"less than $50 million and eShop's technologies were integrated into Microsoft Merchant Server. Pierre Omidyar, one of the founders of eShop, earned over $1 million from the deal and later founded eBay. EShop Inc. eShop Inc. (formerly known as Ink Development Corporation) was an American computer software company founded on May 10, 1991. It was originally founded in San Mateo, California in 1991 to develop products for Go Corporation's PenPoint operating system. In later years, it developed software for the Windows for Pen Computing and Magic Cap platforms. In 1993, it was renamed to eShop Inc. and developed electronic commerce"
"Obaidul Karim Obaidul Karim is a Bangladeshi businessman and the founder and chairman of Orion. He is the president of sporting club Mohammedan SC Limited. The Orion Group was founded by Obaidul Karim during 1985 when he started with Orion Laboratories Ltd. The Group's early growth was driven organically through operations in pharmaceuticals & LVPs and toiletries & cosmetics. In 1993 Orion acquired the then ailing Kohinoor Chemical Co Ltd, manufacturer of the major line of 'Tibet' brand toiletries and beauty care products. Orion has been a producer in the Pharmaceuticals, Cosmetics and Toiletries sectors since 1985 in Bangladesh. More"
"markets to create opportunity for people to improve their lives. It was established in 2004 by Omidyar and his wife, Pam. The organization invests in and helps scale innovative organizations to catalyze economic, social, and political change. To date, Omidyar Network has committed more than $992 million to for-profit companies and nonprofit organizations that foster economic advancement and encourage individual participation across multiple investment areas, including Property Rights, Governance & Citizen Engagement, Education, Financial Inclusion and Consumer & Internet Mobile. In 2010, he and his wife established, along with Richard Branson and the Nduna Foundation (founded by Amy Robbins), Enterprise"
"in 2016 by Private Equity International. In 2017, LeapFrog was ranked fifth on ""Fortune"" magazine's 2017 Change the World list. LeapFrog Investments LeapFrog Investments is a private investment firm that invests in high-growth financial services and healthcare companies in emerging markets. The firm's investments have an annual growth rate of more than 40% and its companies reach approximately 130 million consumers, primarily in Africa and Asia. LeapFrog has attracted over $1 billion from global investors since inception, including funds from investors such as Prudential Financial, Swiss Re, JP Morgan, TIAA-CREF and eBay founder Pierre Omidyar's Omidyar Network. LeapFrog was founded"
"base of the economic spectrum, that often overlooked by financiers due to their small economic of scale and high level of risk incurred. Omidyar Network is an investment funds that believe that, with given opportunity to the capable people, they create positive return to the world. Omidyar focused on 5 keys areas for their investment: Consumer Internet and Mobile, Education, Financial Inclusion, Government Transparency, and Property Rights. Shell Foundation is an independent charity established by the Shell Group in 2000. They helps to tackle some of the social and environmental issue that related to the energy sector through application of"
"and Pouya Finance is the data processing arm, providing easy access to market data and financial statements. Mofid Securities Company was established in 1994 by Hamid Azarakhsh. Mofid Securities logo was redesigned in 2015 by Design Vand studio, Iranian partner of Rob Janoff. The new logo is designed based on a pattern on an ancient Iranian pottery found in Tepe Hissar. In 2015, Mofid Securities and Sturgeon Capital, which is based in London and oversees $80 million in frontier and emerging markets, announced plans to invest in Iran’s consumer-facing companies, including pharmaceuticals, banks and consumer discretionary. The fund is based"
"LeapFrog Investments LeapFrog Investments is a private investment firm that invests in high-growth financial services and healthcare companies in emerging markets. The firm's investments have an annual growth rate of more than 40% and its companies reach approximately 130 million consumers, primarily in Africa and Asia. LeapFrog has attracted over $1 billion from global investors since inception, including funds from investors such as Prudential Financial, Swiss Re, JP Morgan, TIAA-CREF and eBay founder Pierre Omidyar's Omidyar Network. LeapFrog was founded in January 2007 by Andrew Kuper and officially launched in 2008 by former US President Bill Clinton who endorsed the"
"McKinsey, before leaving to join Courage Capital, a global special- situations hedge fund, to lead their India tech and investing efforts After Courage Capital, Sinha joined Omidyar Network, founded by Pam and Pierre Omidyar. Till December 2013, he was a partner at ON and the Managing Director of Omidyar Network India Advisors. He also served on Omidyar Network's five - member global executive committee. During his time there, Omidyar's India portfolio grew to over 35 companies and organizations totaling investments worth over $100 million. He also helped in funding the Indian Impact Investing Council. Sinha has served on the boards"
"Intertech Inc., a subsidiary of EG&G, a Fortune 500 U.S. defense contractor, for two years before starting his own business, International TechGroup Inc., in 1983. This company was Washington-based and produced software for the U.S. Navy to digitize paperwork on aircraft carriers. He sold this business in 1989. In 1990, he began buying antiquated Soviet computers and stripping them for gold plating. Other businesses have included Hannibal's Coffee Company, a chain of coffee shops that went bankrupt in 1996. Farid Ghadry Farid Al-Ghadry (Arabic: فريد الغادري) (born June 18, 1954) is the Syrian-born co-founder and current president of the United"
"(ENSTA ParisTech) in 1990. In 1995, he co-founded BaBeL@STaL, one of the first French digital agencies, with Philippe Feinsilber. In 2000, he was a member of the Kasskooye.com team, a then popular French website that parodied the new economy, under the pseudonym of Igmar Andersen. In 2003, he co-founded Violet with Rafi Haladjian, which created Nabaztag, an interactive and internet-connected object launched in 2005 and the RFID reader Mir:ror. He's listed as inventor on 2 patents related to ambient and connected devices. In 2009, he co-founded reaDIYmate with Marc Chareyron . The reaDIYmate DIY kits were successfully launched and manufactured"
"of $4.7 million in the United States. The frequently repeated story that eBay was founded to help Omidyar's fiancée trade Pez candy dispensers was fabricated by a public relations manager, Mary Lou Song, in 1997 to interest the media, which were not interested in the company's previous explanation about wanting to create a ""perfect market"". This was revealed in Adam Cohen's book, ""The Perfect Store"" (2002), and confirmed by eBay. After eBay went public, both Omidyar and Skoll became instant billionaires. eBay's target share price of $18 was all but ignored as the price went to $53.50 on the first"
"In January 2016 it was announced that Sony was acquiring Altair for $212 Million. Altair was founded in May 2005 by former Texas Instruments executives Oded Melamed, Yigal Bitran, and Eran Eshed, with extensive broadband and wireless silicon experience. Altair's management and technology executives were among the founding team of Libit Signal Processing, a fabless chip company acquired by Texas Instruments in 1999 for $365 million. Altair is privately held, and has raised in excess of $120M financing to date. The company has a long history of developing 4G semiconductor solutions and prior to strategically shifting full focus to 3GPP"
"startups, such as BudgIT, Wecyclers, Truppr, Genii Games, Lifebank, GoMyWay, Vacantboards, Traclist, Autobox, Stutern, Findworka, Grit Systems and Mamalette. In March 2018, Stanbic IBTC Bank launched the Blue Lab, an innovation hub supported by Co-Creation Hub. In December 2015, Tijani announced the launch of Growth Capital in partnership with Bank of Industry (BoI), Venture Garden Group (VGG) and Omidyar Network (ON). It is an investment arm that is set to invest 1billion Naira in social tech ventures who are building technologies that make public services smarter while connecting them to citizens and/or smart technologies linking multiple public services together to"
"business. Garda World Security Corp. a security and cash services provider, was founded in 1995 by Stéphan Crétier and is now the worlds largest privately owned security company employing over 85,000 people worldwide. In May 2017 Rhone increased its equity holding to 61% completing the purchase of all of Apax's remaining participation in GardaWorld. In November 2014 Scandinavian Tobacco Group, the worlds largest manufacturer of cigars and pipe tobacco began talks with firm Rhône Capital about a potential sale of the company for around $2 billion. CVC Capital and Pamplona Capital were also listed as potential bidders. STG is owned"
"Caterpillar digging equipment in Egypt. The Mantrac subsidiary was formed to manage the Caterpillar business, and Mantrac eventually secured Caterpillar rights to Sub-Saharan Africa, Russia and Iraq. As of 2015. Mantrac was the fifth largest Caterpillar dealer in the world. 1n 1992, Mansour Group created an autonomous company, Mansour Financial, formally the Al-Mansour Holding Company for Financial Investments (MHCFI) to manage a license agreement with Philip Morris International (PMI) to produce and distribute PMI’s brands in Egypt. The Al-Mansour International Distribution Company (AMIDC) was created underneath Mansour Financial to manage the tobacco business. When the Philip Morris partnership ended in"
"start as dish washer. For the first time my work required only physical strength and endurance (construction, transportation, etc.) work. Later, I went to company engaged in the wholesale trade of office equipment’ "". In 1994 he founded his first startup – Universal Trading Enterprise. In 1995 he came back to Ukraine and founded his first IT-investment firm, which financed its first project Unitrade which became the most famous retail change. In 2001, Kolodyuk reorganized Ukrinvestcom into a venture capital firm, AVentures. During the last 20 years, he has founded and developed more than ten companies. Among his most notable"
"as partners: Comat Technologies, Creative Commons, Digg, DonorsChoose, Endeavor, Federated Media Publishing, GlobalGiving, Goodmail, GuideStar, Linden Lab (developer of Second Life global virtual community), Media Development Investment Fund Meetup, Metaweb, ModestNeeds, Opportunity International, PRBC, Prosper, Rappler, SeaChange Capital Partners, Seesmic, Socialtext, Sunlight Foundation, Virgin Money, Wikia, World of Good. In 2017, Omidyar Network together with AVINA Americas and Avina Foundation founded the Latin American Alliance for Civic Technology (ALTEC) to invest in and support the development in Latin America of civic technology platforms and related scalable technologies. In 2009, the Omidyar Network donated $2 million over two years to the"
"- Atlantic was founded by Paul Radat and Pierre Lamoure. 1973 - Guillot was acquired 1986 - Thermor & Sauter were acquired 1989 - Pacific was acquired 1993 - Elge was acquired 2000 - Ygnis (Switzerland) was acquired (the first acquisition outside France) 2002 - Franco-Belge was acquired 2004 - The Cairo (Egypt) site was created 2006 - Magnum was acquired 2006 - The Odessa (Ukraine) site was created 2007 - The Izmir (Turkey) site was created 2008 - Hamworthy (United Kingdom) was taken over 2008 - The Fontaine (France) site was created 2011 - Lazzarini (Italy) and Erensan (Turkey)"
"the U.S., according to a report by the Iranian Studies group at MIT. Iranian-Americans have founded, or hold senior leadership positions at, many major US companies, including Fortune 500 companies such as GE, Intel, Citigroup, Verizon, Motorola, Google, and AT&T. Pierre Omidyar, founder/CEO of eBay is of Iranian origin, as well as is the founder of Bratz, Isaac Larian. Hamid Biglari is Vice-Chairman of Citicorp. Bob Miner was the co-founder of Oracle Corporation and the producer of Oracle's relational database management system. In 2006, Anousheh Ansari, co-founder of the Ansari X Prize, became the first female tourist in space. Ansari"
"range of disciplines, including President and General Manager of the Global Specialty Care and Primary Care businesses, and later as President and General Manager of the Primary Care Business Unit. He served as a member of the executive leadership team of Pfizer Inc. and oversaw the introduction of the cholesterol treatment Lipitor. In 2007, he was the supervisor of the failed launch of the Exubera. In February 2015, Olivier Brandicourt was appointed as the chief executive officer of Sanofi. His golden handshake of US$4.5 million upon taking on the appointment was criticized by French Ministers Stéphane Le Foll and Ségolène"
"on the National Advisory Committee of the Democracy Fund, a nonprofit established by Pierre Omidyar, which invests in organizations working to ensure that our political system is able to withstand new challenges and deliver on its promise to the American people. He was named the inaugural Director and currently serves as a Senior Adviser to the Aspen Economic Strategy Group, a project of the Aspen Institute co-chaired by Henry Paulson and Erskine Bowles, aimed at gathering, in a non-partisan spirit, a diverse range of distinguished leaders and thinkers to address significant structural challenges in the U.S. economy. Chen serves as"
"million dollars. CVidya cVidya Networks is a provider of big data analytics products for communications and digital service providers. cVidya’s market includes business protection and business growth, including revenue assurance, fraud management, marketing analytics and data monetization. The company has 300 employees in 18 countries and has over 150 customers. cVidya's investors include Battery Ventures, Carmel Ventures, Hyperion, StageOne, Saints Capital and Plenus. cVidya was founded in 2001 by Alon Aginsky in the US and saw projects at Telecom Italia and Bezeq within its first years. Between 2004–2010 cVidya became one of the leading vendors in the Revenue Assurance domain"
"Online SAS Online SAS (also known as Online.net) is a French Cloud computing and web hosting company, founded by Xavier Niel in 1999 and a 100% subsidiary of the Iliad group. The company provides physical dedicated servers and cloud computing architectures through Dedibox and Scaleway brands, domain registration services through the BookMyName brand, and colocation services in its datacenters through the brand Iliad datacenter. The company is the second player in his domain in France with over Gb/s of Internet traffic. In 1999 Online started its activities in web hosting and domain name registration services In August 2002 the domain"
"Chairman, Quantenna Communications, a company focused on wireless communications. Quantenna raised 161 million dollars from 14 investors including Sigma Partners and Sequoia capital. The third company founded by Behrooz Reznani was Seyyer, in 2010 and based in Palo Alto. Seyyer is a cognitive video-recognition platform, it creates a human video avatar using speech-modelling and gesture-recognition technologies. Other than his companies he has been Editor of xDSL coexistence, the Spectral Compatibility and Management standards of the American National Standards Institute. He is in the Board of Directors of 7 summits, a partner or Grazia Equity and Senior Advisor at Liberty Global."
"Corporation), where Encore would publish Microïds entire catalogue in North America. Similar deals were also struck with other companies for various territories. In 2008 the licences of Cryo Interactive were added to the company. In 2009 Anuman Interactive acquired the mark of and all the associated licences of the company, and currently uses the Microïds brand. In 1992, Emmanuel Olivier founded Index+. Initially, the company developed interactive multimedia CD-Roms such as ""Le Louvre, Paintings and Palace"" in 1994. In 1995, it merged with another company, Arctad, founded by Vincent Berlioz and Jacques Simian, and began to publish its own productions."
"polling. The company was founded in 2010 by Mohit Lad and Ricardo Oliveira who had worked together in the UCLA Internet Research Lab to visualize Autonomous System topologies. ThousandEyes received a $500K National Science Foundation grant in 2011 to focus on DNS infrastructure troubleshooting. In 2011, Sequoia Capital led a Series A round to invest $5.5M. The company launched their network monitoring product in June 2013. In 2014, Sutter Hill Ventures led a Series B round, joined by Sequoia Capital and Salesforce.com, to invest $20M in the company. In 2016, Tenaya Capital and GV joined a Series C round, along"
"e-commerce, applications and communication campaigns for clients like BIC, My Way, and Jaeger Le-Coultre and was elected ‘Horizon Interactive Agency of the Year’. Emakina Group The Emakina Group is an independent group of communication agencies in Europe. Emakina was founded 2001, with the merger of Ex Machina and Emalaya. At age 23 Brice Le Blévennec founded digital design studio Ex Machina, while Denis Steisel started e-business agency Emalaya in 1998. At the moment of their merger they had 35 employees. Today Emakina Group's nearly 800 people working from 15 offices in 9 countries, deliver websites, e-commerce, applications and communication campaigns"
"WildPackets famous for their OmniPeek protocol analysis software. Kimura received the 2002 SBA Young Entrepreneur of the Year award. He was honored as the 2007 Green Entrepreneur, and received the Blue Planet Foundation award in 2009. He also received the Hawaii Venture Capital Association Deal of the Year award in 2012. He was named to the 2010 ""Hawaii Business Magazine""s ""10 for Today"", along with other Hawaii luminaries such as professional baseball player Shane Victorino, and founder of eBay, Pierre Omidyar, and was named to the ""Pacific Business News""s ""10 to Watch in 2013"", along with video game developer and"
"on his links at their weathermap and is present at the following Internet Exchange Points: France-IX, Equinix-IX, AMS-IX et Neutral Internet Exchange Online SAS Online SAS (also known as Online.net) is a French Cloud computing and web hosting company, founded by Xavier Niel in 1999 and a 100% subsidiary of the Iliad group. The company provides physical dedicated servers and cloud computing architectures through Dedibox and Scaleway brands, domain registration services through the BookMyName brand, and colocation services in its datacenters through the brand Iliad datacenter. The company is the second player in his domain in France with over Gb/s"
"for $90 million. Website of the Tadiran Telecom Group companies Websites of the Tadiran Batteries Group companies Websites of the Tadiran Appliances companies Websites of the Elbit Systems companies Aerotel Medical Systems websites Telematics Wireless website Tadiran Tadiran refers to a former Israeli conglomerate, which was founded in 1962 by the merger of two companies, Tadir and Ran (itself founded as a batteries manufacturer in 1932). The name of the company is a joining of both companies’ names. Through the years the company had interests in electronics, home appliances (refrigeration and air conditioning), telecommunications, batteries, medical systems and defence electronics.<br>"
"by the local market women. Auldon Toys Auldon Toys is a Nigerian toy company that specialises in African-themed, generic and branded toys. The company was started by Paul Orajiaka, in 1996 and its headquarters is located in Lagos, Nigeria. In 2015, Auldon became the largest toy trading company in Nigeria and reported over $10 million annual revenue. Auldon Limited was founded as Arigold Toys in 1996 by Paul Orajiaka. Orajiaka started working with his brother in-law and thereafter, started his own small company with his own little savings. In 2002, the company changed its name to Auldon Limited and began"
"symposium in Singapore. Together with his childhood friend, the entrepreneur and professor Saeid Esmaeilzadeh, Ashkan Pouya founded Serendipity innovations ] (today a part of the Serendipity Group) in 2004. Within Serendipity Group Ashkan Pouya has created several new innovative companies based on leading academic research and knowledge-intensive environments. Since the start in 2004, Serendipity has founded more than 15 technology companies in clean-tech, life science, materials engineering, IT and medical technology. The companies operate within a wide range of fields. The Nasdaq OMX listed Episurf Medical is a medical technology-company which designs and manufactures individually customized implants for cartilage damage."
"C. V. Madhukar C. V. Madhukar is Investment Partner with Omidyar Network. He is the global lead for their work on Digital Identity. He has been founder and director of PRS Legislative Research, a research institution that focuses on making the legislative process in India better informed, more transparent and participatory. PRS publishes ""Legislative Briefs"" (short commented summaries) of Bills in Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha and other articles about to work of the Indian parliament. Prior to this, Madhukar had worked at the World Bank in Washington, D.C., with a group focussed on building parliamentary capacities in various countries."