Category
Organizations
Companies, institutions, NGOs and awarding bodies.
- 12Go
A Southeast Asian multi-modal transport booking platform founded in 2012, covering buses, trains and ferries across roughly 50,000 routes in 26 countries, which joined the Bookaway Group in 2021 and partnered with AirAsia in 2024 to add ground-transport booking to its super app.
- Advocate (charity)
A UK barristers' pro bono charity founded in 1996 as the Bar Pro Bono Unit, co-founder of the National Pro Bono Centre in 2010 and rebranded as Advocate in 2018.
- Agate (game company)
Indonesia's largest homegrown video game developer, founded in Bandung in 2009 by a group of college friends and grown from a $500 first game into a roughly 200-employee studio behind titles including Valthirian Arc and Code Atma.
- All Pueblo Council of Governors
New Mexico-based advocacy body representing 20 Pueblo Nations, leading a 2025-2026 campaign to permanently protect the Greater Chaco region from oil and gas leasing.
- American Thymele Theatre
A New York nonprofit founded in 1993 to stage free Greek and classical drama, which completed a 14-year project to perform all 18 surviving plays of Euripides and was selected to present at the 2004 Athens Olympics Cultural Olympiad.
- Anthropic
American AI safety-focused research and product company founded in January 2021 by Dario and Daniela Amodei and five other former OpenAI employees, known for its Claude model family and a valuation reported at $965 billion by mid-2026.
- Asociación Española de Familias de Personas con Sordoceguera (APASCIDE)
A Spanish nonprofit supporting people with deafblindness and their families, recognized as an association of public utility and operating specialized social, educational and residential services.
- Article 25
A UK humanitarian architecture charity that designs schools, hospitals and housing in the Global South, which won a 2024 RIBA International Award for a school in Niger and nearly collapsed in 2015 after a former office manager was convicted of stealing over £260,000 from its accounts.
- Awareness 360
Bangladeshi-founded global youth volunteer platform, launched in 2014 after a founder's personal loss, now running community-service programs in over 20 countries.
- Banned Books Museum
A small non-profit museum in Tallinn, Estonia, opened in December 2020, displaying censored and banned books from around the world and covered by independent press in the UK, continental Europe and India.
- BasicNeeds
A UK-founded international mental-health and development NGO, founded in 2000, whose model of combining community mental-health treatment with livelihoods support was documented in a peer-reviewed Nepal case study before it merged into CBM UK in 2017 after a funding shortfall.
- Bridges Partners LLC
A Delaware-incorporated public-relations and political-consulting firm that U.S. foreign-agent filings connect to an Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs-funded influencer campaign known as Project Esther.
- C-nario
An Israeli digital-signage and video-wall software company founded in 2002, acquired by YCD Multimedia in 2011 in a deal an independent trade columnist noted with skepticism toward the combined company's claimed customer reach.
- The Cambodia Daily
Independent English-language Cambodian newspaper (1993-2017) whose investigative reporting included a 2002 profile of adoption facilitator Lauryn Galindo, shut down after a disputed $6.3 million government tax bill and later relaunched as a Washington-based digital nonprofit.
- Confiction Labs
Game studio co-founded by Agate chairman Arief Widhiyasa and former Agate marketing chief Igor Tanzil, which raised $6.5 million in 2023 as "Mythic Protocol" before rebranding as Confiction Labs and releasing the co-op shooter "Riftstorm."
- Copernicus Foundation
A Chicago Polish-American cultural nonprofit, founded in 1970 to fund a Copernicus monument, which later acquired the historic Gateway Theatre and became the subject of a 2020 lawsuit against the City of Chicago.
- Covid Act Now
A U.S. nonprofit that launched a COVID-19 risk-tracking website on 20 March 2020, used by some state and local governments during the pandemic, and formally wound down its data pipeline in 2024–2026.
- Cross Ratio Entertainment
Singapore independent record label founded in 2015 that became one of the city-state's most successful, signing a global distribution deal with Warner Music Singapore.
- DATAllegro
A data warehouse appliance maker based in Aliso Viejo, California, whose large-scale, commodity-hardware technology was acquired by Microsoft in 2008 to strengthen SQL Server's enterprise business intelligence capabilities for the very-large-database market.
- CS Drobeta
A football club founded in 2025 by the municipality of Drobeta-Turnu Severin, Romania, which won its debut county championship and cup double in its first season, competing alongside a similarly named rival club in the same city.
- Ekuator Games
Bandung-based Indonesian video game studio behind the crowdfunded RPG series "Celestian Tales," acquired by fellow Bandung developer Agate in January 2019 for about Rp5 billion.
- First Hawaiian, Inc.
Hawaii's oldest bank holding company, tracing to an 1858 Honolulu savings bank, which spent 15 years as a wholly owned BNP Paribas subsidiary before a 2016 IPO returned it to public markets.
- Free Representation Unit
A UK charity founded in 1972 by law students that provides free legal representation in employment, social security and criminal injuries compensation tribunals to people who cannot afford lawyers, training volunteer law students under qualified supervision in the process.
- Great Public Schools Association of Queensland – Rugby Union
The interschool rugby union competition run among Queensland's "GPS" group of elite private schools, a long-running development pipeline into state and national rugby that competes for players against rugby league's own school pathways.
- Harford County Public Library
A Maryland county library system tracing to an 1885 Bel Air reading room, now operating 11 branches with more than 187,000 registered borrowers, independently covered by regional and trade press for its pandemic response, digital-literacy programs and longtime CEO Mary Hastler.
- Ignatius Press
American Catholic publishing house founded in San Francisco in 1978 by Fr. Joseph Fessio, S.J., known as the primary English-language publisher of Pope Benedict XVI's works and, in 2014, at the center of a dispute over a book mailed to Synod on the Family participants.
- Imaginando
Braga, Portugal music-software studio founded in 2014 by a solo developer that grew into a maker of synthesizers and production tools, culminating in its 2023 flagship release, BAM.
- InvGate
Buenos Aires-founded IT service and asset management software company that bootstrapped for 14 years before raising a $35 million growth round in 2023.
- Janakpur Bolts
Nepal Premier League cricket franchise, owned by Dream Sports, that won the tournament's inaugural title in December 2024 in its first season.
- Kinh Bac City Development Holding Corporation
Vietnamese industrial real estate developer listed on the Ho Chi Minh Stock Exchange, chaired by Dang Thanh Tam, whose subsidiary Hung Yen Hospitality is developing the Trump Organization's licensed golf and residential project in Hung Yen province.
- LawWorks
A UK solicitors' pro bono charity founded in 1997, co-founder of the National Pro Bono Centre in 2010, which runs England and Wales's largest network of free legal advice clinics.
- Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention
A Philadelphia-based nonprofit focused on genocide prevention, early-warning alerts and human-security advocacy, founded in 2017 as the Iraq Project for Genocide Prevention and later renamed the Lemkin Institute.
- Localazy
A Czech software localization company, launched in 2020 by Václav Hodek in Brno, that raised two independently reported funding rounds and expanded into the Polish market in 2024.
- Microsoft Corporation
American technology company founded in 1975, whose 2019–2025 investment and cloud partnership with OpenAI made it a central actor in that company's 2023 board crisis and 2024–2026 Musk litigation.
- National Pro Bono Centre
A UK charity founded in 2010 by three national pro bono bodies to coordinate free legal-help charities from a shared London workspace, and publisher of a case study documenting a Free Representation Unit tribunal case.
- Netezza
A Massachusetts-based data warehouse appliance maker, founded in 2000, that helped pioneer the appliance category, competed directly with DATAllegro, and was acquired by IBM in 2010 for $1.7 billion.
- NLS Legal
A regulated teaching law firm run by Nottingham Law School at Nottingham Trent University, operating since 2006 and now the partner clinic through which the Free Representation Unit extends casework into the English Midlands.
- OpenAI
American artificial intelligence research and product company behind ChatGPT and the GPT model family, founded in 2015 as a nonprofit and restructured twice, in 2019 and 2025, with Microsoft as its largest outside investor and Sam Altman as chief executive.
- Partners Capital
A London-founded outsourced chief investment officer firm managing roughly $50 billion for endowments, foundations, family offices and wealthy individuals, which sold a minority stake to General Atlantic in 2024 to fund a generational transition among its founding partners.
- Promotion Marketing Association
A U.S. marketing trade association founded in 1911, later renamed the Brand Activation Association, that ran the annual REGGIE Awards and was acquired by the Association of National Advertisers in 2014.
- Quaker Houghton
A Pennsylvania-based specialty chemical maker formed by Quaker Chemical Corporation's 2019 combination with Houghton International, now one of the world's largest suppliers of industrial process fluids to the steel, aluminum, automotive and aerospace industries.
- Quinnsworth
Irish supermarket chain founded by Pat Quinn in 1966 that pioneered budget "Yellow Pack" products before being acquired by Tesco in 1997 and rebranded as Tesco Ireland.
- Riverview Health Westfield Hospital
Indiana community hospital that opened in 2018 and, by 2025, was expanding again to keep pace with Westfield's status as one of the nation's fastest-growing cities.
- Saigontel
Vietnamese telecommunications and industrial infrastructure developer listed on the Ho Chi Minh Stock Exchange, chaired by industrialist Dang Thanh Tam, that has expanded from telecom infrastructure into industrial parks, rooftop solar and AI data centres.
- Seattle International Adoptions
Seattle-based adoption agency run by Lynn Devin that processed U.S. families' Cambodian adoptions arranged by her sister Lauryn Galindo; both agreed to forfeit the agency's profits after 2003-2004 federal fraud pleas.
- Shawmut National Corporation
A Hartford, Connecticut-based bank holding company formed in 1988 that survived a near-failure earnings scandal in 1990 before merging into Fleet Financial Group in 1995 in a $3.7 billion deal.
- Sheer Logistics
A St. Louis-based, fee-based managed transportation and freight brokerage company, founded in 2009, that took on debt and equity investment from Woodlawn Partners and Monroe Capital in 2022 and acquired the 3PL company CargoBarn in 2024.
- Smiths News PLC
A United Kingdom newspaper and magazine wholesaler whose modern public-company structure emerged from the 2006 demerger of W.H. Smith's news-distribution business.
- Strathclyde Partnership for Transport
The regional transport authority for west-central Scotland, which owns and runs the Glasgow Subway, coordinates regional bus services, and was designated in 2023 to lead the Case for Investment for the proposed Clyde Metro network.
- SWA Magazine
Indonesian business magazine and media company, led for years by editor-in-chief Kemal Effendi Gani, that organizes recurring national corporate-recognition programs including the CGPI Award and the Indonesia Young Woman Future Business Leaders award.
- Tengo Project
Small development team within Natsume Atari, made up of veteran 1990s-era developers, known for restoring and remastering the studio's own classic games with redrawn pixel art and expanded rosters.
- Tourism 4.0
Slovenia's largest publicly funded tourism research and development initiative, led by the technology company Arctur with three Slovenian universities, built around a data-driven "Tourism Impact Model" piloted across Black Sea and Danube-region destinations.
- Trump International, Vietnam
A $1.5 billion luxury golf and residential complex under development in Hung Yen province, Vietnam, the Trump Organization's first branded project in the country, developed in partnership with Vietnamese entrepreneur Dang Thanh Tam's Kinh Bac City Development Holding Corporation.
- Two Trees Management
A privately held, self-financed New York real-estate developer founded in 1968, known for redeveloping DUMBO, Brooklyn and the Domino Sugar Refinery site in Williamsburg — and for a 2013 tenant-overcharge correction and a 2017 rent-fraud lawsuit tied to city tax abatements at one of its buildings.
- AS Valentigney
A French amateur football club founded by Peugeot factory workers in 1920 whose run to the 1926 Coupe de France final directly inspired the Peugeot family to found FC Sochaux — now a Ligue 1 club — two years later.
- Wales Book of the Year
An annual Welsh literary award administered by Literature Wales, given in parallel English- and Welsh-language categories including fiction, poetry and creative non-fiction.
- Y Combinator
American startup accelerator founded in 2005 by Paul Graham, Jessica Livingston, Trevor Blackwell and Robert Morris, known for its seed-funding model and Demo Day, and led since 2023 by CEO Garry Tan.
- Zabalaza Theatre Festival
An annual Cape Town theatre-development festival run by the Baxter Theatre Centre since around 2010, staging dozens of new South African works each March and awarding a professional two-week season to winning productions.