Founder Of TOP 100 Software House
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Microsoft
- Founders: Bill Gates and Paul Allen
- Year Founded: 1975
- Country: USA
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Oracle Corporation
- Founders: Larry Ellison, Bob Miner, and Ed Oates
- Year Founded: 1977
- Country: USA
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SAP SE
- Founders: Dietmar Hopp, Hasso Plattner, Klaus Tschira, Claus Wellenreuther
- Year Founded: 1972
- Country: Germany
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IBM
- Founders: Charles Ranlett Flint (founded as Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company)
- Year Founded: 1911
- Country: USA
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Adobe Inc.
- Founders: John Warnock and Charles Geschke
- Year Founded: 1982
- Country: USA
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Salesforce
- Founders: Marc Benioff, Parker Harris, Dave Moellenhoff, and Frank Dominguez
- Year Founded: 1999
- Country: USA
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Google (Alphabet Inc.)
- Founders: Larry Page and Sergey Brin
- Year Founded: 1998
- Country: USA
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Facebook (Meta Platforms, Inc.)
- Founders: Mark Zuckerberg, Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz, Chris Hughes
- Year Founded: 2004
- Country: USA
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Twitter
- Founders: Jack Dorsey, Biz Stone, and Evan Williams
- Year Founded: 2006
- Country: USA
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Amazon
- Founder: Jeff Bezos
- Year Founded: 1994
- Country: USA
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Intel Corporation
- Founders: Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore
- Year Founded: 1968
- Country: USA
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Cisco Systems
- Founders: Leonard Bosack and Sandy Lerner
- Year Founded: 1984
- Country: USA
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Dell Technologies
- Founder: Michael Dell
- Year Founded: 1984
- Country: USA
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HP Inc. (Hewlett-Packard)
- Founders: Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard
- Year Founded: 1939
- Country: USA
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VMware
- Founders: Diane Greene, Mendel Rosenblum, Scott Devine, Edward Wang, and Edouard Bugnion
- Year Founded: 1998
- Country: USA
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Symantec Corporation
- Founders: Gary Hendrix
- Year Founded: 1982
- Country: USA
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Uber Technologies
- Founders: Travis Kalanick and Garrett Camp
- Year Founded: 2009
- Country: USA
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Airbnb
- Founders: Brian Chesky, Joe Gebbia, and Nathan Blecharczyk
- Year Founded: 2008
- Country: USA
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Dropbox
- Founders: Drew Houston and Arash Ferdowsi
- Year Founded: 2007
- Country: USA
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PayPal
- Founders: Peter Thiel, Max Levchin, Elon Musk, Luke Nosek, and Ken Howery
- Year Founded: 1998
- Country: USA
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Slack Technologies
- Founders: Stewart Butterfield, Eric Costello, Cal Henderson, and Serguei Mourachov
- Year Founded: 2009
- Country: USA
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Tencent
- Founder: Ma Huateng (Pony Ma)
- Year Founded: 1998
- Country: China
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Alibaba Group
- Founder: Jack Ma
- Year Founded: 1999
- Country: China
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Baidu
- Founders: Robin Li and Eric Xu
- Year Founded: 2000
- Country: China
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TikTok (ByteDance)
- Founder: Zhang Yiming
- Year Founded: 2012
- Country: China
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Sony Corporation
- Founders: Masaru Ibuka and Akio Morita
- Year Founded: 1946
- Country: Japan
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Nintendo
- Founders: Fusajiro Yamauchi
- Year Founded: 1889
- Country: Japan
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Samsung Electronics
- Founder: Lee Byung-chul
- Year Founded: 1969
- Country: South Korea
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LG Electronics
- Founder: Koo In-hwoi
- Year Founded: 1958
- Country: South Korea
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Nokia Corporation
- Founder: Fredrik Idestam
- Year Founded: 1865 (as Nokia Ab)
- Country: Finland
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Ericsson
- Founders: Lars Magnus Ericsson
- Year Founded: 1876
- Country: Sweden
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Spotify
- Founders: Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon
- Year Founded: 2006
- Country: Sweden
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Skype
- Founders: Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis
- Year Founded: 2003
- Country: Sweden (originally)
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King (King Digital Entertainment)
- Founders: Riccardo Zacconi, Melvyn Morris, and Sebastian Knutsson
- Year Founded: 2003
- Country: Sweden
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Zynga
- Founders: Mark Pincus, Justin Waldron, Eric Schiermeyer, Michael Luxton, and Steve Schoettler
- Year Founded: 2007
- Country: USA
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Palantir Technologies
- Founders: Peter Thiel, Nathan Gettings, Joe Lonsdale, Stephen Cohen, and Alex Karp
- Year Founded: 2003
- Country: USA
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Pinterest
- Founders: Ben Silbermann, Paul Sciarra, and Evan Sharp
- Year Founded: 2010
- Country: USA
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Qualcomm
- Founders: Irwin Jacobs, Andrew Viterbi, Franklin Antonio, and Adelia Coffman
- Year Founded: 1985
- Country: USA
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Epic Games
- Founder: Tim Sweeney
- Year Founded: 1991
- Country: USA
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Activision Blizzard
- Founders: Bobby Kotick and Brian Kelly
- Year Founded: 2008 (merger)
- Country: USA
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Square
- Founders: Jack Dorsey and Jim McKelvey
- Year Founded: 2009
- Country: USA
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Intuit
- Founders: Scott Cook and Tom Proulx
- Year Founded: 1983
- Country: USA
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Box, Inc.
- Founders: Aaron Levie and Dylan Smith
- Year Founded: 2005
- Country: USA
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Workday, Inc.
- Founders: David Duffield and Aneel Bhusri
- Year Founded: 2005
- Country: USA
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Atlassian
- Founders: Mike Cannon-Brookes and Scott Farquhar
- Year Founded: 2002
- Country: Australia
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Canva
- Founders: Melanie Perkins, Cliff Obrecht, and Cameron Adams
- Year Founded: 2012
- Country: Australia
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Wix.com
- Founders: Avishai Abrahami, Nadav Abrahami, and Giora Kaplan
- Year Founded: 2006
- Country: Israel
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Check Point Software Technologies
- Founders: Gil Shwed, Marius Nacht, and Shlomo Kramer
- Year Founded: 1993
- Country: Israel
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Red Hat
- Founders: Bob Young and Marc Ewing
- Year Founded: 1993
- Country: USA
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Lenovo Group
- Founders: Liu Chuanzhi
- Year Founded: 1984
- Country: China
- Xiaomi
- Founder: Lei Jun
- Year Founded: 2010
- Country: China
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Meituan
- Founder: Wang Xing
- Year Founded: 2010
- Country: China
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WeChat (Tencent)
- Founder: Zhang Xiaolong
- Year Founded: 2011
- Country: China
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JD.com
- Founder: Liu Qiangdong (Richard Liu)
- Year Founded: 1998
- Country: China
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HTC Corporation
- Founders: Cher Wang and HT Cho
- Year Founded: 1997
- Country: Taiwan
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ASUS
- Founder: Ted Hsu, M.T. Liao, Wayne Hsieh, and T.H. Tung
- Year Founded: 1989
- Country: Taiwan
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Paytm
- Founder: Vijay Shekhar Sharma
- Year Founded: 2010
- Country: India
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Infosys
- Founders: N.R. Narayana Murthy, Nandan Nilekani, N.S. Raghavan, S. Gopalakrishnan, K. Dinesh, and Ashok Arora
- Year Founded: 1981
- Country: India
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Wipro
- Founders: M.H. Hasham Premji
- Year Founded: 1945
- Country: India
- HCL Technologies
- Founder: Shiv Nadar
- Year Founded: 1976
- Country: India
- Capgemini
- Founders: Serge Kampf
- Year Founded: 1967
- Country: France
- Thales Group
- Founder: François Drouin
- Year Founded: 1893
- Country: France
- Dassault Systèmes
- Founder: Marcel Dassault
- Year Founded: 1981
- Country: France
- Atos
- Founders: Bernard Bourigeaud
- Year Founded: 1997
- Country: France
- Société Générale
- Founder: Jean-Baptiste Colbert
- Year Founded: 1864
- Country: France
- Telefónica
- Founders: César Alierta
- Year Founded: 1924
- Country: Spain
- Indra
- Founders: Javier Monzón
- Year Founded: 1993
- Country: Spain
- Amadeus IT Group
- Founders: Air France, Iberia, Lufthansa, and SAS
- Year Founded: 1987
- Country: Spain
- Ericsson
- Founders: Lars Magnus Ericsson
- Year Founded: 1876
- Country: Sweden
- TomTom
- Founders: Harold Goddijn, Peter-Frans Pauwels, Pieter Geelen, and Corinne Vigreux
- Year Founded: 1991
- Country: Netherlands
- ASML Holding
- Founders: Arthur del Prado
- Year Founded: 1984
- Country: Netherlands
- Booking Holdings
- Founders: Jay S. Walker
- Year Founded: 1996
- Country: USA
- Zendesk
- Founders: Mikkel Svane, Morten Primdahl, and Alexander Aghassipour
- Year Founded: 2007
- Country: Denmark
- Unity Technologies
- Founders: David Helgason, Nicholas Francis, and Joachim Ante
- Year Founded: 2004
- Country: Denmark
- Shopify
- Founders: Tobias Lütke, Daniel Weinand, and Scott Lake
- Year Founded: 2006
- Country: Canada
- BlackBerry Limited
- Founder: Mike Lazaridis and Douglas Fregin
- Year Founded: 1984
- Country: Canada
- OpenText
- Founders: Frank Tompa
- Year Founded: 1991
- Country: Canada
- RIM (Research In Motion)
- Founders: Mike Lazaridis and Douglas Fregin
- Year Founded: 1984
- Country: Canada
- PointClickCare
- Founders: Mike Wessinger and Dave Wessinger
- Year Founded: 1995
- Country: Canada
- Nuance Communications
- Founders: Paul Ricci
- Year Founded: 1992
- Country: USA
- Autodesk
- Founders: John Walker, Dan Drake, and Paul Syverson
- Year Founded: 1982
- Country: USA
- Cerner Corporation
- Founders: Neal Patterson, Cliff Illig, and Paul Gorup
- Year Founded: 1979
- Country: USA
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ServiceNow
- Founders: Fred Luddy
- Year Founded: 2004
- Country: USA
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MongoDB
- Founders: Eliot Horowitz, Dwight Merriman, and Kevin Ryan
- Year Founded: 2007
- Country: USA
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Zendesk
- Founders: Mikkel Svane, Morten Primdahl, and Alexander Aghassipour
- Year Founded: 2007
- Country: Denmark
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Epicor Software
- Founders: Neil Bush, James Mooney, and John Lewis
- Year Founded: 1972
- Country: USA
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Informatica
- Founders: Gaurav Dhillon and Diaz Nesamoney
- Year Founded: 1993
- Country: USA
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Pegasystems
- Founders: Alan Trefler
- Year Founded: 1983
- Country: USA
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Cloudera
- Founders: Christophe Bisciglia, Amr Awadallah, Jeff Hammerbacher, and Mike Olson
- Year Founded: 2008
- Country: USA
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Splunk
- Founders: Erik Swan, Rob Das, Michael Baum, and Byron Sebastian
- Year Founded: 2003
- Country: USA
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Elastic N.V.
- Founders: Shay Banon
- Year Founded: 2012
- Country: USA
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Proofpoint
- Founders: Eric Hahn
- Year Founded: 2002
- Country: USA
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MicroStrategy
- Founders: Michael J. Saylor and Sanju Bansal
- Year Founded: 1989
- Country: USA
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SolarWinds
- Founders: Donald Yonce and David Yonce
- Year Founded: 1999
- Country: USA
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Alteryx
- Founders: Dean Stoecker, Olivia Duane Adams, and Ned Harding
- Year Founded: 1997
- Country: USA
- Ansys
- Founders: John Swanson
- Year Founded: 1970
- Country: USA
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PTC
- Founders: Samuel P. Geisberg, Aron K. Nelson, and Samuel M. Geisberg
- Year Founded: 1985
- Country: USA
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Workiva
- Founders: Matthew Rizai and Martin Vanderploeg
- Year Founded: 2008
- Country: USA
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Zscaler
- Founders: Jay Chaudhry and K. Kailash
- Year Founded: 2008
- Country: USA
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Twilio
– Founders: Jeff Lawson, Evan Cooke, and John Wolthuis – Year Founded: 2008 – Country: USA
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