Entities

Creator of Ruby on Rails web framework and CTO/co-founder of 37signals (Basecamp, HEY). Outspoken public figure on tech antitrust, workplace culture, and open source. Testified before US Congress on Apple App Store monopoly.

Founder and CEO of Midjourney, a leading AI image generation company. Previously co-founder of Leap Motion. Admitted to training Midjourney on 'hundreds of millions' of images scraped from the internet without consent.

Venture capitalist, PayPal Mafia member, Craft Ventures founder. Appointed as White House AI and Crypto Czar by Trump in December 2024. Major Trump donor and fundraiser who hosted $12M fundraiser in June 2024.

AI personal assistant startup founded by Marissa Mayer in 2025. Acquired assets from Sunshine when that company shut down in September 2025. Current venture for Mayer.

German AI translation and writing-assistance company, known for neural machine translation and past marketing around EU-only, GDPR-native data processing.

British AI research laboratory, subsidiary of Alphabet (Google). Known for AlphaGo, AlphaFold, and Gemini AI models. Founded by Demis Hassabis, Shane Legg, and Mustafa Suleyman. Acquired by Google in 2014.

Chinese AI lab based in Hangzhou, spun out of hedge fund High-Flyer and founded by Liang Wenfeng. Known for low-cost, high-performance open-weight large language models (DeepSeek-V3, R1) that rattled Western AI markets in early 2025.

British food delivery company. Uses self-employed riders for on-demand food delivery. Founded by Will Shu and Greg Orlowski. Listed on London Stock Exchange in 2021.

German multinational online food delivery service. Operates brands including Foodpanda, Talabat, and Glovo (minority stake). One of the largest food delivery platforms globally.

American multinational computer technology company. Founded in 1984 by Michael Dell, headquartered in Round Rock, Texas.

British AI researcher and entrepreneur. Co-founder and CEO of Google DeepMind. Won 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for AlphaFold. UK Government AI Adviser. Co-authored blog post removing Google's AI weapons pledge.

Company behind the Deno JavaScript/TypeScript runtime, founded by Node.js creator Ryan Dahl. Focuses on security-first design with built-in sandboxing and permissions. Leading the legal challenge to free the JavaScript trademark from Oracle.

Communication platform for voice, video, and text, popular with gaming and community groups. Leadership transitioned from founder Jason Citron to Humam Sakhnini in April 2025.

World's largest commercial drone manufacturer. Founded in 2006 by Frank Wang, headquartered in Shenzhen, China.

South Korean automotive parts and battery manufacturer (KRX: 007340), global top-3 supplier of vibration damping components and top-10 automotive battery maker, supplying GM, Stellantis, Tesla, Rivian, and Nio.

French healthcare technology company operating Europe's largest medical appointment-booking and practice-management platform, serving roughly 500,000 practitioners and 90 million patients across France, Germany, Italy, and the Netherlands.

Food delivery platform and logistics company. Largest food delivery company in the United States by market share.

Medical doctor and founder/CEO of GyroGear, developing hand-stabilizing devices for Parkinson's patients. Earned medical degree at Imperial College London, conducted research at Harvard Medical School and Harvard-MIT's Health Science and Technology Division. GyroGlove recognized by TIME's Best Inventions of 2024.

CEO and co-founder of Unmind. Clinical Psychologist, former NHS. Left NHS after experiencing burnout in his team, volunteered with Samaritans and Mind charity before founding Unmind.

Founder and CEO of Limbic. PhD in Computational Neuroscience. Built the only Class IIa certified mental health AI chatbot in the UK.

Privacy-focused search engine and browser company. Does not track users or build advertising profiles. Over 100 million global users. Founded by Gabriel Weinberg.

Indian quick commerce and delivery startup. First Indian startup to receive direct investment from Google (2017). Collapsed in January 2025 after laying off 75% of staff, leaving hundreds of workers, consultants, and vendors unpaid. Valuation crashed from peak to ₹300 crore as Reliance wrote off ₹1,645 crore ($200M) investment.

Language learning platform using gamification and AI. Known for aggressive engagement tactics and replacing contractors with AI. Over 116 million monthly active users.

British-founded technology company known for vacuum cleaners, fans, and hair care products. Headquartered in Singapore since 2019. Founded by James Dyson.

Iraq's largest federally-licensed internet service provider, offering fixed and wireless broadband to households and businesses across Baghdad-administered Iraq.

E-commerce platform and online marketplace founded in 1995. Under Meg Whitman's leadership (1998-2008), grew from 30 employees to 15,000 and from $4.7M to $8B in annual revenue. Acquired PayPal in 2002 and Skype in 2005.

CEO of OrCam Technologies, assistive technology company that collapsed 2022-2024, laying off 90% of workforce and abandoning vision assistance products for blind users.

Software company best known for the Elasticsearch search and analytics engine. Also produces Kibana, Logstash, and Beats (the Elastic Stack/ELK Stack). Publicly traded on NYSE.

Video game company and publisher known for franchises including FIFA, Madden NFL, The Sims, Battlefield, and Apex Legends.

Leading nonprofit defending civil liberties in the digital world. Litigates on encryption, privacy, free speech, and digital rights. Built tools like HTTPS Everywhere and Privacy Badger. 100% Charity Navigator rating.

Founder and former CEO of Theranos. Convicted of wire fraud in January 2022 for defrauding investors about the capabilities of Theranos blood testing technology. Sentenced to 11+ years in federal prison.

CEO of Tesla and SpaceX. Owner of X (formerly Twitter). Co-founder of xAI. Major political donor and Trump administration advisor heading DOGE.

Former CEO and co-founder of Stability AI. Resigned in March 2024 amid investor pressure, credibility controversies, and financial mismanagement allegations. Gave up controlling shares by October 2024.

Video game and software development company, creator of Fortnite and Unreal Engine. Led by CEO Tim Sweeney.

Former CEO of Google (2001-2011) and Executive Chairman of Alphabet (2011-2017). Major Democratic donor and advisor on AI policy to the Pentagon. Founded defense AI companies including White Stork and backs Rebellion Defense.

Swedish multinational telecommunications company providing network infrastructure, software, and services. One of the world's largest telecom equipment makers alongside Nokia.

The executive branch of the European Union, responsible for proposing and enforcing EU legislation including GDPR, Digital Markets Act, Digital Services Act, and the AI Act.

Co-founder and CEO of Snap Inc. Known for limiting Trump's content on Snapchat in 2020, earning criticism from Trump campaign. Democratic donor.

Creator of Vue.js and Vite. Pioneer of sustainable independent open source development, funding his full-time work through community sponsorship since 2016. Founded VoidZero Inc in 2023 to build next-generation JavaScript tooling.

American computer hardware company formerly known for its NVIDIA-based graphics cards, motherboards, and power supplies. Ended GPU production in September 2022 citing conflicts with NVIDIA over margins and treatment of AIB partners.

Social networking service and flagship product of Meta Platforms. Founded by Mark Zuckerberg, Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes at Harvard University in February 2004, originally as 'TheFacebook'. Became Facebook, Inc. in 2005. As the world's largest social network, Facebook has over 3 billion monthly active users as of 2024. The platform enables users to share content, connect with friends and family, join groups, and access marketplace features. Despite being part of Meta's portfolio, Facebook remains the company's primary revenue generator through advertising.

Dutch social enterprise producing modular, repairable smartphones with ethically sourced materials. First company to integrate Fairtrade gold. Certified B Corporation. Perfect 10/10 iFixit repairability scores.

Chinese-American computer scientist, Stanford professor. Former VP and Chief Scientist of AI/ML at Google Cloud. Known for ImageNet dataset and advocacy for human-centered AI.

Nonprofit media organization founded by Pierre Omidyar in October 2013 as a venue for original, independent journalism. Launched The Intercept in February 2014 with Glenn Greenwald, Jeremy Scahill, and Laura Poitras. Omidyar pledged $250 million in initial funding but ceased financial support in 2022.

Nigerian fintech unicorn valued at $3+ billion. Africa's most valuable startup. Has faced multiple security breaches, money laundering allegations in Kenya, and workplace misconduct allegations.

Venture capital firm co-founded by Peter Thiel, Ken Howery, and Luke Nosek. Notable investments include SpaceX, Palantir, Facebook, Airbnb, and Stripe.

Taiwanese multinational electronics contract manufacturer, also known as Hon Hai Technology Group. World's largest electronics manufacturer, primary assembler of Apple products. Known for worker suicides in 2010 and ongoing labor violations.

Consumer electronics company designing modular, repairable laptops. Founded by Nirav Patel (ex-Apple, ex-Oculus). Products achieve 10/10 iFixit repairability scores. Champion of right to repair.

Former Facebook product manager who leaked internal documents (the 'Facebook Papers') to the SEC and Wall Street Journal in 2021. Testified before US Congress and European Parliament about Meta's knowledge of platform harms. Previously worked at Google, Pinterest, and Yelp.

Nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting free software. Founded by Richard Stallman. Stewards of the GNU General Public License and advocates for software freedom.