross's various companies have developed or are currently developing treatments for diabetes, gastroenterology, stroke, ophthalmology, asthma, congestive heart failure, and urology. Gross has 567 filed patents.

Simon Walter Hackett is an Australian technology entrepreneur. He is the co-founder of Internode Pty Ltd, an Australian national broadband services company.

Cecilia Harvey is a technology executive, author and entrepreneur. She is the founder of Tech Women Today.

Jeremy Hitchcock is co-founder and CEO of wifi management and IoT security startup, Minim, based in Manchester, NH. He was also a co-founder and former CEO of Dyn. Hitchcock resigned from the business in May 2016 prior to the Oracle acquisition, which officially closed on January 31, 2017.

Jason Jude Hogg is the CEO of Aon Cyber Solutions and senior lecturer of entrepreneurship and innovation at Cornell University's Johnson Graduate School of Management.

Krisztina Holly, known by her colleagues as 'Z' is a Hungarian American innovator, entrepreneur, and adventurer. She is the host of The Art of Manufacturing podcast and the Founder and Chief Instigator of MAKE IT IN LA, which was launched from her term as Entrepreneur-in-Residence for LA Mayor Garcetti. She is best known as the creator of the first TEDx, the founding executive director of the Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Vice Provost for Innovation and founding executive director of the Stevens Center for Innovation at the University of Southern California. She was founder or key team member of various technology startups including Stylus Innovation, Direct Hit Technologies, and Jeeves Solutions and was a prominent mountain bike advocate in New England for a decade. She is a founding donor and board member of the River LA, serves on the board of TTI/Vanguard, and has been an advisor to nearly two dozen other companies and organizations, including the Obama Administration as an inaugural member of the National Advisory Council on Innovation and Entrepreneurship, and a global agenda council member of the World Economic Forum advising in the areas of entrepreneurship and manufacturing. She is married and resides in Los Angeles.

Joichi "Joi" Ito is a Japanese entrepreneur and venture capitalist. He is a former director of the MIT Media Lab, former professor of the practice of media arts and sciences at MIT, and a former visiting professor of practice at the Harvard Law School. Following the exposure of his personal and professional financial ties to sex offender and financier Jeffrey Epstein, Ito resigned from his roles at MIT, Harvard, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Knight Foundation, PureTech Health, and The New York Times Company on September 7, 2019.

Natalya Ivanovna Kasperskaya —who, in the West, uses as her surname the masculine form Kaspersky—is a Russian IT entrepreneur, President of the InfoWatch Group of companies and co-founder and former CEO of antivirus security software company Kaspersky Lab. In addition, she is one of the wealthiest women in Russia and one of the most influential figures in the Russian IT industry.

Michel Krieger is a Brazilian-American entrepreneur and software engineer who co-founded Instagram along with Kevin Systrom, and served as its CTO. Under Krieger as CTO, Instagram expanded from a few million users to 1 billion monthly active users.

Sandra Kurtzig is an American businesswoman and technology entrepreneur. She was one of Silicon Valley's first female entrepreneurs, and as the founder of the business and manufacturing software producer ASK Group in 1972, was the first woman to take a Silicon Valley technology company public.

Daniel Langlois is the president and founder of the Daniel Langlois Foundation, Ex-Centris, and Media Principia Inc.

Bram Lebo is a Canadian lawyer and businessperson resident in Dysart et al, Ontario, Canada.

Lev Binzumovich Leviev is an Israeli-Russian entrepreneur and investor, co-founder of Russia's largest social network VK.com and the Selectel data center network.

Vinny Lingham is a South African Internet entrepreneur who is the co-founder & CEO of Civic - an identity protection and management startup. He was also previously the founder and CEO of Gyft & Yola, Inc. He is also the co-founder of SiliconCape, an NGO based in South Africa that aims to turn Cape Town into a technology hub.

Bob van Luijt is a technology entrepreneur, technologist, and new media artist from the Netherlands. He is the co-founder of SeMI Technologies, consultancy firm Kubrickology and the chairman of the Creative Software Foundation.

Frédéric Mazzella is a French entrepreneur and the founder of BlaBlaCar, an online marketplace for carpools.

David McCourt is an Irish-American entrepreneur with experience within the telecom and cable television industries. He was an early contributor to the development of transatlantic fiber networks and has founded or bought over 20 companies in nine countries.

Yitzchak Mirilashvili is an Israeli investor, entrepreneur and philanthropist. He is a co-founder of VK.com (Vkontakte.ru), Russia's largest social network. Mirilashvili lives in Israel, where he oversees his businesses as well as various charitable foundations and causes.

Demet Mutlu is a Turkish tech entrepreneur, founder and CEO of Trendyol group, based in Turkey. She is an investor and co-founder in Peak Games, a gaming platform co-founded by Sidar Sahin that has more than 30 million monthly users. She has been a speaker at conferences including TechCrunch, Davos World Economic Forum, Financial Times Summit, Noah and Fortune.

Mubarak Muyika, is a Kenyan American business executive, computer programmer and internet entrepreneur based in Silicon Valley. Orphaned at the age of 10, at age 16 Muyika founded Hype Century, a web hosting company which he sold two years later for six figures. He is the founder and CEO of Zagace, a company which runs an app store for businesses to access software for accounting, human resource management, marketing, among other uses.

Masaya Nakamura was a Japanese businessman and the founder of Namco. He was the company's president up until 2002, where he took a ceremonial role in its management. Following the formation of Bandai Namco Holdings, Nakamura would retain an honorary position in the video game division, Bandai Namco Entertainment.

Phiwa Nkambule is a technology entrepreneur and businessperson best known for co-founding Riovic and leading it as its chief executive officer. He previously founded Cybatar and sits on the board of the Royal Science and Technology Park.

Henry Nock (1741–1804) was a British inventor and engineer of the Napoleonic period, best known as a gunsmith. Nock produced many innovative weapons including the screwless lock and the seven-barrelled volley gun, although he did not invent the latter despite it commonly being known as the Nock gun. He was a major supplier to the military during the Napoleonic wars. His high quality duelling pistols and double-barrelled shotguns were much sought after and it is largely through Nock that the latter became the weapon of choice for hunters.

Melanie Perkins is an Australian technology entrepreneur who is the chief executive officer and co-founder of Canva.

Hasso Plattner is a German businessman. A co-founder of SAP SE software company, he has been chairman of the supervisory board of SAP SE since May 2003. As of August 2020, Forbes reported that he possessed a net worth of $17.9 billion.

Victor Shaburov is a Cypriot Russian entrepreneur, investor and one of the founders of AI Factory Inc, Looksery Inc., Handster Inc., and SPB Software.

Nahum Sharfman was an Israeli tech entrepreneur who, along with Amir Ashkenazi, founded Shopping.com. Shopping.com was later acquired by eBay for $650 million. He was also the Chairman of social content sharing site eSnips Ltd.

Itschak Shrem is an entrepreneur with over 40 years of professional business experience in the fields of investment banking, venture capital, finance, insurance and technology, among others; involving both public and private entities.

Param Singh MBE is a British business and technology executive, philanthropist and reality television personality and has worked for various companies including the Ford Motor Company, Rolls-Royce, Sainsbury's and Accenture. He was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2019 New Years Honours

Ratmir Vilyevich Timashev is a Russian IT entrepreneur, founder and CEO of Veeam Software. He also owns ABRT Venture Fund, which invests in early stage IT startup companies. He has been listed in The Top 25 Innovators of the Year by CRN Magazine and won a Silver Stevie Award for Executive of the Year — Computer Services.

Jack Tramiel was a Polish American businessman and Holocaust survivor, best known for founding Commodore International. The Commodore PET, Commodore VIC-20 and Commodore 64 are some home computers produced while he was running the company. Tramiel later formed Atari Corporation after he purchased the remnants of the original Atari, Inc. from its parent company.

Joseph "Yossi" Vardi is an Israeli entrepreneur and investor. He is one of Israel's first high-tech entrepreneurs. For over 47 years he has founded and helped to build over 85 high-tech companies in a variety of fields, among them software, energy, Internet, mobile, electro-optics and water technology.

Fernanda Bertini Viégas is a Brazilian scientist and designer, whose work focuses on the social, collaborative and artistic aspects of information visualization.

Anubhav Wadhwa is a technology entrepreneur, and social activist. Wadhwa founded TechAPTO, Trends on Internet and Tyrelessly. Wadhwa has been featured in Indian national newspapers, and was part of Marico Innovation Foundation and The Better India's video series, India Innovates.

Ulf Michael Widenius is the main author of the original version of the open source MySQL database, a founding member of the MySQL AB company and CTO of the MariaDB Corporation AB. Additionally, he is a founder and general partner at venture capital firm OpenOcean.

Margaret Constance "Maisie" Williams is an English actress. In 2011, she debuted in a professional acting role at age fourteen, starring as Arya Stark, a main-cast role in the HBO medieval fantasy epic drama series Game of Thrones (2011–2019), a portrayal that quickly brought the acting newcomer global attention. Williams received critical praise and accolades for her work on the show, including two nominations for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series. Williams' other television appearances include guest starring in four episodes of the BBC science fiction series Doctor Who (2015), the British docudrama television film Cyberbully (2015), the British science-fiction teen thriller film iBoy (2017) and the comedy action drama series Two Weeks to Live (2020). Williams also voiced Cammie MacCloud in the American animated web series Gen:Lock (2019–present).

Avi Yashchin is an American businessman and entrepreneur. He founded CleanEdison, a New York-based green-jobs vocational education company, in 2008. One of the main purposes of the company is to provide clean innovation solutions to underserved areas. Yashchin is currently an Instructor with General Assembly, and has previously worked for Barclay's Capital and Lehman Brothers. He received his MBA from the Stern School of Business at New York University.

Raymond D. "Ray" Zinn is an inventor, entrepreneur and published author. In addition to a number of significant inventions improving wireless radio (RF) communication and voltage/power regulation devices, he is also the longest serving Chief Executive Officer of a Silicon Valley company.