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Lei Xiaoliang
Lei Xiaoliang (雷小亮) is a Chinese internet entrepreneur who left NetEase in 2011 to co-found Momo, the stranger-social app that listed on Nasdaq in 2014.
Leigh Marie Braswell
Leigh Marie Braswell is an American venture capitalist who joined Kleiner Perkins as a partner in 2023, after working as an early engineer at Scale AI.
Leila Pereira
Leila Pereira is a Brazilian billionaire finance executive who has been president of the football club Palmeiras since 2021, the first woman in the post, after building her fortune co-leading the lender Crefisa.
Lekai Optoelectronics (乐凯光电材料有限公司) (乐凯光电)
Lekai Optoelectronics (乐凯光电材料有限公司) is a Chinese manufacturer of TAC optical film for LCD polarizers, based in Suqian, Jiangsu and majority owned by Shanghai-listed Lucky Film since 2023.
Leland Stanford
Leland Stanford, born Amasa Leland Stanford, was an American railroad magnate and politician who led the Central Pacific Railroad, served as California governor and US senator, and founded Stanford University.
LELECHA (乐乐茶)
LELECHA (乐乐茶) is a Shanghai-based new-style tea chain founded in 2016, selling fresh fruit cheese tea and soft European-style bread, once grouped with HeyTea and Nayuki.
Lem Billings
Kirk LeMoyne Billings, known as Lem Billings, was an American advertising executive at Lennen & Newell and the closest friend of President John F. Kennedy.
Len Blavatnik
Len Blavatnik, also known as Leonard Blavatnik, is a Ukrainian-born American-British billionaire investor and philanthropist who founded Access Industries, whose holdings include Warner Music Group and LyondellBasell.
Lena Jüngst
Lena Jüngst is a German product designer who co-founded Air Up in Munich, inventing its scent-based bottle as a student project and winning EY Entrepreneur Of The Year 2022.
Lender of last resort
A lender of last resort is a central bank that provides liquidity to financial institutions during a panic, when no other source is willing or able to lend.
Lenderwize
Lenderwize, operating as Lenderwize Limited, is a London-based fintech that factors telecom receivables through an investor marketplace; founded by Augusto Pellegrini and Lawrence Gilioli, it secured a €100 million debt facility from Fasanara Capital in 2021.
Lendingkart
Lendingkart is an Ahmedabad-based fintech lender founded in 2014 by Harshvardhan Lunia that makes unsecured working-capital loans to Indian small businesses through an NBFC, majority-owned by Fullerton since 2025.
Lendis
Lendis is a Berlin-based startup founded in 2018 by Stavros Papadopoulos and Julius Bolz that rents laptops, office furniture, and software by subscription, raising over €100 million.
Lendo
Lendo is a Saudi Arabian fintech company, founded in 2019 by Osama Alraee and Mohamed Jawabri, operating a Shariah-compliant debt crowdfunding marketplace that finances invoices for small and medium-sized businesses.
Lenny Pruss
Lenny Pruss is a venture capitalist and General Partner at Amplify Partners, which he joined in 2017, known for early backing of Datadog, HashiCorp, and LightStep.
Lenovo Capital and Incubator Group
Lenovo Capital and Incubator Group (LCIG, 联想创投) is Lenovo's venture capital and incubation arm, launched in Beijing in 2016, which has invested in more than 300 technology companies.
Lens Technology
Lens Technology (蓝思科技) is a Chinese precision-manufacturing company headquartered in Liuyang, Hunan, founded by Zhou Qunfei in 2003, a core Apple supplier making cover glass and assembling devices.
LENSAR
LENSAR is an Orlando, Florida-based medical device company that makes femtosecond laser systems for cataract surgery and corneal astigmatism, including the ALLY Robotic Cataract Laser System.
Lentra
Lentra is an Indian fintech SaaS company founded in 2018 that sells cloud-native lending infrastructure to banks and NBFCs, covering origination, underwriting, servicing, and collections.
Leo Burnett
Leo Burnett (1891–1971) was an American advertising executive who founded the Leo Burnett agency in Chicago in 1935; it created the Marlboro Man and Tony the Tiger.
Leo Hirschfield
Leo Hirschfield was an Austrian immigrant confectioner credited with inventing the Tootsie Roll in New York in 1896, a founding story historians dispute, dating the candy to 1907–1909.
Leo Koguan
Leo Koguan, also written KoGuan, is an Indonesian-born Chinese American billionaire who co-founded and chairs SHI International in New Jersey and is known as one of Tesla's largest individual shareholders.
Leo Mechelin
Leo Mechelin (Leopold Henrik Stanislaus Mechelin, 1839–1914) was a Finnish statesman, law professor, and banker who co-founded Nokia in 1871 and later served as Finland's de facto head of government from 1905 to 1908.
Leocare
Leocare is a French insurtech company founded in 2017 in Rennes by Christophe Dandois and Noureddine Bekrar, offering fully digital home, car, and pet insurance through a mobile app.
Léon Bel
Léon Bel was a French cheese industrialist from the Jura who registered the Laughing Cow trademark in 1921 and founded the Bel cheese company in 1922.
Leon Black
Leon Black is an American billionaire private equity investor who co-founded Apollo Global Management in 1990 and stepped down as its CEO in 2021.
Leon Gillespie
Leon Gillespie (born 1984) is a British private equity executive who co-founded Goldenpeak, a London firm investing £25–75 million in B2B services across the UK and Ireland.
Léon Jouhaux
Léon Jouhaux was a French trade unionist who led the CGT from 1909 to 1947, helped create the International Labour Organization, and won the 1951 Nobel Peace Prize.
Leona Helmsley
Leona Helmsley, known as the "Queen of Mean," was an American hotel and real estate executive who ran the Helmsley empire and was convicted of tax evasion in 1989.
Leonard Baum
Leonard E. Baum, known as Lenny Baum, was an American mathematician who co-invented the Baum-Welch algorithm and later traded currencies as Jim Simons's first hire.