The Disruptors Issue · July 2026

Eleven founders. Eleven refusals to accept the way things are.

The complete interview series from Volume 1 — long-form conversations with the people building the next economy.

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Cover Story · Semiconductors

Jensen Huang

The Man Powering the AI Age

Navigating the silicon siege — how Jensen Huang plans to keep Nvidia ahead of the chip war as customers become rivals and China walls itself off.

CEO, Nvidia · 12 min
02
Travel Technology

Shawn & Janet Richards

The Airport Is Disappearing

Ink Innovation spent two decades quietly wiring the world's airports. Now it is making them vanish — one biometric gate, one paper tag, one queue at a time.

Co-founders, Ink Innovation · 9 min
03
Electric Aviation

David Doral

The Routes The World Left Behind

While the industry chased flying taxis, Dovetail Electric Aviation looked at the forgotten half of the sky — and found the fastest path to zero-emission flight.

Co-founder & CEO, Dovetail Electric Aviation · 14 min
04
Private Capital

Regolith

The New Capital Architects

Institutions get priority. Retail gets leftovers. Regolith is building an intelligent cockpit for the two-trillion-dollar middle the industry forgot.

Founder & CEO · 10 min
05
Enterprise AI

John Colgan

When AI Starts Listening

Sixty to seventy percent of business conversations vanish before they reach a system of record. Solgari is capturing them all — natively, inside the Microsoft cloud.

Co-founder & CEO, Solgari · 10 min
06
PropTech · GCC

Core Realty

Beyond Property

In the world's fastest-growing property market, Core Realty is dismantling the agency model itself — brokers as entrepreneurs, keeping every dirham they earn.

The founders · 10 min
07
Creator Economy

DJFAN

The Night That Never Ends

Clubs are emotionally rich and digitally poor. DJFAN — built on dancefloors, not in boardrooms — is giving nightlife the layer it always lacked: memory.

Founder · 9 min
08
FinTech · SME Funding

Simon

Capital, With Counsel

Lending platforms tried to remove the adviser from business finance. Presto is doing the opposite — and rebuilding the funding market around trust.

Co-founder, Presto Capital · 9 min
09
Human-Centred AI

Dima

Machines with Manners

Ninety-five per cent of digital transformations fail — not because the technology is wrong, but because nobody talks to the people who must live with it. Pandatron built an AI that does.

Founder, Pandatron · 8 min
10
Haute Horlogerie

Christopher Wegener

The Transparent Hour

Pragma emerged from a single question: what does Swiss Made truly mean today? The Geneva independent answers with radical transparency — and a watch called Perseverance.

Co-founder & Master Watchmaker, Pragma · 10 min
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L'Art de Vivre

Maison A&G

Places Where Life Is Built

From Paris to Dubai — Maison A&G and the discipline of bespoke interiors, crafted by certified hands.

The founders · 6 min